Okay music this year was weird for me. I liked things where the lyrics were meltwater into guitars and my ~spotify wrapped was all obsessively listened same songs split geode feelings. Exclusively masculine guitar bands with the exception of Brat (top 5). I too am the virus. Maybe because it rained nonstop all year in Glasgow, even with my heart split with California it made so much sense to listen to The Natural Bridge on loop and felt that bridge would cross the ocean. It was the bridge in the song and the bridge of the ocean. I kept thinking about high-singing shoegaze sirens and lay in the mud during a Mogwai gig. Songs about blues and magic mountains and lucifer and love and sympathy and blood and fluoresce and dallas and golden days and dreams and strawberries and tiredness and june and miracles. Seriously I know 2024 was music gossip and humming cancellations and virality blown up to chromatic ontology but (here I want a line break) I just wanted to be stoned at the claire rousay gig forever. And that was my music.
<cue sparkly tambourine>
“Come talk to me about it outside”
Thought about taking a searing breath onstage and how long til it heals?
[Shane Lavers’ shriek]
dream u can have for free:
“Then there was this weird music video that popped up in my complaining featuring jelly sparkle heels and the message was about destroy your cloud with new CD-R storage capacities! and there was this song from the early 2000s and in the music video you could walk around with big yeti slippers
and this really horny barbie song set in a swimming pool which honestly just sounded like goats but was visually orgiastic & gauche
guess I blame the pseudoephedrine!”
Approximate seasonal index:
Winter – shoegaze, e-girl
Spring – folk, emo, concrète
Summer – jam bands, indie rock, hyperpop
Autumn – alt, slowcore
~ NEW RELEASES ~
Jazmin Bean — Traumatic Livelihood
Kim Gordon — The Collective
DIIV — Frog in Boiling Water
Waxahatchee — Tigers Blood
Julia Holter — Something in the Room She Moves
The Lemon Twigs — A Dream Is All We Know
Bladee — Pyskos
Four Tet — Three +
Grace Cummings — Ramona
Vampire Weekend — Only God Was Above Us
Pearling — Lovelocket
claire rousay — sentiment
Billie Eilish — HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
Charli xcx — Brat
Dr. Dog — Dr. Dog
Clairo — Charm
Bella White — Five for Silver
Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come
Loukeman — Baby You’re a Star
Phish — Evolve
Kelly Lee Owens — Dreamstate
SOPHIE — SOPHIE
LI YILEI — NONAGE
claire rousay — The Bloody Lady
Asher White — Home Constellation Study
Porridge Radio — Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
Horse Jumper of Love — Disaster Trick
Papa M — Ballads of Harry Houdini
The Cure — Songs of a Lost World
Magdalena Bay — Imaginal Disk
070 Shake — Petrichor
Horse Jumper of Love — Disaster Trick
Previous records of the year
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
hmu if there’s stuff you think I missed……………………………………
xoxo
mariaology 