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Collection: Ambient and transcendental floats.

View all Records of the Year 2024 here

Collection: Ambient and transcendental floats.

Fragile meditations and vast sonic washes. Our favourite albums from 2024 that will find you a stunning headspace.

Records of the Year

Damian Dalla Torre
I Can Feel My dreams
I Can Feel My Dreams is a gorgeous set from the Leipzig- based producer, working alongside an international cast. It is based on field recordings (during a residency in Santiago) and develops into the most beautiful, dreamlike meditations that float in and out of ambience. Somewhere between jazz (he is a saxophonist) and ambient music, it’s a seraphic and inspiring experience.

Dialect
Atlas of Green
Absolutely some of the year’s most beautiful noises as Andrew PM Hunt returns as Dialect. Man alive, the production is just wild. It’s like a whole little world unfolding and shimmering in the sunshine. From bleeps to instruments to fragments of field recordings, it is honestly delightful, and the textures are just amazing. Truly inspiring sound design, an enriching and immersive listen.

Rich Ruth
Water Still Flows
Rich Ruth is the recording project of Nashville multi- instrumentalist Michael Ruth. Water Still Flows moves with fluidity between two quite distinct modes, gorgeous meditative spaces that truly float, and intense and whipping experimentalism. The coherence of the journey is really impressive, avoiding sounding too sparse when quiet and too messy when dense.
Records of the Year 2024

Jon Hopkins
RITUAL
RITUAL is a single electronic symphony that evolves, ebbs, flows and unfolds over eight sonic chapters. From transcendental floats to hypnotic and cavernous subs, the evolution is both methodical and full of organic energy. I’d guess we have played this one a few dozen times through now and each time it feels different. You recognise little insignias, but it’s almost like flashbacks from the last time you bathed in its haze. Genuinely masterful stuff and so much to keep discovering.

Kali Malone
All Life Long
All Life Long is the latest work from composer Kali Malone and it is hugely impressive. The album comprises compositions for choir, pipe organ and brass ensemble. Sonically dense tracks that build up and swell, all with recurring patterns and echoes like daydreams. Genuinely one of the year's most overwhelming listening experiences. Positively magical stuff.

Isik Kural
Moon in Gemini
Don’t miss out on the lush sounds of Moon in Gemini from Isik Kural. It might sound like a weird compliment, but it is actually so beautiful that it made me quite sad. Gorgeous floating and fragile composition like daydreams. Special stuff.

André 3000
New Blue Sun
After first appearing as a drop digital release last November, we had been patiently waiting for New Blue Sun; 87 minutes of cosmic flute magic from André 3000, rapper, producer and half of the iconic Outkast. It is an album of beautiful serenity and although it is remarkably chill, it’s not like each tiny gesture isn’t thoughtfully progressing everything forwards. This is high spiritual jazz.

Belong
Realistic IX
The third LP from New Orleans drone duo Michael Jones and Turk Dietrich. Realistic IX retains their signature acid-washed atmospherics and soundscapes, but the clattering pivot into shoegaze textures is an amazing rush, especially on that first unexpected playback. An album full of melancholy and smouldering euphoria and one that we have spent a lot of time getting totally lost in.

Nala Sinephro
Endlessness
The sublime second LP from jazz visionary, Nala Sinephro. Whereas her brilliant Space 1.8 debut was about tightly wound minimalism, Endlessness is an expansive cosmic cycle, with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout. Ten flowing parts titled Continuum that honestly create a world. Featuring contributions from James Mollison (Ezra Collective), Morgan Simpson (black midi), Sheila Maurice-Grey (Kokoroko), Nubya Garcia, Lyle Barton, Natcyet Wakili (Sons of Kemet) and Dwayne Kilvington (Wonky Logic), this is such a stunning record.

Masayoshi Fujita
Migratory
Migratory is the latest LP from Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita and it really is sublime. Composed in the midst of nature (the mountain hills along the coast of Kami-cho, Hyōgo) it actually is even more organic and human sounding than his previous releases. Delicate without lacking intent, it is a tranquil and enthralling listen.
Records of the Year

Records of the Year 2024

January
Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free
Tapir! - The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain
The Smile - Wall Of Eyes
Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore
Astrid Sonne- Great Doubt
MIKE - Burning Desire
Ty Segall - Three Bells

February
William Doyle - Springs Eternal
Kali Malone - All Life Long
Brittany Howard - WHAT NOW
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - Dancing On The Edge
Omni - Souvenir
Revival Season - Golden Age Of Self Snitching
Laetitia Sadier - Rooting For Love
Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon
David Nance - David Nance & Mowed Sound

March
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
Bolis Pupul - Letter To Yu
Kim Gordon - The Collective
Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
Francis Of Delirium - Lighthouse
Daisy Rickman - Howl
Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves
Mildlife - Chorus
Jlin - Akoma

April
Gustaf - Package Pt. 2
Shabaka - Perceive its beauty, Acknowledge its Grace
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Adult Jazz - So Sorry, So Slow
Still House Plants - If I don’t make it, I love u
ganavya - like the sky I've been too quiet
Claire Rousay - Sentiment
Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent
Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle
Clarissa Connelly - World of Work

May
Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice
The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch
Ex-Easter Island Head - Norther
Shellac - To All Trains
Karate Boogaloo - Hold Your Horses
MINING - Chimet
Arab Strap - I’m totally fine with it 👍don’t give a fuck anymore 👍
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water
Earth Ball - It’s Yours
Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull The Rope

June
O. - WeirdOs
Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes
pigbaby - i don't care if anyone listens to this shit once you do
Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code
Cola - The Gloss
Kneecap - Fine Art
Rich Ruth - Water Still Flows
Beings - There Is A Garden
Sam Morton - Daffodils & Dirt
SML - Small Medium Large
Charli XCX - BRAT
Good Looks - Lived Here For A While
Goat Girl - Below The Waste
Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything

July
Orquesta Akokán - Caracoles
Glass Beams - Mahal
Alex Izenberg - Alex Izenberg & The Exiles
Wand - Vertigo
Kevin Fowley - À Feu Doux
Bill Callahan - Resuscitate!
Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I'm Called
Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

August
The Bug Club - On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System
Fontaines D.C. - Romance
Belong - Realistic IX
Jon Hopkins - RITUAL
Damian Dalla Torre - I Can Feel My Dreams
Personal Trainer - Still Willing
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741
Pom Poko - Champion
OSEES - SORCS 80
Fake Fruit - Mucho Mistrust
BODY MEAT - Starchris
Thee Marloes - Perak
Jack White - No Name

September
Kit Sebastian - New Internationale
Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
Party Dozen - Crime In Australia
Katy J Pearson - Someday, Now
Dialect - Atlas of Green
Mermaid Chunky - slif slaf slof
Floating Points - Cascade
Isik Kural - Moon in Gemini
Dummy - Free Energy
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity
Jamie xx - In Waves
Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching
Masayoshi Fujita - Migratory
Honeyglaze - Real Deal
The Mystery Lights - Purgatory
BASIC - This Is BASIC

October
W. H. Lung - Every Inch of Earth Pulsates
BADBADNOTGOOD - Mid Spiral
Tucker Zimmerman - Dance Of Love
Goat - Goat
Amyl And The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
Yasmin Williams - Acadia
Thee Sacred Souls - Got a Story to Tell
Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat
OneDa - Formula OneDa
Anna Butterss - Mighty Vertebrate
Craven Faults - Bounds
Shovel Dance Collective - Shovel Dance Collective

November
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
Moin - You Never End
Our Girl - The Good Kind
Jeff Parker And ETA IVtet - The Way Out Of Easy
Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes
Papa M - Ballads of Harry Houdini
Trees Speak - Timefold
Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra - Tension