damn good year

Albums

MJ Lenderman: Manning Fireworks
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us
Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood
Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness
Tyler, the Creator: CHROMAKOPIA
Thee Oh Sees: SORCS 80
Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee
Sturgill Simpson/Johnny Blue Skies: Passage Du Desir
Dehd: Poetry
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat: Orchestra Hits
Jack White: no name
Bob Dylan & The Band: The 1974 Live Recordings (The Missing Songs From Before The Flood)
Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping
Future Islands: People Who Aren’t There Anymore

Songs:

MJ Lenderman: “Wristwatch” & “She’s Leaving You”
Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman: “Right Back to It”
Vampire Weekend: “Connect” & “Mary Boone”
Kendrick Lamar: “Not Like Us” & “euphoria”
Amyl and the Sniffers: “Chewing Gum” & “U Should Not Be Doing That”
Beyoncé: “YA YA”
Reese McHenry: “Bad Girl”
Sturgill Simpson: “Right Kind of Dream” & “If The Sun Never Rises Again”
Chappell Roan: “Good Luck, Babe!”
Faye Webster: “But Not Kiss”
Cindy Lee: “Kingdom Come”
Suki Waterhouse: “Supersad”
St. Vincent: “Broken Man”
Cults: “Crybaby”
Dehd: “Dog Days”
Cola: “Pulling Quotes”
Fontaines D.C.: “Favourite”
Tyler, the Creator: “St. Chroma”
Wilco: “Annihilation”
The Bug Club: “Lonsdale Slipons”
Karen O & Danger Mouse: “Super Breath”
Jack White: “That’s How I’m Feeling”
Future Islands: “Glimpse”

12/9/2024 1:14:40 PM

I'd put Tim Heidecker's Slipping Away on there. As far as songs, I'd probably go with Bows and Arrows or Bells are Ringing

Father John Misty: Mahashmashana.. haven't listened to it enough to know which song is my fave, but maybe the title song or She Cleans Up

I hope Kim Deal's solo album is good enough to make the list, but have only listened to it in the background a couple times.

And Mint Tea, Scooter Blues and Jupiter's Faire are my favorite Johnny Blue Ski's songs

12/9/2024 1:42:05 PM

Albums:

MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
John Moreland - Visitor
Ben Jarrell - A Country Song

By far the best 3 albums i heard this year. Nothing else comes close.

12/9/2024 4:31:25 PM

I rarely pick a favorite album of the year, but it has to be Manning Fireworks for me

still can’t get enough of it

12/9/2024 4:39:54 PM

Honestly same.

12/9/2024 4:58:14 PM

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
Fancy Gap - Fancy Gap
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water
Fontaines DC - Romance
Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
The Smile - Wall Of Eyes/Cutouts
Sprints - Letter to Self
Idles - TANGK
Julie - My Anti Aircraft Friend
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Los Campesinos - All Hell
Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
Oso Oso - Life Till Bones
Wishy - Triple Seven

12/9/2024 10:35:47 PM

+Being Dead - Eels

12/19/2024 9:12:48 PM

I feel like I'm a day late and a dollar short, but here's my list:

Albums

The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Helado Negro - Phasor
Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive
Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above us
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
Friko - Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here
Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir
Fancy Gap - Fancy Gap
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat

Songs

Helado Negro - "Best for You and Me"
Mannequin Pussy - "Nothing Like"
Adrianne Lenker - "No Machine"
Vampire Weekend - "Prep-School Gangsters"
Cindy Lee - "All I Want Is You"
Jessica Pratt - "Better Hate"
Johnny Blue Skies - "Right Kind of Dream"
Los Campesinos! - "A Psychic Wound"
Fancy Gap - "Sweet Time"
MJ Lenderman - "Wristwatch"
Nilüfer Yanya - "Faith’s Late"
Being Dead - "Problems"
Bon Iver - "S P E Y S I D E"

1/5/2025 5:19:34 PM