Best Music 🎶 of 2024!

Q2

Lake Street Dive - Good Together
Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge It’s Grace
Brad Mehldau - After Bach II
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me
Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free
Bruno Berle - No Reino Dos Afetos 2
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Various Artists - Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty
Jordi Saval - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Aaron Frazer - Into the Blue
Iron & Wine - Light Verse
Willie Nelson - The Border
Nduduzo Makhathini - uNomkhubulwane
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poet’s Department
NxWorries - Why Lawd?
Shannon & the Clams - The Moon is in the Wrong Place
Brad Mehldau - Apres Faure
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
 
My top 50 for the first six months

Reyna Tropical - Malegria
Amaro Freitas - Y’Y
Waxahatchee - Tiger’s Blood
Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers
Lake Street Dive - Good Together
Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Sprints - Letter to Self
Brad Mehldau - After Bach II
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Maggie Rogers- Don’t Forget Me
Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free
Bruno Berle - No Reino Dos Afetos 2
Anastasia Kobekina - Venice
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip to the Moon
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Various Artists - Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty
Aoife O’Donovan - All My Friends
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Lizzie No - Halfsies
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
Jordi Saval - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Aaron Frazer - Into the Blue
Iron & Wine - Light Verse
Thee Sinseers - Sinseerly Yours
Willie Nelson - The Border
Ana Lua Caiano - Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado
Brittany Howard - What Now
The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Chicano Batman - Fantasy Notebook
Quatour Zahir - L’Heure Bleue
Nduduzo Makhathini - uNomkhubulwane
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poet’s Department
Vijay Iyer - Compassion
Abdullah Ibriham - 3
Brittney Spencer - My Stupid Life
NxWorries - Why Lawd?
Orgone - Chimera
Thee Sinseers - Sinseerly Yours
Norah Jones - Visions
Joel Ross - Nublues
Kali Uches - Orquideas
Shannon & the Clams - The Moon is in the Wrong Place
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Brad Mehldau - Apres Faure
Bridget Kearney - Comeback Kid
Cry - Novela
Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
 
The upside to being a few days delayed in getting this nailed down is that I wound up with a couple of very late additions of things I missed earlier in the year...

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Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis – The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Philip Glass – Philip Glass Solo
Beyoncé – act ii: Cowboy Carter
Night Verses – Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night

Africa Yontii by Tidiane Thiam
Ahadu by Esy Tadesse
All Life Long by Kali Malone
All Over The Place by Paper Tiger
Bellum 2 by Aquilus
The Border by Willie Nelson

Burnout by VIAL
Cloudward by Mary Halvorson
Cosmos Giants by Janko Nilovic | J.J. Whitefield | Igor Zhukovsky
Folk Songs by Zelenaya
The Great Bailout by Moor Mother
Hypocrite by Stephanie Lambring

If You Feel Like a Lost Soul by Spectacular Diagnostics
Imerro by C. Diab
Infinite Love Infinite Tears by Alan Braufman
Joola Jazz by Ibaaku
KDIV by Serengeti
The Legend of ABM by Angry Blackmen

Light Verse by Iron & Wine
Love Changes Everything by Dirty Three
MalegrĂ­a by Reyna Tropical
Maze Envy by Civerous
Red Hot + Ra: The Magic City by Meshell Ndegeocello
Red Hot + Ra: Outer Spaceways Incorporated (Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra) by Kronos Quartet & Friends

Reflections Of Purple Sun by EABS
Senseless Acts Of Love by Rosa Brunello
Sonido Cósmico by Hermanos Gutiérrez
Umbilical by Thou
Y’Y by Amaro Freitas
Yours Until the War is Over by Amigo the Devil
 
RBF

Just discovered the debut album Um (dropped June 14th) from London, UK artist Martha Skye Murphy. This 11 track, 39-minute project is experimental, quiet, and noisy, mixing lush ambient, drony bits with walls of electronic sound to create both peaceful, calming atmospheres, as well as feelings of uneasy excitement. Here's what Murphy says about her debut:
“I wanted the album to feel like this constant tension between being in a very intimate domestic space, and then being propelled into a far stranger environment that is difficult to situate,” she says. “I want people to feel disoriented, erotically charged by the intimacy of a bedroom, then catapulted into a desert.”

 
avecigrec said:
The upside to being a few days delayed in getting this nailed down is that I wound up with a couple of very late additions of things I missed earlier in the year...

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Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis – The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis
Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Philip Glass – Philip Glass Solo
Beyoncé – act ii: Cowboy Carter
Night Verses – Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night

Africa Yontii by Tidiane Thiam
Ahadu by Esy Tadesse
All Life Long by Kali Malone
All Over The Place by Paper Tiger
Bellum 2 by Aquilus
The Border by Willie Nelson

Burnout by VIAL
Cloudward by Mary Halvorson
Cosmos Giants by Janko Nilovic | J.J. Whitefield | Igor Zhukovsky
Folk Songs by Zelenaya
The Great Bailout by Moor Mother
Hypocrite by Stephanie Lambring

If You Feel Like a Lost Soul by Spectacular Diagnostics
Imerro by C. Diab
Infinite Love Infinite Tears by Alan Braufman
Joola Jazz by Ibaaku
KDIV by Serengeti
The Legend of ABM by Angry Blackmen

Light Verse by Iron & Wine
Love Changes Everything by Dirty Three
MalegrĂ­a by Reyna Tropical
Maze Envy by Civerous
Red Hot + Ra: The Magic City by Meshell Ndegeocello
Red Hot + Ra: Outer Spaceways Incorporated (Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra) by Kronos Quartet & Friends

Reflections Of Purple Sun by EABS
Senseless Acts Of Love by Rosa Brunello
Sonido Cósmico by Hermanos Gutiérrez
Umbilical by Thou
Y’Y by Amaro Freitas
Yours Until the War is Over by Amigo the Devil
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So do the other 30 not have a chance of being among the "ranked" group?
 
musicjunkiegreg said:
So do the other 30 not have a chance of being among the "ranked" group?
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Oh they certainly do. All is fair between now and year end. The top 6 are just the ones I feel most solid about at thus stage of the game. Any of the rest could supplant those places upon further listening for sure.
 
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