This month Fontaines DC They star on our cover. The reason? Your disk “Romance” It has been chosen best album of 2024 by the collaborators of Mondo Sonoro.
But the year has not only had the Irish as protagonists on an international scale. There have also been many important albums during all these months, both in terms of our selection on a global scale, as well as the specialized lists that we dedicate to the different styles that usually populate the pages of our magazine. The same thing happens with movies, comics and books with a musical theme. You will find everything in a selection with the highlights of the year in this very special issue that we just started distributing today and that will continue throughout the next few days.
“Come Ahead” (BMG, 24) is the first album by Bobby Gillespie and company in eight years. A work in which the Scottish training Primal Scream It is committed to indie-pop/rock with a very clear aftertaste of soul and funk, in addition to showing a socio-political profile towards which our conversation with the singer derives.
Maika Makovski come back with “Rococo Bunker” (Cultura Rock Records, 24), an album as inspired, robust and personal as usual, but also full of contrasts.
The truth is that when talking about The Linda Lindas It is impossible not to mention his age. The quartet is currently between fourteen and twenty years old, and they are on their second album, “No Obligation” (Epitaph/(PIAS), 24), in which his enormous melodic hook once again stands out for songs that move between indie rock, hardcore and power pop.
Almost thirty years after the group’s creation, Amaral They keep looking for new ways to create songs. Now they surprise us with “Dolce Vita” (Gatorama Music/Sony, 24), their ninth studio album, which we talked about with Juan Aguirre.
After several singles, the Murcian Carlos Mallow publish “Sensitive Content” (Precious Metals/Universal, 24), a pop rock album that makes freshness its main strength.
The Catalans Alavedra present “Forcibly happy” (The Yellow Gate Records, 24), a second album with which they continue to battle from the state underground scene with their distinctive postmodern humor and their personal sound.
After making a name for himself in the busy independent scene of our country with his first titled work
homonymous, the Catalan band Soyla has continued to grow until reaching “Radar” (Cherub, 24), a third feature with which they ensure their consolidation.
The Canadian Leif Vollebekk passed through Madrid to present “Revelation” (Secret City/Music As Usual, 24), ambitious fifth album in which he expands on his tender and classic songs that distill the noblest of Americana.
The people of Madrid The Punsetes They are one of the groups that has most and best embodied what it means to be indie in the sense of going your way and doing exactly what you want. Your songs, your rules. And also your provocative humor and your staging outside the usual canons. The artists who have joined this party that is a double tribute “Fuck your friends” (Sound Boy, 24). They are the ones asking the questions in this interview.
With their thirtieth anniversary as a band just around the corner and their hearts full of hope and purity, with “Create” (Intromúsica, 24) the four members of The Red Room They urge us to celebrate life, even when optimism and light seem more disused and at risk than ever.
Few albums have experienced more setbacks than “What a pity” (Altafonte, 24). And few demonstrate better that good things come to wait. The second album of maren It collects the most frenetic, intimate and creative of Bilbao. We talked to her about this pop journey with rock, psychedelic and electronic overtones.
And like every month we leave you a playlist so you can soundtrack your reading, but this time it is made up of the 100 best songs of 2024 according to the magazine’s editorial staff.
