I Don't Hear A Single Albums Of The Year 2024 : Top 10

 

So we get to our Best 10 Albums Of 2024. Any of these 10 could have been Number 1 and this reflected how diverse I Don't Hear A Single has become over the years. It is essentially a home for Indie Pop Rock, but it isn't afraid of taking different paths. For instance Prog and Psych is placed well amongst the 100 albums, which is a testament to how open the ears of followers are.

We chose The Armoires because we believe it was so different to much of everything else we heard in 2024. But, any album that is reviewed on IDHAS is recommended. We only review what we have liked. The 100 albums will be posted as a list later.

1 The Armoires - Octoberland     IDHAS Review

2 The Mommyheads - One Eyed Band      IDHAS Review

3 Teenage Frames - Everything Has Led To This     IDHAS Review

4 King Black Acid - Victory For Mad Love    IDHAS Review

5 Emperor Penguin - Gentlemen Thieves     IDHAS Review

6 Silk Cut - Silk Cut       IDHAS Review

7 Amateur Ornithologist - Hide      IDHAS Review

8 Silent Forum - Domestic Majestic      IDHAS Review

9 Ward White - Here Comes The Dowsers      IDHAS Review

  

10      James Sullivan - Vital Signs     IDHAS Review

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Teenage Frames - Everything Has Led To This

You've heard Brain Fever on the new Listening To This Week, so now for the long player. Everything Has Led To This brings back so many memories to where music started for me. Glam Rock was when I started to buy music under my own steam.

It was a very Singles led genre, albums largely, in the first instance, singles and a load of covers or tosh. Few ever made an album as consistently great as this. Also, there seems something bizarre about the best UK Glam Rock nowadays coming from the West Coast Of America.

Los Angeles have fashioned something that sounds so 1974, wonderfully so. It has grabbed the best of the genre and produced an album as fun as the singles were from that era. This could be 14 great singles from the time, beautifully done.

The detail is wonderful, hand claps, fade outs, big riffs, memorable singalong choruses and songs as catchy as catchy can be. I half expected them to appear on this week's Top Of The Pops or Lift Off With Ayshea. 

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It isn't all Glam, but thankfully most of it is. However, the back end of Punk / beginning of New Wave is celebrated splendidly on Fighting Words. I'm also reminded of the heavier Sweet B Sides on Disappointment and Power Pop is well represented by the likes of Only Lonely Tonight.

There's even Blockbuster sirens on the fast and loud Agree To Disagree. Fats Domino's I'm Alive is obviously a well covered song, but I have never heard it as Power Popped and Glammed Up as here. Albums like this should be treasured, it is an absolute crackerjack of a release.

You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on CD and as a Download.

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