2024 in music

I did this in 2020 and since the end of 2024 have been trying to be more conscientious about how I participate in the technological oligarchy of our time. big yikes. I now have a bit more complicated relationship to tracking data via some mega-corp, but as we're entering into a world where a mega-corp runs everything, choosing which one gets my information feels like the dumbest, worst win possible. long-story-short, I am trying to avoid the big S streaming services and listening to the music I've owned on CD and have converted digitally over the course of many years.

2024 was the hardest year of my life in many ways that I won't go into here, and because of that I was listening to 2005 levels of Sufjan Stevens. his album The Age of Adz came out in 2010 but sucked the life out of me in a way I haven't experienced in some time. it was a warm blanket on a cold night.

Chappell Roan was probably the only thing from this year that I actually listened to (or at least cared about in some way).