2024 So Far
So there’s been a lot so far. In some ways I cannot believe it’s almost August but at the same time I feel I’ve done a lot, listened to a lot and generally got a lot out of the 7 months of 2024 so far.
Here’s a selection of records I’ve love this year so far:
Bill Ryder-Jones - Lechyd da
Cola - The Gloss
The Drin - Elude The Torch
Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch
The Felice Brothers - Valley Of Abandoned Songs
Otto A Totland - Exin
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
SUN - I Can See Our House From Here
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
The Smile - Wall Of Eyes
Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything
Yobs - Yobs
KMRU - Natur
KMRU KRM - disconnect
Thom Yorke - Confidenza OST
Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concett
Akira Kosemura/Lawrence English - Selene
Keaton Henson - Somnambulant Cycles
Kee Avil - Spine
Seabuckthorn - This Warm, This Late
C.Diab - Imerro
Rafael Anton Irisarri/Abul Mogard - Impossibly distant, impossibly close
Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
Ben Chatwin - Verdigris
Kinbrae - Cryptophasia
Leslee Smucker - Breathinf Landscape
I’m sure there are more. But that will do for now.
Books I’ve loved:
Ali Millar - Ava Anna Ada
Willy Vlautin - The Horse
Carys Davies - Clear
Hari Kunzru - Blue Ruin
Percival Everett - James
Ewan Morrison - For Emma
Just some music and literature I’ve enjoyed so far in 2024. I also ate prawns for the first time, drank my first dry martini, have run nearly 700km and have made a new piece of music every week since the first week of January. I’ve released music, made lots more music and have even more planned. And since my birthday things have been calmer, more hopeful and less dark. Summer has brought lots of good surprises including seeing my 7 year old get so excited by her first live music, new tattoos and the start of the Echolocation series I’m co-running exploring place and music and sound.
All things considered 2024 has been full of amazing surprises and opportunities and pretty good…so far…