Favorite Music :: 2024

Some singles, some EPs and some full-length albums.

These have been 50 of my favorite releases of 2024. Selections are in alphabetical order because you can’t rank music.

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts.

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• Wood Blues by أحمد [Ahmed] // BC //

• Ghosted II by Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin // AMZN // BC //

• Bullets In The Chamber by Arrested Development // BC //

• Tension by Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra // AMZN // BC //

• This is Basic by Basic // AMZN // BC //

• Across the River of Stars by Beachwood Sparks // AMZN // BC //

• Live in Paris 1973 by Can // AMZN // BC //

• Close Encounters of the Third World by Creation Rebel // AMZN // BC //

• Songs of A Lost World by the Cure // AMZN //

• Love Changes Everything by Dirty Three // AMZN // BC //

• 100% Sahara Guitar by Etran De L'Aïr // AMZN // BC //

• When I’m Called by Jake Xerxes Fussell // AMZN // BC //

• Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons // AMZN //

• Mahal by Glass Beams // AMZN // BC //

• Goat by Goat // AMZN // BC //

• No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead by Godspeed You! Black Emperor // AMZN // BC //

• the Collective by Kim Gordon // AMZN // BC //

• Blu Wav by Grandaddy // AMZN // BC //

• Dead of Night by Maalem Houssam Guinia // BC //

• the Handover by the Handover // AMZN // BC //

• In Waves by Jamie xx // AMZN // BC //

• Chain of Light by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party // AMZN // BC //

• Diamond Jubilee by Cindy Lee // AMZN // BC //

• Manning Fireworks by MJ Lenderman // AMZN // BC //

• Bright Future by Adrianne Lenker // AMZN // BC //

• Drop 7 by Little Simz

• Two Improvisations by Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock // AMZN // BC //

• Locust Land by Bill MacKay // AMZN // BC //

• Funeral For Justice by Mdou Moctar // AMZN // BC //

• the Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis by The Messthetics // AMZN // BC //

• Night Palace by Mount Eerie // AMZN // BC //

• Walking After Dark by Mountain Movers // AMZN // BC //

• David Nance & Mowed Sound by David Nance // AMZN // BC //

• Bleed by the Necks // AMZN // BC //

• The Way Out of Easy by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet // AMZN // BC //

• Le Rêve de Polyphème by Polyphème // BC //

• Deep Time by Prairiewolf // AMZN // BC //

• Bite Down by Rosali // AMZN // BC //

• Water Still Flows by Rich Ruth // AMZN // BC //

• Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace by Shabaka // AMZN //

• Exotic Birds of Prey by Shabazz Palaces // AMZN // BC //

• Passage Du Desir by Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) // AMZN //

• Time Is Glass by Six Organs of Admittance  // AMZN // BC //

• Small Medium Large by SML // AMZN // BC //

• Africa Yontii by Tidiane Thiam // AMZN // BC //

• 5 by Trummors // AMZN // BC //

• Tiger’s Blood by Waxahatchee // AMZN // BC //

• In the Running 3 by Wet Tuna / DUNZA by Wet Tuna / DUNZA // BC //

• Woodland by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings // AMZN // BC //

• Acadia by Yasmin Williams // AMZN // BC //

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings on Sessions At West 54th Street (1997)

Time to revisit the Sessions at West 54th Street archives with this gem from Season 01 with host Chris Douridas.

Tracklisting:

• ‘Tear My Stillhouse Down’

• ‘Acony Bell’

• ‘Caleb Meyer’

• ‘Paper Wings’

• ‘Orphan Girl’

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• Visit Gillian Welch’s official website

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• Purchase Gillian Welch’s music at Amazon

• Follow David Rawlings on Facebook

• Purchase David Rawlings’ music at Amazon

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