Your best new releases of 2024

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OK, down at my end of a tasteful little musical archipelago it will (in no order) be these:

Iona Lane – Bring the Tide In

Awen Ensemble – Cadair Idris

Jasmine Myra – Rising

The Wilderness Yet – Westlin Winds

Police Dog Hogan – Lightning Strike

Martin Simpson – Skydancers

Mike Vass - Decemberwell Decade

Yasmin Williams – Acadia

Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts – Chasing Light

Fergus McCreadie – Stream

The Ciderhouse Rebellion – A Little Bit Slanted

The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Kirsty Merryn – The Devil’s on the Mast

Murray Grainger - I

Ross Couper Band – The Homeroad

Eleanor Dunsdon & Gregor Black – Let No Man

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I enjoyed your Police Dog Hogan suggestion on WAYLTN :+1:

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TOP 3 :

Sacred Skin – Born In Fire
80s influenced, cinematic synthpop new wave.

Twin Tribes - Pendulum
Jangly gothy postpunk.

Flint Glass & Ah Cama Sotz – Wakan Tanka
Trippy electronic; core sound is tribal/ritualistic, but with idm/ambient/dub/noise elements.

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BEST OF THE REST :

Dermabrasion – Pain Behaviour
Somewhere at the intersection of postpunk, goth rock and deathrock.

Kanka & Bodewell – Stroboscope
Collabaration between members of Armageddon Dildos and Orange Sector; EBM meets synthpop.

Mvtant – Electronic Body Horror
Industrial beats, glitchy cut-up samples, early 80s Cabaret Voltaire influences.

Architrav – Welk
Dark ambient, industrial soundscapes, neo-classical.

Feyleux – Midnight Hearts
Debut album for an American female duo; the year’s quintessential darkwave release.

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PLAYLIST :

1-3 : synthpop darkwave
4-9 : dancefloor electro/darkwave (industrial lite)
10-16 : postpunk gothrock deathrock
17-20 : (dark) ambient, IDM
21-31: industrial
(21-22 classic; 23-25 techno body music; 26-29 electro-industrial; 30-31 other noisy stuff)

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I thought the title of this thread was the ‘best of’ not ‘here is a picture of everything I bought’?

Maybe it should have been ‘My top 10 albums of 2004’

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Cracking list - some I need to :ear: :ear: :ear:

Piles acting-up again Kev? :roll_eyes:

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I will list the 50 albums I bought this year later :grinning:

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Pedant mode on/ Were all 50 released this year ? /pedant mode off

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I am sure you will enjoy checking :grinning:

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Got to love a micro-genre.

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If I had to try and remember:

Nick Cave. Wild God
John Grant. The Art of the Lie.
Jesus and Mary Chain. Glasgow Eyes.
The Cure. Song from a Lost World.
And some more left field ones:
Mining. Chimet.
South Hill Experiment. Sun Strikes.
Violence Gratuite. Baleine à Boss.

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These two:

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The first few on the list are there because I also saw the band/performer live this year.
Seeing the songs live, contextualises them and puts them in place for me. When I listen to the record again after having seen the live performance the songs are somehow elevated.
The musicianship is understood.

Superb sold out concert in St Georges’ Church in Brighton, a small venue, just three musicians, astonishing performance.

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Saw them at The Haunt in Brighton with @coco of this parish. Fantastic gig, great album.

King Hannah - Big Swimmer

Saw them at The Green Door at Brighton, tiny club near the station.
Spoke to Hannah Merrick at the merch table. I asked her if she was a Bill Callahan fan, Got a big smile, “Huge fan” she said “Can’t you tell?”
First saw them last year supporting Kurt Vile, don’t think they will be playing tiny venues for long.

Saw Jane Weaver at Concorde 2 one of the bigger Brighton venues, mesmeric gig

Beth Gibbons - Live Outgrown
Didn’t get to see her on this tour more is the pity

Biggest gig of the year at the O2 with @coco and @PapaLazarou

Stunning quality recording done with love in their own studios with ancient machinery

Hooray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive

When Puerto Ricans do Americana

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An excellent selection Kevin.