Music in 2024

What is this?
  • A list of music I have listened to in the year 2024.
  • Includes first-time listens and revisited works that are important to me.
  • New content is added to the top of the list.
  • Ratings are based on my personal enjoyment on a scale ranging from "I don't think I'll listen to this again. ★☆☆☆☆" to "This album has given me life. ★★★★★"
  • September

    Russel Boring

    Artist: JOBA | Release Date: 2024.09.13

  • Grand, animated soundscapes to match his trademark animated vocals.
  • Emotional, pretty, honest, theatric.
  • The long wait was worth it.
  • Favorite Track: Gospel of the Moon
  • ★★★★★
  • ATE THAT EP

    Artist: YOUNG POSSE | Release Date: 2024.08.21

  • Girl group that pulls from any and all styles of 90s/00s hip hop and RnB.
  • Ultra-rare instance of a girl group with enjoyable album cuts. I'm grateful.
  • Their music videos are insane works of art.
  • Favorite Track: ATE THAT
  • ★★★★☆
  • 나의 여름은 아직 안 끝났어 (My summer's not over yet)

    Artist: 윤석철트리오 (Yunseokcheol Trio) | Release Date: 2024.08.08

  • Not very into jazz trios, but I know these guys will never disappoint.
  • Dreamy to funky to sharp to calming to bouncy and so on.
  • Beefy run time, but well-balanced and satisfying.
  • Favorite Track: 나의 여름은 아직 안 끝났어 (My summer's not over yet)
  • ★★★★☆
  • Midsummer

    Artist: 하지 (Hazi) | Release Date: 2024.06.21

  • Crunchy mid-tempo indie rock contrasted by 90s-tinged, straightforward female vocals.
  • Could imagine them playing a show in the Chao Garden.
  • I want to play a show in the Chao Garden.
  • Favorite Track: 선유도공원 (Seonyudo Park)
  • ★★★☆☆
  • ロックンロール教団 (Rock'n'Roll Cult)

    Artist: ゆうやけしはす (Yuyakeshihasu) | Release Date: 2024.08.24

  • Like a 60s/70s band lost to time traveling through a black hole into 2024.
  • A little goofy and tongue-in-cheek with the cult concept, but authentic jams.
  • If you're a fan of Happy End, Hendrix, or anything close to that you'll like this.
  • Favorite Track: アセンションプリーズ (Ascension Please)
  • ★★★☆☆
  • SEVEN

    Artist: Cosa Nostra | Release Date: 1996.07.20

  • For when you want to get groooooovy baby yeah~
  • Warm, retro, funky, silly, psychadelic good times.
  • Girl Talk is an absolute earworm.
  • Favorite Track: Girl Talk ~Never Fall In Love Again~
  • ★★★☆☆
  • This Is How Tomorrow Moves

    Artist: Beabadoobee | Release Date: 2024.08.16

  • "Hey There Delilah" rock with a piano ballad and a couple left-fielders.
  • A little underseasoned. A little bgm-for-auto-generated-family-photo-slideshow.
  • My least favorite album of her's to date, unfortunately.
  • Favorite Track: One Time
  • ★☆☆☆☆
  • Essie's World

    Artist: Essoa | Release Date: 2024.08.16

  • Straight injection of some velvety, groovy, RnB into your veins.
  • 2000s fake acoustic guitar and drum rhythms take you back on a couple tracks.
  • Side effects may include: stank face
  • Favorite Track: Waste My Time
  • ★★★★☆
  • Two Star & the Dream Police

    Artist: Mk.gee | Release Date: 2024.02.09

  • White water rafting through guitar, piano, and sounds soaked in FX, but always staying upright.
  • It also goes a little old-school and more conventional while still keeping tasteful layers of dirt on top of some sweet dreams.
  • Great guitar playing. Great melody lines. Great feelings all around.
  • Favorite Track: DNM
  • ★★★★☆
  • Noisy But Empty

    Artist: Rise And Fall Of A Decade | Release Date: 1992.01.04

  • Heavy, medieval, reverb, rompler.
  • Track 9 is unbearable.
  • Sounds like a social activist's geocities page.
  • Favorite Track: The Bird and the Fish
  • ★★☆☆☆
  • Romantico

    Artist: 800 Cherries | Release Date: 1999.06.22

  • Very fashionable 90s Japanese music with a tinge of silly.
  • Washy synths, strummy-strum guitars, harpsichord, whispery vocals. A little bit like Sweet Trip, Flipper's Guitar, Hideki Kaji.
  • Third track has a crazy high-pitched noise in it that needs to stop.
  • Favorite Track: through
  • ★★☆☆☆
  • Hole Erth

    Artist: Toro Y Moi | Release Date: 2024.09.06

  • Bounce bounce bounce buonce bounce boucne boucne bounce into the sunset and over the horizon.
  • Like Boo Boo, but with less melancholy and more tracks with guitar.
  • Finna turn uuuuup.
  • Favorite Track: Walking In The Rain
  • ★★★★★
  • Peninsula Park

    Artist: Soul Delivery | Release Date: 2023.08.11

  • The neo-soul type band who played on my favorite album of June, RuRu's "Body".
  • Laid-(way)back instrumentals and tracks with guest vocalists.
  • The OST if Hey Arnold! was Korean.
  • Favorite Track: Impossible Espoir
  • ★★★☆☆
  • CRAZY

    Artist: LE SSERAFIM | Release Date: 2024.08.30

  • Single made for the Hongdae clubs.
  • Second track made for the Hongdae hip-hop clubs.
  • Other two tracks made for me to sleep zZzzzZZ....
  • Favorite Track: CRAZY
  • ★☆☆☆☆
  • 스피릿선발대 (Spirit Advance Unit)

    Artist: 김오키 (Kim Oki) | Release Date: 2019.07.06

  • Moody, lethargic saxophone accompanied by this and that. Half instrumental, half with spoken word, rap, and singing.
  • So depressing you'd think it came out in 2021, but it came out before all that.
  • This the stuff people imagine gets performed in a smokey jazz club where the audience snaps their fingers.
  • Favorite Track: 그게 그러니까 (You Know What)
  • ★★☆☆☆
  • Dreamy Resonance

    Artist: 오마이걸 (Oh My Girl) | Release Date: 2024.08.26

  • Back to a more fairytale-like single after something like five years.
  • Half the tracks are duets between the members. I like Mimi and Seunghee's.
  • Some nice moments here and there, but nothing catchy enough for me to want to come back to.
  • Favorite Track: Classified
  • ★☆☆☆☆