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Music, Sound & Film [2024-12-23]

As the end of the year rolls to the end. Here are our writer's best-of lists for 2024, and as always, it’s a highly genre-varied mixed selection of titles- highlighting the site's mission statement- be genre-varied.  Some writers list taking in both music/ sound and film, or just music/ sound- depending on what they review on M[m]

Roger Batty (Editor/Owner)

Music/ Sound:
1: Hana Haruna - The Light Shines From The Soles Of Her Feet [Endogenic Noise Records] 
2: Sutcliffe No More - Cute [Zoharum]
3: The Residents - Secret Show (Live In San Francisco) [Cherry Red/ MVD Audio/ Cryptic Corp ]
4: Magnus Granberg - Holde Träume, Kehret Wieder! [Another Timbre ]
5: Various Artists - People Funny Boy [Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red - ]
6: Dosis Letalis & Arboreal - Focus / Concentration [ Mutual Aid Records ]
7:Fire! - Testament [Rune Grammofon ]
8: Alien Sex Fiend - Classic Albums Vol 3: The 13th Moon Years [Cherry Red/ 13th Moon ]
9: Gebhard Ullmann - Impromptus Und Interationen [Kairos Music ]
10: Whore’s Breath - Aftermath [HNW Netlabel ]
11: Shiver - Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 2 [Discus Music ]
12: Carmen - The Albums 1973- 1975( CD box set) [Esoteric Records/ Cherry Red ]
13: Ennaytch - Vacuum Cleaner Music For The Solitary Psychonaut V [Basement Corner Emissions]
14: Carla Santana, José Lencastre, Maria Do - Defiant Illusion [New Wave Of Jazz]
15: The Salsoul Orchestra - It’s Good For The Soul ( CD Boxset) [Soul Music/ Cherry Red Record]
16: Pierre Jodlowski - Séries for Piano and Soundtrack [Kairos Music]
17: Catherine Lamb - Curva Triangulus [Another Timbre]
18: Worship - I Give You Everything. [Self-release ]
19: Kevin Tomkins - Music For A Unprepared Autoharp [Klanggalerie ]
20: Melaine Dailbert - Eden, Fall [Mind Travels Series]
21: Colosseum - Elegy- The Recordings 1968-1971( CD boxset) [Esoteric Records/ Cherry Red]
22: Sado Rituals - INRI [Gates Of Hypnos ]
23: Michelle Lou - Near Distant [Kairos Music]
24: Allerseelen - Toteninsel [Aorta ]
25: Dadawah - Peace And Love [Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red]
26: Sergey Pakhomov - Backward Movement [Self release ]
27: Lemadi Trio - Canonical Discourse [New Wave Of Jazz ]
28: Splintered - Between Scylla And Charybdis [Fourth Dimension Records]
29: Gebhard Ullmann - Impromptus Und Interationen [Kairos Music]
30: Elephant9 - Mythical River [Rune Grammofon]

Films/ etc
1: The Man Who Haunted Himself ( Blu Ray) [Imprint ]
2: Children's Film Foundation (CFF) Bumper - Bumper Box Vol 5( DVD) [BFI]
3: Columbia Noir # 6- The Whistler( Blu Ray boxset) [Powerhouse]
4:LongLegs[Neon]
5:Deathdream( Blu Ray) [Blue Underground]
6: Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs( Blu Ray) [ Neon Eagle / Cauldron Films]
7:The Agitator: Three Provocations from the Wild World of Jean-Pierre Mocky 
[Radiance Films]
8: The Borderlands( Blu Ray) [Second Sight Films 
9: The Substance [MUBI]
10: V/H/S/85(DVD) [Acorn Media]
11: River(Blu-Ray) [Third Widow Films]
12: Ozon's Transgressive Triple [Altered Innocence]
13: The Blair Witch Project( Blu-ray boxset) [Second Sight Films]
14: The Valley of the Bees(Blu Ray) [Second Run]
15: Rat Man( Blu Ray) [Cauldron Films ]
16: In A Violent Nature[ IFC Films]
17: That Cold Day In The Park (Blu Ray)  [Arrow Video]
18: Hot Spur( Blu Ray) [Severin]
19: Spider Labyrinth(UHD/ Blu Ray) [Severin] 
20: Night Of The Eagle( Blu Ray) [Studiocanal/ Cult Classic]
21: A Quiet Place in the Country [Radiance Films]
22: Obsession( Blu Ray) [Powerhouse]
23: The Panther Women( UHD/ Blu Ray) [Powerhouse ]
24: Bandits Of Orgosolo( Blu Ray) [Radiance Films ]
25: The Last Star Fighter (Blu Ray) [Arrow Video]
26: Mansion Of The Doomed(Blu Ray) [101 Films]
27: Tomie( Blu Ray) [Arrow Video]
28:  Beezel( Blu Ray) [Epic Pictures] 
29: Pandemonium( Blu Ray) [Arrow Video]
30: My Love Affair With Marriage( Blu Ray) [MVD Visual]

 


Darren Charles

Best Albums
1: Opeth – The Last Will and Testament (Reigning Phoenix)
2: The Cure – Songs of a Lost World (Fiction)
3: Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
4: Orange Goblin – Science, Not Fiction (Peaceville)
5: High on Fire – Cometh the Storm (MNRK Heavy)
6: Crypt Sermon – The Stygian Rose (Dark Descent)
7: Tristwch y Fenywod – Self Titled (Night School Records)
8: Butcher – on Fowl of Tyrant Wings (Osmose Productions)
9: The Stargazer’s Assistant – Fire Worshipper (Self Released)
10: Huntsmen – The Dry Land (Prosthetic Records)
11: Hans Zimmer – Dune Part 2 (Water Tower Music)
12: Kim Gordon – The Collective (Matador Records)
13: Goat – Goat (Rocket Recordings)
14: Carla Fuchs – Songbird (Talking Elephant)
15: Loud As Giants – Empty Homes (Avalanche Recordings)
16: Aluk Todolo –  Lux (The Ajna Offensive)
17: Ceiri Torjussen – Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever OST (Perseverance Records)
18: Lowen – Do Not Go to War with the Demons of Mazandaran (Church Road Records)
19: Lucifer – Lucifer V (Nuclear Blast)
20: Sumac – The Healer (Thrill Jockey)
21: Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force (20 Buck Spin)
22: Battlesnake – The Rise and Demise of the Motorsteeple (Balrog Records)
23: Unholy Altar – Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite (Liminal Dread Productions)
24: Thou – Umbilical (Sacred Bones Records)
25: Robert Ouyang Rusli – Problemista OST (A24 Music)
26: Mount Eerie – Night Palace (PW Elverum and Sun Ltd)
27: Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement (Young)
28:Amyl and the Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness (Rough Trade)
29:  David Gilmour – Luck and Strange (Sony)
30: Thee Oh Sees – SORCS 80 (Castle Face)

 

Films
1: Haxan (Radiance Blu-ray)
2: The Outcasts (BFI Blu-ray)
3: All Our Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2 (Severin Blu-ray box set)
4: City of the Living Dead (Arrow UHD)
5: Blood On Satan’s Claw (88 Films UHD)
6: Witchfinder General (88 Films UHD)
7: Burial Ground/ Nights of Terror ( Severin UHD)
8: Zombie Holocaust (Severin UHD)
9: Dawn of the Mummy (Treasured Films UHD)
10: Dune 2 (Warner Bros UHD)
11: The Boy and the Heron (Elysian Blu-ray)
12: Terrifier 3 (Signature Blu-ray)
13: The Devil’s Honey (Severin Blu-ray)
14: Lola (Severin Blu-ray)
15: Death Occurred Last Night (Raro/ Radiance Blu-ray)
16: Santo vs The Riders of Terror (Powerhouse Blu-ray)
17: Don’t Change Hands (Severin Blu-ray)
18: The Miracle Fighters (Eureka Blu-ray)
19: Elegant Beast (Radiance Blu-ray)
20: The Horrible Dr Hitchcock (Radiance Blu-ray)
21: A Moment of Romance (Radiance Films Blu-ray)
22: A Man on his Knees (Radiance Films Blu-ray)
23: Red Sun (Studio Canal / Cult Classics Blu-ray)
24: The Crippled Masters (Film Masters Blu-ray)
25: Beast from the Haunted Cave (Film Masters Blu-ray)
26: Infinite Santa 8000 (Synapse Blu-ray)
27: Late Night with the Devil (Second Sight Blu-ray)
28: Long Legs (Black Bear Blu-ray)
29: Immaculate (Neon Films)
30: Deadpool & Wolverine (Walt Disney)

 


Paul Casey

Music/ sound
1:The Jesus Lizard - Rack [Ipecac]
2:Abschwörzunge - Whorl [I, Voidhanger]
3:Alva Noto - HYBR:ID III [Noton]
4:Black Hole Deity - Profane Geometry [Everlasting Spew]
5:Carnal Savagery - Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins and Bones [Moribund]
6:CEL - Five Minutes to Self-Destruct [Gagarin]
7:Celer - Perfectly Beneath Us [Field]
8:Deceased - Children of the Morgue [Hells Headbangers]
9:Diaries of Destruction - DoD II [Self release]
10: Dipygus - Dipygus [Memento Mori / Crypt of the Wizard]
11: Hiroshi Ebina - Into the Darkness of the Night [Kitchen]
12: ETVRNE/IZOLAT - Split [No Sides]
13: Glim - Tape I [Room40]
14: Kaboom Karavan - Fiasko! [Miasmah]
15: Khost - Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us [Cold Spring Records]
16: Llyn Y Cwn - Megaliths [Cold Spring Records]
17: Lull - Journey Through Underworlds [Cold Spring Records]
18: MoonBladder - Dark Sky Equilibrium [Crucial Blast]
19: Necrotum - Defleshed Exhumation [Momento Mori]
20: Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian of the Universe [Redefining Darkness]
21: Painjerk Wracked and Ruined & The Toucha - Dots Kinematics for Electronics & Chamber Orchestra [Conradsound]
22: Point of Memory - Void Pusher [Misanthropic Agenda]
23: Septage - Septic Worship [Me Saco Un Ojo]
24: Sonologyst - Shortwave Spectrum [Cold Spring]
25: Stuart Argabright & AfterAfter - LA Drones [Room40]
26: Trepaneringsritualen - The Totality of Death ( Alpha / Omega) [Cold Spring]
27: Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God [Debemur Morti] 
28: Ulvtharm - 7 Uthras [Cyclic Law]
29: Uncodified - Erased People [Dunkelheit Produktionen]
30: David Wallraf - The Commune Of Nightmares [Karlrecords]

 

Josh Landry

Music/ sound
1:Manasseh - Tunneling to Paradiso [I, Voidhanger Records]
2. Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand [Season of Mist]
3. The Last of Lucy - Godform [Transcending Obscurity Records]
4. Vipassi - Lightless [Season of Mist]
5. EPRC - Bodies [Stray Signals]
6. Henrique Vaz - De Silenti Natura [mappa]
7. KK Null & Joel Gilardini - Psychic Drones 3 [GIVE/TAKE]
8. Oliver Coates - Throb, Shiver, Arrow of Time [Rvng Intl]
9. Vasco Trilla - The Bell Slept Long in its Towers [thanatosis produktion]
10. Alderaan - Standing Stones [Hadra Records]
11. Antithesis - Ophidian EP [Purple Hexagon Records]
12. Brain Food - Mental Transportation EP [Plasmatic Studio]
13. Gubbology - Mind Boggler [Kali Earth Records]
14. Kythera - Fluxliner [Reversible Records]
15. Martian Arts - Ashram [Stereo Society]
16. Para Halu - Cybernoir EP [self-released]
17. Paralocks - Portable EP [self-released]
18. Phillax - Emerald Flame EP [Ektoplazm]
19. PsyRen - The Age of Asymmetry [Pelorum Records]
20. The Dog of Tears - + (Gold/Silver) [Xexify Music]
21. The Horrids - BioHackers [Reversible Records]
22. VA [Cosmic Frequencies] - Ukiyo
23. VA [Deviant Force & Sonic Loom] - Sonic Force
24. VA [DROPS Music] - Ethereal Drops II
25. VA [Free Earth & Forestdelic Records] - Free Earth
26. VA [Pelorum Records] - Sub Liminal Interludes
27. VA [Post Modern Music] - The Hive Mind Collective (Vol 1)
28. VA [Resistencia Yope] - Return of Xipe Totec
29. VA [Sangoma Records] - The Seed
30. VA [TwentyFive Records] - The Punch of Desires


Martin P

Music/ sound
1:Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God (Sub Pop)
2:Billly Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places (Backwoodz Studioz)
3:Blind Monarch - The Dead Replenish The Earth (Dry Cough Records)
4:Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
5:The Cherry Point - Dawn Of The Bloody Tapes (Helicopter/Troniks)
6:Corrupted - Felicific Algorithm/Mushikeras (Cold Spring)
7:Cranes - Collected Works Volume 1 (1989-1997) (Cherry Red)
8:Diamanda Galás - In Concert (Intravenal Sound Operations)
9:Distraxi - There Is A Warmth I Crave And Never Get (Outsider Art)
10: Gimic - We Are Making A New World (Crew Cuts Records)
11:Ingurgitating Oblivion - Ontology of Nought (Willowtip Records)
12:Jesus Lizard - Rack (Touch & Go)
13:JJ And The A's - Eyeballer (La Vida Ee Un Mus Discos)
14:Joy Dimmers - Red Will (Wrong Speed Records)
15: Kjostad - Weathering (Satatuhatta)
16:Les Rallies Denudes - (Yaneura Oct. ‘80 (Temporal Drift/The Last One Musique/Tuff Beats)
17: Meredith Young-Sowers - Agartha: Personal Meditation Music (1985) (Imprec)
18:Navigator - Flame Is Slow (Singles etc. 1996-1997) (Wrong Speed Records)
19 :Osees - SORCS 80 (Castle Face)
20 : Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast Records)
21: Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced (Sub Pop)
22: Pyrrhon - Exhaust (Willowtip Records)
23: Richard Ramirez - Volume 2 (New Forces)
24: Scan 7 - Dark Territory (Tresor)
25: Shovel Dance Collective - The Water Is The Shovel Of The Shore (Memorials Of Distinction/Double Dare)
26:Slint - Tweez (Touch & Go)
27: Slow Murder - Deserving (Self-released)
28: Snõõper* / Prison Affair - Split (Static Shock Records)
29: Spectral Voice - Sparagmos (Dark Descent Records)
30: Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod (Night School Records)

 


Coln Lang

Music/ Sound

1. Kim Deal, Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
2. Yesness, See You at the Solipsist Convention (Joyful Noise)
3. Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra, Live at the Adler Planetarium (International Anthem)
4. Papa M, Ballads of Harry Houdini (Drag City)
5. The Hard Quartet, S/T (Matador)
6. Jeff Parker ETA IVTet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
7. Bill Callahan, Resuscitate! (Drag City)
8. Loscil // Lawrence English, Chroma (Room40)
9. Terry Gross, Huge Improvement (Thrill Jockey)
10. Harvestman, Triptych: Part Three (Neurot)
11. Yui Onodera, 1982 (Room40)
12. Danny Paul Grody Duo, Arc of Night (Three Lobed)
13. Dirty Three, Love Changes Everything (Bella Union)
14. Gastr del Sol, We Haven Dozens of Titles (Drag City)
15. The American Analog Set, New Drifters (Numero Group)
16. Acetone, I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand: Live At The Knitting Factory, NYC: May 31, 1998 (New West Records)
17. Shellac, To All Trains (Touch & Go)
18. Slint, Tweez 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Touch & Go)
19. Sunn O))), 25th Anniversary Rehearsal Demo (Southern Lord)
20. Various, Sleep Laboratory4.0 (White Label Records)
21. Jim White, All Hits: Memories (Drag City)
22. Novo Line, Artifact (Novo Line)
23. Jim White & Marisa Anderson, Swallowtail (Thrill Jockey)
24. Conrad Schnitzler, Gelb: 50th Anniversary (Bureau B)
25. Adam Wiltzie, Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal (Kranky)
26. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wild God (PIAS)
27. Sumac, The Healer (Thrill Jockey)
28. Rafel Toral, Spectral Evolution (Moikai)
29. Arab Strap, I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore (Rock Action) 
30. Melt-Banana, 3+5 (AZAP)

Sarah Gregory

Albums
1: Endlessness - Nala Sinephro -  (Warp) 
2: Outer Spaceways Incoroprated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra - Kronos Quartet & Friends (Red Hot Org)
3: Forgiveness is Yours - Fat White Family - (Domino)
4: Sufferer Sounds - Dennis Bovell (Disciple)
5: Echoes of the Unseen - Qais Essar (Within Worlds)
6: Open Me, A Higher State of Consciousness - Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Spiritmuse)
7: Congo Funk! - Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville, 1969-1982) - VA (Analog Africa)
8: Abstract Intuition - Emanative (Home Planet)
9: Warsaw Conjunction - Trip Tych Trio (On the Corner)
10: For Peace and Liberty, in Paris Dec 1972 - Black Artist Group (WeWantSounds)
11: Live in Paris, 1973 - Can (Mute)
12: The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now - Holy Tongue and Shackleton (AD 93)
13: Municipal Dreams - Low End Activist (Sneaker Social Club)
14: The Blind Sublime - Andrew Ostler (Expert Sleepers)
15: The Necks- Bleed (Northern Spy)
16: Morals and Dogma - Deathprod (Smalltown Supersound Norway)
17: Ghost Dubs - Damaged (Pressure)
18: Windswept - Photay (Mexican Summer)
19: The Emperor Machine - Island Dubs (Leng)
20: Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola - VA (Strut)
21: Akoma - Jlin (Planet Mu)
22: Cloudward - Mary Halvorson (Nonesuch)
23: A Field Guide to the Void - Legowelt (Clone Jack for Daze Holland)
24: Legend of eBoi (The Hypervigilant Eye) - Darius Jones (Aum Fidelity)
25: September 23rd - William Basinski (Temporary Residence Limited)
26: Airdrop - Low End Activist (Peak Oil)
27: Ephemera - Fergus Jones (Numbers)
28: Fantastic Voyage - VA (Ace) 
29: Endless Echo - Pye Corner Audio (Ghost Box)
30: In the Beginning there was Rhythm - VA (Soul Jazz)

Films
1: The Substance (Mubi/Working Title)
2: Starve Acre (BBC Film/BFI/House Productions/Access Entertainment)
3: Oddity (IFC Films/Shudder)
4: Longlegs (Neon/Saturn Films)
5: Anora (Neon/Film Nation Entertainment)
6: Heretic (A24)
7: Evil Does Not Exist (NEOPA)
8: Dahomey (Mubi)
9: Sleep (Lewis Pictures)
10: Kneecap (BFI/Fine Point Films/Mother Tongues Films/TG4/ Northern Irish Language Broadcast Fund and Screen Fund, Coimisiun na Mean/ Screen Ireland/Great Point Media)
11: Kinds of Kindness (Searchlight/ Film4/Element/TSG) 
12: The Wild Robot (Universal/Dreamworks)
13: BIkeriders (Focus Features/Regency Enterprises)
14: Cuckoo (Neon)
15: In a Violent Nature (Shudder/Zygote Pictures)
16: Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney/Pixar)
17: La Chimera (Tempesta/Rai Cinema/Ad Vitam Production/Amka Films Productions/RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera SRG SSR/Arte France Cinéma)
18: Perfect Days (Mubi)
19: The Zone of Interest (Film4/Access/Polish Film Institute/JW Films/Extreme Emotions)
20: Poor Things (Film 4/Element Pictures/Fruit Tree/Limp/TSG) 
21: Scala!! (BFI/Self-funded)
22: Late Night with the Devil (IFC/Shudder/Image Nation/Cinetic Media/AGC Studios)
23: Monster (Gaga/Toho/Fuji Television Network/AOI Pro/Bun-Buku)
24: Blitz (Apple Studios/Regency Enterprises/New Regency/Working Title/Lammas Park)
25: All of Us Strangers (Film4/TSG/Blueprint Pictures)
26:  Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat (Onomatopee Films/Warboys Films/Zap-O-Matik/Baldr Film/ZKM Center/RTBF/VRT)
27: Love Lies Bleeding (A24/Film4/Escape Plan/LOBO Films)
28: The Holdovers (Miramax/Gran Via)
29: American Fiction (MRC/T-Street/Almost Infinite/3 Arts Entertainment)
30: Hundreds of Beavers (SRH)

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