Courtesy Desk: Turntable Report #084 Best of 2024
Happy New Year!
Turntable Report’s five year anniversary and Courtesy Desk’s fourth seems like the right time to hit pause. This will be my second to last report and I am also in the process of selling down my shop inventory.
This report began in the shadow of the pandemic and it was a valuable tool for staying connected to new music from around the world during a time when we were all confined to our homes. New music is, and will always be, like breaking news of the soul to me. It is the heartbeat of the people who we share this world with and I am a more enriched person because of the variety of cultures, ideas, and unique musical fingerprints. I have also met so many wonderful people through doing this report. I love collecting records, but these friendships are the best possible souvenir from doing this over the past half decade.
It has been a pleasure and a privilege to have participated in sharing my passion for music and selling independent music for more than 35 years (Flipside, C/Z, Pier Platters, Caroline, Fontana, ILC, Phantasm, Deep Groove, and Little Black Cloud). I look forward to discovering who I am without the new release cycle defining my day.
Courtesy Desk Shop will be running deep discounts to sell through my remaining inventory-use the code ROUNDONE to get a 20% discount. I will likely continue to share new music discoveries and playlists on my various social media pages because I don’t know how to completely surrender this lifelong passion for new music. My friend and most excellent music writer Dash Lewis has asked to do an exit interview with me, and I will send that out as my final Turntable Report.
Thank you for letting me into your worlds and inboxes,
Tracy
Here is a playlist of 200 songs I loved this year.
Below are my most listened to 2024 releases in no particular order.
***New***
Winged Wheel - Big Hotel (12XU) Also my favorite live show of 2024)
eat-girls - Area Silenzio (Bureau B)
Mount Eerie - Night Palace (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
Yu Ching - The Crystal Hum (Night School)
Robber Robber - Wild Guess (Strange View)
Dancer - 10 Songs I Hate About You (Meritorio)
Alvilda - C'est Deja L'Heure (Static Shock)
Luiza Brina - Prece (Dobra Discos)
The Spatulas- Beehive Mind (Post Present Medium)
Memorials- Memorial Waterslides (Fire)
Xylitol - Anemones (Planet Mu)
Klapper - High for No Reason (Mangel)
VA - Next World Sound Series Vol 3: Eaton/Fullen/Kehew (Hyperspace Communication/Dark Entries)
***Retrospective/Reissue***
Ana Frango Electrico - Little Electric Chicken Heart (Mr. Bongo)
Tim Bernardes - Recomecar (Psychic Hotline)
Love Child - Never Meant To Be (12XU)
Broadcast - Spell Blanket + Distant Call (Warp)
Pel Mel - Late, Late Show (Efficient Space)
Skeet - Simple Reality (Efficient Space)
R.N.A. Organism - R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O. (Mesh Key)
VA - Scaling Triangles (Zaius Tapes)
The Chefs - Records & Tea (Damaged Goods)
Twelve Cubic Feet - Straight Out of the Fridge (Sealed Records)
VA - Bollywood Nuggets (Akenaton)
Claudya - Deixa Eu Dizer (EMI/Universal)
***Single/EP***
Artificial Go - Hopscotch Fever (Feel It)
Jayson Green & The Jerk - Local Jerk/I Need Love (DFA)
Vulture Feather - Merge Now in Friendship (felte)
The Sewerheads - Diary of a Priest 7” (Office Boy)
Rachel Love - Lyra (The Cat Collects)
Sevil & Ayla - Bebek 7” (Coskun Plak)
The Pussycats - You can't stop loving me (Groovie Records)
Emilia Sisco - Lemon & Lime Sours 7” (Timmion)
Shelly Y Nueva Generacion - Vestido Azul 7” (Munster)
Pancho Acosta - Egyptian Reggae/Money Chicha - Carnaval de Jujuy 7” (Vampi Soul)
Cyril Cyril - La Mateo 7” (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Crayon Cats - Songs About You! (self released)
Camille - Rodan 7” (Soundflat)
***Other Stuff I Enjoyed Immensely This Year***
Negative Gears - Moraliser (Urge)
Straw Man Army - Earthworks (LVEUMD)
Peel Dream Magazine - Rose Main Reading Room (Topshelf)
J.R.C.G. - Grim Iconic (Sub Pop)
Marcel Wave - Something Looming (Feel It)
EggS - Crafted Achievement (Modular)
22° Halo - Lily of the Valley (Tiny Library)
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Ventre Unique (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Sternpost - Ulrika (Concentric Circles)
The Emperor Machine - Island Boogie (Leng)