In 2024 musicians reminiscent of Charli XCX improbably topped worldwide charts with a cheeky remix album, and U.Ok. upstart Fred once more offered practically 78,000 tickets for a stadium present in Los Angeles. Even Billie Eilish hit the membership with an prolonged model of the jam “L’AMOUR DE MA VIE” from her new album, whereas Story of Us co-founder Anyma grew to become the primary EDM act to stage a residency at Las Vegas’ sensory overload Sphere. Pop that molly at your personal threat, y’all.
The extra left-of-center delights took somewhat sleuthing to uncover. Sure, 4 Tet can maintain his personal when promoting out arenas in tandem with Skrillex and Fred once more, however his music remained as considerate and emotive as ever on the excellent Three, which he celebrated in Could with a two-day mini-festival beneath (the place else?) a freeway bridge in industrial Brooklyn. If his “Skater” and fellow U.Ok. digital legends Underworld’s “Black Poppies” can’t soften your freezer-burned coronary heart, we don’t know what to let you know.
Extra from Spin:
- THE YEAR IN MUSIC, 2024: Musicians of the Yr
- THE YEAR IN MUSIC, 2024: Factor of the Yr
- THE YEAR IN MUSIC, 2024: Please Go House (We’ve Had Sufficient of These Folks)
Honorable mentions go to Floating Factors’ first correct dance album in 5 years, the blippity/bloopity delight Cascade; Justice’s Hyperdrama, highlighted by two monster Tame Impala collabs; and Kaytranada’s TIMELESS, which hit virtually all the correct notes regardless of the presence of some too many mainstream visitor vocalists.
In the case of dance music discovery, no platform is as elite as NTS Radio, which continues to champion excellent creators working criminally beneath the radar. Our favs? Wallace, whose traditional house- and techno-inspired tracks throb, vibrate, duck, weave and radiate the basic pleasures of getting sweaty with the fam of your selection; DJ Moxie, whose love of breakbeats equals her ardour for hipping listeners to their subsequent favourite monitor; the Purple Laser Information crew, whose uncommon Italo disco vinyl, acid warmth and boogie bombs will stump your Shazam each time; and underground tech-house maven Boulderhead, whose I Want House To Dance EP will drive these hips to maneuver like they haven’t been exercised in ages. See you within the gaff.
READ THE REST OF THE YEAR IN MUSIC!
2024: an outline
Don’t name it a comeback (however it’s)
Musicians of the 12 months
Factor of the 12 months
Please go dwelling (we’ve had sufficient of those folks)
Albums of the 12 months
Songs of the 12 months
Breakout artists of the 12 months
The 12 months of the CD
The Fyre Award: crappiest competition of the 12 months
10 albums you must have heard however didn’t
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