Album Of The Year 2024 - Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

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A few of us have, on the various threads here, remarked that 2024 has been a good year for music and albums.

So worth putting to the test, with a list.

If interested simply PM me a list of your top 10 albums of the year (they have to have been released in 2024) by Christmas eve. And we'll see what the numbers spit out. I'll try post it in score order by the end of the year or at some point over the festive break. Hoping for a top 50, depending on how many we get.

People are welcome to discuss albums of 2024 here, but I imagine the list itself is better via PM, for both a bit of suspense and ease of keeping track when adding all up.

Edit. To clarify of your top 10, no.1 gets 10 points, and down to no.10 getting 1.
 
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would love to take part but don’t think I’ve listened to an album released this year - only ones I listen too are the nominated ones on the review club.
 
Adrienne Lenker (Big Thief) - Bright Future
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Are the only 2024 albums I've heard this year.
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10 is a lot for most people I imagine. I’ll trawl my Spotify history etc and see if I’ve listened to that many new ones. I doubt it somehow
 
journolud said:
10 is a lot for most people I imagine. I’ll trawl my Spotify history etc and see if I’ve listened to that many new ones. I doubt it somehow
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Top 5 would make it easier for me to add up etc.

But I am already struggling to narrow it down to 10 though.

Open to suggestions. Or for people to put forward less, between 3 and 10.
 
I’d say that people can put forward as many (max 10) or as few as they want. If you only have 3 albums, they score 10, 9 and 8 etc.

As for me, remarkably, I have more than 10 but there’s only 0.01% chance that there will be any crossover with other people’s choices :)
 
Mancitydoogle said:
Do live albums count?
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Interesting. If it is a best of guised as an album, probably not in the spirit of it. If it is a live version of recent works, maybe. Judge it yourself I guess whether it 'belongs' to 2024 or a longer period further back.
 
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Interesting. If it is a best of guised as an album, probably not in the spirit of it. If it is a live version of recent works, maybe. Judge it yourself I guess whether it 'belongs' to 2024 or a longer period further back.
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Both live versions of recent works , with a few older tracks.
 
Coatigan said:
Interesting. If it is a best of guised as an album, probably not in the spirit of it. If it is a live version of recent works, maybe. Judge it yourself I guess whether it 'belongs' to 2024 or a longer period further back.
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Two of the best new releases I have this year are box sets of music artists recorded for the BBC and mostly live! Anyway, I don't buy enough new releases of new music to vote.
 
Well I had my top 10 sorted including what I confidently placed at no.1.

Then my spotify wrapped told me the album I listened to the most, top songs of which are.off that album, and another I completely forgot about!

I guess showing the year has had a fair bit to it.
 
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Can't believe folk listen to so little new music. I've listened to a good 300 on Tidal all the way through just driving.

@Boo or Boo-urns has good taste, that Waxahatchee (seeing her at Albert Hall next June) and Adrienne Lenker are both great.
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Listening to music these days is a right old balancing act, but in a good way.

Keeping up with all of the music threads on here (to be fair, I've started a few of them!) has changed what I listen to for a good percentage of the time - I am enjoying listening to stuff that I've not heard before from the 50s, 60s and 70s and engaging in the related discussions. This has meant that some of the "listening to THIS year's music" has had to go, but I do like to rack up a list of things that have been released in the current year.

Then you have to factor you old favourites in. Some you want to listen to from time to time.

The joy of music is the initial discovery and then repeated listens - I do find that I when I like a new album these days, there's a chance I'll leave it behind after 2 or 3 listens because of the sheer number of albums and songs I'm trying to take in, so it has to be a special album to join my list of favourites.
 
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