Well, well, well – it’s not even Hogmanay yet and yet, we have managed to compile the is this music?’s writers’ chart for 2024.
An interesting chart this year, the usual heavy presence of Scottish indie rock tempered by both pop and rock acts from across the globe. We’re just soooo cosmopolitan…
On that tack, the winner, in an incredibly tight finish, turned out to be, while a Geordie, now based in Scotland – this fact ‘announced’ at the festival curated by the label of the second-placed act.
Ach, just read on…
1. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath (EMI)
2. Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it don’t give a fuck anymore (Rock Action)
3. Hamish Hawk – A Firmer Hand (So)
4. Bayside – There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive (Hopeless)
5. Snowgoose – Descendant (Violette)
6. The Everlasting Yeah – Staying Cool, Staying Free (Occultation)
7. Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (EMI)
8. Bugman – The Proto Push (Bandcamp)
9. Lonely Tourist – Takes A Lot Of Beating (Tourist Info)
10. Adam Ross – Littoral Zone (Fika)
11. Walt Disco – The Warping (Lucky Number)
12. Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs (Rise)
13. Man of Moon – Machinism (download)
14. Nev Clay – So Little Happened For So Long (Prancey Dog)
15. The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
16. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
17. Jill Lorean – Peace Cult (Monohands)
18. GHØSTKID – Hollywood Suicide (Century Media)
19. Sprints – Letter To Self (City Slang)
20. Camera Obscura – Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
21. Broken Chanter – Chorus Of Doubt (Chemikal Underground)
22. Griff – Vertigo (Warner)
23. Sophie – Sophie (Future Classic)
24. Idles – Tangk (Partisan)
25. Jewel Scheme – Jewel Scheme (Gargleblast)
26. Slovenly Hooks – Make Or Mar (Baba Yaga)
27. Lauren Mayberry – Are You Awake? (Universal)
28. Hifi Sean and David McAlmont – Daylight (Plastique)
29. The Tenementals – Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) (Strength in Numbers)
30. Afterlands – We Are The Animals In The Night (Lost Map)
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