It’s a new year, so that means it’s time to look back at my top picks of 2024. Let’s get started.
#25: Tropical Sludge – Astral Mind
This album by Rick Burke, the guitarist of Comacozer, is a psychedelic trip loaded with cool riffs and meditative synths that will take you out of the moment and drop you into some kind of spiritual temple that has Orange amps in it.
#24: Temporal Waves (self-titled)
Wait…You’re mixing stunning tabla work with synthwave music? I’m there. I’m there all day long.
#23: Blake Fleming – The Beat Fantastic
This is another wild percussion-driven record that adds synths for psychedelic effect and has so many amazing beats that it’s almost overwhelming.
#22: Goodbye Meteor – We Could Have Been Radiant
This album of French post-rock and psych is a stunning record that came to me almost out of nowhere and immediately caught my attention. The waves of it are both powerful and subtle.
#21: Doug Richards – Project 85 EP
This was a great return for a rave DJ from the 1990s who became a lawyer and then decided to get back into music after the COVID-19 pandemic and ended up dropping a stunning techno EP as a result.
Who makes the top twenty? Come back tomorrow to find out!
Keep your mind open.
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