Best music of 2024
One has to draw the line somewhere. A couple of days ago I posted on my friend’s Facebook wall our usual Friday evening last.fm collage of the week’s listening, then in a comment I replied to myself I put the ‘1 year’ version, my most listened-to record being Aussie post-rock band Laura’s 2006 masterpiece Radio Swan is Down. I did this on purpose because they have fewer than a thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, which I think unfortunately means they don’t qualify to get paid. I sort of, but not really, get that for random nonsense that might appear on the platform, but this is a proper band that released albums on CD and played shows (and is apparently working on new material!!!). As this is one of my favourite records, it was no great hardship making sure to keep up a weekly listen, but I did give up after October (last year Suns of the Tundra’s weekly catalogue binging made it to July). Well anyway, my friend pointed out that the year is not over. He’s right of course, not that t...