My Top 20 Favourite Tracks Of 2024

It’s time to rank the year’s best bangers! What were your favourite tracks of 2024?

The Worst Songs Of 2024

2024 was largely a great year for music. But as always, there were some flops among the bops.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 22/11/2024: James Blake, Squid, Clipping and more…

There’s a dystopian theme to several of the tracks this week. Artists featured include James Blake, Squid, Clipping, Saint Joshua, Ecce Shnak and Mark Zuckerberg & T-pain…

Every UK Number One Single From The 1960s Ranked

From ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy’ to ‘Yellow Submarine’, I rank every British chart-topper from the swinging sixties.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 08/11/2024: Tyler, the Creator, Lady Gaga, KSI and more...

A lot has happened in the last two weeks (wait, no, three weeks!) since I last did one of these roundups. A new Tyler the Creator album. Halloween. The US election. It feels like a year has passed. Here are some of the songs that have stood out over the last three weeks. Artists featured include Tyler, the Creator, Lady Gaga, Beck Pete & Timothy Brown, Scions, Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek, Brock Geiger, Shealagh Rose and KSI.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 18/10/2024: J Cole, Greet Death, Flying Lotus and more...

Aside from the new J Cole and FlyLo singles, it’s a lot of underground stuff from my inbox this week. Artists featured include Greet Death, Wax Head, Jenna Pemkowski, The Wednesday, Leif Maine & Jackson Mathod and Shida Shahabi.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 04/10/2024: Blood Incantation, Men I Trust, Thank and more…

This week features 20 minute metal tracks, woke credit cards and coffin masturbators. Artists featured include Blood Incantation, Men I Trust, Thank, Elita, Infinitefreefall, ION, FLEECE and The Weeknd (ft. Playboi Carti).

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 20/09/2024: FKA Twigs, Clipping, Mastodon and more…

Ok, I’ll admit it. It was me. I am the mother of Dave Grohl’s baby. This week’s selection was handpicked by 2 week old baby Dave Grohl Jr. Artists featured include FKA Twigs, Clipping, Mastodon & Lamb of God, Floating Points, Thank, Hello Mary, Good Group Thanks For Coming and Tate McCrae.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 08/09/2024: A$AP Rocky, The Smile, Coldplay and more...

Strange music videos and weird collaborations make up this fortnight’s selection of songs. Artists featured this week include A$AP Rocky, The Smile, Own Devices, OOF, Emmeline, Emm, Vision Video and Coldplay.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 23/08/2024: Ginger Root, Flying Lotus, Squint and more…

There's something for everyone this week! Artists featured this week include Ginger Root, Flying Lotus, Squint, Peachnoise, Wes Parker, Nicky MacKenzie, Brock Geiger and Geordie Greep.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 09/08/2024: JPEGMAFIA, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish and more…

JPEGMAFIA is dissing Drake and Billie wants to bang Charli XCX. Plus, I discuss the new tracks from George Clanton & TV Girl, Fontaines DC, Alai Landa, The Derevolutions, Menajerie and Ice Spice.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 16/07/2024: Childish Gambino, Magdalena Bay, Katy Perry and more…

It's time for my latest roundup of bops and flops, which I've resorted to publishing at random instead of every Friday, because I'm a hot mess. Childish Gambino has traded rap for rock, and Katy Perry has traded pop for poop. Plus, there are new singles from Magdalena Bay, Nilufer Yanya, Osees, Debra-Jean Creelman, Ion and Will Smith. 

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE MONTH 28/06/2024: Louis Cole, JPEGMAFIA, Nilufer Yanya and more…

I haven’t done one of these for a while, so here we go! Artists featured this week include Louis Cole, JPEGMAFIA, Nilufer Yanya, Worthitpurchase, Tommy Richman, Dream Phases, Astral Swans and NoCap.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 10/06/2024: PinkPantheress, Magdalena Bay, Drake and more...

A few days later that planned, here is my latest track roundup. This one features new songs from PinkPantheress, Magdalena Bay, Dizraeli, Konata Small, Deadset, The Tearless Life, Raveena & Snowd4y/Drake.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 24/05/2024: Charli XCX, Serj Tankian, Lupe Fiasco and more…

The new Charli single is a bop and the new Serj Tankian song is brutal. Plus new tracks from Lupe Fiasco, Louis Cole, Peggy Gou, Mutes, Jean Mignon and Slash/Iggy Pop.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE WEEK 10/05/2024: Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Julia Fox and more...

I was going to make this another fortnightly post, but I've heard so much good music in the last week that I just had to publish a roundup today. Artists featured include Shoshy, The Family Rain, Worldcub, Fcukers, The Pleasure Dome, Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Julia Fox. 

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 03/05/2024: Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, Caroline Polachek and more...

Kendrick Lamar responds to Drake, plus St Vincent keeps dropping bangers. Plus, more tracks from Caroline Polachek, Corridor, Peter Bibby, Peached, Rollo Doherty and Motley Crue.

Every UK Number One Single From The 1950s Ranked

Join me as I journey through every decade ranking all the UK number ones – starting with the 1950s.

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 19/04/2024: Drake, Willow, Sia and more...

I discuss Drake's new diss track, Willow's new jaunty jazz single and Sia's surprise new belter. Plus, new tracks from The Fever Haze, Action Forever, Strawflower, Nick Hudson and Meghan Trainor/Jimmy Fallon. 

BEST AND WORST NEW TRACKS OF THE FORTNIGHT 05/04/2024: Twenty One Pilots, Remi Wolf, Camilla Cabello and more…

Twenty One Pilots are on a roll and Camila Cabello has gone hyperpop. Other artists reviewed in this now fortnightly roundup include Remi Wolf, Kid Acne, La Luz, Rudimentary Paste, Pink Milk and Dizzy Panda & The Perics.