Music that rocks in 2024

i'd like to try and revive this rolling thread concept that i started in 2022.

i'll copy in this important note from the old thread: "TO BE TOTALLY CLEAR: this is a genre-agnostic definition of "music that rocks." this is not necessarily music with guitars and acoustic drums. it is music that when you hear it, you think "this rocks." to me, that is music that gives you a jolt of energy, makes your pulse quicken, etc. but whatever new music makes you think "hell yeah this rocks," please post it on this thread."

This is really good. Ben Folds meets Microdisney - a baroque pop concept album about a punk rock band reforming. Crazy that its some kid from his bedroom in Birmingham

https://gumshoes.bandcamp.com/album/cacophony

some stuff i've found so far this year that rocks:

petit bureau - bears brain = french duo doing stripped-down post-punk with lots of focus on toms and chanted vocals, produced by greg saunier from deerhoof
yungatita - shoelace & a knot = indie rock from east l.a., catchy songs that often get noisy in the vein of alvvays

good cover for that gumshoes album, i'll check it out

it's funny to search for petit bureau on youtube bc it mostly pulls up tiny desk concerts

new album by mop (not m.o.p.) rocks pretty hard, and is easily digestible at only 21 mins. great album artwork, too. for fans of early breeders.

https://smokingroom-label.bandcamp.com/album/secrets

Water Damage's "Reel E" is a tank

https://waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com/track/reel-e

and the new Writhing Squares isn't perfect but when it's good it's great

https://thewrithingsquares.bandcamp.com/track/barbarians

i don't know how i feel about the band name Guitar but I really like their album: https://sparedflesh.bandcamp.com/album/casting-spells-on-turtlehead. some of it makes me think of what i'd categorize as "ameerican shoegaze" e.g. swirlies, wicked farleys.

and as noted on the rolling punk thread, the new uranium club album is fantastic

Couple of garage rock tangential albums I'm digging -

Charles Moothart - Black Holes Don't Choke - fuzzed out psych-garage rock in line with what Moothart has done before, but feels more expansive (RIYL Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin)
https://cfmmusic.bandcamp.com/album/black-holes-dont-choke

Meatbodies - Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom - massive '90s shoegaze and alt-rock vibes on this one, really liking it (RIYL DIIV, early Smashing Pumpkins)
https://meatbodies-band.bandcamp.com/album/flora-ocean-tiger-bloom

heard this on the radio, really like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Fb2XVzR0Y
fake fruit - cause of death

https://weaksignal12xu.bandcamp.com/album/fine

have seen them described as a more evil yo la tengo. i don't know about that but he does sing like ira kaplan

my fave rock song of the year. by far. my fave current rock band too. my fave rock EP of the year. like a more evil yo la tengo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8-HJRFcRZ4

okay, this is a May 2023 release, but I'm just checking it out now in advance of seeing them open for Osees next month, but Iguana Death Cult def rock:

https://iguanadeathcult.bandcamp.com/album/echo-palace

Parquet Courts vibe with the vocals, but lots of interesting twists in some of these songs

^ i heard their track "sensory overload" on the radio last year and jotted it down. no idea if i will still like it but will check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DZ08BYYOp8

That Arsgoatia rocks pretty good. I think 2024 is going to go down as the year that a lot of people got rocked by Chat Pile. they certainly fit my mood a lot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnDWVWZrZrE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvvBnmR_ClQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8YoyzosPDw

this song rules...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzbDw0_1vKk