Edition #37
My Favorites of 2024
It has always been a fascinating exercise for me to go back over a year-long journey into my creative “consumption”, only to pick some of the titles who have had the most moving, inspiring, questioning or satisfying effect on me. Here are the lists of those personal elements, at least from what I can remember, in no particular order of preference or grading value.
I hope you’ll discover or rediscover new artists and sensations through some of those creative immersions. I’m impatient to discover yours as well!
Much love, Alex
In no particular order...
Albums
• Tindersticks – Soft Tissue
• Midwife – No Depression In Heaven
• Lee Ranaldo & Rob Menard – split release
• Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II
• The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
• Moin – You Never End
• Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
• Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
• Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven
• Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
• Kim Gordon – The Collective
• Tashi Dorji – We Will Be Wherever the Fires Are Lit
• Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes
• Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen: apm (alien pop music)
• Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
• Sealionwoman – Nothing Will Grow in the Soil
• Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
• Xiu Xiu – 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
• Kelly Finnigan – A Lover Was Born
• Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
• Ghost Dubs – Damaged
• MONO – OATH
• Beak> – >>>>
• Yannis & The Yaw – Lagos Paris London (feat. Tony Allen)
• Shellac – To All Trains
• Still House Plants – If I Don’t Make It, I Love U
• God Is An Astronaut – Embers
• Porridge Radio – Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
• Masayoshi Fujita – Migratory
• Faune – Des Fantômes
• The Innocence Mission – Midwinter Swimmers
• Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
• Ryuichi Sakamoto – Opus
• Mount Eerie – Night Palace
• Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍
• The Necks – Bleed
• Leon Bridges – Leon
• Claire Rousay – Sentiment
• Ex-Easter Island Head – Twenty-Two Strings
• Wisp – Pandora
Books
• David Toop – Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John’s Gris-Gris
• ESV Psalms, Photography Edition
• Kelvin I. Jones – The Lewisham Poet: The Life And Works Of Ernest Dowson
• Arthur Symons : The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
• Marina Abramovic – Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
TV Series
• Shōgun
• The Penguin
• True Detective: The Night Country
• Slow Horses Season 4
• This Is the Zodiac Speaking
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Detective Forst
• Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2
• The Madness
• Squid Game 2
Movies
• Civil War
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
• Evil Does Not Exist
• Teki Cometh
• Longlegs
• The Piano Lesson