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 ★☆☆☆☆