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Top 5 Favorite tracks:
- Crystal Breath by Kim Deal
- Fragile by The Cure
- How Did this Happen and What Does it mean by Joan Armatrading
- Cavemen Running Naked by Guided By Voices
- The Beauty of the Duty by Molly Nilsson
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- Willow, Symptom of Life
- Chantae Cann, Beautiful Brave
- Nikka Costa, Keep It High
- Common & Pete Rock, Dreamin’
- Rae Khalil, Is It Worth It
- Lenny Kravitz, TK421
- Nubiyan Twist, So Mi Stay
- Rising Appalachia, On and On
- The New Respects, Struttin’
- Darien Brockington, Only One
- Jordan Rakei, Trust
- Rapsody, 3AM
- XinXin, Red Flags
- Elle Varner, Black
- LL Cool J, Murdergram
- Catpack, What I’ve Found
- Daisha McBride, Pretty Girls
- Hiatus Kaiyote, Make Friends
- Mary J Blige, Breathing
- Tavior Mowry, IME
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- Stealth Late Season Short King: Bruno Mars APT. with Rose’ and Die With A Smile with Lady Gaga
- Inescapable Earworm of 2024: Sabrina Carpenter‘s Espresso
- Album Way Better Than It Has Any Right To Be, Especially With An Appearance By That Weasel Morgan Walleye: Post Malone‘s F-1 Trillion
- Best Middle Finger To Nashville For Their Reaction To Your 2016 Appearance At The CMAs: Beyonce‘s Cowboy Carter
- Best Return To Pop Music After An Extended Absence: The Cure, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Kim Deal and The Jesus Lizard
- Best Jelly Roll: Jelly Roll
- Best Versions Of Themselves: Billie Eilish & Kacey Musgraves
- Best Queen Of The Pink Pony Club: Chappell Roan
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- Open the Door for Three, A Prosperous Gale
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DJ Sarah Goldstein – Planet Sarah
- Cindy Lee, All I want is You
- MJ Lenderman, You Don’t Know The Shape I’m In
- Bats, Oh My God
- Kassie Krut, Reckless
- Twye, Hollow
- Helado Negro, Colores Del Mar
- Fish Hunt, Catalina
- The Smile, Teleharmonic
- Nana Sinephro, Continuum 1
- Anastasia Coope, Woke Up and No Feet
- Signs Following, My Poet
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My 11 favorites tracks of 2024. Lotsa disco, a dash of soul, a ton of boogie and a whole lotta heart! A “get your groove on” playlist.
- The Blessed Madonna, Brand New
- Nia Archives, Cards on the Table
- Joya Mooi, Don’t Answer
- Asha Puthli, I’m Gonna Dance (Jitwam Remix)
- Alfie Templeman, Just a Dance
- Nubiyan Twist, Lights Out
- Caravan Palace, Mirrors
- Tokimonsta, Anderson Paak, Rae Khalil, On Sum
- L’Imperatrice (feat Erick the Architect), Sweet and Sublime
- Tommy Newport (Roosevelt Remix), Tangerine
- U Want More, Touch Sensitive
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This was originally a top 30 list. I left off some magnificent records by great artists (for instance, Amphibian Man, Mdou Moctar, Yuvees, BZDET, We Hate You Please Die, and Pylon Reenactment Society). All decisions are subject to change according to my capriciousness.
- Shellac, To ALl Trains
- E.T. Explore Me, Drug Me
- Dion Lunadon, Memory Burn
- Buzz’ Ayaz, Buzz’ Ayaz
- The Wolfgang Press (TWP), A 2nd Shape
- Rəhman Məmmədli, Azerbaijani Gitara volume 2
- USA Nails, Feel Worse
- Chemtrails, The Joy of Sects
- ROMPERAYO, Insurgentes Carismáticos
- The Sex Organs, we’re fucked
And the best band I discovered far too late is Make-Overs.
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MUST BE SAID
La Luz, News of the Universe (Sub Pop); The Mystery Lights, Purgatory (Wick); Juniore, Trois, Deux, Un (Le Phonographe); Thee Sacred Souls, Got A Story To Tell (Daptone); X, Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum); Still Corner, Dream Talk (Wrecking Light); Goat (Rocket Recordings); The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!); Laetitia Sadier, Rooting For Love (Drag City); Tucker Zimmerman, Dance Of Love (4AD)
LOCAL
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Woodland (Acony); Jack Silverman Quartet, Prince of Shadows (Centripetal Force); Styrofoam Winos, Real Time (Sophomore Lounge); Rich Ruth, Water Still Flows (Third Man); Crave On, Fantasy Hall (Weird Conversations)
OTHER MENTIONABLES
Kairos Creature Club (Greenway); Feeling Figures, Everyone Around You (You’ve Changed); Kronos Quartet and Friends Meet Sun Ra, Outer Spaceways Incorporated (Red Hot Organization); Vessel, Wrapped In Cellophane (Double Phantom); Cassie Ramone, Sweetheart (CR-R); Jane Weaver, Love In Constant Spectacle (Fire); Shannon & The Clams, The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound); The Harlem Gospel Travelers, Rhapsody (Colemine); The Hard Quartet (Matador); Jessica Pratt, Here In The Pitch (Mexican Summer)
RE-ISSUES
Galaxie 500, Uncollected Noise ’88-’89 (20/20/20); The Waterboys, 1985 (Chrysalis); Afterimage, Faces To Hide (Independent Project); Torn Boys, 1983 (Independent Project)
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- New Age Healers, The Spin Out
- Skinny Hightower, The Man
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- Maddie Morris, Marsha P Johnson; a powerful new voice in queer folk
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FAVORITE ALBUMS
- Adrianne Lenker, Bright Future
- Common & Pete Rock, The Auditorium Vol. 1
- Coco & Clair Clair, Girl
- Mama Zu, Quilt Floor
FAVORITE SONG (not on those albums)
- Waxahatchee, Right Back To It (featuring MJ Lenderman)
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- Styrofoam Winos, Real Time
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert – Live
- Waxahatchie, Tiger’s Blood
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