Every year we say “it’s been a great year for music!”, but we really mean it for 2024. Each week it seemed there was a fantastic new album, an excellent EP or a hot new single released. Some that transcended artists into the stratosphere, landed them on a lot of radars, or threw them straight to the tippy top of stardom. It has been a marvel of productivity, and quite fun (also, chaotic) trying to document as much of it as possible.
Now’s the time where we try to condense all of that output into a Best Of list. We believe everything is subjective, so here are our favourites instead. We’ve spent months listening and relistening to so many – SO many – releases that it got a bit crazy for a second, and also reminded us to start these lists way earlier. Anyway, we’re back with our Favourite EPs Of 2024. We hope you enjoy.
25. Night Swimming – No Place To Land
24. Punching – RAT
23. Amanda Cy – Waterworks
22. Zoe’s Shanghai – Undergrowth
21. Siobhán Winifred – Don’t Do Well Alone
20. Serial Chiller – Panic
19. Lip Filler – witchescrew
“It was only last year that Lip Filler burst onto the scene, releasing their self-titled debut EP, but the London five-piece don’t mess around. Witchescrew is a follow up that also wastes little time to get all up in your face. Not only highlighting a great work ethic, it also highlights the band’s determination to show off an improvement on all fronts: production, energy, BALLS.”
18. Cosmo Pyke – Low
17. Lexie Carroll – you look lovely when you’re living
“You look lovely when you’re living reflects the mundane things Lexie enjoys but also highlights the power of emotion and interaction with people too. It serves as a lesson to enjoy the small stuff. It is brilliant, fragile, vulnerable and all encompassing. One of the most complete, best EPs of the year.”
16. Flat Party – Flat Party
15. Cassia – Home Soon…
14. Bea Maher – Can’t Love EP
13. Kynsy – Utopia
12. Melanie Baker – Burnout Baby
“Burnout Baby offers an insight into everything Melanie has been experiencing and delivers it in a way that is catchy, emotive, and full of variety. Each song details the intense anxiety and fear that comes with the feeling of burnout and does so in a way that doesn’t sound too overwhelming and forgoes any structure of genre. Instead opting to bring instrumentals that project the instability and hectic emotions wonderfully.”
11. Make Friends – I Lose, You Lose
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