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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Half-Year Half-List? 20 Fantastic Albums of 2020

20 isn’t half of 2020, but here are 20 fantastic albums of 2020:

In Alphabetical Order:

• Rejoice by Tony Allen + Hugh Masekela 

• Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple 

• Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bob Dylan

• Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock by Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock

• Circles by Mac Miller

• Annual by Modern Nature

• Snapshot Of A Beginner by Nap Eyes

• Three by The Necks 

• Jams From The Sun by Oregon Space Trail of Jazz 

• Suite For Max Brown by Jeff Parker

• Summerlong by Rose City Band

• RTJ4 by Run The Jewels 

• Acoustic by Oumou Sangaré

• We Are Sent Here By History by Shabaka & The Ancestors 

• Ocean Bridges by Archie Shepp, Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk

• Companion Rises by Six Organs Of Admittance 

• Oh Yeah? by Sunwatchers

• Tamotait by Tamikrest

• The Great Mountain by Waterless Hills

• Strange To Explain by Woods

What am I missing?

What’s been some of your favorite music of the year?