MadCity’s Best of 2024!
Favorite Albums of 2023 – Staff Picks!
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Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity
Teenage Fanclub – Nothing Lasts Forever
Little Simz – No Thank You
The Bomboras – Songs from Beyond!
Indigo De Souza – All Of This Will End
The National – First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
Sunny War – Antichrist Gospel
Sparks – The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
Peter Case – Doctor Moan
Tyler Childers – Rustin In The Rain
Buffalo Nichols – The Fatalist
Reissues / compilations
The Replacements – Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)
Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah
Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up To Us
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CORAL
Bodybox – Microwaved Weed
Zulu – A New Tomorrow
Night Beats – Rajan
Woods – Perennial
Reissues / compilations
v/a – Numero group eccentric northern soul – Everything but the talcum powder!!!
Duster – Stratosphere
The Breeders – Last Splash 30th Anniversary
Nirvana – In Utero 30th anniversary
Evanescence – The fallen 20th anniversary
Violent Femmes – s/t 40th anniversary
De la Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising
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BOBBY
Blonde Redhead – Sit Down For Dinner
Osees – Intercepted Message
The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Sweeping Promises – Good Living Is Coming For You
Carrellee – Rescaled: Scale Of Dreams’ Remix Album
Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
Drab Majesty – An Object In Motion
Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity
Teenage…
Favorite Albums of 2022 – Staff Picks!
ABBY
Vein.fm – This World’s Gonna Ruin YouSoul Glo
Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
Greyhaven – This Bright and Beautiful World
Holy fawn – Dimensional Blood
Charli XCX – Crash
Rina Sawayama – Hold The Girl
Chat Pile – God’s Country
Pool Kids – S/T
Prince Daddy and The Hyena – S/T
FKA Twigs – Caprisongs
Black Midi – Hellfire
Shygirl – Nymph
Oso Oso – Sore Thumb
The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist (biased but still)
Beyoncé – Renaissance
Show Me The Body – Trouble The Water
BOB
Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance
Tony Rice – California Autumn
Heather the Jerk – Cable Access TV
Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive
Cribshitter – Goin’ Soft
Robyn Hitchcock – Shufflemania
The Figgs – Chemical Shake
The Sadies – Colder Streams
Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool
Reissue/archival releases
v/a – Eccentric Deep Soul
BOBBY
Osees – A Foul Form
Duster – Together
The Mall – Time Vehicle Earth
Science Man – Nines Mecca
VR Sex – Rough Dimension
Spirtualized – Everything Was Beautiful
Reissue/archival releases
Love Battery – Dayglo
The Replacements – Unsuitable For Airplay
Pavement – Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal
DAVE
Orville – Peck Bronco
Son House – Forever On My Mind
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss
Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Superchunk – Wild Loneliness
Drive-By Truckers – Welcome To Club XIII
Nora O’Connor – My Heart
The Sadies – Color Streams
Surfbort – Keep On Truckin’
Elf Power – Artificial Countrysides
Reissue/archival releases
Little Beaver – Party Down
v/a – Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip
EVER
Animal Collective – Time Skiffs
Mitski – Laurel Hell
Beach House – Once Twice Melody
Guerilla Toss – Famously Alive
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
!!! – Let It Be Blue
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Momma – Household Name
Lizzo – Special
Beyoncé – Renaissance
The Mountain Goats – Bleed Out
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
NICK
Sudan Archives – Natural Brown Prom Queen
Makya McCraven – In These Times
Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island
Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come
Charli XCX – Crash
Momma – Household Name
The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field
Duster – Together
Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance
VR SEX – Rough Dimension
Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez…
Favorite Albums of 2021 – Staff Picks!
TAYLOR
Turnstile – Glow On
Tyler, The Creator – Call Me If You Get Lost
Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
Olivia Rodrigo – SOUR
Idles – Crawler
V/A – Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country
Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
BLEACHERS – Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night
Bria – Cuntry Covers Vol. 1
Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time
BOB (The 45 Guy)
Fox Face – End of Man
Rocket Bureau – Middle Angst
Couch Flambeau – Bunny Hideout
Todd Snider – The First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder
Guided By Voices – It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!
Aaron Scholz – Third Place
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time…
Hayes Carll – You Get It All
V/A – Driftless Dreamers: In Cuca Country
NICK
Turnstile – Glow On
CAN – Live In Stuttgart 75
Lil Ugly Mane – Volcanic Bird Enemy
Grouper – Shade
Andy Stott – Never The Right Time
Old Tower – The Old King of Witches
Portal – Avow / Hagbulbia
Mortiferum – Preserved In Torment
Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning
Dana Dentata – Pantychrist
Jason Crumer – Services Rendered
Black Marble – Fast Idol
La Luz – La Luz
Floating Points & Pharaoh Sanders – Promises
Neil Young – Way Down In The Rust Bucket
Beach Boys – Feel Flows – The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971
BOBBY
Low – Hey What
The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy
Circuit Des Yeux – -io
Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade
Can – Live in Stuttgart 1975
Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers
Alicja Pop – Howlin’
Ty Segall – Harmonizer
Best Reissues:
PJ Harvey – Studio Albums and Demo Collections
The Replacements – Sorry Ma… (deluxe edition)
Suburban Lawns – S/T
Lost Sounds – Rat’s Brains and Microchips
DAVE
Amyl & The Sniffers – Comfort To Me
Robert Finley – Sharecropper’s Son
Danny Kroha – Detroit Blues
Endless Boogie – Admonitions
Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying
Reigning Sound – A Little More Time…
Buffalo Nichols – self titled
Screamers – 1977 Demo Hollywood
Spread Joy – self titled
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – I Told You…
This week’s recommended new releases!
The Hussy “Looming”
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Brittany Howard “Jaime”
$11.99 CD / $23.99 LP ~MORE INFO
Blink 182 “Nine”
$11.99 CD / $29.99 LP ~MORE INFO
Robbie Robertson “Sinematic”
$11.99 CD / $34.99 LP ~MORE INFO
Zac Brown Band “The Owl”
$11.99 CD / LP available 10/11 ~MORE INFO
Chastity Belt s/t
$9.99 CD / $18.99 LP ~MORE INFO
Hiss Golden Messenger “Terns Of Surrender”
$12.99 CD / $19.99 LP ~MORE INFO
David Kilgour “Bobbie’s A Girl”
$11.99 CD / $19.99 LP ~MORE INFO
Keane “Cause and Effect”
$12.99 CD / $25.99 LP ~MORE INFO
The Allman Brothers “Filmore West ’71”
$45.99 4xCD ~MORE INFO
Bruce Cockburn “Crowning Ignites”
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Liam Gallagher “Why Me? Why Not?”
$11.99 CD / $17.99 LP ~MORE INFO
M83 “DSVII”
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Midsommar (Original Motion Picture Score)
$23.99 LP ~MORE INFO
Fitz and The Tantrums “All The Feels”
$11.99 CD / LP available 10/23 ~MORE INFO
(Sandy) Alex G “House of Sugar”
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