G.I. Sanders owns North Texas Vinyl and I saw him come across my Instagram feed today, listing what he thinks are the top ten albums of 2024.
I don’t know Mr. Sanders or anything but it seemed like a good list that I wanted to pass on to you.
Of course, there is not going to be cassettes available for all of these (I am pretty upset there is not Cassette for Pearl Jam’s “Dark Matter”). In fact, I only found one cassette on this list. Bummer. Enjoy still:
- The Great American Bar Scene – Zack Bryan
- Dark Matter – Pearl Jam
- I Want Blood – Jerry Cantrell
- Passage Du Desir – Sturgill Simpson
- All Born Screaming – St. Vincent
- No Name – Jack White
- Happiness Bastards – The Black Crows
- Al La Sala (on cassette!!) – Khruangbin
- Live From the Ryman Vol. 2 – Jason Isbell
- Leon – Leon Bridges
Here is the list from G.I. himself:
I have not been listening to enough new music this year to come up with my own top ten of the year, so I am defaulting to this one and many others in music media – for instance, check out Bandcamp’s various lists of 2024 essentials.
Somehow, even though I love Jerry Cantrell/Alice In Chains, I forgot he had a new album out this year. I played it through my Amazon Music app as I compiled this post. I will have to go out and get it as it’s good.
I will agree with Pearl Jam’s “Dark Matter” high ranking. I have the CD (sadly there is no cassette) and love it.
Hopefully, there will be more tapes made from new albums in 2025, but for now, this is what we have.
Looking forward to whatever music and new cassettes come our way this year!
-Mikey