Albums the Fediverse Loved in 2024

Okay all, here are 132 albums the Fediverse loved in 2024, mostly 2024 releases but also some earlier gems! Thanks so much to the 60 Fedizens who shared the albums that rocked their world – it’s nice to see some familiar faces from the 1001 Other Albums project, and some new ones! And, as always, it’s so lovely to get a glimpse into all our diverse tastes in music, and to see people trying something new solely based on a random Fedi recommendation.

Genre tags are included as tasting notes and each title is linked to its Bandcamp or Songlink (with the exception of 2 physical-only releases), so click and listen away – perhaps you’ll find a new-to-you album that gets you through 2025! Check out the footnotes to see who submitted each album, along with any extra comments they included (warning: some comments include MOAR ALBUMS).

Happy listening, and remember to keep your music close by this year, in case of emergencies. And, if you need more recommendations, you know where to find me.

Band – Title (year released, place of origin; genre)footnote

Aaron Frazer – Into the Blue (2024, US; soul)1

Antemasque – s/t (2014, US; alt rock, punk rock)2

Arcwelder – Continue (2024, US; alt rock, post-punk)3

Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (2024, Pakistan/US; Pakistani folk music, bebop jazz)4

Barenaked Ladies – Rock Spectacle (1996, Canada; alt rock, live)5

Barry Adamson – Cut to Black (2024, UK; soul, R&B, disco)6

Basement Revolver – Heavy Eyes (2018, Canada; indie rock, dream pop, shoegaze)7

Bebel Gilberto – Tanto Tempo (2000, Brazil; bossa nova, electronic)8

Bex Burch – There is Only Love and Fear (2023, UK; jazz, improvisational, experimental)9

Bhutan Balladeers – Your Face Is Like The Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars (2024, Bhutan; traditional, Zhungdra)10

Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024, US; alt pop, bedroom pop)11

Black Sabbath – Sabotage (1975, UK; heavy metal)12

Bloody Keep – Rats of Black Death (2024, US; black metal)13

Borknagar – Fall (2024, Norway; avantgarde/prog black metal)14

boygenius – the record (2023, US; indie rock)15

Brittany Davis – Image Issues (2024, US; soul, funk, hip-hop)16

Cate Brooks – Prismatics (2024, UK; electronica)17

Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023, US; pop, dance pop)18

Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty (2013, US; goth rock, psych folk)19

Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (2024, US; folk, rock)20

Chromeo – Adult Contemporary (2024, Canada; electro-funk, nu disco, dance pop)21

CHVRCHES – Screen Violence (2021, Scotland; synth pop)22

Counting Hours – The Wishing Tomb (2024, Finland; dark doom metal)23

Crippled Black Phoenix – The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature (2024, UK; prog rock, goth rock)24

Dark Tranquility – Endtime Signals (2024, Sweden; melodic death metal)25

delving – All Paths Diverge (2024, Germany; psych ambient prog)26

Devin Townsend – Lightwork (deluxe edition) (2022, Canada; prog metal, prog rock)27

Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will (2024, Sweden; atmospheric black metal)28

Dool – The Shape of Fluidity (2024, Netherlands; psych rock)29

Dora Jar – No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire (2024, US; indie rock)30

Dust Bolt – Sound & Fury (2024, Germany; thrash metal)31

El Parro del Mar – Big Anonymous (2024, Sweden; indie rock)32

Elysion – Bring Out Your Dead (2023, Greece; gothic metal)33

Eros Tunnel – The Ritual (2023, US; dream pop)34

Fellowship – The Skies Above Eternity (2024, UK; power metal)35

Florence + The Machine with Jules Buckley and His Orchestra – Symphony of Lungs: BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall (2024, UK; orchestral reworking, live)36

Flunk – Morning Star (2004, Norway; alt pop, electronica, folktronica)37

Fluorescents – Scream It At Me! (2024, US; pop punk)38

Fold – We Do Not Forget (2024, UK; trip-hop, spoken word)39

Françoise Hardy – Le Danger (1996, France; pop rock)40

Gaerea – Coma (2024, Portugal; atmospheric [/post-]black metal)41

Genocide Organ – Death Zones (2023, Germany; power electronics, industrial)42

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” (2024, Canada; post-rock, art rock)43

Grace Petrie – Build Something Better (2024, UK; folk rock)44

Grant Green – Green is Beautiful (1970, US; jazz)45

Green Day – Saviors (2024, US; pop punk)46

GROZA – Nadir (2024, Germany; [post-]black metal)47

Hässlig – Apex Predator (2024, Spain; raw black metal, punk)48

Helicon – God Intentions (2023, Scotland; psych rock)49

Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002, US; indie rock)50

Jack White – No Name (2024, US; rock)51

Jeff Parker – Slight Freedom (2016, US; jazz)52

Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch (2024, US; indie folk)53

Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (2024, UK; heavy metal)54

Julia Jacklin – Crushing (2019, Australia; folk)55

Julie Christmas – Ridiculous and Full of Blood (2024, US; experimental [/post-]metal)56

Kayla Painter – Fractures (2024, UK; experimental, ambient)57

Kazuki Tomokawa – Going To Buy Squid (2024, Japan; folk)58

Kerry King – From Hell I Rise (2024, US; thrash metal)59

Khruangbin – A LA SALA (2024, US; psych, funk)60

Kim Janssen – Cousins (2017, Netherlands; indie pop)61

Kvelertak – Endling (2023, Norway; heavy metal)62

Laurie Anderson – Amelia (2024, US; experimental)63

Lesser Care – Heel Turn (2024, US; post-punk)64

Liminal Shroud – Visions of Collapse (2024, Canada; black metal)65

Los Campesinos! – All Hell (2024, UK; emo, indie rock)66

Lucile Boulanger – La Messagère (2024, France; viola, classical)67

Manchild – Half an Album (2024, US; punk, hardcore, noise rock)68

Mary Timony – Mountains (2000, US; indie rock)69

Maul – In the Jaws of Bereavement (2024, US; death metal)70

Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice (2024, Niger; desert psych)71

MEER – Wheels Within Wheels (2024, Norway; symphonic prog, rock)72

Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (2024, US; jazz, soul, spoken word)73

Mitochondrian – Vitriseptome (2024, Canada; blackened death metal)74

MONO – OATH (2024, Japan; post-rock, instrumental rock)75

MONOWHALES – Who’s There To Hear Me Out (2024, Canada; indie rock)76

Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath (2024, UK; art rock)77

Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (2023, US; synth pop)78

Nina Nesbitt – Mountain Music 2024, Scotland; folk pop)79

Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994, US; industrial)80

NoHoN – s/t (2024, Norway; avantgarde metal)81

Oceans of Slumber – Where Gods Fear to Speak (2024, US; prog metal, goth metal)82

Ochu – Dry Routine (2024, Sweden; experimental, noise)83

Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja (2024, Finland; psych black metal)84

Parlor Greens – In Green/We Dream (2024, US; soul jazz, funk)85

Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing (1998, UK; alt rock, glam rock)86

Rainbow Girls – Haunting (2024, US; indie rock)87

Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name (2018, US; tech/prog death metal)88

Rotting Christ – Pro Xristou (2024, Greece; black metal)89

Severoth – Шляхом світла (By the Way of Light) (2024, Ukraine; atmospheric/ambient black metal)90

Shellac – To All Trains (2024, US; alt rock)91

Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) – An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021, US; R&B, soul, funk, hip hop, pop)92

Sleaford Mods – UK Grim (2023, UK; post-punk)93

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – of the Last Human Being (2024, US; experimental)94

Slift – Ilion (2024, France; psych rock)95

SNAKE OIL – The Train is White and the Moon is Strong (or Combinations of Objects and Animals) (2013, US; post-rock, psych rock)96

Stick in the Wheel – A Thousand Pokes (2024, UK; folk, folktronica)97

Sweetmelk – Play House (2024, US; punk rock, emo)98

TDJ – SPF INFINI: GENESIS (2024, Canada; electro, house, techno, trance)99

TEYA – Grandma on the Dancefloor (2024, Austria/Germany; alt pop)100

The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (1967, US; psych rock)101

The Body – The Crying Out of Things (2024, US; experimental metal)102

The Cure – Pornography (1982, UK; goth rock)103

The Cure – Songs of a Lost World (2024, UK; goth rock)104

The Dandy Warhols – Rockmaker (2024, US; alt rock)105

The Howl & The Hum – Same Mistake Twice (2024, UK; indie rock, indie folk)106

The Lemon Twigs – A Dream is All We Know (2024, US; rock)107

The Linda Lindas – No Obligation (2024, US; punk, garage rock)108

The Marías – Submarine (2024, US; indie pop, dream pop)109

The Warning – Keep Me Fed (2024, Mexico; rock)110

Thee More Shallows – Dad Jams (2021, US; indie pop)111

Thee Sinseers – Sinseerly Yours (2024, US; R&B, soul)112

Thou – Umbilical (2024, US; sludge metal, doom)113

tindersticks – Soft Tissue (2024, UK; alt rock, art rock)114

Transit Method – Othervoid (2024, US; prog metal)115

Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God (2024, New Zealand; death metal)116

Unto Others – Never, Neverland (2024, US; goth rock, post-punk, metal)117

various – Goths For Palestine (2024, various; goth, dark wave, post-punk)118

Vera Sola – Peacemaker (2024, US/Canada; ghost folk, haunted cowboy)119

VIAL – Burnout (2024, US; indie punk)120

Vykroutas, Oleksandr Yavdyk – Я ще не там і вже не тут (2024, Ukraine; prog rock, art rock)121

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Your Community Hub (2024, UK; electronic)122

Weird Weather – Visceral Snacks (2024, UK; blackened trip-hop)123

Weval – Remember (2023, Netherlands; electronic, dance, pop)124

Whitechapel – Kin (2021, US; metal, deathcore)125

Wishy – Triple Seven (2024, US; alt rock, dream pop)126

Work Money Death – People of the Fast Flowing River (2024, UK; spiritual jazz)127

Xana – The Sex Was Good Until It Wasn’t (2024, Canada; pop)128

Xion – Between Shadows and Gods (2024, Sweden; thrash metal)129

Yannis & The Yaw (feat. Tony Allen) – Lagos Paris London (2024, UK; afrobeat)130

Zaho de Sagazan – La symphonie des éclairs (2023, France; synth pop)131

Zeal and Ardor – Greif (2024, Switzerland/US; black metal, experimental)132

Footnote Number. Fediverse username(s): Comments
(Note: Instances left off for safety, if you want yours included, hmu!)

1. RolloTreadway: my favourite soul album of the year ↩︎
2. silverface: I fell in love with this year. (Mars Volta/Blink 182/RHCP supergroup). Can’t tell you why. I don’t have a favourite track, but I’d like to specifically shout out “Drown All Your Witches”. ↩︎
3. communalsauce ↩︎
4. schoppenaas ↩︎
5. BootesVoid: pure nostalgia ↩︎
6. nevar23 ↩︎
7. tonymasiello ↩︎
8. satsuma: was a surprise discovery from listening to 1001 Albums and was my summer soundtrack. ↩︎
9. icastico ↩︎
10. platenworm ↩︎
11. onuryasar: It gives everything you’d expect from a good pop album. Over the months after its release, each track became my favourite for a while. ↩︎
12. derthomas ↩︎
13. HauntedOwlbear ↩︎
14. raisedfist ↩︎
15. moss ↩︎
16. icastico: brittanydavismusic.net/ Blind, nonbinary, black artist who has more to say about life than most. They are amazing. ↩︎
17. avi_miller: Her album from 2 years ago (under the alias The Advisory Circle) was a favorite of mine from 2022 and I am really vibing with this new one too. I am also going to link to the review in The Quietus that was the reason I found out that this album had released. thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/cate-brooks-prismatics-review/ ↩︎
18. moss ↩︎
19. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
20. leodurruti ↩︎
21. dan ↩︎
22. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
23. gavin57 ↩︎
24. zm1 ↩︎
25. AqiDrago ↩︎
26. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
27. Jorsh: did a lot of heavy lifting this year ↩︎
28. zm1 ↩︎
29. zm1 ↩︎
30. tonymasiello ↩︎
31. trendskater ↩︎
32. arratoon ↩︎
33. snacktraces: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysion_(band) www.elysion-official.com/ An underrated “gothic” metal band from Greece, their latest album. This album hit my “radar” in the summer of this year. Was traveling to another country to spend a week working with colleagues. I drove instead of flew. I listened to this whole album on the trip there and the trip back in the car. It got me through a rough week ↩︎
34. resl ↩︎
35. shivering_wreck: super uplifting || sentynel: www.angrymetalguy.com/sentynel-and-twelves-top-tenish-of-2024/ ↩︎
36. moss ↩︎
37. tonymasiello ↩︎
38. anglemaece ↩︎
39. satsuma: Powerful mix of trip hop and spoken word ↩︎
40. buffyleigh: RIP Françoise. I devoured all 32 of her studio albums this year, making Hardy my 5th most listened-to artist in both albums and minutes. This one is quite different from the rest of her discography, but it’s my favourite. Full (25+) AOTY list at musingsofbuffyleigh.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/albums-of-a-lost-world/ ↩︎
41. HauntedOwlbear ↩︎
42. erik ↩︎
43. mbr ↩︎
44. madunclegenghis: Righteous anger, beautiful love songs, just a wonderful album. ↩︎
45. _slotek_: Music to sooth the savage breast. ↩︎
46. ArpComics: Their best album since AI, basically a middle-aged Dookie. Honorable mention to: Pinhead Gunpowder, ‘Unt’ – A Billie Joe Armstrong side project of straight up pop punk; Amyl & the Sniffers, ‘Cartoon Darkness’ – Old school garage punk from down under, fronted by a force of nature; Chappell Roan – I don’t even know the name of her album but one of my kids listens to her in the car 24/7 and everything I’ve heard is damn good. ↩︎
47. AqiDrago ↩︎
48. otherdog ↩︎
49. flockofnazguls ↩︎
50. svenvabar: Discovered Interpol this year – that’s the most important thing. Let’s say ‘Turn on the Bright Lights’ (2002), but could have been ‘Antics’ (2004). ↩︎
51. nevar23 ↩︎
52. _slotek_: Music to sooth the savage breast. ↩︎
53. jomel: Also Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown, Labecque sisters – Sonic Wires, Tindersticks – Soft Tissue, Emily Loizeau – La souterraine, Louis Carnell – 111, King Hannah – Big Swimmer, Kim Gordon – The Collective, Kim Deal – Nobody loves you more, Claire Rousay – The Bloody Lady ↩︎
54. derthomas ↩︎
55. resl: released in 2019 but I was really glad I found it so in case anyone who sees this list hasn’t heard it and would like it as much as I did, I want to mention it ↩︎
56. mbr || MetalheadDana ↩︎
57. flockofnazguls ↩︎
58. platenworm ↩︎
59. kreatorfangirls ↩︎
60. Cart: So relaxing. ↩︎
61. Cart: Bottlerockets brings tears almost every time. ↩︎
62. derthomas ↩︎
63. buffyleigh: Anderson kept popping up in my listening, both with older work (especially Big Science) and this, her newest (which features some vocals by ANOHNI). What a delightful creature. [Also see footnote 40.] ↩︎
64. aspeed ↩︎
65. MetalheadDana ↩︎
66. puffer ↩︎
67. johnglass: Honorable mentions: Helado Negro – PHASOR; Julie – my anti-aircraft friend; Maria Chiara Argirò – Closer; Punchlove – Channels; Packs – Melt the Honey; Shooting Daggers – Love & Rage; Itasca – Imitation of War; Khruangbin – A LA SALA; Whitelands – Night-bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day; Kali Uchis – Orquídeas; Allie X – Girl With No Face; Deap Vally – SISTRONIX 2.0; Sophie de Bardonnèche – Destineés; Drahla – angeltape ↩︎
68. icastico ↩︎
69. erik ↩︎
70. umrk ↩︎
71. leodurruti ↩︎
72. sentynel [Also see footnote 35.] ↩︎
73. platenworm || jomel ↩︎
74. umrk ↩︎
75. avi_miller ↩︎
76. BootesVoid: Mostly because of the song “Flatbread” ↩︎
77. satsuma: A great album dealing with grief, addiction and trauma, and coming out the other side bloodied but unbowed. || schoppenaas ↩︎
78. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
79. littlerachyb: Nina has a knack of hitting my feelings on the head. I first found her in the pandemic when she was posting silly little jingles, especially one about it being a good time to stop giving a fuck. Anyway this year Mansion from this album was my tune, and the whole album resonated. ↩︎
80. buffyleigh: This was my best discovery from the 1001 Albums to Listen to Before You Die list – yep, I hadn’t heard it before this year – and it kickstarted my obsession with NIN which led to them being my most listened-to artist of the year, in both albums and minutes. [Also see footnote 40.] ↩︎
81. avi_miller: I found this album interesting, and hope others will enjoy it too ↩︎
82. shivering_wreck ↩︎
83. erik: Ochu are one of my best discoveries of 2024. I first saw them live on a boat in Stockholm, rubbing pieces of wood against each other, breaking branches, etc. On “Dry Routine”, there are also some woodwork, with sounds from both a regular and an electric saw, and all kinds of lo-fi field recordings, layered and looped into captivating pieces. So far, it’s my favorite release of the year. [Note link is to only one song; no digital release, limited vinyl.] ↩︎
84. HauntedOwlbear ↩︎
85. weirdofhermiston ↩︎
86. svenvabar: Discovered Placebo this year. Let’s say ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ (1998), but could have been some other album also (‘Meds’, ‘Black Market Music’…) ↩︎
87. evilchili: The best close singers in the business delivered an aptly-named record of loss, death, mourning, and rage. Everyone needs to hear this record. ↩︎
88. gavin57 ↩︎
89. TG_Esq ↩︎
90. MetalheadDana ↩︎
91. communalsauce ↩︎
92. Cart: It doesn’t get any better. ↩︎
93. flockofnazguls ↩︎
94. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
95. mbr ↩︎
96. puffer ↩︎
97. RolloTreadway: my favourite album ↩︎
98. dan ↩︎
99. BramMeehan: Ran across [this album] via electrowow the morning of November 6 and, y’know, I kinda needed that. ↩︎
100. ArpComics: Competed in Eurovision for Austria in ‘23, she has a way with words. Just listen to ‘Not Afraid of Growing Old’. Also had a great single with Aiko called ‘Hunger’. [Also see footnote 46.] ↩︎
101. cloudtripper: Give it 30 seconds, if you get it, you get it. The best album I’ve never heard of since X-Ray Spex. ↩︎
102. TG_Esq ↩︎
103. svenvabar: The new Cure is super good too but the truth is I discovered ‘Pornography’ this year. That one I truly liked. ↩︎
104. evilchili: The best Cure record since Disintegration! We always say that! But it is! || thesinkingbelle || arratoon || dan ↩︎
105. nevar23 ↩︎
106. domino_joyce: Self described as your dad’s favourite miserable disco, if you aren’t hooked by the opening line, it’s not for you. I’ve listened to it more than anything else this year. ↩︎
107. evilchili: Perfect ↩︎
108. BootesVoid || ArpComics: Third album from the precocious teens who opened for Green Day this year, with steadily improving songwriting and wider range of style/influences. [Also see footnote 46.] ↩︎
109. johnglass [Also see footnote 67.] ↩︎
110. thraeryn ↩︎
111. puffer ↩︎
112. weirdofhermiston ↩︎
113. leodurruti || umrk || schoppenaas ↩︎
114. arratoon ↩︎
115. shivering_wreck ↩︎
116. TG_Esq || sentynel [Also see footnote 35.] ↩︎
117. trendskater || AqiDrago || raisedfist ↩︎
118. Moss ↩︎
119. johnglass [Also see footnote 67.] ↩︎
120. anglemaece ↩︎
121. sichkovskyi ↩︎
122. RolloTreadway: my favourite electronic album of the year ↩︎
123. aspeed ↩︎
124. jexner ↩︎
125. gavin57 ↩︎
126. communalsauce ↩︎
127. _slotek_: Music to sooth the savage breast. ↩︎
128. anglemaece ↩︎
129. trendskater || raisedfist ↩︎
130. wlukewindsor: yannisandtheyaw.ochre.store/format/1526515-lagos-paris-london-ep ↩︎
131. jomel ↩︎
132. aspeed ↩︎

Good things from my 2024, in (mostly) Threes
#NewYear #YearInReview #3GoodThings

Fiction Books:
Right Ho! Jeeves
Under the Dome
A Gentleman in Moscow

Movies:
Cabrini
Greyhound
(I think I only saw two!)

Discoveries:
Pictorialism
Calm App
*** There's still 14 1/2 hours left to discover one more thing, so please share yours! ***

Ice cream flavors:
Vanilla
Coffee
Ginger

Beverages:
Water
Coffee
Sleepy Time tea

Favorite Days:
January 24, 2024
May 3, 2024
June 19, 2024

Most Played Songs:
Eleven Four
Three to Get Ready
Iberia
(I clearly need more variety )

Most frequent driving destinations:
A certain multi use commercial plaza
Grocery stores
Work

Walking destinations (by frequency):
My neighborhood
The neighborhood around a certain multi use commercial plaza
The neighborhood around a lake

Walking destinations (by enjoyment):
A local state park
The former prison camp
Salisbury beach
(I didn’t get to my favorite local place this year, last time was Nov 11, 2023)

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