December comes but once a year, and sneaking in at the very last point we could probably get away with… it’s No Tags’ 2024 round-up!
Joined by regular guest Henry Bruce-Jones in what’s becoming a bit of a list-making tradition, we run down our favourite music of the year and tackle some of the year’s big consensus releases – good and bad.
Minimal intro required, really, but below is a list of all the music mentioned (plus a few extras) and a timestamped run-down of everything discussed – so if Rap Corner’s not your vibe or you simply can’t hear the B-word one more time, we’ve made it easy to skip ahead.
This episode also closes the first full year of No Tags! Thanks to all of you for tuning in, especially our paid subscribers, those of you who came to our recent live show, and those of you who bought our book. The first edition is already sold out (!) but we’ll be printing a second edition in January 2025, and pre-orders for that are up now. It’s been a pleasure, see you in January.
2024 consensus picks (04:15)
Charli XCX – Brat
Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
Mk.gee – Two Star & The Dream Police
Mica Levi – ‘slob air’
Faves we’ve already covered on previous episodes in depth (25:49)
Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come
Hafeez – Amateur
Bianca Scout – Pattern Damage
Phil Geraldi – AM/FM USA
Iglooghost – Tidal Memory Exo
Clara La San – Made Mistakes
nudo – alma blindada
Couch Slut – You Could Do It Tonight
LUCY & Surf Gang – JACK & THE BEANSTALK
Midland – Fragments of Us
They Hate Change – Wish You Were Here…
Jawnino – 40
Two Shell – Two Shell
claire rousay – sentiment
Actress – Statik
Emma dj – Lay2go
Dance music corner (26:30)
Loidis – One Day
Priori – This But More
EVA808 – LET’S B HAVIN U?
ELLLL – Earth Rotation
Ploy – They Don’t Love It Like We Do
Dubstep-not-dubstep: Mia Koden, Beatrice M, Sicaria, Jossy Mitsu
Nu-skool Baltimore: Kade Young, JIALING, Calvo, S.Dot
The Pineapple Records extended universe
Nuno Beats – Sai do Coração
Trance Party – English Heritage
Various Artists – Dear Ghod
Baby Pantera – BCM
De Schuurman – Bubbling Forever
Hesaitix – Noctian Airgap
Something is vibing in the state of Denmark (56:54)
Astrid Sonne – Great Doubt
Clarissa Connelly – World of Work
Fine – Rocky Top Ballads
Erika de Casier – Still / ‘Bikini’
Underrated Pop (01:02:39)
Tinashe – Quantum Baby
Jade – 'Angel of My Dreams’
Sky Ferreira – ‘Leash’
Sloppy Jane feat. Phoebe Bridgers – ‘Claw Machine’
FloyyMenor & Cris MJ – ‘Gata Only’
Rap Corner (01:15:03)
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Pa Salieu – Afrikan Alien
Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal
MIKE & Tony Seltzer – Pinball
Elucid – Revelator
Xaviersobased – Keep It Goin Xav
Bladee – Cold Visions
Cortisa Star – ‘Fun’
Fakemink – ‘101’ / ‘Crush’
One instrument in a really big room (01:40:15)
Jasmine Wood – Piano Reverb
Colin Stetson – The love it took to leave you
Marg.mp3 faves AKA What is this new vocal style? (01:43:32)
Still House Plants – If I don’t make it, I love u
tilt – something we once knew
Naima Bock – Below a Massive Dark Land
Assorted percies, some of which we didn’t get time to cover (1:48:52)
Dorothy Carter – Troubadour (Quasi-Spiritual Reissue of the Year)
Chat Pile – Cool World (Ascendant Rock Greats Award)
Barkley Bandon – Love Machine (Oddly Slept-on Hat Tip)
Hooray for the Riff Raff – The Past is Still Alive (Americana of the Year)
Lechuga Zafiro – Desde los oídos de un sapo (Global Computer Music Award)
Porches – Shirt
A.G. Cook – Britpop
Seefeel – Everything Squared
Kabin Crew – ‘The Spark’
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton – Estrella Por Estrella
great area – Light Decline
Tristwch Y Fenywod – Tristwch Y Fenywod
Genital Shame – Chronic Illness Wish / As Good as a Kiss
SOPHIE feat. Cecile Believe – ‘My Forever’
Jim Legxacy – ‘aggressive’
The no-right-to-still-be-this-good corner
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
Objectively Song of the Year
Kendrick Lamar - ‘Not Like Us’
Popfails of the year
Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism
Katy Perry – 143
J. Lo - This Is Me… Now
The best films we saw in 2024
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I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, 2024)
Mo’ Better Blues (Spike Lee, 1990)
The House of Yes (Mark Waters, 1997)
The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, 1996)
Chal
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, 2024)
Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 1995)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt, 2024)
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