Best of 2024: Josh’s Favorite Albums, Reissues, Songs and Concerts

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Best Albums 

Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee

Nala Sinephro – Endlessness

Body Meta – Prayer in Dub

Water Damage – In E

The Anna Butterss triplet (I.E SML – Small Medium Large + Anna Butterss – Mighty Vertebrae + Jeff Parke ETA IVtet – The Way Out of Eas)

Cowboy Sadness — Select Jambient Works Vol. 1

Drew Gardner – Cygnus A

Basic – This is Basic

Fling ii – 2

HM: Antenna – Bill Orcutt – How to Rescue Things (probably would be in top 10 if came out earlier), Antenna EP, Shane Parish – Repertoire, Winged Wheel – Big Hotel

Best Reissues

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Souvenirs

Virtual Dreams II

Can – Live in Paris 1973

Bliss Out for Days

Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980​-​93

Abdallah Oumbadougou – The Godfather of Tuareg Music – VOL. 1

Cosmic American Music: Motel California

Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert

Best Local Albums

Pat Keen — I Saw a Bug

Cassini – The Cassini Promise

Lynn Avery and Cole Pulice – Phantasy & Reality

American Cream Band & Caldwell/Tester – Moon Drone

Uranium Club – Infants Under the Bulb

Metasota — Meta May

Flavor Crystals – Gone Six

Dosh – Stone Cold Boogie

Loud Sun – Pile of Light

Used Condo – Domestic: I Went to Heaven

Best Songs (not on any of the above albums)

Chuck Johnson – Cyprus Suite

MJ Letterman – Wristwatch

Waxahatchee — Burns Out at Midnight

Hard Quartet – Rio’s Song

Kendrick Lamar — Not Like Us

Adrianne Lenker – Sadness as a gift

Kim Gordon – I’m a Man

Four Tet – Daydream Repeat

Daniel Bachman – Quaker Run Wildfire

Best Concerts 

Chuck Johnson at St. Paul Art Space (1/23)

Drone Not Drones at Cedar (1/27-28)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples at Cloudland 4/26

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet at Constellation in Chicago 5/3

Milwaukee Pysch Fest 5/10-11

Falcon Arrow performing to video of Japanese wrestling match – Cloudland 6/15

Roasli & David Nance at 7th St Entry

Moor Mother at Walker Art Center 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Alan Sparhawk at Palace 11/14

TV on the Radio – Webster Hall 11/29

Basic – 7th St Entry 12/15

Every single Tiny Tuesday at Eagles Club