35: The best (and worst?) music of 2024

December comes but once a year, and sneaking in at the very last point we could probably get away with… it’s No Tags’ 2024 round-up!

Joined by regular guest Henry Bruce-Jones in what’s becoming a bit of a list-making tradition, we run down our favourite music of the year and tackle some of the year’s big consensus releases – good and bad.

Minimal intro required, really, but below is a timestamped run-down of everything discussed – so if Rap Corner’s not your vibe or you simply can’t hear the B-word one more time, we’ve made it easy to skip ahead.

This episode also closes the first full year of No Tags! Thanks to all of you for tuning in, especially our paid tier, those of you who came to our recent live show, and those of you who bought our book. The first edition is already sold out (!) but we’ll be printing a second edition in January 2025, and pre-orders for that are up now. It’s been a pleasure, see you in January.

Running order:

2024 consensus picks (04:15)

Dance music corner (26:30)

Something is vibing in the state of Denmark (56:54)

Underrated Pop (01:02:39)

Rap Corner (01:15:03)

One instrument in a really big room (01:40:15)

Marg.mp3 faves AKA What is this new vocal style? (01:43:32)

Assorted percies (1:48:52)