My favorite records from 2024

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This year I’ve listened to music for almost 100,000 minutes, or about four hours daily. Here are 47 albums I’ve played a lot, listed in alphabetical order.

Other albums I’ve enjoyed this year:

  1. Adam Wiltzie — Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal [Kranky]
  2. Alessandra Novaga — The Artistic Image Is Always a Miracle [Die Schachtel]
  3. Alison Cotton — Engelchen [Rocket Recordings]
  4. Alva Noto — Xerrox, Vol.5 [Noton]
  5. Angel Olsen — Cosmic Waves Volume 1 [Jagjaguwaar]
  6. Antonina Nowacka — Sylphine Soporifera [Mondoj]
  7. Aphex Twin — Music From The Merch Desk (2016–2023) [Warp]
  8. Ben Lukas Boysen — Falling into Place OST [Erased Tapes]
  9. Blanck Mass — Bloodhound / You [Weirding Way]
  10. Bobby Oroza — Goddess / Queen of the Barrio [Big Crown]
  11. Bolis Pupul — Letter To Yu [Deewee]
  12. Bruce Brubaker — Eno Piano 2 [InFiné]
  13. Burial & Kode9 — Phoneglow / Eyes Go Blank [Hyperdub]
  14. Burial — Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above [XL]
  15. Chastity Belt — Live Laugh Love [Suicide Squeeze]
  16. Christian Löffler — A Life [Ki Records]
  17. Chuck Johnson — Sun Glories [Western Vinyl]
  18. Cigarettes After Sex — X’s [Partisan]
  19. Cowboy Sadness — Selected Jambient Works vol. I [People Teeth]
  20. Craven Faults — Bounds [The Leaf Label]
  21. Donato Dozzy — Magda [Spazio Disponibile]
  22. Four Tet — Three [Text]
  23. Ganavya — Draw Something Beautiful [Leiter]
  24. Hamish Hawk — A Firmer Hand [So Recordings]
  25. Helado Negro — Phasor [4AD]
  26. Idles — Tangk [Partisan]
  27. Joep Beving & Maarten Vos — Vision of Contentment [Leiter]
  28. Keeley Forsyth — The Hollow [Fat Cat]
  29. Kelly Lee Owens — Dreamstate [dh2]
  30. King Hannah — Big Swimmer [City Slang]
  31. Lionel Limiñana, David Menke — Heureux Gagnants OST [Berreto Music]
  32. Loscil — Umbel [Self-released]
  33. Marika Hackman — Big Sigh [Chrysalis]
  34. Max Cooper — Seme [Mesh]
  35. Max Richter — Sleep (Piano Edition) [Deutsche Grammophon]
  36. Michelle Gurevich — It Was the Moment [Self-released]
  37. Milkweed — Folklore 1979 [Broadside Hacks]
  38. Murcof — Twin Color, Vol. 1 [InFiné]
  39. Nils Frahm — Paris [Leiter]
  40. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin — Ghosted II [Drag City]
  41. Pelican — Adrift / Tending the Embers [Pelicansong]
  42. Philip Glass — Philip Glass Solo [Orange Mountain Music]
  43. Phosphorescent — Oh, Canada OST [Verve]
  44. Ryuichi Sakamoto — Opus [Milan Records]
  45. Saint Etienne — The Night [PIAS]
  46. Sarah Davachi — The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir [Late Music]
  47. The Black Dog — Isolation EP / Seclusion EP [Dust Science]
  48. The National — Rome [4AD]
  49. The Smile — Cutouts [XL]
  50. Timber Timbre — Interview [Hot Dreams]
  51. Tindersticks — Mayday ’22 [Lucky Dog]
  52. Tycho — Infinite Health [Ninja Tune]
  53. Valerinne — Ver Sacrum [Self-released]
  54. Woods — Five More Flowers [Woodsist]

Finally, a few earworms:

Live shows. Khruangbin, Massive Attack, and Tigran Hamasyan in Cluj. Tindersticks in Barcelona.

This has been the 11th edition of my favorite records. Timeline: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

Other 2024 lists: Boomkat, Bleep, Rough Trade, The Quietus, The Wire, Jon Hicks, Simon Collison.