Here’s March’s list even though you don’t deserve it
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. It features the strongest and most varied batch of songs yet! It’s got jazz, metal, hardcore punk, country, indie rock, R&B, synthpop, shoegaze, dream pop, UK bass, various singer-songwriters.
Like last month, I went for a left field pick for #1. Veronica Flair manages simultaneously to be nostalgic and futuristic, and as with Rent Free even though there’s something familiar about the sound I like the fact that I can’t pinpoint the song’s exact influences. It features two minutes of verse/chorus followed by a 55 second saxophone solo and then a 45 second keyboard(?) solo. You’d think the chorus would then come back in to close things out, but instead Devin reappears vocalising until it all fades away. I love how the song is structured.
And maybe I’m easily pleased but of the 136 singles from 2024 that I listened to for the first time in March, I only rated 15 of them lower than 6 out of 10. I got rid of my ‘one song per artist’ rule for this list because it didn’t make sense to me to keep doing it that way:
47. Solomon Fox - weird
46. Wand - Help Desk
45. Billy Morrison with Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Stevens - Crack Cocaine
44. The Sorcerers - Yasuke in Roppongi
43. Shabaka (feat. Floating Points) - I’ll Do Whatever You Want
42. Spectres - AM Gold
41. Amaro Freitas (feat. Shabaka) - Y’Y
40. Vampire Weekend - Mary Boone
39. Strand of Oaks - More You
38. Tyler Ramsey - These Ghosts
37. Two Shell & FKA twigs - Talk to Me
36. Sofia Bolt (feat. Stella Donnelly) - Bus Song
35. Mount Kimbie (feat. King Krule) - Empty and Silent
34. Julian Lage - 76
33. Cola - Bitter Melon
32. Wisp - Enough for you
31. Bullion - Affection
30. Laufey - Goddess
29. Gesaffelstein - Hard Dreams
28. Job for a Cowboy - Beyond the Chemical Doorway
27. Sir Chloe - Over Again
26. Devin Morrison - Anita Valentine
25. Friko - Where We’ve Been
24. Willow - symptom of life
23. Underworld x Kettama - Fen Violet
22. NewDad - White Ribbons
21. Night Tapes - Every Day is a Game
20. DIIV - Soul-net
19. Amaro Freitas (feat. Jeff Parker) - Mar de Cirandeiras
18. Jessica Pratt - World on a String
17. Fabiana Palladino - I Can’t Dream Anymore
16. Sam Evian - Stay
15. Gouge Away - Dallas
14. Adrianne Lenker - Free Treasure
13. Machinedrum (feat. Tinashe) - Zoom
12. Bolis Pupul (with Salah Pupul) - Ma Tau Wai Road
11. St Vincent - Flea
10. Kamasi Washington - Prologue
9. Gouge Away - Stuck in a Dream
8. Willie Nelson - The Border
7. Friko - Get Numb to It!
6. Justice - Incognito
5. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All I Know
4. Justice (starring Miguel) - Saturnine
3. Sam Evian - Rollin’ In
2. Vampire Weekend - Classical
1. Devin Morrison - Veronica Flair