https://www.albumoftheyear.org/lists.php

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album.../critic-lists/

Thurston's album:

#33 / Rough Trade UK
#96 / The Quietus

Oh I get it now. Sort of like Metacritic.

But we all know that Rolling Stone will give 5 Stars to certain artists even if they just recorded their farts.

Metacritic's music section is almost an afterthought now, which is why I went with AOTY.

Rolling Stone's best of 2024 list is a sewer.

"Kamala is brat". Yeah, that went super.

Politics. Lol.

I think Wilco - Cousin is very good, but I always feel that it lacks something.

This morning I heard the new EP - and that is precisely what Cousin lacks.

I'm making a 16 track Hot Sun Cool Cousin.

All out now:

Pere Ubu - Help, I'm On Tour ("including 'the video that never was'")

Bill Orcutt - How To Rescue Things

Daniel Johnston - The Lost Recordings IV (1980​-​1983)

My favorite 2024 albums:


70. Tomin – A Willed and Conscious Balance
69. Work Money Death – People Of The Fast Flowing River
68. Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes
67. ganavya – Daughter of a Temple
66. Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther
65. Einstürzende Neubauten - RAMPEN (apm: alien pop music)
64. Toronto Symphony Orchestra – Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphony
63. Janel Leppin – Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love
62. Gouge Away – Deep Sage
61. Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – played by Maya Dunietz & String Ensemble, Live in Paris
60. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
59. The Dead C – Deux Nuits À Paris
58. The Necks – Bleed
57. The Bad Plus – Complex Emotions
56. The Cure – Songs from The Lost World
55. Aluk Todolo – LUX
54. Thumbscrew – Wingbeats
53. Cassie Kinoshi's seed. – gratitude
52. Red Largo – Transmitting
51. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
50. BEAK> - >>>>
49. Erika Angell – The Obsession With Her Voice
48. Bill Frisell – Orchestras
47. Caroline Shaw - Leonardo da Vinci
46. The Fiery Furnaces – Stuck In My Head
45. Nubya Garcia – Odyssey
44. otay:onii – True Faith Ain’t Blind
43. Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
42. Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance – Jinxed by Being
41. Birds in Row & Coilguns – You and I in the Gap
40. أحمد [Ahmed] – Giant Beauty
39. Joana Serrat - BIG WAVE
38. Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few – The Almighty
37. BIG|BRAVE – A Chaos Of Flowers
36. Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra – Outer Spaceways Incorporated
35. Body Meπa - Prayer in Dub
34. Memorials – Memorial Waterslides
33. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
32. Ariana Grande – Eternal Sunshine
31. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
30. The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
29. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
28. Tomeka Reid Quartet – 3+3
27. SLIFT – ILION
26. Bardo Pond - Volume 9
25. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
24. Silver Scrolls – Mind Lines
23. Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego - Greatest Hits
22. Shellac – To All Trains
21. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"
20. Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor
19. Brown Horse – Reservoir
18. Mary Halvorson – Cloudward
17. The Smile – Wall of Eyes
16. Still House Plants – If I don’t make it, I love u
15. Beings – There Is A Garden
14. Mabe Fratti – Sentir que no sabes
13. The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet
12. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
11. Maria Faust Jazz Catastrophe: 3rd mutation – MOTH
10. Jennifer Castle – Camelot
9. Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive
8. Rosali – Bite Down
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Wild God
6. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion - Rectangles and Circumstance
5. Patricia Brennan Septet – Breaking Stretch
4. Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution
3.Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves
2. Alice Coltrane –The Carnegie Hall Concert
1. Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones – New Monuments

I did not know that Fiery Furnaces released an album!

I played your numbers 58, 3 and 2 until the CDs wore out.

Oldies recorded live in the studio.

Hmm. More like a cold furnace then.

:) :) :)

I put this in another thread, but I enjoy ridicule, so I'll put it here too:

invito al cielo

Join Date: May 2009
Location: See My Top 10.
Posts: 2,788
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Also, because I love crucifixion....

Charli XCX - brat - is fucking great!!! There, I said it!!

I picked it up to see what all the fuss was about. I played it the last 3x morning baths. (TMI, I know.) The first 2x I be like "Yeah, another pop album that is akin to eating ice cream....it's fun, but I gotta have my meat and potatoes...."

But the 3rd spin hit me hard! This is fucking wonderful songcraft/production/concept/etc. I'm in!!!

Go ahead SYG Cool Police. I have adopted the position.

Um....I'm so fascinated by the contents of that copy/paste, and the shit that came from thin air, that I'm not willing to edit it. Ima just gonna sit here and be all wtf.

Edit: And now I have a new sig....that came from....er.....SYG....I think!?

Somehow, despite my demographic, I still haven't heard Brat yet. How I'm Feeling Now was one of the better albums from the early pandemic though, it was one of the first major albums to take in this hyperpop-type production.

Brat is good. Songwriting’s a bit iffy but the album is solid. 360 is hard as fuck.

Why would SYG take issue with that? I think/hope a lot of that weird subcultural gatekeeping is decidedly out of vogue at this point.

Poptimism is a cancer

For a couple of posts there, I wondered "Is this really SYG?"

But now you have come through, SYG. Never change! Never let me down!

Nah. Pop can be and often is very good.

Especially lately.

Anti-pop sentiments are gauche as fuck.