{"id":13603,"date":"2025-01-11T00:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/?p=13603"},"modified":"2025-01-11T00:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:41:49","slug":"bolachas-favorite-albums-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/?p=13603","title":{"rendered":"Bolachas’ Favorite Albums of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s that time of the year again! After writing about 100 albums in 2022, the bar was way too high in 2023. So I didn’t, and ended up not publishing it at all. So let’s not do that anymore. Here’s my top five, plus 95 of my other favorites in no particular order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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1. MJ Lenderman<\/strong> Manning Fireworks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The singles were great, the hype was real. “Wristwatch”, released shortly before the album was out, was on such a heavy rotation around here that I thought I’d get sick of it. I did not. In Manning Fireworks<\/em>, Lenderman might sound a little like Berman fronting a Crazy Horse-era Magnolia Electric Co (see Trials & Errors<\/em>), but he’s really doing his own thing. Every track is a banger, every song has a genius verse that I can’t believe nobody came up with before. OK, nobody ever expected any songwriter to say out loud that they’ve got “a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome” \u2013 whatever that means \u2013 but did we really have to wait for 2024 for someone to write “I’ve lost my sense of humor \/ I’ve lost my driving range \/ I could really use your two cents babe \/ I could really use the change”? Everyone who ever muttered the words “all the great songs have already been written” is a [redacted]. And all my favorite songs from 2024 were written by some ridiculously talented 25 year old dude from North Carolina whose best is still to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus: this one isn’t even on the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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