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+title: 2024 lists
+description: 2024 round-up
+date: 2024-01-06
+draft: true
+---
+
+## Music
+
+We’re now even further removed from 2020 than it was ever thought possible and the decade truly feels like it has begun. It was yet another year where an avalanche of interesting records were released and there’s still much (454, Jawnino, Ka (RIP), SahBabii, etc) I haven’t gotten round to yet. Been an especially banner year also for people I know or know of putting out incredible music too, shouts out to all music makers.
+
+### Albums I dug that were released in 2024
+
+I probably would have written something about every album in this list but got too behind on my monthly blogposts... 
+
+[The Healer - Sumac](https://sumac.bandcamp.com/album/the-healer) (I wrote about "Yellow Dawn")
+[The Dreadful Human Tangle - Baggio](https://baggioband.bandcamp.com/album/the-dreadful-human-tangle) (I wrote about "Mangue-tout")
+[Wood Blues - \[Ahmed\]](https://astralahmed.bandcamp.com/album/wood-blues) (I wrote about "Wood Blues")
+[Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot - Liquid Mike](https://liquidmike.bandcamp.com/album/paul-bunyans-slingshot)
+[Club Shy - Shygirl](https://0800shygirl.bandcamp.com/album/club-shy) (I wrote about "thicc")
+[Flipping - Candy](https://bbbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/flipping)
+[Spectral Evolution - Rafael Toral](https://rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-evolution)
+[The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions - Vegyn](https://vegyn.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good-intentions) (I wrote about "A Dream Goes On Forever")
+[FREEDOM SWEET FREEDOM - Regional Justice Center](https://regionaljusticecenter.bandcamp.com/album/freedom-sweet-freedom)
+[Ryton Choir - Ryton Choir](https://hatsrightrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ryton-choir)
+[plastic death - glass beach](https://glassbeach.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-death) (I wrote about "cul-de-sac")
+[Reflections Vol 2: Black Decelerant - Black Decelerant](https://blackdecelerant.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-vol-2-black-decelerant) (I wrote about "three")
+[On Hexen Ground - Molch](https://m0lch.bandcamp.com/album/on-hexen-ground)
+[Every Bridge Burning - Nails](https://open.spotify.com/album/269SQRalfaebSVSDnIQe1g) (I wrote about "Give Me The Painkiller")
+[Orchards of a Futile Heaven/The Crying Out Of Things - The Body](https://thebody.bandcamp.com/album/orchards-of-a-futile-heaven)
+[Building A Case - Lou Terry](https://louterry1.bandcamp.com/album/building-a-case) (I didn't get around to writing about "Stupid Brain" but it's one of my fave songs of the year)
+[Endlessness - Nala Sinephro](https://nalasinephro.bandcamp.com/album/endlessness)
+[Life On The Lawn - A Country Western](https://acountrywestern.bandcamp.com/album/life-on-the-lawn) (I wrote about "Sidewalk")
+[Worn Life Begs For Burial - Casing](https://casing.bandcamp.com/album/worn-life-begs-for-burial)
+[SMILE! :D - Porter Robinson](https://open.spotify.com/album/2iS4pBIiQf4sCTJLZ5n8dy) (I wrote about "Cheerleader")
+
+### Albums I dug that were not released in 2024
+
+Systems Overload - Integrity (I wrote about "No One")
+Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)/Doc At The Radar Station/Clear Spot/I’m Going Do What I Wanna Do: Live At My Father’s House) - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
+The Colours of Chloë - Eberhard Weber
+[DJ E - Chuquimamani-Condori](https://chuquimamani-condori.bandcamp.com/album/dj-e)
+[Transa - Caetano Veloso](https://open.spotify.com/album/49cBF5iGpJ7nx6EAR8BLga) (shouts out to the Transa comp by Red Hot Org which I’ve mostly listened to and really dug)
+[Roots & Crowns - Califone](https://califonemusic.bandcamp.com/album/roots-crowns)
+Plastic Surgery Disasters/Frankenchrist - Dead Kennedys
+Real Life - Magazine
+American Don - Don Caballero
+Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
+Future Days - Can
+The Best of Link Wray - Link Wray
+Solid Air/One World - John Martyn
+Artaud - Pescado Rabioso
+
+## Video Games
+
+I’m learning how to drive and discovered this year that if you use manual transmission in driving games that they transform from droll wheelbarrow simulators to nailbiting experiences. Gran Turismo 4 is my favourite game of the year.
+
+I didn’t play enough modern games to really make a list this year. I thought that the new Golden Idol game was pretty decent but not quite as good as the original. 
+
+I’m a massive Balatro hater, sorry! It might be the country where I live (and my own issues with dopamine regulation) but it still feels gross and predatory even if it isn’t real gambling! I’m perhaps too disconnected to be aware of but I find it curious that there’s no interesting discourse in video games about addiction. Predatory tactics (and actual gambling) are rife in the mainstream now and it seems like the indie scene’s reaction is to celebrate this and not comment on it? You can also look at something like Vampire Survivors, one of the most acclaimed games from last year, the design of which was informed by the developer’s time in the gaming (in the other sense) industry. Is there really any art in shovelling the most addictive mechanics into a trough and saying “have at it”? 
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+title: Sep 2024
+description: Sep 24 Roundup
+date: 2024-10-30
+draft: true
+---
+
+## What I've Been Listening To
+
+### 病床パブリック - Sheena Ringo
+
+### CASING - Grounds Marked For Disposal
+
+### FREEDOM - Regional Justice Center
+
+### Psychedelic Speed Freaks - High Rise