2024: a year in music
Updated 20240506
music purchased in 2024 (if ownership can be or is otherwise synonymous w/locally-available 1s & 0s or physically-existing, digitally-penetrable, wares):
May 2024:
BAT Under the Crooked Claw
Borderlands Trio with Stephan Crump, Kris Davis, Eric McPherson Rewilder
John Carpenter Lost Themes IV: Noir
Jeremiah Cymerman Body of Light
Escuela Grind Always Watching You
Gatecreeper Dark Superstition
Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown
Kerry King From Hell I Rise
Knocked Loose You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
Messer Chups Dark Side of Paradise
Modney Ascending Primes
Mortal Wound The Anus of the World
David Murray Quartet with Marta Sanchez, Luke Stewart and Russell Carter Francesca
Sonic Universe It Is What It Is
Alesssandro ‘Asso’ Stefana Alessandro ‘Asso’ Stefana
Terminal Nation Echoes of the Devil’s Den
Tzompantli Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement
April 2024:
Atræ Bilis Aumicide
Casagrabde & Hanysz Liminal
Decide Banished by Sin
Empire State Bastard Silver Cord Sessions
Exist Hacking the Zeitgeist
FM Skyline Images
Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss
Bill Frisell Orchestras
High on Fire Cometh the Storm
Melvins Tarantula Heart
Necrot Lifeless Birth
Neck of the Woods LUXURY TRAP EP
Pearl Jam Dark Matter
REPLICANT Infinite Mortality
St. Vincent All Born Screaming
Marta Sanchez Trio with Chris Tordini & Savannah Harris Perpetual Void
Anoushka Shankar Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn
March 2024:
Civerous Maze Envy
CNTS Thoughts & Prayers
Exhorder Defectum Omnium
Judas Priest Invincible Shield
Julian Lage Speak to Me
Charles Lloyd The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
Sean Ono Lennon Asterisms [LP]
Phantom Orchard Hit Parade of Tears
Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
Ministry HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
Squarepusher Dostrotime
Stephan Thelen Atomic [Bill Laswell Mix Translation]
Zombi Direct Inject
February 2024:
Carnosus Visions of Instrumentalihility
Ghoul Noxious Concoctions
Simon Hanes Tsons of Tsunami
Hecatoncheir Nightmare Utopia
Brittany Howard What Now
Vijay Iyer / Linda May Han Oh / Tyshawn Sorey Compassion
Ihsahn Ihsahn
Ihsahn Ihsahn (Orchestral Version)
Job for a Cowboy Moon Healer] Sean Ono Lennon Asterisms [CD]
Molly Lewis On the Lips
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of the Last Human Being
Ches Smith Laugh Ash
Spectral Voice Sparagmos
Street Power Promo 2024
Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches out to She Reached out to She
January 2024:
Sunny Five (Tim Berne — David Torn — Ches Smith — Devin Hoff — Marc Ducret) Candid
Escuela Grind DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL
Eye Flyes Eye Flys
Mary Halvorson Cloudward
Trevor Horn Echoes: Ancient & Modern
Ethan Iverson Technically Acceptable
The Smile Wall of Eyes
Terton Outer, Inner, Secret
Chester Thompson Wake Up Call
Various Artists Greenleaf Music 2024 Annual Subscrtiption
Reissue/Archival:
Air Moon Safari
John Barry On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Black Sabbath Anno Domini 1989—1995
David Bowie Rock ‘n’ Roll Star!
Alice Coltrane The Carnegie Hall Concert
dälek Negro Necro Nekros
Ella Fitzgerald Great Women of Song: Ella Fitzgerald
Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run
Carmen McRae Great Women of Song: Carmen McRae
Municipal Waste Tango & Thrash
uncritical listening 202405
singles, albums, playlists, and podcasts listened to throughout the day; typically while exercising (e.g., outdoor walking, gym) or infrequently while doing/otherwise at work. shout out to SomaFM; i listen to their various stations (all-time favorite: Illinois Street Lounge) on a daily basis far too often to annotate herein.
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