THE quiet revolution – favourite releases of 2024

Here in no particular order are my favourite record releases of the year.

  1. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future (4AD)
  2. Katherine Priddy – The Pendulum Swing (Cooking Vinyl)
  3. Josienne Clarke – Parenthesis, I (Corduroy Punk)
  4. Paul Armfield – Trees EP (Paul Armfield)
  5. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood (Anti)
  6. Martin Simpson – Skydancers (Topic)
  7. Marry Waterson and Adrian Crowley – Cuckoo Storm
  8. Olivia Chaney – Circus of desire (Olivia Chaney)
  9. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (Secretly Canadian)
  10. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Woodland (Acony)
  11. Yasmin Williams – Acadia (Nonesuch)
  12. Linda Thompson – Proxy Music (Storysound)
  13. Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends (Yep Roc)
  14. Kai Kater – Strange Medicine (Free Dirt)
  15. Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
  16. Laura Marling – Patterns In Repeat (Chrysalis)
  17. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called (Fat Possum)
  18. John Smith – The Living Kind
  19. Emily Barker – Fragile as humans (Everyone Sang)
  20. Al Lewis – Fifteen Years (Al Lewis)
  21. Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
  22. Miracle Mile – East of Ely (Meme Records)
  23. Ruth Moody – Wanderer (Blue Muse Records)
  24. Georgia Ruth – Cool Head (Bubblewrap Records)
  25. Robert Vincent – Barriers (Thirty Tigers)
  26. John Moreland – Visitor (Old Omens)
  27. Ned Roberts – Heavy Summer (Self released)
  28. Maddie Morris – Skin (No Masters)
  29. Willie Watson – Willie Watson (Little Operation Records)
  30. Ruth Theodore – I Am I Am (Righteous Babe)
  31. Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage – In The Dark We Grow (Sungrazing Records)
  32. The Rheingans Sisters – Start Close In (Self released)
  33. Steve Knightley – The Winter Yards (Hands On Music)
  34. Peter Bruntnell – Houdini and the Sucker Punch (Domestico Records)
  35. Sam Carter – Silver Horizon (Captain Records)
  36. Jon Boden & The Remnant Kinds – Parlour Ballads (Hudson Records)
  37. Manu Chao – Viva Tu (Because Music)
  38. M.G Boulter – Days of Shaking (Hudson Records)
  39. Josienne Clarke – Parenthesis, I (Corduroy Punk)
  40. Bess Atwell – Light Sleeper (Real Kind)
  41. Blue Rose Code – Bright Circumstance (Ronachan Songs)
  42. Iron & Wine – Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  43. Will Page – Still Standing (Union Music Label)
  44. Anne-Marie Sanderson – Old Light (Self Released)
  45. State of the Union – Paper Tigers (Reveal Records)
  46. Suthering – Leave A Light On (Bessie Records)
  47. Seckou Keita – Homeland (Hudson Records)
  48. Roddy Woomble – Sometime During The Night We Fell Off The Map (Self released)
  49. Amy Speace – The American Dream (Windbone)
  50. Danny & The Champions Of The World – You Are Not A Stranger Here (Loose)
  51. Sixpence None The Richer – Rosemary Hill (Flatiron Recordings)
  52. Maya De Vitry – The Only Moment (Mad Maker Studio)
  53. The Decemberists – As It Was, So It Will be Again (YABB Records)
  54. Grace Petrie – Build Something Better (Robot Needs Home)
  55. Christy Moore – A Terrible Beauty (Decca)
  56. Leif Vollebek – Revelation (Secret City)
  57. Richard Thompson – Ship to Shore (New West Records)
  58. Kathryn Williams, Withered Hand – Wilson Williams (One Little Independent)
  59. Max Richter – In A Landscape (Decca)
  60. Police Dog Hogan – Lightning Strike (Major Tom)
  61. The Staves – Happy New Year EP (Communion)
  62. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti)
  63. Naima Bock – Below A Massive Dark Land (Sub Pop)

As ever any comments on what your favourites are will be most welcome.