Here are the albums that gave me the most pleasure in 2024:
1) The Last Dinner Party Prelude to Ecstasy
2) Bonny Light Horseman Keep Me on your Mind / Set You Free
3) The Smile Wall of Eyes
4) Michael Kiwanuka Small Changes
5) Cassandra Jenkins My Light
6) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Wild God
7) Aroj Aftab Night Reign
8) Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown
9) The Smile Cutouts
10) Waxahatchee Tigers Blood
11) Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft
12) Efterklang Things We have in Common
13) The War on Drugs Live Drugs Again
14) Laura Marling Patterns in Repeat
15) Phosphorescent Revelator
16) English Teacher This Could be Texas
17) Kendrick Lamar GNX
18) Nubya Garcia Odyssey
19) Saint Etienne The Night
20) Kelly Lee Owens Dreamscape
Honourable Mentions
Still Corners Dream Talk
Florence Symphony of Lungs (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall)
Ezra Collective Dance, No one’s watching
Hurray for the Riff Raff The Past is still Alive
Lucy Rose This Ain’t the way you go out
Vampire Weekend Only God was Above us
Ray LaMontagne Long Way Home
Johnny Blue Skies Passage du Desir
King Hannah Big Swimmer