Operation Manatee Music Prize: Top 5 Albums of 2024

This has been a year! As always, the amount of excellent new music being released is just overwhelming. I'm lucky to spend a lot of time with headphones on, sifting through every release that comes along. Sure, there's plenty of mediocre (or just bad) drivel, as well, but I'm willing to put in that work to find the gems. And they're always there.

#bestof2024 #bestalbum #newmusic #music #communityradio #mustafa #caribou #galliano #devonwelsh #juliechristmas

https://operationmanateecjtr.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/operation-manatee-music-prize-top-5-albums-of-2024/

My August 2024 playlist features #AimeeMann, #AmericanFlyer, #BigDumbBaby, #Brothertiger, #ClemSnide, #Devo, #DevonWelsh, #ElvisCostello, #GeorgeHarrison, #hemlock, #LanaDelRey, #LouReed, #MajestyCrush, #MarinaAllen, #MoreEaze (who I finally got to see this month), #PetShopBoys, #PhantomPosse, #Portishead, #RichieHavens, #SoftMoon, #Tasha, #UltraNate, and #YoLaTengo

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/aug-2024/pl.u-DxYRdIzqR9z

#BrentPenny, #ClaireRousay, #Claud, #Cornelius, #DevonWelsh, #DiscoveryZone, #EefBarzelay, #EricLittmann (#EricReuss), #Humbird, #KingPrincess, #Kitba, #LouReed, #NatHarvie, #Prince, #SharonVanEtten, #SisterRosettaTharpe, #SteveSobs, #Télépopmusik, #TheRaincoats, #TheSlits, #Wednesday, #YoungFreshFellows, #Zsela

Lots of new musicians like Zsela and Claud. Love Devon Welsh's new record and look forward to Brent Penny's and Claire Rousay’s.

#Playlists
#MusicRecs

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/mar-2024/pl.u-e1XX9HBdVAB

February’s #MonthlyPlaylist features #AmericanAnalogSet, #BathtubCig, #BrentPenny, #CasiotoneForThePainfullyAlone, #ClaireRousay, #CorneliusBrothers, #DanzCM, #DavidBowie, , #DevonWelsh, #Eamonn, #EefBarzelay, #EmilyYacina, #EricReuss, #FatherJohnMisty, #HanaVu, #Humbird, #JudeeSill, #JulieByrne, #LightningBug, #NatHarvie, #Polyrock, #QuarterLifeCrisis, #RobynHitchcock, #SteveSobs, #SufjanStevens, #TheSupremes, #TracyChapman, #Wings, #YoungFreshFellows
#Playlist

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/feb-2024/pl.u-3MmLbIKLmWK

My December 2022 playlist includes relatively equal doses of new and old, including #florencedore, #robynhitchcock, #bannygrove, #randomcontrol, #ericlittmann, #devonwelsh, #tomberlin, #juliebyrne and and a bunch of other musicians who don't seem to be on Mastodon yet. This is a pretty good one.

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/dec-2022/pl.u-V1XqNI467d4

This affable, endearing, and slightly awkward Paste Magazine performance captures my own image of #devonwelsh. He probably last played in Brooklyn around when this video was shot. I've seen a bunch of his gigs solo and with his previous band #majicalcloudz; each experience has been unique, best one is hard to pick, but I'd probably go with his performance in total darkness at the #pencilfactory in #hudson.

https://youtu.be/eG_dYS_ONnQ