Our team of writers and contributors have diverse tastes. It would appear there wasn’t much in terms of true consensus among us (beyond the number one pick) and little overlap when it came to our year end picks. While the main "Year in Review" feature was picked almost entirely by the Post-Trash editors, we wanted to give all of our contributors a chance to pick their favorites, regardless if the records were covered on our site or not. Everyone was invited to pick their personal top 20 of the year and points were assigned based on rank. An album picked at #1 was given 20 points while an album selected at #20 was awarded a single point and so on. Our contributors' tastes range outside that of our editors, but we wanted to give everyone a chance to share what moved them in 2024. With 25 of our writers submitting their votes, we had 372 different records nominated (which means there weren’t too many repeats) and only the top four records received a collected score of sixty or higher.
We're happy to present "Post-Trash's Staff Picks: The Best of 2024" as voted by the entire team (with individual contributor lists below). There were a ton of ties throughout, so editors provided the tie breakers. We hope you enjoy. As always, be sure to support the artists you love. Buy some music.
ALY ELEANOR:
1. Kali Malone - All Life Long
2. Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - Estrella Por Estrella
3. Shovel Dance Collective - The Shovel Dance
4. Ekko Astral - Pink Balloons
5. Naemi - Dust Devil
6. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
7. Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds
8. Water Damage - In E
9. Sarah Davachi - The Head As Form’d in the Crier’s Choir
10. Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder
11. more eaze - lacuna and parlor
12. Fend - DISC
13.Skee Mask - Resort
14. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes
15. Mount Eerie - Night Palace
16.ther - Godzilla
17. The Body & Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven
18. Nidia & Valentina - Estradas
19. Being Dead - EELS
20. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
anika maculangan:
1. Porridge Radio - Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
2. English Teacher - This Could be Texas
3. PACKS - Melt the Honey
4. Babehoven - Water's Here In You
5. Dehd - Poetry
6. Peel Dream Magazine - Rose Main Reading Room
7. DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water
8. C Turtle - Expensive Thrills
9. A Country Western - Life on the Lawn
10. Joyer - Night Songs
11. Spirit of the Beehive - YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING
12. Cola - The Gloss
13. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weickness
14. @ - Are You There God? It's Me, @
15. julie - my anti-aircraft friend
16. Parannoul - Sky Hundred
17. Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold
18. Asian Glow - Towards Backward on the End of the Cliff
19. Blood Estate - Scatter
20. Trauma Ray - Chameleon
ANNA SOLOMON:
1. Ekko Astral - pink balloons
2. Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder
3. Willi Carlisle - Critterland
4. The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
5. Midwife - No Depression in Heaven
6. Eevie Echoes & The Locations - The Cons of Being a Wallflower
7. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
8. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
9. Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg - Accept When
10. claire rousay - sentiment
11. Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight
12. Bryn Battani - Guest Room
13. Hulder - Verses In Oath
14. Pop Music Fever Dream - Songs for Emotion
15. Yotam Silberstein - Standards
16. Kyros - Mannequin
17. More Eaze - lacuna and parlor
18. Goat Girl - below the waste
19. Jasmine Myra - Rising
20. Shiverboard - Hacksaw Morrisette
ben hohenstatt:
1. Sprints - Letter to Self
2. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
3. Dehd - Poetry
4. Los Campesinos! - All Hell
5. Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky Will Always Be There
6. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
7. Yard Act - Where's My Utopia
8. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
9. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
10.Katy J. Pearson - Someday, Now
11. Courting - New Last Name
12. Bob Vylan - Humble as the Sun
13. Jack White - No Name
14. Friko - Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here
15. Pom Poko - Champion
16. JPEGMAFIA- I Lay Down My Life For You
17. Hinds - Viva Hinds
18. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
19. The Lovely Eggs - Eggsistentialism
20. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - That Delicious Vice
benji heywood:
1. Sumac - The Healer
2. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
3. Kal Marks - Wasteland Baby
4. Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns
5. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
6. 7xvethegenius - Death of Deuce
7. Faye Webster - Underdressed at the Symphony
8. julie - my anti-aircraft friend
9. Ex Easter Island Head - Northern
10. Horse Jumper of Love - Disaster Trick
11. William Basinski - September 23rd
12. Beak> - >>>>
13. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
14. Friko - Where we've been, Where we go from here
15. Drug Church - Prude
16. Party Dozen - Crimes in Australia
17. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes
18. Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field
19. Chat Pile - Cool World
20. Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2
caleb DOyle:
1. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
2. Rosali - Bite Down
3. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
4. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
5. CIndy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
6. Katie Gavin - What A Relief
7. Ben Seretan - Allora
8. Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild
9. Clairo - Charm
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”
11. Ducks Ltd. - Harm's Way
12. Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me
13. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
14. Good Looks - Lived Here for Awhile
15. A Country Western - Life on the Lawn
16. Lobby Boxer - Head Shoulders Knuckles Floor
17. Charli XCX - brat
18. Los Campesinos - All Hell
19. Combat - Stay Golden
20. Wishy - Triple Seven
cam harper:
1. Dummy - Free Energy
2. Horse Jumper of Love - Disaster Trick
3. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
4. Corridor - Mimi
5. S.H.I.T. - For A Better World
6. Wishy - Triple Seven
7. Uranium Club - Infants Under The Bulb
8. Snooper & Prison Affair - Split 7” (EP)
9. Guitar - Casting Spells on Turtlehead
10. A Country Western - Life On The Lawn
11. Aluminum - Fully Beat
12. Pardoner - Paranoid in Hell (EP)
13. White Collar - White Collar
14. Chat Pile - Cool World
15. Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot
16. Cloud Nothings - Final Summer
17. METZ - Up On Gravity Hill
18. Cola - The Gloss
19. Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way
20. The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend
CAROLINE NIETO:
1. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
2. Clairo - Charm
3. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
4. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
5. Lily Seabird - Alas,
6. Allegra Krieger - Art of the Unseen Infinity
7. The Marias - Submarine
8. Marika Hackman - Big Sigh
9. Hemlock - 444
10. Adrienne Lenker - Bright Future
11. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
12. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor
13. Hinds - VIVA HINDS
14. Greg Mendez - Greg Mendez
15. Phoebe Go - Marmalade
16. Hello Mary - Emita Ox
17. Crumb - AMAMA
18. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
19. Babehoven - Water’s Here in You
20. Water From Your Eyes - MP3 Player 1
CHRIS COPLAN:
1. Folly Group - Down There!
2. C Turtle - Expensive Thrills
3. Jon McKiel - Hex
4. Powerwasher - Everyone Laughs
5. Omni - Souvenir
6. My Best Unbeaten Brother - Pessimistic Pizza
7. Font - Strange Burden
8. BLOODSTAINS - Bloodstains
9. Lunar Vacation - Everything Matters, Everything's Dire
10. Schedule 1 - Crucible
11. grocer - Bless Me
12. Blinder - Drugs of the Sun
13. Wine Lips - Super Mega Ultra
14. twisted teens - twisted teens
15. The Baby Seal - Chaos
16. Feeling Figures - Everything Around You
17. Office Dog - Spiel
18. Swirls - Top of the Line
19. Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
20. Bad Bangs - Out of Character
chris polley:
1. Rosie Tucker - UTOPIA NOW!
2. Cheekface - It’s Sorted
3. Maria Chiara Argirò - Closer
4. Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty
5. Heems & Lapgan - LAFANDAR
6. ANORAK! - Self-Actualization and the Ignorance and Hesitation Toward It
7. Blurstem - Ocelli
8. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life
9. Sinai Vessel - I SING
10. Arcadia Grey - Casually Crashing
11. Middle Sattre - Tendencies
12. Wagging - My Own Private Rodeo
13. I Love Your Lifestyle - Summerland (Torpa or Nothing)
14. G.S. Schray - Whispered Something Good
15. The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend
16. Green Gardens - This Is Not Your Fault
17. And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna
18. Tomato Flower - No
19. Little Kid - A Million Easy Payments
20. Gorka Urbizu - Hasiera Bat
christopher j. lee:
1. Shellac - To All Trains
2. Kim Gordon - The Collective
3. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
4. MONO - Oath
5. Tindersticks - Soft Tissue
6. Mount Eerie - Night Palace
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead"
8. Mary Timony - Untame the Tiger
9. Horse Jumper of Love - Disaster Trick
10. Six Organs of Admittance - Time is Glass
11. Gastr del Sol - We Have Dozens of Titles
12. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
13. Jamie xx - In Waves
14. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
15. Laetitia Sadier - Rooting for Love
16. Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything
17. The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet
18. Papa M - Ballads of Harry Houdini
19. Tashi Dorji - we will be wherever the fires are lit
20. Bill Callahan - The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s "Smog" Dec. 10, 2001 Peel Session
DAN GOLDIN (*):
1. Naima Bock - Below A Massive Dark Land
2. Anna McClellan - Electric Bouquet
3. Sumac - The Healer
4. Thank - I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Hurt
5. Finom - Not God
6. Dana Gavanski - Late Slap
7. Vampire - What Seems Forever Can Be Broken
8. Uranium Club - Infants Under The Bulb
9. Tropical Fuck Storm - Inflatable Graveyard
10. Mary Timony - Untame The Tiger
11. 7xvethegenius - Death of Deuce
12. The Jesus Lizard - Rack
13. Porridge Radio - Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
14. Rick Rude - Laverne
15. Cosmophage - Sidereal Malignancy
16. Magic Fig - Magic Fig
17. Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
18. Necrot - Lifeless Birth
19. Memorials - Memorial Waterslides
20. Ripped To Shreds - Sanshi
EMMANUEL CASTILLO:
1. Foxing - Foxing
2. Kim Gordon - The Collective
3. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
4. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
5. Gouge Away - Deep Sage
6. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
7. Perennial - Art History
8. Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltram Italian Stilleto With Bison Horn Grips
9. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
10. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2
11. Vince Staples - Dark Times
12. Freddie Gibbs - You Only Die 1nce
13. Jpegmafia - I Lay Down My Life For You
14. X - Smoke and Fiction
15. Oso Oso - Life Till Bones
16. Chat Pile - Cool World
17. The Jesus Lizard - Rack
18. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
19. Couch Slut - You Could Do it Tonight
20. Shellac - To All Trains
JADE WININGS:
1. Fontaines D.C - Romance
2. Prize Horse - Under Sound
3. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
4. MX Lonely - SPIT
5. Mudwhale - Checking In
6. Linus - Andromeda
7. A Place To Bury Strangers - Synthesizer
8. Chat Pile - Cool World
9. Balance & Composure - With You In Spirit
10. Bite The Hand - Conned Out Of Life
11. Winter - And she's still listening
12. Pretty Sick - Streetwise
13. Her New Knife - Chrome is lullaby
14. Glare - Mourning Haze
15. Palomino Blonde - You Feel It Too
16. Gollylagging - Dry Rot
17. Sunday 1994 - Sunday 1994
18. Trauma Ray - Chameleon
19. Duster - In Dreams
20. Mourning Star - Flowers for Your Friends
john brouk:
1. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
2. 22 Degree Halo - Lily of the Valley
3. JW Francis - SUNSHINE
4. Chris Cohen - Painting a Room
5. Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI
6. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
7. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know
8. Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy
9. Tyler, the Creator - Chromokopia
10. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
11. Grady Philip Drugg - 4
12. Pearl & The Oysters - Planet Pearl
13. The Lentils -Where UFOs fear to tread
14. Bobbie Lovesong - Shadow of a Cloud
15. Gee Tee - Prehistoric Chrome
16. Ben Varien - SNIP
17. OSEES - SORCS 80
18. 1-800-MIKEY - DIGITAL PET
19. Alien Nosejob - Turns the Color of Bad Shit
20. Little Wings - High On The Glade
JOHN GLAB:
1. bedbug - pack your bags, the sun is growing
2. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
3. Ikkimel - HAT SIE NICHT GESAGT
4. death’s dynamic shroud - You Like Music
5. Burnout Ostwest - Bremer Schule
6. Hooky - Mirage
7. Guitar - Casting Spells on Turtlehead
8. Faerybabyy - Lucky Star
9. Sweat FM - you and i, we were born to cry
10. Wapddi - Like Our Friend Murphy
11. RiTchie - Triple Digits [112]
12. Billiam - Animation Cel
13. Her New Knife - chrome is lullaby
14. Bloom Dream - It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
15. Dj Smokey, Varg²™ - Psychological Musical Warfare
16. ELUCID - REVELATOR
17. MGNA Crrta - Island Paradise
18. KOKOKO! - Mokili
19. Spirit of the Beehive - YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING
20. untitled (halo) - headbanger
matt watton:
1. The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet
2. Il Sogno del Marinaio - Terzo
3. Dummy - Free Energy
4. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
5. Uranium Club - Infants Under the Bulb
6. Ty Segall - Three Bells
7. Dana Gavanski - Late Slap
8. Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate
9. Climax Landers - Zenith No Effects
10. Georgie Greep - The New Sound
11. Bill Callahan - Resuscitate!
12. Horse Lords - As It Happened
13. Love Child - Never Meant to Be
14. The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend
15. Being Dead - Eels
16. Dancer - 10 Songs I Hate About You
17. Rosie Tucker - UTOPIA NOW!
18. Galaxie 500 - Uncollected Noise New York
19. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
20. Winged Wheel - Big Hotel
matty mcpherson:
1. Phil Geraldi - AM/FM USA
2. Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
3. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes
4. Sumac - The Healer
5. Low End Activist - Airdrop
6. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2
7. Still House Plants - if i don't make it, i love u
8. Carme López - Quintela
9. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas
10. Yara Asmar - Stuttering Music
11. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
12. Water Shrews Trio - Following the Lichen Into the Brush
13. Allie X - Girl With No Face
14. Jasmine Wood - Piano Reverb
15. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
16. Shellac - To All Trains
17. Harry Gorski-Brown - Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats
18. Dummy - Free Energy
19. Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Vida Miknevičiūtė - Songs of Fate
20. LL Cool J - The Force
myles tiessen:
1. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
2. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
3. Truck Violence - Violence
4. Charli XCX - Brat
5. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
6. Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
7. Daniel Romano - Too Hot To Sleep
8. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
9. Kim Gordon - The Collective
10. Pressure Pin - Polyurethane
11. Still House Plants - If I Don’t Make It, I Love U
12. Chat Pile - Cool World
13. Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate
14. This Is Lorelei - Box for Buddy, Box for Star
15. PyPy - Sacred Times
16. Thine Retail Simps - Strike Gold Strike Back Strike Out
17. Garrett T. Capps - Everyone Is Everyone
18. Johnny Blue Skies/Sturgill Simpson - Passage Du Desir
19. Showroom Dummies - Showroom Dummies EP
20. Jon McKiel - Hex
NICcOLO PORCELLO:
1. Office Dog - Spiel
2. Omni - Souvenir
3. Bondo - harmonica
4. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
5. Smoke Bellow - Structurally Sound
6. Sam Evian - Plunge
7. Dave Vettraino - A Bird Shaped Shadow
8. Crumb - AMAMA
9. Starcleaner Reunion - Cafe Life
10. Robber Robber - Wild Guess
11. Khadija Al Hanafi - Slime Patrol 2
12. LaDí - SOLITA EN SU MUNDO
13. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
14. The Narcotix - Dying
15. Office Dog - Doggerland
16. Anna Butterss - Mighty Vertebrate
17. Kassie Krut - Kassie Krut
18. Hot Joy - Small Favor
19. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING
20. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud
patrick pilch:
1. DORIS - Ultimate Love Songs Collection
2. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
3. Mo Dotti - Opaque
4. Erika de Casier - Still
5. Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - Estrella por Estrella
6. 454 - Casts of a Dreamer
7. Assisted Living - …Is Coming
8. Climax Landers - Zenith No Effects
9. Fantasy of a Broken Heart - Feats of Engineering
10. Nina Ryser - Water Giants
11. maassai - DEC0N$tRUCT!0N
12. Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt
13. Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come
14. RONG - LIVE AT NEW ALLIANCE
15. Dave Vettraino - A Bird Shaped Shadow
16. El Cousteau - El Cousteau
17. Frances Chang - Psychedelic Anxiety
18. Tension Pets - Cubey
19. Tex Patrello - Minotaur
20. nyxy nyx - Real Life
RAINY MAPLE SUGAR CANDY:
1. Viruette - Your Lacuna
2. Sugar Pit - Shhh…Don’t Jinx It
3. Ty Segall - Love Rudiments
4. Font - Strange Burden
5. IDLES - TANGK
6. Chat Pile - Cool World
7. Cheap City - Blue Dancers
8. Cosmo Sheldrake - Eye To The Ear
9. Shannon and The Clams - The Moon Is In The Wrong Place
10. Miracle Blood - Hello Hell
11. Nicholas Burgess - Mejora Majora
12. Caxtrinho - QUEDA LIVRE
13. Alien Chicks - Indulging The Mobs (EP)
14. Kal Marks - Wasteland Baby
15. Other Half - Dark Ageism
16. Shellac - To All Trains
17. The Intima - Peril and Panic
18. Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water
19. Willow - Empathogen
20. Hedge - Better Days
scott yohe:
1. Ducks Ltd. - Harms Way
2. The Umbrellas - Fair Weather Friend
3. Baby Rose and Badbadnotgood - Slow Burn
4. Cola - The Gloss
5. Chime School - The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel
6. Pom Poko - Champion
7. Neutrals - New Town Dream
8. Fontaines DC - Romance
9. tapir! - The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain
10. G's Us - What Them Dogs Don't Know They Know
11. Martha Skye Murphy - Um
12. Anna McClellan - Electric Bouquet
13. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2
14. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
15. Godspeed! you Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead"
16. A. Savage - Several Songs About Fire
17. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
18. Thank - I Have a Physical Body That Can Be Harmed
19. The Green Child - Look Familiar
20. The Jesus Lizard - Rack
taylor ruckle:
1. Rosie Tucker - UTOPIA NOW!
2. Cheekface - It’s Sorted
3. Oceanator - Everything is Love and Death
4. Ekko Astral - pink balloons
5. Ka - The Thief Next to Jesus
6. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
7. Another Sky - Beach Day
8. Yasmin Williams - Acadia
9. Perennial - Art History
10. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - s/t
11. Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
12. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
13. DOECHII - Alligator Bites Never Heal
14. ShrapKnel - Nobody Planning to Leave
15. The Decemberists - As it Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
16. Combat - Stay Golden
17. Superdestroyer & (Leave) Nelson B - Nelson Comes to Visit
18. Bacchae - Next Time
19. Clear Channel - Public Access
20. Kenny Garret & Svoy - Who Killed AI?
ZAK MERCADO:
1. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
2. Shop Regulars - Shop Regulars
3. MIKE & Tony Selzer - Pinball
4. 2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions
5. Jamie XX - In Waves
6. Naima Bock - Below A Massive Dark Land
7. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
8. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
9. Florian T M Zeisig - Planet Inc
10. Astrel K - The Foreign Department
11. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
12. Shed - The 030-Files
13. Geordie Greep - The New Sound
14. Nubo - Planetary Vision
15. Alvidrez - Antiphon
16. Kim Gordon - The Collective
17. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
18. Ty Segall - Three Bells
19. The Umbrellas - Fairweather Friend
20. Gee Tee - Prehistoric Chrome
* The Top 20 list taken into consideration for the staff pick total included bands from Dan’s own label (Exploding In Sound). In the interest of not publicly ranking the label’s own releases, the list submitted here contains their favorite albums without inclusion of any EIS artists.