Pennyblackmusic - Writers and Photographers' Albums of the Year 2024
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published: 8 / 6 / 2025

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Our writers and photographers reveal their albums of the year for 2024.
JOHN CLARKSON 1, Autumn 1904 - Tales of Innocence : The John Peel Session and Collected Recordings 1984-2023 2. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 3. the black watch - Weird Rooms 4, the black watch - The Morning Papers Have Given Us the Vapours' 5, Sukie Smith - The Glass Dress and the Ringing Bell 6, Starless - Returning Home 7. The Cathode Ray - Advance Retreat 8. Jack Roscoe - Out of the Woods 9, The Dictators - The Dictators 10. Various - There Must Be a Hole in Your Memory 2 Gig of the Year - Starless, Debating Chamber, Glasgow University, Glasgow,, 12/4/2024 JULIE CRUICKSHANK 1. Shaw's Trailer Park - Shaw's Trailer Park 2. Hawkestrel - Chaos Rocks 3. Yes - Fragile (re-issue) 4. AC/DC - Highway to Hell (re-issue) 5. Lewis 'Burner' Pugh - Bullets for Bread NICK DENT-ROBINSON .!. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 2. Charli XCX - Brat 3. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft 4, The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy DIXIE ERNILL (In no particular order...) 1. Brigitte Calls Me Baby - The Future Is Our Way Out 2. The Man From Delmonte - Good Things In Life/Big Nose - re-issue 3. Sack - Wake Up People! 4. Red Rum - Western Approaches 5. Reds Pinks & Purples - Unwishing Well 6. Little Man Tate - Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life 7. Morrissey - Beethoven Was Deaf (re-issue) 8. John Bramwell - The Light Fantastic 9. The Lovely Basement - Lazy Travellers 10. Lonely Tourist - Takes A Lot Of Beating Gig of the Year - Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans and Karen, The Thunderbolt, Bristol, 4/10/2024 DAVE GOODWIN (In no particular order...) 1. Humanist - On the Edge of a lLost and Lonely World 2. Berwyn - Who Am I? 3. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Gig of the Year - Gladys Knight , The Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 4/7/2024 ADRIAN JANES 1. Black Keys - Ohio Players 2. John Cale - POPtical Illusion 3. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow 4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -Wild God 5. Desperate Journalist -No Hero 6. Nico - Desertshore (re-issue) 7. Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight 8. Smallltown Tigers - Crush on You 9. X- Smoke & Fiction Gig of the Year - Desperate Journalist, Indie Cult Club, Chinnerys, Southend 13/9/24 EOGHAN LYNG 1. Keeley - Beautiful Mysterious 2. Annie Hogan - Depths of Disturnamce MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Kopy - Heart Fresh 2. Meridian Brothers - Mi Latinoamérica Sufre 3. Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers - Izigqinamba 4. Andreas Dorau - Im Gebüsch 5. Burial - Dreamfear 6. Ratigan Era - Era 7. Buzz' Ayaz - Buzz' Ayaz 8. GaBlé - Pick The Weak 9. Ergo Phizmiz - Selected Ambient & ASMR Works 2001-2003 10. El Khat - Mute HELEN TIPPING 1. Sprints - Letter to Self 2. Matthias Kom & Ariel Sharratt - Never Work (reissue) 3. English Teacher - This Could be Texas 4, The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Gig of the Year - One Leg One Eye, Trades Club 3rd December 2024 LISA TOREM (In no particular order....) 1. Kim Gordon - The Collective 2. Ariana Grande - The Eternal Sun 3. The Cure - 'Songs of a Lost World 4. Jack White, - No Name 5. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat Gig of the Year - Paul Anka, Des Plaines Theater, Des Plaines, 14/10/2024 DENZIL WATSON 1.. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 2. The Everlasting Yeah - Staying Cool Staying Free With... 3. Cheekface - It's Sorted 4. Sack - Wake up people! 5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God 6. Patrick Duff - Another Word for Rose 7. Fat White Family - Forgiveness is Yours 8. The Prisoners - Morning Star 9. Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes 10. Yard Act - Where's My Utopia Gig of the Year - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, AO Arena, Manchester, 5/11/2024
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