Another late Recommended Albums post, but this one has a pretty good excuse. September 2024 was absolutely loaded with fantastic records. 15 LPs are listed below, and there were even more that I liked enough to consider for more spots. This was a blast to put together, with some heavy-hitters that are very likely going to feature in primo spots on my Best Albums of 2024 list. Take a listen to samples of 15 records below, and hope you love them!

Being Dead – EELS [Bayonet]

A puppet show made for kids about two explorers that search for the entrance to hell.

Dummy – Free Energy [Trouble In Mind]

Vibrant light cuts from inside your body through your pores in an orb-like shape, casting nervous, agile shadows and light refractions across the room.

Fcukers – Baggy$$ EP [Technicolour]

When the y2k nostalgia and Celsius energy drink hit at the same time just right.

Floating Points – Cascade [Ninja Tune]

Rippling currents ricochet across a scrapyard, reanimating discarded robots and android pieces into a beautiful, albeit stilted, lumbering convertible monstrosity.

Ginger Root – SHINBANGUMI [Ghostly International]

A two-part radio drama about a salaryman rushing to make the last train of the night, running into too many of his drinking companions that want to just hang out and chat.

Jamie xx – In Waves [XL]

The pulsed waves that emanate from the Earth’s natural energy are now bouncing back from the distant, deep space satellites that were placed in past civilizations. The currents that survived are ones of prosperity.

Kit Sebastian – New Internationale [Brainfeeder]

A fantastic vision of a distant East Asian cityscape that wasn’t repeatedly led to ruin by Western powers, dripping with untethered romance and intrigue.

Merce Lemon – Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild [Darling]

5am light flirts with the remaining stars to burn a path to an overlook, showing you two friends setting off small fireworks at the mouth of a calm river.

Mo Dotti – Opaque [Self-Released]

Caught in a tight whirlwind of sparkling snowflakes, bright sunlight glinting off each individual flake. The onslaught of light distorts your sense of space and time.

Nala Sinephro – Endlessness [Warp]

The space equivalent to a letter in a bottle washing up on the beach: a tightly-wound confection of stardust drifting past the window of a distant space station.

Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor [Ninja Tune]

Emerging from the frost-melted ground after a breakup-induced hibernation, steam rippling off your skin in the dawn sunlight.

Pearl & The Oysters – Planet Pearl [Stones Throw]

Launching into space in search of an undiscovered planet to help alleviate an existential crisis, listening to your favorite jams along the way.

Photay – Windswept [Mexican Summer]

Projecting still videos of powerful rivers and coursing bodies of water on every wall of the club.

Setting – at Eulogy [Self-Released]

Sun finds a way to make otherwise overcast day incredibly bright, sunlight glinting hard off of the curved and polished steel lining vintage cars parked outside.

Sun Araw – Lifetime [Drag City]

Over time, an individual human’s gravity starts to attract miniature satellite planets in the form of everyday objects. Umbrellas, water bottles, flip flops, popcorn kernels, lcd screens and more clog sidewalk space, clonking around.

More LPs I need to spend more time with but have heard good things about:

• Allegra Krieger – Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine
• Big Bend – Last Circle in a Slowdown
• Colin Stetson – The Love It Took To Leave You
• more eaze – lacuna and parlor
• Sunset Rubdown – Always Happy to Explode
• Tasha – All This and So Much More
• TR/ST – Performance
• Wendy Eisenberg – Viewfinder

GR8 TRACKS OF SEPTEMBER 2024::

Listen to all of these and more via my Best of 2024 Spotify playlist – HERE

• Being Dead – “Big Bovine”
• Being Dead – “Firefighters”
• Being Dead – “Van Goes”
• Dummy – “Blue Dada”
• Dummy – “Nine Clean Nails”
• Fcukers – “Bon Bon”
• Fcukers – “Heart Dub”
• Fcukers – “Homie Don’t Shake”
• Floating Points – “Ocotillo”
• Floating Points – “Vocoder (Club Mix)”
• Ginger Root – “All Night”
• Ginger Root – “Giddy Up”
• Ginger Root – “No Problems”
• Ginger Root – “Only You”
• Ginger Root – “Show 10”
• Jamie xx – “Baddy on the Floor”
• Jamie xx – “Breather”
• Jamie xx – “Life (feat. Robyn)”
• Jamie xx – “Treat Each Other Right”
• Jamie xx – “Waited All Night (feat. Romy & Oliver Sim)”
• Jerry Paper – “Front Ear (My Bread)”
• Jerry Paper – “Moonstruck”
• Jerry Paper – “Scenic Route”
• Julie – “Clairbourne Practice”
• Julie – “Tenebrist”
• Kit Sebastian – “Bul Bul Bul”
• Kit Sebastian – “The Kiss”
• Kit Sebastian – “Metropolis”
• Kit Sebastian – “New Internationale”
• Lunar Vacation – “Set the Stage”
• Lunar Vacation – “Sick”
• Lunar Vacation – “Tom”
• Merce Lemon – “Birdseed”
• Merce Lemon – “Foolish and Fast”
• Mo Dotti – “Really Wish”
• Mo Dotti – “Wasted Delay”
• Mo Dotti – “Whirling Sad”
• Molchat Doma – “Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Ya”
• Nídia & Valentina – “Mata”
• Nilüfer Yanya – “Call It Love”
• Nilüfer Yanya – “Just A Western”
• Nilüfer Yanya – “Like I Say (I Runaway)”
• Nilüfer Yanya – “Method Actor”
• Nilüfer Yanya – “Mutations”
• Nubya Garcia – “Clarity”
• Nubya Garcia – “Odyssey”
• Nubya Garcia – “The Seer”
• Pearl & The Oysters – “Cruise Control”
• Pearl & The Oysters – “Side Quest”
• Photay – “Barely There”
• Photay – “Global Wind Trade”
• Photay – “Still Existing”
• Toro y Moi – “HOV”
• TR/ST – “Boys of LA”