My Year in Music (2024)
- Garrett Bugay
- Dec 23, 2024
- 6 min read
Welcome to my 3rd annual music-of-the-year list. In case you missed them, here are my previous two posts for 2023 and 2022 below:
After setting personal records with 1,000 artists and 2,500 songs listened to in 2023, I managed to exceed those numbers in 2024 (1,285 artists/3,095 songs). I attended 11 concerts in the calendar year, including seeing The Boss for the first time! My top artist of the year was Neil Young, whom I listened to for over 700 minutes (I'm still not through his discography yet). This was a wonderful year for music - - with notable lead singers pursuing and succeeding in their solo ventures (Katie Gavin from Muna, Nicole Miglis from Hundred Waters, and Lauren Mayberry from Chrvches). One of my all time favorite groups, The Cure, came out with their first album in 16 years!
Obviously taste in music is subjective. But I would like to think that when you consume it in mass quantities as I have for the last twelve months - - there's going to be some overlap with the vast majority of people. My goal with this blog, beyond having a convenient summation of my media intake, is to give ya'll an easy way to sift through the overwhelming, cacophonous, endless stream of content in all media but especially music and film/television.
I think I settled on a pretty good format for this last year, so not much has changed on that front. The only new addition this year will be an honorable mention section, which I reserve the right to forego in future years. But for those unfamiliar, I will be including my top 52 albums (one for each week of the year!) along with my favorite tracks from each. I will add this symbol (*) to signify which albums make up my top 12 (one for each month of the year!), and I'll include both a short and long version of my 2024 playlist. And last but not least, I have some more "Best Of" playlists, featuring artists that I adore. I will include both Spotify and Apple Music links to everything.
Feel free to absorb this however you see fit - - if you'd prefer to scroll down to your preferred genre straight away, please do so! If your eyes are already weary from reading this much, and you just want to click on a link that will start playing music, be my guest!
Top 52 Albums of the Year (Genres in Alphabetical Order):
Alternative:
Molly Lewis (On The Lips)
Track 2: Lounge Lizard
Track 7: Porque Te Vas
Cigarettes After Sex (X's)
Track 2: Tejano Blue
Track 5: Holding you, Holding Me
Nicole Miglis (Myopia)
Track 3: City Rats
Track 8: Sleep All Day
*Telenova (Time is a Flower)
Track 5: Tremors, Traces
Track 9: Discotheque Inside My Head
Track 12: Bird of Paradise
London Grammar (The Greatest Love)
Track 3: You and I
Track 6: Santa Fe
Track 9: Into Gold
Holly Humberstone (Work in Progress EP)
Track 1: Dive
Track 4: Easy Tiger
Rosali (Bite Down)
Track 1: On Tonight
Track 2: Rewind
Bess Atwell (Light Sleeper)
Track 2: Release Myself
Track 4: Fan Favourite
Track 5: The Weeping
Nulifer Yanya (My Method Actor)
Track 2: Like I Say (I runaway)
Track 4: Binding
Track 7: Call It Love
*Cassandra Jenkins (My Light, My Destroyer)
Track 7: Omakase
Track 12: Only One
Rubblebucket (Year of the Banana)
Track 2: Moving Without Talking
Track 4: Rattlesnake
Country:
*Adrienne Lenker (Bright Future)
Track 4: No Machine
Track 5: Free Treasure
Track 11: Donut Seam
Katie Gavin (What a Relief)
Track 2: Aftertaste
Track 3: The Baton
Track 8: Inconsolable
Beyonce (Cowboy Carter)
Track 23: Riiverdance
Track 25: Tyrant
Disco:
Sai Galaxy (Okere EP)
Track 2: Okere (Feat. Bade)
Track 3: Rich Man Poor Man (Feat. Rob)
Electronic/Funk:
L'Imperatrice (Pulsar)
Track 5: Danza Marilu (Feat. Fabiana Martone)
Track 6: Any Way (Feat. Maggie Rogers)
Track 9: Sweet and Sublime (Feat. Erick the Architect)
Brijean (Macro)
Track 2: Euphoric Avenue
Track 8: Counting Sheep
Washed Out (Notes From a Quiet Life)
Track 3: Got Your Back
Track 4: The Hardest Part
Track 7: Running Away
Monolism (Excursions)
Track 1: Lift Off
Track 6: Hyperspace
Jamie XX (Waves)
Track 6: Still Summer
Track 8: The Feeling I Get From You
Track 10: All You Children (Feat. The Avalanches)
*Photay (Windswept)
Track 2: Global Wind Trade
Track 7: Thermal Loop
Track 8: Low Pressure System
Justice (Hyperdrama)
Track 4: One Night/All Night (Feat. Tame Impala)
Track 12: Saturnine (Feat. Miguel)
Lucy in Disguise (Passing Mirrors EP)
Track 1: Astral Bloom
Track 4: Nova II
Plastic Estate (Code D'amour)
Track 2: Open Eyes
Track 6: Anymore
Track 8: 2000 Ways
Helado Negro (Phasor)
Track 1: LFO (Lupe Finds Oliveros)
Track 3: Best for You and Me
Faux Real (Faux Ever)
Track 2: Rent Free
Track 4: Love On The Ground
Track 10: Full Circle
Chromeo (Adult Contemporary)
Track 3: Lost And Found
Track 7: Personal Effects
Track 11: Words With You
Jazz:
*Kessoncoda (Outerstate)
Track 2: Greyscale
Track 6: Spaceliminal
Track 10: Amaya
*Laurent Bardainne & Tigre d'Eau Douce (Eden Beach Club)
Track 2: Welcome
Track 3: Serpent Kai
Track 8: Luxe, calme et volupte
Track 10: La marche des animaux
BadBadNotGood (Mid Spiral: Growth EP)
Track 2: Audacia
Track 3: Celestial Hands
Daryl Johns (Daryl Johns)
Track 3: I'm So Serious
Track 4: Crash
Track 6: Let Her Go
Berlioz (Open This Wall)
Track 1: Ascension
Track 3: Peace
Track 8: Indigo Dream
Sefi Zisling (The Librarian)
Track 2: Layla
Track 3: Brothers
Pop:
*Charli XCX (Brat)
Track 3: Sympathy is a Knife
Track 10: Girl, so confusing
Track 13: Mean Girls
Empress Of (For Your Consideration)
Track 2: Lorelei
Track 4: Kiss Me
Track 11: What's Love (Feat. Muna)
*Tove Lo & SG Lewis (Heat EP)
Track 1: Heat
Track 3: Busy Girl
Magdalena Bay (Imaginal Disk)
Track 4: Image
Track 5: Death & Romance
Sabrina Carpenter (Short n' Sweet)
Track 1: Taste
Track 12: Don't Smile
*Kylie Minogue (Tension II)
1: Lights Camera Action
3: Someone For Me
5: Kiss Bang Bang
Michelle (Songs About You Specifically)
Track 5: Dropout
Track 9: Oontz
Kacy Hill (Bug)
Track 2: You Know I Love You Still
Track 4: Listen to You
Rap/R&B:
Kendrick Lamar (GNX)
Track 1: wacced out murals
Track 6: Reincarnated
*Doechii (Alligator Bites Never Heal)
Track 4: Denial Is A River
Track 5: Catfish
Track 16: Slide
Jae Stephens (Sellout EP)
Track 2: Body Favors
Track 6: PDA
Rock:
Emmett Kai (Whale Milk)
Track 5: We Used To Be Alright
Track 8: Mastercard Lithuania
*St. Vincent (All Born Screaming)
Track 3: Broken Man
Track 5: Big Time Nothing
Track 6: Violent Times
Real Estate (Daniel)
Track 3: Water Underground
Track 4: Flowers
Khruangbin (A La Sala)
Track 2: May Ninth
Track 6: Todavia Viva
Track 11: A Love International
*The Cure (Songs of a Lost World)
Track 2: And Nothing Is Forever
Track 6: I Can Never Say Goodbye
Gift (Illuminator)
Track 1: Wish Me Away
Track 11: Milestones
Vampire Weekend (Only God Was Above Us)
Track 9: Pravda
Track 10: Hope
Mini Trees (Burn Out EP)
Track 1: Shapeshifter
Track 4: Push and Pull
Honorable Mentions:
Mary Lattimore (Rain On The Road)(Alternative)
Greg Foat (The Glass Frog)(Jazz)
The Vaccines (Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations)(Rock)
Jeffrey Silverstein (Roseway EP)(Country)
Childish Gambino (Bando Stone and the New World)(Pop)
Hundred Waters (Towers EP)(Alternative)
Eva Rose (Whatever Help You Sleep EP)(Rock)
Ocula (Uncharted Waters)(Electronic)
Lauren Mayberry (Vicious Creature)(Pop)
Shygirl (Club Shy)(Pop)
Toro Y Moi (Hole Erth)(Alternative)
Pool House (Sandflies EP)(Rock)
Yonder Mountain String Band (I'd Like Off EP)(Country)
Major Murphy (Fallout)(Rock)
Max Cruise (Nights at Sunset Beach)(Jazz)
Lou Hayter (Unfamiliar Skin)(Electronic)
Timecop1983 (Metropolis EP)(Electronic)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (b741)(Rock)
2024 Playlist (Short Version):
2024 Playlist (Long Version):
Best of Playlists:
Yuma Zouma:
Real Estate:
St. Lucia:
Two Door Cinema Club:
girlhouse:
Anna of the North:
Drab Majesty:
Mayer Hawthorne:
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