What were your top musical discoveries of 2024?


Looking for music that was new to you and your collection that lit you and your system up last year.

Here’s my list:

Vinyl - 

UHQR version of Steely Dan “Asia”

Original Master Recording of Grateful Dead’s “Workingman’s Dead”

Digital files - 

Mac Miller “Circles”

Iron & Wine “The Shepherds Dog”

Jacob Collier “Djesse Vol.2”

Mokave “Afrique”

Skrillex “Quest for Fire”

Beyonce “Cowboy Carter”

CD -

Sinead O’Conner “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”

 

This is at least what is top of mind.

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Aoife O'Donovan's "Fossils" and "in The Magic Hour" 

Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters

I've come across plenty of talented artists but encounter few CDs that I like enough to buy. 

My discovery is that streaming beats albums.  I bought a new streamer and DAC and it's been life changing.

I first heard this album a few weeks ago and had to have it.  It's an older album, originally released in 1989 by The Tragically Hip-a Canadian band.  The album is titled "Up to Here".  My version is a remaster by Music on Vinyl.  For fans of 70's rock its a great disc.  To me it sounds like a mix of Bad Co with some guitar elements from the first 3 BOC albums thrown in.  I'm 67  and can't believe I've never heard of them before.  A fun little time machine ride.

Man,that's a hard question to answer...I have bought so many cds and vinyl lps.