2024 Preview: The year's most anticipated albums
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Sleater-Kinney — Little Rope
2. The Smile — Wall of Eyes
3. Brittany Howard — What Now
4. Mary Timony — Untame the Tiger
5. Lee Scratch Perry — King Perry
6. Grandaddy — Blu Wav
7. Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Past Is Still Alive
8. serpentwithfeet — GRIP
9. Chelsea Wolfe — She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
10. Erika de Casier — Still
Other notable releases for 2024:
Jan. 12: Kid Cudi — Insano
Jan. 12: Kali Uchis — Orquideas
Jan. 19: Green Day — Saviors
Jan. 26: Future Islands — People Who Aren't There Anymore
Jan. 26: Torres — What an enormous room
Jan. 26: Ty Segall — Three Bells
Feb. 9: Helado Negro — PHASOR
Feb. 16: Laura Jane Grace — Hole In My Head
Feb. 16: IDLES — TANGK
Feb. 29: Jacob Collier — Djesse Vol. 4
March 1: Sheer Mag — Playing Favorites
March 8: Bleachers — Bleachers
March 29: Chastity Belt — Live Love Laugh
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| 0:17.0 | So I did a little digging to see what people were predicting for 2024 because I thought, you know, maybe this will, that'll be just a fun little way to start |
| 0:24.7 | off this week's show here with Sheldon Pierce and Hazel Sills. |
| 0:29.2 | But everything was just super depressing. |
| 0:31.3 | I couldn't come up with any day, not least among them the fact that people |
| 0:35.3 | are already predicting that Travis and Taylor are going to split up. |
| 0:39.7 | Oh man. I know and I was thinking like I was maybe hearing wedding bells I don't I don't know I |
| 0:45.5 | so I guess I'll just say that this is our 2024 preview show where we gaze into our crystal ball and flag and talk about some of the |
| 0:55.2 | most anticipated albums of the year. There are many, but let's start with one that's |
| 0:59.2 | coming up really soon and it's one I know we're all excited about. It's Slater Kenny's |
| 1:02.4 | little rope. |
| 1:03.5 | This is the song Untidy Creature. Close my eyes and you found the latch. |
| 1:13.7 | I looked up and saw the balls intact. |
| 1:17.5 | Locked up tight the perfect trap, |
| 1:21.0 | a rattle and jaken tie |
| 1:24.0 | but I can't escape tonight. Oh, right. Now with the move you close the lock the world outside is what I want |
| 1:58.9 | a rattle and shake inside. A push against your outs tonight. |
| 2:05.0 | And it feels like when we're broken. |
| 2:10.0 | And I'm holding the piece so tight. |
| 2:14.0 | You can try to tell me I'm nothing. |
| 2:18.0 | And I don't have the wings to fly. |
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