Thank you so much for supporting my Little Island EP (twice!) I can’t thank you enough, 2024 was terrible for me but this really helped shine a positive light on the end. ❤️
Legitimately not much of a commenter, let alone showing my online hand, but I definitely need to give props where they are given - you’re a quality music reviewer. Definitely will be tuning in to your shit for the future. Much regards.
It's that time again! Ever since 2017 I watch your best albums of the year videos to see if i've missed anything in the electronic music world. You always give me something good. Thank you so much and see you next year 😁
happy new year from Manila! big thanks for getting me into Orbital, as most of my 2024 was made up of Middle of Nowhere spins that I got achievements from YT Music for one of the top Orbital listeners in a given month haha! btw, I was also thrilled to catch Jamie xx live for the first time as he had us as one of his stops for his Asia tour this November, it was bananas
Great video. Some stuff I was shocked to see (new Squarepusher and Moby, wow), and some stuff I had never heard before. My electronic AOTY was Total Blue - Total Blue. It's incredibly warm. Check out the track 'Chaparral' - it's just got such a killer yet simple guitar riff.
I’m still sticking with my #1 as Cascade. Just a tech masterpiece in my opinion. As for other highlights of the year, I liked In Waves, Dostrotime, SMILE :D (yes actually), and some other underground picks that I’d personally recommend like Vril - Saturn is a Supercomputer and Marble Elephant - Truth. There of course have been better years in electronic music, but I’m privileged to have grown a ton of my music taste this year, partly thanks to your channel! Cheers for a great 2025!
Great list. Got some to explore there. Moby also appears in my list and it was certainly you that pointed me in his direction. Here’s my list. Not exclusively electronic but electronic elements feature pretty heavily My 2024 End Of Year List 1. Rosie Lowe - Lover, Other 2. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World 3. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More 4. Helado Negro - Phasor 5. Nilufer Yana - My Method Actor 6. Bill Callahan - Resuscitate! 7. Vera Sola - Peacemaker 8. Ella Raphael - Mad Sometimes 9. Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch 10. Willow - Empathogen 11. Moby - Always Centred At Night 12. Goat Girl - Below The Waste 13. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da 14. Marika Hackman - Big Sigh 15. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown 16. Rich Ruth - Water Still Flows 17. Moin - You Never End 18. Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves 19. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes 20. LOMA - How We Live Without A Body 21. The The - Ensoulment 22. Photay - Windswept 23. Kreidler - Twists (A Visitor Arrives 24. The Messthetics & James Brandon - S/T 25. Rosali - Bite Down
Thanks Wonky, much appreciated as always for your honest judgement....for me it was Kelly Lee Owens, Jon Hopkins and Floating Points with Luttrell as an honourable mention and i am going to play them all again now to help bring in the New Year🎉 hope everyone has fun of some kind.😅
Great presentation as always - some lovely new finds for my "reading list" and some picks I know and love. I've really enjoyed your content over the years and I want to thank you for doing what you do. It's truly valuable and much appreciated. Wishing you and all of the community a peaceful and exciting (is that an oxymoron!) 2025.
Great list as always! Love the Floating Points and Jamie xx records as well, and I’d probably rate the former just a smidge higher than the latter. Cascade is such a consistent all-rounder back to back bop of an album, the next effort from him is definitely going to have all my attention down the road. (And I need to listen more to Throwing Snow, it has some very high highs and it’s very cool, thanks for putting me up to it!) Probably the only electronic releases I’d rate above them are Nala Sinephro’s Endlessness and my AOTY, Iglooghost’s Tidal Memory Exo. Igloo really hit a home run for me in being so addictive yet exhilarating for every listen. Honestly felt like a pretty good if not great year for electronic music IMO 😊 looking forward to what 2025 has to offer!
Great list here! I agree with a lot of your picks. I absolutely love Cascade as well. Despite its simplicity, I also have to attest to this one being the best album Floating Points has ever put out. This album’s mostly banger after banger and I love it!!! Shoutouts to LP Giobbi’s Dotr and Moby’s Always Centered At Night as well. I think they’re both great albums too (the latter being one of my favorites from Moby to date which is saying a lot)!
16:12 Nathan Haines! That's so cool. He's from my hometown of Auckland, New Zealand. Great video thank you. Heres hoping you get to review some new Boards of Canada this year :-) my personal fav.
You are still young. Classical and jazz got a lot of music to listen to, so just enjoy,btw I am also into classical and contemporary music,wether jazz or soundtracks.
@ I know 49 ain’t that old nowadays & I don’t feel it. As I’ve got older I like listening to long pieces of music without interruption & classical music can give me that.
Enjoyed the vid! I haven't gotten a lot of new electronic stuff this year but made a couple of Bandcamp purchases in 2024 that I recommend: Ruby My Dear: Smooth Working EP, JakoJako: Segmente EP. Ruby My Dear is very underrated in my opinion! Definitely check out his stuff if you haven't.
My favorite/most listened to album this year was SOPHIE’s self titled album. I know it’s controversial and some people think it’s half baked, but I think it has some of her best ideas. If she was still around I’m sure she would approve of it. It touched me on such a deep level and inspired me to keep going and see the beauty in the world. Loving the Blueshades and Vale-smith as well
Great video Wonky!! Glad to see you doing better mentally :) I thought electronic music was decent this year (although my fav album of the year full stop was more indie than electronic being Vampire Weekend’s newest album) My favs this year were the new Moby album (as a big fan of his, this was great, and his live show this year was awesome), Jamie xx’s new album, Four Tet’s Three and lots of tracks from Hyperdrama by Justice. Special mentions also for Nala Sinephro, Lance Gurisik’s really solid album, u-Ziq, Skee Mask and Floating Points.
very cool list, a few cool things here i def wanna check out! and definitely can't argue with that #1. just curious if you'd hear the galen tipton/death's dynamic shroud collab record, you like music? big obsession of mine this year, so
To me 2024 was probably one of the hardest year to get through. And hope it will get better in 2025. Especially the end of the year. And also there was the sad fact we lost Paul Spencer (Dario G) and Tomcraft. :( That was pretty sad for me.
Can't really make a list like that rn so here's just a list of highlights I've heard this year which coincidentally happened on the same year: Penguking - Aquatic Jungle, Intellectual Pyramid, Ultra Vibrant Mirror Ball Osamu Sato - Compu Movie (was found this year, originally released in 1994) Aphex Twin's expansion of SAW2 which just put on streaming two tracks and added one more but whatever that'll do Uhhhhh idk expansion of Orbital's Green Album and a pair of Osamu Sato's smaller releases being found will do for HM I guess
I’ll be honest that I’ve didn’t listen to a lot of new music this year. I was happily content with listening to a lot of late 90’s music. But I had to stop the video and comment on that Nathan Haines track “Journey To The Peak.” I was immediately hooked on the jazzy sound. I’ll will seek that song out.
Cool list! My favorites this year were: Jamie xx - In Waves Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Challengers soundtrack Jon Hopkins - Ritual Floating Points - Cascade Nero - Into the Unknown
My top 5: 1. Floating Points - Cascade 2. SiIvaGunner Fusion Records - BOMBERTRACKS 3. Patricia Taxxon - Bicycle 4. Struction - Basis 5. Sungazer - Against the Fall of Night I agree on this being an off-year for electronic music. I didn't have an album I could comfortably call a favorite of the year until Cascade came out, and the rest of my list is some distance below it. I may change my mind after listening to some of your picks next year though, I missed some of these and they all sound great.
Man… I’m embarrassed to admit that I had not heard any of these. I actually just now listened to Floating Points after seeing your list and wow its fantastic. So thank you for the recommendation🔥 Here’s my personal album of the year list: 1. Brat- Charli xcx 2. Imaginal Disk- Magdalena Bay 3. Songs of a lost world- The Cure 4. I Lay Down My Life For You- Jpegmafia 5. GNX- Kendrick Lamar 6. No Name- Jack White 7. The New Sound- Geordie Greep 8. Night Palace- Mount Eerie 9. Two Star & The Dream Police- Mk.gee 10. Only God Was Above Us- Vampire Weekend
Great list, not much like mine. In order for me, best electronic albums were.... 1. Two Shell / s/t 2. Floating Points / Cascade 3. Challengers Soundtrack / Reznor, Ross and Boys Noize 4. Mura Musa / Curve 1 5. SBTRKT / All the Time EP 6. Bubble Love 7. Fred Again - 10 Days 8. Caribou / Honey 9. Lane 8 / Childish 10. Jamie XX
Another green world is one of my favourites (funny..lately I’ve been listening to more Roger than Brian. Getting old I guess) Good to here the mood is better at this point compared to last year. 🍻
Some of my favourites from this year.... 1) 4am Kru - Incognito Rhythm 2) Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here 3) Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal 4) 祭司 (priest) - Death By Mishima 5) Kopy - Heart Fresh 6) Gigi FM - Movimiento And some non-electronic stuff... Plantoid - Terrapath Daniel Weiss - The Vortex Dezolve - Asterism Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex of the Worlds
2024 really was a pop-dominant year. I agree that this was a meh year for electronic releases, but there were some great options to choose from. My electronic albums of the year (top 3 are ranked; the rest are in no particular order): 1. salute - True Magic 2. Wavedash - Tempo 3. Floating Points - Cascade 4. Helado Negro - Phasor 5. Jamie xx - In Waves 6. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate 7. Skee Mask - Resort 8. Nia Archives - Silence is Loud
it's a good album, but the sheer amount of people hyping it up as something that had never been done before or even inventing a whole new genre despite mostly just being a regular dance-pop record legit weirded me out
I think this year for me, musically, may have been a little bit better than last year. My electronic music feed has kinda been slow for me this year as it was last year, mainly for the same reason of trying to catch up in every genre I can lol. I don’t know if anyone reading this would consider Brat to be electronic, but that was an absolute favorite for me this year. I think it’s Charli’s best work to date lyrically, and I’m a sucker for the EDM flavors riddled in that album. But if you don’t count that, then my favorite was In Waves. I think Jamie xx proved that In Colour was no fluke and that he cemented himself as (hands down) the best new name in UK Garage. I seem to be the only one in any of my electronic circles online who wasn’t too big on the new Floating Points, which is so unfortunate lol My close second to that would be dds’s You Like Music… this is the first time I’ve effectively been pulled into one of their albums. I feel like it was the closest they’ve been to OPN this far, with their brighter tones and IDMish production that makes it feel more out there than their previous releases (imo). It’s also nice to see that this year was better for you than last year. I have had a good personal year myself, which is always a nice thing to say after the past half-a-decade was comically bad all things considered. My usage if AOTY has gone up even more since using it more last year, and while I’ve been less social than any year prior, I’ve been loving it there more and more. ik you’ve said you thought about joining, and I personally think it’d be cool to see you over there XD the world this year was fucked, but still, hell yeah to this year. here’s to an awesome 2025! 🎉
that blueshades album (checked it out after your SSIM)heavily reminded me of animal collective, you should definitely check them out (like 3 of their albums are electronic)
My list looks VERY different 😱 album of the year was A>M Diversion Ends followed by CENSOR - SWARM. There was amazing EPs released by Majestolux, Emmon and Nervous Damage/Majestolux. All Swedish artists and the only non Swedish album was from the extended family The Cure - Songs from the lost world.
Definitely weaker than 2023, but still some pretty cool stuff. My top 10 would probably be: 10. Dostrotime - Squarepusher 9. Syncreticism - Mattia Cuppeli 8. Worm - Ozoyo 7. Birth of The Synthezaur - Synthezaur 6. Tidal Memory Expo - Iglooghost 5. Domains - Of One 4. Moves In The Field - Kelly Moran 3. Toda Le Verdad Sobre Dame Area - Dame Area 2. Britpop - AG Cook 1. Cascade - Floating Points
Here are my top 15 albums/EPs of the year: 15. Jaron - LIGHTYEARS | Kind of a backloaded mixed bag but I had to throw it on here because it contains many of his best releases in his 2023-24 era (especially ONCE, SPINNING, and ORANGES). This album also JUST came out, so it's placement here is a little bit tenuous. Would probably be higher if those 2023-24 releases came out just before this album did rather than several months before. 14. Vale-Smith - If You See A Blur... | While I felt like Um Yo was bloated, this album feels both a lot more concentrated and diverse, which I appreciate even if a lot of the tracks here didn't hit as hard as his previous albums. 13. Charli XCX - BRAT | Just a really solid pop album. 12. Patricia Taxxon - Bicycle | Unironically one of the best house (or house-adjacent) albums to come out this year, the atmosphere created with this album is unparalleled by any other that I've heard. 11. Paark - Stonelands | This album probably would've been higher if many of it's best tracks (like As If You Understand What's Going On, Stonelands, or Nightpainting) hadn't been released months or years before it came out (Stonelands came out all the way back in October 2020!). Still a very good "wintery" album. 10. N33T - All the things I couldn't change | 2024 really was the year of albums that took way too damn long to come out. The first singles of this delightful synthpop album came out in 2022, and then nothing was heard until September of this year when "NOTHING" dropped, and then 3 months later the album finally came out. Despite being in an almost similar boat to Stonelands, this album benefits mainly by not dropping all of it's best tracks years before it's release (it also helps that I didn't discover the first 2 singles, which released near the end of 2022, until early this year). This album manages to feel like it's its own thing while clearly taking a lot of notes from artists like Madeon (and Porter Robinson, to a lesser extent), being both uplifting and a little heart-breaking at times. This album basically serves as a direct upgrade to that Porter Robinson's SMILE :D for me. 9. Syzy - The weight of the world | Just a really solid dubstep album with a lot of bangers. The unspoken hero of this album is its structuring - it's frontloaded with a lot of the harder-hitting riddim/brostep tunes before getting to a lot of the more melody-focused tracks in its second half, though nearly every song on the album clearly has a little more thought put into it other than just being a club banger. Feels like a "best of both worlds" combination of early 2010s brostep and modern, clean production. 8. Xavi - Spitfire EP | I wouldn't normally put EPs on my year-end list, and certainly not in the top 10, but this one just doesn't have any misses. Might've been a genuine #1 pick if it had the same consistent quality with the length of an album. Consists of a lot of future bass & synthpop-adjacent tracks. Special shoutout to Shared Hue, might be my favorite song of the year. 7. Patricia Taxxon - Ten Skies | Scratches the eternal itch I have for atmospheric drone music with some actual thought behind it. 6. Hudson Lee - Light Dancer | Doesn't quite live up to Headspaces but comes surprisingly close. While the album meanders a bit it still captures something that I haven't really heard captured in electronic music, hell, music in general, before. I think this project is going to age well with me. (This top 5 is honestly super interchangeable for me, and I had a really hard time deciding what's going where.) 5. Nigel Good - A Little Something | This is one of those albums that holds a lot of personal value for me. Nigel Good's 2015 album "Space Cadet" was very formative for me back when it came out, it was the project that served as a proper introduction to actual progressive house music (this was back when virtually every commercial house song was labelled "progressive house" on EDM TH-cam for some reason). This project, and that one, probably won't blow anyone's minds, but hearing Nigel Good make a surprise return 7 years after disappearing off the face of the Earth with an album nearly equal in quality to Space Cadet is certainly something I wasn't expecting, and something I'll never forget, even if this really ends up being his last project. 4. Glacier - here (not rly) there | Similar in vibe to Light Dancer, especially with its themes of nature, introspection, and self-actualization, but less experimental and more dance/pop-adjacent, although I'd say both albums are about equal when it comes to how incredible the sound design and production is. "pining" is probably the biggest earworm of 2024 imo. 3. acloudyskye - There Must Be Something Here | One of the most emotionally fulfilling releases of the year. While I was worried acloudyskye's new direction into a more rock-influenced (but generally just softer electronic) style (when compared to his previous albums) would result in his music hitting less with me, and I was delighted to be proven wrong with this album. 2. Skee Mask - Resort | The biggest grower of the year for me. Atmospheric IDM is my favorite kind of IDM, and scratches a really particular itch with me which is probably why I'm still a fan of Lusine and listened to his album last year at least 200 times despite it being like a 7/10 at best. I just really like the distant/lost vibe of this album, and the album also provides some of the most tonal and stylistic diversity I've heard out of Skee Mask (though I haven't listened to Shred yet), without the album just feeling like a compilation, which is a plus. 1. Thorjn - Full Body Sprain | Ultimately decided to give it to this album for easily having the most replay value compared to any other I've listed here. Every time I listen to this album I feel like I get a slightly different and slightly better experience, which is something I can't even say for similar albums like Alexander Panos' Nascent.
For me: 1. Hyperdrama - Justice 2. Cascade - Floating points 3. In Waves - Jamie XX By the way, I released 3 electronic albums this year on Bandlab, under the name MAXAVIVE. They are 'Realm of the Spectres' 'The Cosmic Collapse' and 'Wonders of the Cavern'. They are electronic concept albums which span a variety of influences from artists both within electronic and non-electronic music genres, such as The Prodigy, The Avalanches, Justice, Mr Oizo, The Chemical Brothers, Skrillex and Death Grips. Please let me know what you think of them, if you would like to give them a listen :)
Floating Points deserved the 1# spot. I recommend you to listen to norwegian electronic act Lakeshouse and their «Folkemusikk» Think you will enjoy it.
Will probably say that from every album mentionned : Floating Points and Jamie XX are honorable mentions for me (could be on my list ? We'll see if i put them on regularly in 2025) Moby, Squarepusher, Suzi Analogue and Lance Gurisik would be on "random track honorable mention" thing. And most of the rest are on the 7 range but didn't think it's worthy to be on the list.
for electronic music? gotta go with 2020, there was so much great stuff that year that really lasted with me longer-term. the pick I had at #10 that year is in roughly the same tier of enjoyment as my top 3 from this year
well, I have reviewed Lone's Always Inside Your Head th-cam.com/video/wRvZT8E4Fp8/w-d-xo.html which contains very brief thoughts on his back catalog, and I've done reviews on both Casino Versus Japan's Hitori + Kaiso th-cam.com/video/4HzvqWNjIBQ/w-d-xo.html as well as his most recent album Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen where I briefly go over thoughts on that guy's back catalog as well th-cam.com/video/SfytSv-N6lA/w-d-xo.html
@@TheWonkyAngle You should still do a review of VOID FILL PRODUCT or Go Hawaii tho. I honestly feel that AIYH is not the best album to be making a first review of Lone, for that i would choose either Lemurian, Galaxy Garden or Reality Testing (Preferably Galaxy Garden as I would say it's one of Lone's best and most expansive works to date).
well my point is that those videos I have linked already have thoughts on the artists' fuller back catalogs (aside from the Hitori + Kaiso review, I made that video before I heard any other CVJ albums in full) so you'll get very brief takes on the projects you actually wanted my thoughts on tl;dw, Reality Testing is in fact my favorite Lone record (and Galaxy Garden my second favorite), and Go Hawaii... tbh, really not one of CVJ's better works imo, I feel like he improved upon those ideas with later projects (such as Hitori + Kaiso, incidentally). haven't heard Void Fill Product
Music was incredible this year for subgenres of rock. Had to do a lot of digging and listen to a lot of stuff fron different lists and came up with 30 plus albums i really. 2024 was amazing for music. Just not great for edm.
I speak for all small artists when I say, thank you for your support!
Thank you so much for supporting my Little Island EP (twice!) I can’t thank you enough, 2024 was terrible for me but this really helped shine a positive light on the end. ❤️
You’ve given me a bunch of new albums to check out, as always! Love seeing lots of names I recognize as well
Legitimately not much of a commenter, let alone showing my online hand, but I definitely need to give props where they are given - you’re a quality music reviewer. Definitely will be tuning in to your shit for the future. Much regards.
It's that time again! Ever since 2017 I watch your best albums of the year videos to see if i've missed anything in the electronic music world. You always give me something good. Thank you so much and see you next year 😁
happy new year from Manila! big thanks for getting me into Orbital, as most of my 2024 was made up of Middle of Nowhere spins that I got achievements from YT Music for one of the top Orbital listeners in a given month haha! btw, I was also thrilled to catch Jamie xx live for the first time as he had us as one of his stops for his Asia tour this November, it was bananas
Great video. Some stuff I was shocked to see (new Squarepusher and Moby, wow), and some stuff I had never heard before. My electronic AOTY was Total Blue - Total Blue. It's incredibly warm. Check out the track 'Chaparral' - it's just got such a killer yet simple guitar riff.
I’m still sticking with my #1 as Cascade. Just a tech masterpiece in my opinion. As for other highlights of the year, I liked In Waves, Dostrotime, SMILE :D (yes actually), and some other underground picks that I’d personally recommend like Vril - Saturn is a Supercomputer and Marble Elephant - Truth. There of course have been better years in electronic music, but I’m privileged to have grown a ton of my music taste this year, partly thanks to your channel! Cheers for a great 2025!
Happy New Year!
My first year of being a fan of you, you introduced me to so many amazing artists!
Nice recap of the year's releases Tommy, I have discovered plenty of obscure artists thanks to your channel so thank you for that and Happy New Year.🥳
Great list. Got some to explore there. Moby also appears in my list and it was certainly you that pointed me in his direction.
Here’s my list. Not exclusively electronic but electronic elements feature pretty heavily
My 2024 End Of Year List
1. Rosie Lowe - Lover, Other
2. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
3. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
4. Helado Negro - Phasor
5. Nilufer Yana - My Method Actor
6. Bill Callahan - Resuscitate!
7. Vera Sola - Peacemaker
8. Ella Raphael - Mad Sometimes
9. Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch
10. Willow - Empathogen
11. Moby - Always Centred At Night
12. Goat Girl - Below The Waste
13. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
14. Marika Hackman - Big Sigh
15. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
16. Rich Ruth - Water Still Flows
17. Moin - You Never End
18. Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
19. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes
20. LOMA - How We Live Without A Body
21. The The - Ensoulment
22. Photay - Windswept
23. Kreidler - Twists (A Visitor Arrives
24. The Messthetics & James Brandon - S/T
25. Rosali - Bite Down
I bought Cascade based on your videos. Thanks for the recommendation! 🎧 Birth4000 was my favorite track of the year!
Thanks Wonky, much appreciated as always for your honest judgement....for me it was Kelly Lee Owens, Jon Hopkins and Floating Points with Luttrell as an honourable mention and i am going to play them all again now to help bring in the New Year🎉 hope everyone has fun of some kind.😅
Subscribed bc of the t-shirt, now will watch the video
Great presentation as always - some lovely new finds for my "reading list" and some picks I know and love.
I've really enjoyed your content over the years and I want to thank you for doing what you do. It's truly valuable and much appreciated.
Wishing you and all of the community a peaceful and exciting (is that an oxymoron!) 2025.
Great list as always! Love the Floating Points and Jamie xx records as well, and I’d probably rate the former just a smidge higher than the latter. Cascade is such a consistent all-rounder back to back bop of an album, the next effort from him is definitely going to have all my attention down the road.
(And I need to listen more to Throwing Snow, it has some very high highs and it’s very cool, thanks for putting me up to it!)
Probably the only electronic releases I’d rate above them are Nala Sinephro’s Endlessness and my AOTY, Iglooghost’s Tidal Memory Exo. Igloo really hit a home run for me in being so addictive yet exhilarating for every listen.
Honestly felt like a pretty good if not great year for electronic music IMO 😊 looking forward to what 2025 has to offer!
Great list here! I agree with a lot of your picks. I absolutely love Cascade as well. Despite its simplicity, I also have to attest to this one being the best album Floating Points has ever put out. This album’s mostly banger after banger and I love it!!!
Shoutouts to LP Giobbi’s Dotr and Moby’s Always Centered At Night as well. I think they’re both great albums too (the latter being one of my favorites from Moby to date which is saying a lot)!
Love this channel always good discoveries. Skee mask and Katia Krow are nice
16:12 Nathan Haines! That's so cool. He's from my hometown of Auckland, New Zealand. Great video thank you. Heres hoping you get to review some new Boards of Canada this year :-) my personal fav.
New Boards of Canada? That's come to be as wildly speculative as the second coming of Christ. But I'll still pray with you.
@@عبداللهراشم Ha! Yes totally. Maybe they'll get him to promote it. A bit of a tie-in.
I spent most of my time listening to classical music & jazz this year. I’m 49 now I’m getting old.
You are still young. Classical and jazz got a lot of music to listen to, so just enjoy,btw I am also into classical and contemporary music,wether jazz or soundtracks.
@ I know 49 ain’t that old nowadays & I don’t feel it. As I’ve got older I like listening to long pieces of music without interruption & classical music can give me that.
Enjoyed the vid! I haven't gotten a lot of new electronic stuff this year but made a couple of Bandcamp purchases in 2024 that I recommend: Ruby My Dear: Smooth Working EP, JakoJako: Segmente EP. Ruby My Dear is very underrated in my opinion! Definitely check out his stuff if you haven't.
Now, I haven't really checked out the latest album in 2024, so this video will be very helpful for me.
My favorite/most listened to album this year was SOPHIE’s self titled album. I know it’s controversial and some people think it’s half baked, but I think it has some of her best ideas. If she was still around I’m sure she would approve of it. It touched me on such a deep level and inspired me to keep going and see the beauty in the world. Loving the Blueshades and Vale-smith as well
Great video Wonky!! Glad to see you doing better mentally :)
I thought electronic music was decent this year (although my fav album of the year full stop was more indie than electronic being Vampire Weekend’s newest album)
My favs this year were the new Moby album (as a big fan of his, this was great, and his live show this year was awesome), Jamie xx’s new album, Four Tet’s Three and lots of tracks from Hyperdrama by Justice. Special mentions also for Nala Sinephro, Lance Gurisik’s really solid album, u-Ziq, Skee Mask and Floating Points.
My top 5 releases of 2024
1. Squarepusher - Dostrotime
2. Skee Mask - Resort
3. Machine Girl - MG Ultra
4. BAKGROUND - UNTITLED
5. Merzbow, Meat Beat Manifesto - Extinct
Honorable mentions
- Flying Lotus - Glory Box EP
- Locust Toybox - Pleased To Be Eaten
- Dvi - Re:Connect EP
- Seefeel - Everything Squared EP
- Culprate - Normal
- deadmau5 - SOME EP
- SOPHIE - SOPHIE
- Monolake - Studio
- Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo
- Justice - Hyperdrama
- Four Tet - Three
- Aphex Twin - Music From The Merch Desk
- Speed Dealer Moms - Birth Control Pills
- Why? - Jump
- dead dynamic shroud - Everything Is Easy!
For me my top album of 2024 was Grush by µ-Ziq, probably because it was the only 2024 album i ever listened to this year.
@@thewolfthilol im in this same situation il catch up at some point😅
very cool list, a few cool things here i def wanna check out! and definitely can't argue with that #1.
just curious if you'd hear the galen tipton/death's dynamic shroud collab record, you like music? big obsession of mine this year, so
yahoo! i was very excited for this video, and now i can watch it!
Great video dude
To me 2024 was probably one of the hardest year to get through. And hope it will get better in 2025. Especially the end of the year. And also there was the sad fact we lost Paul Spencer (Dario G) and Tomcraft. :( That was pretty sad for me.
Can't really make a list like that rn so here's just a list of highlights I've heard this year which coincidentally happened on the same year:
Penguking - Aquatic Jungle, Intellectual Pyramid, Ultra Vibrant Mirror Ball
Osamu Sato - Compu Movie (was found this year, originally released in 1994)
Aphex Twin's expansion of SAW2 which just put on streaming two tracks and added one more but whatever that'll do
Uhhhhh idk expansion of Orbital's Green Album and a pair of Osamu Sato's smaller releases being found will do for HM I guess
Appreciate it!
I’ll be honest that I’ve didn’t listen to a lot of new music this year. I was happily content with listening to a lot of late 90’s music. But I had to stop the video and comment on that Nathan Haines track “Journey To The Peak.” I was immediately hooked on the jazzy sound. I’ll will seek that song out.
Cool list!
My favorites this year were:
Jamie xx - In Waves
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Challengers soundtrack
Jon Hopkins - Ritual
Floating Points - Cascade
Nero - Into the Unknown
My top 5:
1. Floating Points - Cascade
2. SiIvaGunner Fusion Records - BOMBERTRACKS
3. Patricia Taxxon - Bicycle
4. Struction - Basis
5. Sungazer - Against the Fall of Night
I agree on this being an off-year for electronic music. I didn't have an album I could comfortably call a favorite of the year until Cascade came out, and the rest of my list is some distance below it. I may change my mind after listening to some of your picks next year though, I missed some of these and they all sound great.
Man… I’m embarrassed to admit that I had not heard any of these. I actually just now listened to Floating Points after seeing your list and wow its fantastic. So thank you for the recommendation🔥
Here’s my personal album of the year list:
1. Brat- Charli xcx
2. Imaginal Disk- Magdalena Bay
3. Songs of a lost world- The Cure
4. I Lay Down My Life For You- Jpegmafia
5. GNX- Kendrick Lamar
6. No Name- Jack White
7. The New Sound- Geordie Greep
8. Night Palace- Mount Eerie
9. Two Star & The Dream Police- Mk.gee
10. Only God Was Above Us- Vampire Weekend
Great list, not much like mine. In order for me, best electronic albums were....
1. Two Shell / s/t
2. Floating Points / Cascade
3. Challengers Soundtrack / Reznor, Ross and Boys Noize
4. Mura Musa / Curve 1
5. SBTRKT / All the Time EP
6. Bubble Love
7. Fred Again - 10 Days
8. Caribou / Honey
9. Lane 8 / Childish
10. Jamie XX
Another green world is one of my favourites (funny..lately I’ve been listening to more Roger than Brian. Getting old I guess)
Good to here the mood is better at this point compared to last year. 🍻
Some of my favourites from this year....
1) 4am Kru - Incognito Rhythm
2) Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here
3) Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal
4) 祭司 (priest) - Death By Mishima
5) Kopy - Heart Fresh
6) Gigi FM - Movimiento
And some non-electronic stuff...
Plantoid - Terrapath
Daniel Weiss - The Vortex
Dezolve - Asterism
Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch
Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex of the Worlds
2024 really was a pop-dominant year. I agree that this was a meh year for electronic releases, but there were some great options to choose from.
My electronic albums of the year (top 3 are ranked; the rest are in no particular order):
1. salute - True Magic
2. Wavedash - Tempo
3. Floating Points - Cascade
4. Helado Negro - Phasor
5. Jamie xx - In Waves
6. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate
7. Skee Mask - Resort
8. Nia Archives - Silence is Loud
Was not on an album but did you hear Nathan Fake's cover of Orbital's Attached? Pretty good.
that Jamie xx is filled to the brim with absolute EARWORMS. definitely my favourite electronic album myself
You should check out Superheterodyne by Hoverman. Probably my favorite album from last year, has an incredible opener.
Interested to hear what you thought about brat (considering the pop/edm crossover that the album brought to the mainstream)
it's a good album, but the sheer amount of people hyping it up as something that had never been done before or even inventing a whole new genre despite mostly just being a regular dance-pop record legit weirded me out
that Sungazer album sounds really interesting, I'll have to check it out after this
thanks for sharing
I think this year for me, musically, may have been a little bit better than last year. My electronic music feed has kinda been slow for me this year as it was last year, mainly for the same reason of trying to catch up in every genre I can lol.
I don’t know if anyone reading this would consider Brat to be electronic, but that was an absolute favorite for me this year. I think it’s Charli’s best work to date lyrically, and I’m a sucker for the EDM flavors riddled in that album.
But if you don’t count that, then my favorite was In Waves. I think Jamie xx proved that In Colour was no fluke and that he cemented himself as (hands down) the best new name in UK Garage. I seem to be the only one in any of my electronic circles online who wasn’t too big on the new Floating Points, which is so unfortunate lol
My close second to that would be dds’s You Like Music… this is the first time I’ve effectively been pulled into one of their albums. I feel like it was the closest they’ve been to OPN this far, with their brighter tones and IDMish production that makes it feel more out there than their previous releases (imo).
It’s also nice to see that this year was better for you than last year. I have had a good personal year myself, which is always a nice thing to say after the past half-a-decade was comically bad all things considered. My usage if AOTY has gone up even more since using it more last year, and while I’ve been less social than any year prior, I’ve been loving it there more and more. ik you’ve said you thought about joining, and I personally think it’d be cool to see you over there XD
the world this year was fucked, but still, hell yeah to this year. here’s to an awesome 2025! 🎉
that blueshades album (checked it out after your SSIM)heavily reminded me of animal collective, you should definitely check them out (like 3 of their albums are electronic)
My list looks VERY different 😱 album of the year was A>M Diversion Ends followed by CENSOR - SWARM. There was amazing EPs released by Majestolux, Emmon and Nervous Damage/Majestolux. All Swedish artists and the only non Swedish album was from the extended family The Cure - Songs from the lost world.
Definitely weaker than 2023, but still some pretty cool stuff. My top 10 would probably be:
10. Dostrotime - Squarepusher
9. Syncreticism - Mattia Cuppeli
8. Worm - Ozoyo
7. Birth of The Synthezaur - Synthezaur
6. Tidal Memory Expo - Iglooghost
5. Domains - Of One
4. Moves In The Field - Kelly Moran
3. Toda Le Verdad Sobre Dame Area - Dame Area
2. Britpop - AG Cook
1. Cascade - Floating Points
Here are my top 15 albums/EPs of the year:
15. Jaron - LIGHTYEARS | Kind of a backloaded mixed bag but I had to throw it on here because it contains many of his best releases in his 2023-24 era (especially ONCE, SPINNING, and ORANGES). This album also JUST came out, so it's placement here is a little bit tenuous. Would probably be higher if those 2023-24 releases came out just before this album did rather than several months before.
14. Vale-Smith - If You See A Blur... | While I felt like Um Yo was bloated, this album feels both a lot more concentrated and diverse, which I appreciate even if a lot of the tracks here didn't hit as hard as his previous albums.
13. Charli XCX - BRAT | Just a really solid pop album.
12. Patricia Taxxon - Bicycle | Unironically one of the best house (or house-adjacent) albums to come out this year, the atmosphere created with this album is unparalleled by any other that I've heard.
11. Paark - Stonelands | This album probably would've been higher if many of it's best tracks (like As If You Understand What's Going On, Stonelands, or Nightpainting) hadn't been released months or years before it came out (Stonelands came out all the way back in October 2020!). Still a very good "wintery" album.
10. N33T - All the things I couldn't change | 2024 really was the year of albums that took way too damn long to come out. The first singles of this delightful synthpop album came out in 2022, and then nothing was heard until September of this year when "NOTHING" dropped, and then 3 months later the album finally came out. Despite being in an almost similar boat to Stonelands, this album benefits mainly by not dropping all of it's best tracks years before it's release (it also helps that I didn't discover the first 2 singles, which released near the end of 2022, until early this year). This album manages to feel like it's its own thing while clearly taking a lot of notes from artists like Madeon (and Porter Robinson, to a lesser extent), being both uplifting and a little heart-breaking at times. This album basically serves as a direct upgrade to that Porter Robinson's SMILE :D for me.
9. Syzy - The weight of the world | Just a really solid dubstep album with a lot of bangers. The unspoken hero of this album is its structuring - it's frontloaded with a lot of the harder-hitting riddim/brostep tunes before getting to a lot of the more melody-focused tracks in its second half, though nearly every song on the album clearly has a little more thought put into it other than just being a club banger. Feels like a "best of both worlds" combination of early 2010s brostep and modern, clean production.
8. Xavi - Spitfire EP | I wouldn't normally put EPs on my year-end list, and certainly not in the top 10, but this one just doesn't have any misses. Might've been a genuine #1 pick if it had the same consistent quality with the length of an album. Consists of a lot of future bass & synthpop-adjacent tracks. Special shoutout to Shared Hue, might be my favorite song of the year.
7. Patricia Taxxon - Ten Skies | Scratches the eternal itch I have for atmospheric drone music with some actual thought behind it.
6. Hudson Lee - Light Dancer | Doesn't quite live up to Headspaces but comes surprisingly close. While the album meanders a bit it still captures something that I haven't really heard captured in electronic music, hell, music in general, before. I think this project is going to age well with me.
(This top 5 is honestly super interchangeable for me, and I had a really hard time deciding what's going where.)
5. Nigel Good - A Little Something | This is one of those albums that holds a lot of personal value for me. Nigel Good's 2015 album "Space Cadet" was very formative for me back when it came out, it was the project that served as a proper introduction to actual progressive house music (this was back when virtually every commercial house song was labelled "progressive house" on EDM TH-cam for some reason). This project, and that one, probably won't blow anyone's minds, but hearing Nigel Good make a surprise return 7 years after disappearing off the face of the Earth with an album nearly equal in quality to Space Cadet is certainly something I wasn't expecting, and something I'll never forget, even if this really ends up being his last project.
4. Glacier - here (not rly) there | Similar in vibe to Light Dancer, especially with its themes of nature, introspection, and self-actualization, but less experimental and more dance/pop-adjacent, although I'd say both albums are about equal when it comes to how incredible the sound design and production is. "pining" is probably the biggest earworm of 2024 imo.
3. acloudyskye - There Must Be Something Here | One of the most emotionally fulfilling releases of the year. While I was worried acloudyskye's new direction into a more rock-influenced (but generally just softer electronic) style (when compared to his previous albums) would result in his music hitting less with me, and I was delighted to be proven wrong with this album.
2. Skee Mask - Resort | The biggest grower of the year for me. Atmospheric IDM is my favorite kind of IDM, and scratches a really particular itch with me which is probably why I'm still a fan of Lusine and listened to his album last year at least 200 times despite it being like a 7/10 at best. I just really like the distant/lost vibe of this album, and the album also provides some of the most tonal and stylistic diversity I've heard out of Skee Mask (though I haven't listened to Shred yet), without the album just feeling like a compilation, which is a plus.
1. Thorjn - Full Body Sprain | Ultimately decided to give it to this album for easily having the most replay value compared to any other I've listed here. Every time I listen to this album I feel like I get a slightly different and slightly better experience, which is something I can't even say for similar albums like Alexander Panos' Nascent.
Electronic wise, those Shy girl albums were a highlight.
Blueshades album is awesome! I Don’t know why you didn’t put it in your Top 10.
What tune that plays before you announce them?
"Finished Symphony" by Hybrid (song's credited at the very beginning of the video)
For me:
1. Hyperdrama - Justice
2. Cascade - Floating points
3. In Waves - Jamie XX
By the way, I released 3 electronic albums this year on Bandlab, under the name MAXAVIVE. They are 'Realm of the Spectres' 'The Cosmic Collapse' and 'Wonders of the Cavern'. They are electronic concept albums which span a variety of influences from artists both within electronic and non-electronic music genres, such as The Prodigy, The Avalanches, Justice, Mr Oizo, The Chemical Brothers, Skrillex and Death Grips. Please let me know what you think of them, if you would like to give them a listen :)
Floating Points deserved the 1# spot.
I recommend you to listen to norwegian electronic act Lakeshouse and their «Folkemusikk» Think you will enjoy it.
Here before brendawg comments wonky slush
Hiw do you find time to listen to so much music??
Will probably say that from every album mentionned :
Floating Points and Jamie XX are honorable mentions for me (could be on my list ? We'll see if i put them on regularly in 2025)
Moby, Squarepusher, Suzi Analogue and Lance Gurisik would be on "random track honorable mention" thing.
And most of the rest are on the 7 range but didn't think it's worthy to be on the list.
Can't believe number one went to Confidence Man, but ok
Okay I actually know the artists for #1 and #2. Never heard of the artists from #10-#3
w the jamie xx, i love the shit out of that album
What year do you think is the best since 2013? I'm looking for new music to listen to. Happy New Year everyone!
for electronic music? gotta go with 2020, there was so much great stuff that year that really lasted with me longer-term. the pick I had at #10 that year is in roughly the same tier of enjoyment as my top 3 from this year
Just can’t get into Floating Points. Not sure why he doesn’t click with me.
Didn’t click much with me either
I think the newer stuff is kinda soulless
@@sr-kt9ml Humanity in general in 2024
Same! Although it's not that I dislike his tracks, I generally liked this album but I never want to go back.
please please PLEASE review Reality Testing by Lone, Lemurian by Lone, Go Hawaii by Casino Versus Japan or VOID FILL PRODUCT by Datassette!
well, I have reviewed Lone's Always Inside Your Head th-cam.com/video/wRvZT8E4Fp8/w-d-xo.html which contains very brief thoughts on his back catalog, and I've done reviews on both Casino Versus Japan's Hitori + Kaiso th-cam.com/video/4HzvqWNjIBQ/w-d-xo.html as well as his most recent album Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen where I briefly go over thoughts on that guy's back catalog as well th-cam.com/video/SfytSv-N6lA/w-d-xo.html
@@TheWonkyAngle You should still do a review of VOID FILL PRODUCT or Go Hawaii tho. I honestly feel that AIYH is not the best album to be making a first review of Lone, for that i would choose either Lemurian, Galaxy Garden or Reality Testing (Preferably Galaxy Garden as I would say it's one of Lone's best and most expansive works to date).
well my point is that those videos I have linked already have thoughts on the artists' fuller back catalogs (aside from the Hitori + Kaiso review, I made that video before I heard any other CVJ albums in full) so you'll get very brief takes on the projects you actually wanted my thoughts on
tl;dw, Reality Testing is in fact my favorite Lone record (and Galaxy Garden my second favorite), and Go Hawaii... tbh, really not one of CVJ's better works imo, I feel like he improved upon those ideas with later projects (such as Hitori + Kaiso, incidentally). haven't heard Void Fill Product
It's unfortunate the state of music in general. Really sad
Music was incredible this year for subgenres of rock. Had to do a lot of digging and listen to a lot of stuff fron different lists and came up with 30 plus albums i really. 2024 was amazing for music. Just not great for edm.
Pro review tip - don't give sevens!
dude what are you doing in 2024 you should be in 2014
what