The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle lists his favorite albums of 2024
2024 has been the first year in a while that The Mountain Goats haven’t released a new LP (their most recent was 2023’s Jenny From Thebes), but frontman John Darnielle still (as he has in years past) made a list of his favorite albums of the year. As usual, it’s an eclectic list with plenty of metal represented, and it includes releases by Gatecreeper, Kendrick Lamar, Meshell Ndegeocello, Ulcerate, Inter Arma, Nubya Garcia, and more. See it below.
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JOHN DARNIELLE’S FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2024
Inter Arma – New Heaven
Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose
Lightning Bug – No Paradise
Underworld – Strawberry Hotel
Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: the Gospel of James Baldwin
Jeff Lorber – Elevate
Psychic Graveyard – Wilting
Gatecreeper – Dark Superstition
Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan – Scraping the Divine
Nubya Garcia – Odyssey
LSD Special Selections Vol.11 – CALAN HAF vol 2
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Exist – Hijacking the Zeitgeist
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
The Fauns – How Lost
Daida – La Traversée
Kaito – Where Time Rewinds
Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss (“yes they get 2 they crushed,” he writes)
Coltre – To Watch With Hands…To Touch With Eyes
Gabriel le Mar – Light of Unity
Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
“Shout out to all the stuff I forgot to put on,” he wrote, then added, “oh man how did I leave the Blood Incantation record off my list? Easy top 10 on that one.”
Darnielle recently listed his favorite Grateful Dead songs, as well.
fwiw I think these are my favorite records of 2024
Inter Arma, New Heaven
Crypt Sermon, The Stygian Rose
Lightning Bug, No Paradise
Underworld, Strawberry Hotel
Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: the Gospel of James Baldwin
Jeff Lorber, Elevate
Psychic Graveyard, Wilting 1/3— the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) December 23, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Gatecreeper, Dark Superstition
Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan, Scraping the Divine
Nubya Garcia, Odyssey
LSD Special Selections Vol.11: CALAN HAF vol 2
Kendrick Lamar, GNX
Exist, Hijacking the Zeitgeist
Ulcerate, Cutting the Throat of God
The Fauns, How Lost
Daida, La Traversée 2/3— the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) December 23, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Kaito, Where Time Rewinds
Full of Hell, Coagulated Bliss yes they get 2 they crushed
Coltre, To Watch With Hands…To Touch With Eyes
Gabriel le Mar, Light of Unity
Schammasch, The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
3/3shout out to all the stuff I forgot to put on
— the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) December 23, 2024 at 8:21 PM
oh man how did I leave the blood incantation record off my list? easy top 10 on that one.
— the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) December 23, 2024 at 9:51 PM
See all of our best of 2024 lists here.
