I Don't Hear A Single Albums Of The Year 2024 : 61-70

 

For the last eight years We have compiled annual Best Of 's  because these posts seem so popular and the aim of this Blog is to get exposure (and Sales) for the artists. A reminder that anything reviewed on I Don't Hear A Single is highly recommended. A reminder that only new albums are included among these 100.

Narrowing things down to this 100 has been really difficult. The 100 albums are posted in reverse batches of 10. For each album, A song is embedded from the album and a link is provided to the IDHAS Review where you can find further details and how to listen or buy the album.

61 Dan Miraldi - Ulysses      IDHAS Review

62 Ian St. George - Emergency Index      IDHAS Review

63 The Phase Problem - The Power Of Positive Thinking      IDHAS Review

64 ahem - Avoider      IDHAS Review

65 The Shop Window - Daysdream     IDHAS Review

66 The Violet Twilight - Above The Clouds       IDHAS Review

67 Mark & The Clouds - Machines Can't Hear You      IDHAS Review

68 Raised On TV - Make Time To Make Time      IDHAS Review

69 The Real Numbers - Thank You      IDHAS Review

  

70 Spiral Heads - 'Til I'm Dead     IDHAS Review

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Ian St. George - Emergency Index

 

Ian St George's debut solo album is an unexpected diamond. I like to think I know everything about everything, but this caught me completely by surprise. It is very much in touch with the new wave of Power Pop, a slightly more aggressive version of the verse chorus and guitar break,

Having said that Kimberley is classic Power Pop and Everything Goes Wrong is a UK late 70s New Wave version of the genre. But there is much more inside than just that. Waste My Time even goes into the period that ran up to Brit Pop, a little Lemonheads maybe.

Yet Goin' Down borders on Garage Rock, a much aggressive sped up vibe. Much more Indie, wonderfully so. yet Anytime At All is all Jangle Pop and Polymorphia is a great take on 90s noisy US College Rock, the anti-venom to the sheer miserableness of Grunge. 

California's is Fuzz Rock of the highest quality with a driving rhythm track and a vocal that is aggressive C86, right in your face. But the Pop Rock fares equally well. No One Really Knows is a cracking Pop song that mixes in Psych Pop and Jangle with big shades of a rocked up early Teenage Fanclub.

Angel Flowers Hiking Song has a chaotic feel to it, but is a great opener. There's also a great Lo-Fi take on  Guided By Voices' How I Loft Am I? that breaks out splendidly. It sounds purposely scratchy, compared to the production of the rest of the album.

The five piece lock together beautifully, never more so on the magnificent Dreamer in all its nigh on 7 glorious minutes. Instrumental, apart from the added audio commentary. It is mesmerising Alt Rock that edges towards Psych. Hypnotic and jawdroppingly great, stunning. What a great listen Emergency Index is.

You can listen to and buy the album here. The album is available on Vinyl, a Super Deluxe Bundle that adds the CD and a T Shirt and as a download.

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