2024 end of year lists

Uncut back on form, a lot of my favourites within that list.

Yeah great list from Uncut. Bit surprised at the low ranking for Kamasi though.

I'm a bit surprised at the low ranking of MJ LENDERMAN!!!!

WOW LENDERMAN > SHIT GIBBONS

Just logged on to YouTube and this was genuinely one of the recommended videos for me on the front page (next to 'Wrestlers Who Yelled At Me' by Maven). A reminder to us all at this time of year.

the full top 80 from Uncut

UNCUT – TOP 80 ALBUMS OF 2024
80. Leyla McCalla – Sun Without the Heat
79. Yasmin Williams – Acadia
78. Wadada Leo Smith – Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens
77. Kali Uchis – ORQUÍDEAS
76. Personal Trainer – Still Willing
75. Pye Corner Audio – The Endless Echo
74. Dave Alvin – TexiCali
73. Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari
72. Laurie Anderson – Amelia
71. Beachwood Sparks – Across the River of Stars
70. Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍
69. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
68. Taylor Swift – THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
67. John Canning Yates – The Quiet Portraits
66. Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us
65. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue
64. Billie Eilish – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
63. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes
62. Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
61. IDLES – TANGK
60. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
59. Charli XCX – BRAT
58. Linda Thompson – Proxy Music
57. Jlin – Akoma
56. Fievel Is Glauque – Rong Weicknes
55. Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor
54. Kaia Kater – Strange Medicine
53. Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free
52. BASIC – This Is BASIC
51. Chuck Johnson – Sun Glories
50. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II
49. Still House Plants – If I don’t make it, I love u
48. David Gilmour – Luck and Strange
47. Sarah Davachi – The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir
46. Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
45. Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
44. Christopher Owens – I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
43. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore
42. Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
41. Paul Weller – 66
40. Grandaddy – Blu Wav
39. Brown Horse – Reservoir
38. Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
37. Shellac – To All Trains
36. Myriam Gendron – Mayday
35. Brittany Howard – What Now
34. Rosali – Bite Down
33. Willie Nelson – The Border
32. Beak> – >>>>
31. Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes
30. Kim Gordon – The Collective
29. Oisin Leech – Cold Sea
28. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
27. English Teacher – This Could Be Texas
26. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Loophole
25. Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
24. Phosphorescent – Revelator
23. The High Llamas – Hey Panda
22. Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God
21. John Cale – POPtical Illusion
20. Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive
19. Peter Perrett – The Cleansing
18. Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
17. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
16. Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da
15. Jack White – No Name
14. Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
13. Fontaines D.C. – Romance
12. Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves
11. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer
10. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
9. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
8. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
7. The Smile – Wall of Eyes
6. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
5. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
4. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
2. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland
1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God

Mojo should be along soon as already gone out to subscribers. By the looks of it, album of the year will be going to Oasis.

Mojo top 75 can be scraped together via www.pressreader.com/uk/mojo-uk/20250101/page/51.

edit: full list now below.

75. Field Music – Limits of Language
74. Pom Poko – Champion
73. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue
72. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741
71. The Bevis Frond – Focus on Nature
70. Kelly Finnigan – A Lover Was Born
69. The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Rhapsody
68. Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves
67. Ghost Dubs – Damaged
66. Khruangbin – A LA SALA
65. Cassie Kinoshi’s Seed – Gratitude
64. Hamish Hawk – A Firmer Hand
63. Floating Points – Cascade
62. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico
61. Oisin Leech – Cold Sea
60. The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
59. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II
58. Naima Bock – Below a Massive Dark Land
57. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
56. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
55. The Bug – Machine
54. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
53. Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight
52. Richard Hawley – In This City They Call You Love
51. IDLES – TANGK
50. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Spaceship to Mars
49. Joan As Police Woman - Lemons, Limes And Orchids
48. Nick Lowe - Indoor Safari
47. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
46. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
45. Nubya Garcia - ODYSSEY
44. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
43. The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
42. Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes
41. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
40. Brittany Howard - What Now
39. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
38. Leyla McCalla - Sun Without the Heat
37. Common - The Auditorium Vol. 1
36. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
35. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
34. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
33. Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching
32. Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless
31. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
30. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
29. Charles Lloyd - The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
28. John Cale - POPtical Illusion
27. The The - Ensoulment
26. Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything
25. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
24. Mercury Rev - Born Horses
23. Richard Thompson - Ship To Shore
22. Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
21. Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free
20. Lady Blackbird - Slang Spirituals
19. Peter Perrett - The Cleansing
18. David Gilmour - Luck and Strange
17. Paul Weller - 66
16. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Loophole
15. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
14. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
13. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
12. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
11. John Grant - The Art of the Lie
10. Kim Gordon - The Collective
9. Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle
8. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know
7. Fontaines D.C. – Romance
6. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
5. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
4. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland
3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
1. Jack White - No Name

WHERE IS LENDERMAN

Slightly ahead of the former bassist from Goat Girl.

54 ... YIKES

MAHONEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Fucking Jesus and Mary chain on these lists, not that I heard the whole thing but the 3 songs I heard were atrocious

its really bad. worth one listen just for a laugh.

Resident Records top 20 is out and they have controversially lumped both The Smile albums together at #17.

Much more worthy of the bad aids that my 1st Dec insta countdown.

Managed to find somewhere to copy & paste these from so Mojo's genre specific albums of the year:

AMERICANA:
1 GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS Woodland (ACONY)
2 CHRIS SMITHER All About The Bones (SIGNATURE SOUNDS)
3 VERA SOLA Peacemaker (CITY SLANG)
4 PETER BRUNTNELL Houdini And The Sucker Punch (DOMESTICO)
5 CHUCK PROPHET Wake The Dead (YEP ROC)
6 PHOSPHORESCENT Revelator (VERVE)
7 HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF The Past Is Still Alive (NONESUCH)
8 JOHNNY BLUE SKIES (AKA STURGILL SIMPSON) Passage Du Desir (HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN)
9 PERNICE BROTHERS Who Will You Believe (NEW WEST)
10 T BONE BURNETT The Other Side (VERVE)

ELECTRONICA:
1 ACTRESS Statik (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND)
2 FLOATING POINTS Cascade (NINJA TUNE)
3 JLIN Akoma (PLANET MU)
4 SARAH DAVACHI The Head As Form'd In The Crier's Choir (LATE MUSIC)
5 MAYA SHENFELD Under The Sun (THRILL JOCKEY)
6 CLAIRE ROUSAY Sentiment (THRILL JOCKEY)
7 DONATO DOZZY Magda (SPAZIO DISPONIBILE)
8 JAMIE XX In Waves (YOUNG)
9 KMRU Natur (TOUCH)
10 GRAND RIVER & ABUL MOGARD In Uno Spazio Immenso (LIGHT-YEARS)

FOLK:
1 ASTRID WILLIAMSON Shetland Suite (INCARNATION)
2 MARTIN SIMPSON Skydancers (TOPIC)
3 NIAMH BURY Yellow Roses (CLADDAGH)
4 STICK IN THE WHEEL A Thousand Pokes (FROM HERE)
5 THE RHEINGANS SISTERS Start Close In (SELF-RELEASED)
6 MARRY WATERSON & ADRIAN CROWLEY Cuckoo Storm (ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT)
7 SHOVEL DANCE COLLECTIVE The Shovel Dance (AMERICAN DREAMS)
8 MACDARA YEATES Traditional Singing From Dublin (SELF-RELEASED)
9 SAM LEE Songdreaming (COOKING VINYL)
10 ANGELINE, COHEN & JON Grace Will Lead Me Home (INVISIBLE FOLK)

JAZZ:
1 AMARO FREITAS Y’Y (PSYCHIC HOTLINE)
2 ISAIAH COLLIER & THE CHOSEN FEW The World Is On Fire (DIVISION 81)
3 IMMANUEL WILKINS Blues Blood (BLUE NOTE)
4 NUBYA GARCIA Odyssey (CONCORD JAZZ)
5 KAMASI WASHINGTON Fearless Movement (YOUNG)
6 (EXIT) KNARR Breezy (SONIC TRANSMISSION)
7 ANNA BUTTERSS Mighty Vertebrate (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
8 SØREN SKOV ORBIT Adrift (FREDERIKSBERG)
9 MALCOLM JIYANE TREE-O True Story (MUSHROOM HOUR/NEW SOIL)
10 MARIDALEN Gressholmen (JAZZLAND)

WORLD:
1 ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn (LEITER/BMG)
2 AROOJ AFTAB Night Reign (VERVE)
3 MDOU MOCTAR Funeral For Justice (MATADOR)
4 SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head) (RECORD KICKS)
5 MOMO. Gira (BATOV)
6 THE JOY The Joy (TRANSGRESSIVE)
7 LES AMAZONES D’AFRIQUE Musow Danse (REAL WORLD)
8 MARCOS VALLE Túnel Acústico (FAR OUT)
9 EL KHAT Mute (GLITTERBEAT)
10 BAB L’BLUZ Swaken (REAL WORLD)

EXPERIMENTAL:
1 ARIEL KALMA, JEREMIAH CHIU & MARTA SOFIA HONER The Closest Thing To Silence (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
2 THE NECKS Bleed (NORTHERN SPY)
3 ELKHORN The Red Valley (VHF)
4 SHANE PARISH Repertoire (PALLILALIA)
5 OREN AMBARCHI, JOHAN BERTHLING, ANDREAS WERLIN Ghosted II (DRAG CITY)
6 GERYCX/POWERS/ROLIN Activator (12XU)
7 HOUSE BAND Aventurine (SELF-RELEASED)
8 EIKO ISHIBASHI Evil Does Not Exist (DRAG CITY)
9 MELOS KALPA Melos Kalpa (HANDS IN THE DARK)
10 STILL HOUSE PLANTS If I Don’t Make It, I Love U (BISON)

SOUL:
1 LADY BLACKBIRD Slang Spirituals (BMG)
2 SY SMITH Until We Meet Again (FOREIGN EXCHANGE MUSIC/PSYKO)
3 BRITTI Hello, I’m Britti. (EASY EYE SOUND)
4 KELLY FINNIGAN A Lover Was Born (COLEMINE)
5 SHEMEKIA COPELAND Blame It On Eve (ALLIGATOR)
6 THEE SACRED SOULS Got A Story To Tell (DAPTONE)
7 THE HARLEM GOSPEL TRAVELERS Rhapsody (COLEMINE)
8 AARON FRAZER Into The Blue (DEAD OCEANS)
9 STAPLES JR SINGERS Searching (LUAKA BOP)
10 RAVEENA Where The Butterflies Go In The Rain (MOONSTONE RECORDINGS)

PROG:
1 BIG BIG TRAIN The Likes Of Us (INSIDE OUT)
2 GONG Unending Ascending (KSCOPE)
3 ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM To Shoot Another Day (CHERRY RED)
4 STEVE HACKETT The Circus And The Nightwhale (INSIDE OUT)
5 JON ANDERSON & THE BAND GEEKS True (FRONTIERS)
6 VON HERTZEN BROTHERS In Murmuration (ADA)
7 HAWKWIND Stories From Time And Space (CHERRY RED)
8 PERILYMPH Progressions Imaginaires (STONE PIXEL)
9 FOCUS Focus 12 (SPIRIT OF UNICORN)
10 PLANTOID Terrapath (BELLA UNION

2 weeks today and the world of instagram will know my 25th favourite album of the year.

just let that sink in!!

Jumbo Records top 10

1. Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch

2. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

3. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

4. Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent

5. Alessandro Asso Stefana - Alessandro Asso Stefana

6. Liam Bailey - Zero Grace

7. Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle

8. Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist

9. Beak - >>>>

10. Kim Gordon - The Collective

Rough Trade top 100 here: www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/collection/albums-of-the-year-2024

Top 20 write-ups at: blog.roughtrade.com/gb/uk-albums-of-the-year-2024/

1. SOPHIE - SOPHIE
2. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
3. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
4. The Smile - Cutouts
5. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy
6. IDLES - TANGK
7. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
8. Charli XCX - BRAT
9. SPRINTS - Letter To Self
10. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia?
11. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
12. Big Special - Postindustrial Hometown Blues
13. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
14. Ezra Collective - Dance No One's Watching
15. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
16. Clairo - Charm
17. Katy J Pearson - Someday, Now
18. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
19. Bill Ryder-Jones- lechyd Da
20. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino