#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 20. Moonlight Parade - Strange Times Such a consistently high quality band, sounding as good as ever on their latest release. Huge thanks to Ben for his efforts in getting my copy to me!

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 19. Air Formation - Air Formation Layer upon layer of glorious sound, revealing more and more with each listen.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 18. Van Houten - The Tallest Room Shoegaze and a whole lot more besides, I don’t think this fine album has got the widespread praise and attention it deserves.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 17. The Hanging Stars - On A Golden Shore Sounds every bit as gorgeous as it looks.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 16. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 15. New Dad - Madra After their superb early EPs, this is a confident debut from one of the most exciting Irish acts of the moment. Woof! 🐶😉

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 14. Man of Moon - Machinism An intense, furiously claustrophobic listen from a seriously exciting band. Try these two tracks: ‘You And I’ & ‘Time’.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 13. Sun Mahshene - A Place We’ve Never Been Fantastically noisy debut full of quality tunes, this should be known by a much wider audience.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 12. The Fauns - How Lost How wonderful it was to have The Fauns back this year, sounding as majestic as ever.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 11. Mt. Misery - Love In Mind Jangly guitars and glorious harmonies, the TFC vibes make this one right up my street.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 10. October Drift - Blame The Young Album number three keeps up their consistent brilliance. Looking forward to another cracking live show next year.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 9. Kiasmos - II The best news all year was the release of the superb second album from Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen. Described as “emotional rave”, it’s been a constant companion all year.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 8. Fontaines D.C. - Romance The band of the last few years. Another immense album, I’ve a feeling I’ll rank this higher in years to come.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 7. Ride - Interplay A band aging like a fine wine, giving us yet another brilliant album full of highlights.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 6. Sunstack Jones - Luminous Hands Yet another superb offering from a magnificent band.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 5. DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water Mesmeric album which adds to their stellar catalogue, with ‘Soul-net’ probably my song of the year.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 4. The Asteroid No.4 - Several Shapes Of Solar Flares One of their best albums yet, which given the quality of what has gone before is saying something. Absolute masters of their craft.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 3. Junodream - Pools Of Colour A stunning debut mixing several styles that is still getting better with every listen.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 2. Nada Surf - Moon Mirror My favourite band discovery of 2024. Have been gorging on the back catalogue since. And this latest album is a beauty.

#5albums24 #BestAlbums2024 #2024Top15Albums 1. The Shop Window - Daysdream I knew very early on this would be my number one. A constant companion since its release. Songs of life and love, with glorious harmonies and soaring guitars. And 16 of them! Bliss.