FLOOD recently released its list of the top 50 albums that the outlet’s contributors determined mattered most in 2024. Expect it, once again, to be regarded as one of the more authoritative and reputed chronicles of the year in music.
What follows are my reviews of releases on the list, and a related interview to boot, that FLOOD published this year:
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds‘ Wild God review (published 12.10, FLOOD)
• Kim Deal‘s Nobody Loves You More review (published 12.2, FLOOD)
• Touché Amoré‘s Spiral in a Straight Line review (published 10.11, FLOOD)
• Sleater-Kinney‘s A Little Rope Goes a Very Long Way feature (published 4.10, FLOOD)
• Brittany Howard‘s What Now review (published 2.9, FLOOD)
Infinite thanks for your support, and that of my invaluable editors at FLOOD and other outlets that tolerated my contributions, in 2024. It mattered this year more than ever before.
For my pre-2024 writings on the aforementioned artists and many more than appeared on other top 10 lists this year, go to my Interview Index and Reviews Archive.
Lastly, stay tuned for The Bad Penny‘s annual Top 10 Albums of the Year list for 2024. (That is, if you place any value in rundowns like those.)
In honor of Wild God, the just-released 18th album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Noise published a previously unreleased and unabridged interview I conducted with the Australian rock legend/bookworm more than 20 years ago. Go here to read our lengthy conversation, which shows a lighter side of the sullen superstar.
The Bad Penny (beta) 