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Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2024. Our next list is from DJ and Volunteer Coordinator Caroline Pendleton.
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#1 Keeper of the Shepherd by Hannah Frances (Ruination)An intricate odyssey; a song cycle; an album smacking of wisdom beyond the artist's years. Can't wait to see where Hannah Frances goes next. |
#2 Chak Chak Chak Chak by Julián Mayorga (Glitterbeat)Did you ever listen to Duck Stab and think to yourself, "this could use a dose of cumbia"? Man, have I got the record for you. |
#3 Cool World by Chat Pile (The Flenser)Danker, uglier, louder, and somehow more compulsively listenable than God's Country, which is really saying something. |
#4 Bite Down by Rosali (Merge)Maybe the finest alt-country release of the year (my apologies to Waxahatchee and Sturgill) |
#5 Here in the Pitch by Jessica Pratt (Mexican Summer)Sounds like a ghost's attempt at making brill building pop. |
#6 Umbilical by Thou (Sacred Bones)The gnarliest to ever do it are back with acidic swamp metal, or whatever the hell they make down in Louisiana. |
#7 Diamond Jubilee by Cindy Lee (Realistik Studios)Sound's like a ghost's attempt at dabbling in every genre. Otherworldly! |
#8 Viewfinder by Wendy Eisenberg (American Dreams)Improvisational jazz guitar concept album about the experience of getting Lasik. |
#9 WeirdOs by O. (Speedy Wunderground)What if Lisa Simpson joined Primus? |
#10 Behold by Parsnip (Upset the Rhythm)Reviving the psychedelic chamber pop tradition in the vein of the Zombies or Slapp Happy. |
Honorable MentionsHonorable mentions to Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter's SAVED! for being a late-2023 favorite I didn't hear until this year, and to Chappell Roan for putting out honest-to-god danceable pop music in a year marked by anxiety, full of tortured poets and self-aggrandizing tracks about being in your own head at the club. Get into your dang body and dance already, jeez louise! |
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