Redscroll & Friends Favorites of 2024 We have our (Rick & Josh’s) favorites of the year as usual. We have the Redscroll employee favorites also as usual. We’ve expanded beyond that even! Favorites from some folks in bands on our record label and folks we closely associate and collaborate on the regular! Friends! Most of those folks have recorded their own list and introduced themselves plus there’s a few that have submitted a list that we’ve creatively included. You can go on the web post to peruse their lists (redscroll records dot com) as well. They’ve all but a couple (yet) been on the podcast too so we’ll include their respective episode links on the site as well.
Happy New Year!
Redscroll Records Label Releases for 2024
We generally feel too close to them ourselves (Josh & Rick) to include the Redscroll releases as favorites, but of course they are. We wouldn’t release them otherwise! So, firstly, here’s a quick round up of what we’ve released this past year (and it’s been a good amount of great stuff)!
In chronological order:
February 2nd: Intercourse “Egyptian Democracy / Bum Wine” 12”
February 2nd: Doom Beach / Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop (split) 12”
April 5th: The Knife Kickers “Nameless” LP
April 8th: Dirt Devil “Desert Moon” CS (SOLD OUT)
March 1st: Tongue Depressor & Austin Larkin “Landau Bar” LP
June 18th: Intercourse “Bag Fumblers Incorporated 2021-2024” CD
July 5th: Trance Macabre “Trance Macabre” LP
August 2nd: Dissolve “Burnt” CS/LP
October 29th / December 6th: Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean “Sisyphean Cruelty” CD/CS/LP
We’ve got a couple slated for next year already so we’re not slowing down! Stay tuned for announcements on those!
A couple more we were associate with with exclusive colors this year too!
Kidnapped “Disgust” (DAZE) – would absolutely work with again, Lumpy is great. Kidnapped is great.
Craven Faults “Bounds” (Leaf) Electronic experimental ambient act out of the Yorkshire, UK. We were contacted by Leaf about splitting a color (Lime Kiln Grey) with Norman Records in the UK and to have a unique OBI strip and it came out great. The record is really a great record and we’re happy to be associated with it and it’s our first overseas collaboration of any kind so that’s pretty exciting and we’re absolutely chuffed with how it turned out.
FAVORITES LISTS!
We've got our lists first. Staff picks follow. Then the rest will be in no particular order other than I will try to mix it up in the edit and put different ends of the spectrum back to back to keep y’all on your toes and hopefully interested in it all! Like I said before you’ll be able to check them all out on our web post. Links, pictures, etc. up on the site. I’ll assemble a playlist as well to publish with this so you can check all these things in more depth in your own time. That link will be on the web post as well.
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Josh-scaled.jpegJosh's Favorites of 2024:
Shannon & The Clams “The Moon is in the Wrong Place” (Easy Eye Sound)
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol “Big Dumb Riffs” (Permanent Teeth Records)
Pissed Jeans “Half Divorced” (Sub Pop)
TR/ST “Performance” (Dais)
Chisel “What A Fucking Nightmare" (Pure Noise)
High Vis “Guided Tour” (Dais)
Trees Speak “Timefold” (Soul Jazz)
Future Islands “People Who Aren’t There Anymore” (4AD)
Jamie xx “In Waves” (Young)
Rotting Christ “Pro Xristou” (Season of Mist)
Disfigure "New Age Of Judgement" (Self Released) BEST LOCAL
Glass Beams “Mahal” (Ninja Tune) BEST EP
Josh's Honorable Mentions (no music clips in podcast - check 'em out though!)
Missiles “Weaponize Tomorrow” (Svart)
Jon Hopkins “Ritual” (Domino)
Knoll “As Spoken” (Unto Viewing)
Speed “Only One Mode” (Flatspot / Last Ride)
Chubby & The Gang “And Then There Was” (Flatspot)
Moonglow "Moonglow" (Dungeon's Deep)
Caribou "Honey" (Merge / City Slang)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (Constellation)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Rick-scaled.jpegRick’s favorites of 2024:
The Bug “Machine” / “Machines I-IV” (Relapse)
Civerous “Maze Envy” (20 Buck Spin)
Dame Area “Toda La Verdad Sabre Dame Area” (Mannequin)
Beth Gibbons “Lives Outgrown” (Domino)
Helen Island “Last Liasse” (Knekelhuis)
Jonnine “Southside Girl” (Modern Love)
Kite “VII” (Dais) *technically a comp, but here we are
Lolina “Unrecognisable” (Relaxin Records)
Moin “You Never End” (Ad 93)
Astrid Sonne “Great Doubt” (Escho)
Redscroll Staff Lists!
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Caleb-scaled.jpegCaleb's favorites of 2024:
Pedro The Lion "Santa Cruz" (Polyvinyl)
Thou "Umbilical" (Sacred Bones)
Kidnapped “Disgust”(DAZE)
Crippling Alcoholism "With Love From A Padded Room" (Fisher King / Aonair)
Black Curse "Burning In Celestial Poison" (Sepulchrual Voice)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (Constellation)
Blood Incantation "Absolute Elsewhere" (Century Media)
Dave Blunts "Well Dude Here's My Thing" (Foundation Media)
Chat Pile "Cool World" (Flenser)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Caren-scaled.jpegCaren's favorites of 2024:
Clarissa Connelly "World of Work" (Warp)
Cindy Lee "Diamond Jubilee" (Self Released / W.25th)
Holy Tongue meets Shackleton "The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now" (AD 93)
Astrid Sonne “Great Doubt” (Escho)
Fine "Rocky Top Ballads" (Escho)
Molina "When You Wake Up" (Escho)
Milan W "Leave Another Day" (Stroom)
Able Noise "High Tide" (World Of Echo)
Dregs "Dregs" (Purely Physical Teeny Tapes)
Jabu "A Soft and Gatherable Star" (Do You Have Peace?)
Julia Heyward & T-Venus "Duka 1" (Modern Harmonic)
Dennis Bovell "Sufferer Sounds" (Disciples)
Various Artists"Propeller Product Prop 4-1" (Lawrence Wilmington)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Erica-scaled.jpegErica's favorites of 2024:
Castle Rat "Into the Realm" (King Volume / Kozmik Artifaktz / Wise Blood)
Chat Pile "Cool World" (Flenser)
Cody Abilene "Dreamstation" (Self-Released)
The Cure "Songs of a Lost World" (Polydor / Fiction / Capitol)
Beth Gibbons “Lives Outgrown” (Domino)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (Constellation)
Gost "Prophecy" (Metal Blade)
He Was a God "Muckraker" (Self-Released)
Mdou Moctar "Funeral for Justice" (Matador)
Missiles “Weaponize Tomorrow” (Svart)
Ploho "Почва" (Artoffact / Anchor / Iconic)
TR/ST "TR/ST" (reissue) (Arts & Crafts)
Ultra Sunn "US" (Artoffact)
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats "Nell’ Ora Blu" (Rise Above)
Wisp "Pandora" (Interscope)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Lexi-scaled.jpegLexi's favorites of 2024:
Anja Huwe "Codes" (Sacred Bones)
Aseethe "The Cost" (Thrill Jockey)
Aura Merlin "Illuminations" (Dungeons Deep / Ancient King)
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean “Sisyphean Cruelty” (Redscroll)
Charli XCX "Brat" (Atlantic)
Civerous “Maze Envy” (20 Buck Spin)
Crippling Alcoholism "With Love From A Padded Room" (Fisher King / Aonair)
Dave Blunts "I Would Like to See You Try" (Foundation Media)
Doom Beach "Burden" (The Ghost Is Clear)
Gleemer "End of the Nail" (Other People Records)
Intercourse “Egyptian Democracy" (Redscroll)
Kidnapped “Disgust” (DAZE)
The Knife Kickers “Nameless” (Redscroll)
Meth. "Shame" (Prosthetic)
Midwife "No Depression In Heaven" (Flenser)
Missouri Executive Order 44 "Salt Sermon" (Learning Curve / The Ghost Is Clear)
Portrayal Of Guilt "Christfucker II" (Run for Cover)
R. Missing "Knife Shook Your Hand" (Self Released)
Reymour "NoLand" (Knekelhuis)
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol “Big Dumb Riffs” (Permanent Teeth Records)
Sunrise Patriot Motion "My Father Took Me Hunting In The Snow" (Sibir)
Thou "Umbilical" (Sacred Bones)
Uniform "American Standard" (Sacred Bones)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Matt-scaled.jpegMatt's favorites of 2024:
Amyl & The Sniffers "Cartoon Darkness" (Virgin / B2B / Rough Trade)
Shirese "Hardly Cricket" (C/Site / Grapefruit)
Shannon & The Clams “The Moon is in the Wrong Place” (Easy Eye Sound)
Sheer Mag "Playing Favorites" (Third Man)
Cavemen "Ca$h 4 Scrap" (Slovenly)
Trance Macabre “Trance Macabre” (Redscroll)
Emilia Sisco "Introducing Emilia" (Timmion)
Jamie xx “In Waves” (Young)
Patrick Cowley "From Behind" (Dark Entries)
Castle Rat "Into the Realm" (King Volume / Kozmik Artifaktz / Wise Blood)
Ty Segall " Love Rudiments" (Drag City)
Redscroll Records Label Bands & Friends Lists!
(less music embedded, but just as fun!)
(Those who are in blue are hyperlinked to their individual podcast episode!)
Stefan Christensen of C/Site and various projects including solo material List:
Stefan talks about his label releases from Shirese and his latest solo record. The cassette from Last Light just recently came out and a December release from the Flower Corsano Duo.
Local recap: Mountain Movers released a record. Kryssi Battalene's Rock Candy with Emily Robb on 7" and her 12" with Wednesday Knudsen. The Secular Music Group and The Pist and local black metal label Ixiol Productions was busy!
Beyond:
Los Doroncos "昼花火 / Sun And Fireworks" (An'archives)
Omit "InSec" (Siltbreeze)
Alastair Galbraith "Lagash"(Nice) + "Talisman" (Otic)
Arv & Miljö "Jorden Först" (Discreet Music)
Juho Toivonen "Sisarusten Toistuva Un" (Discreet Music)
Wakuénai (Curripaco) "Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985" (Sublime Frequencies)
Mohammad Syfkhan "I Am Kurdish" (Nyahh)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Jentlemen.pngJentlemen of Heatsync/Neu Body, & various projects List:
Roy Of The Ravers "You Don't" (Winthorpe Electronics)
M Parent "ZMNT009" (Zement)
Alex Ranzino "Ride Da Perc EP" (PHOQ U PHONOGRAMMEN/U-TRAX)
Bryan Zentz "Barada Trax Six" (Sonic Groove)
Viikatory "Atom Heart EP" (Unknown to the Unknown)
Guilt Attendant "A Flower Wilts Under The Heat Of The Son" (Unimatrix Zero)
Love Letters "Falling Star" (Interdimensional Transmissions)
Scotia "Giving Chase" (Acid Camp)
Paranoid London "Arseholes, Liars, And Electronic Pioneers" (Paranoid London Records)
AceMo "Moblu" (Self Released)
Dirt Devil collective List:
Tempestade "que é que eu faço" (Self Released)
Ex-Tradition "The Holy Pervert" (Self Released)
Alvilda "C'est Déjà L'heure" (Statik Shock)
Departure Chandelier "Satan Soldier of Fortune" (Nuclear War Now!)
The Mountain Movers "Walking After Dark" (Trouble In Mind)
Gloomy Reflections "Oath of the Paladins" (Crypt of the Wizard)
Clock Serum "Contrast" (Synthicide)
Ian St. George "Emergency Index" (Dead Bell)
Chappell Roan "Good Luck, Babe!" (Island)
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean List:
Spectral Voice "Sparagmos" (Dark Descent)
Upon Stone "Dead Mother Moon" (Century Media)
Tzompantli "Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force" (20 Buck Spin)
Chanel Beads "Your Day Will Come" (Jagjaguwar)
Container "YACKER" (Alter)
Sumac "The Healer" (Thrill Jockey / Sige)
The Body "The Crying Out of Things" (Thrill Jockey)
Collapsed Skull "Your Father's Rage Evaporated In The Sun" (Closed Casked Activities)
Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop List:
Frail Body "Artificial Bouquet" (Deathwish)
Thou "Umbilical" (Sacred Bones)
Space Camp "How Could I Not Be Your Girl" (Self Released)
Kendrick Lamar "GNX" (pgLang / Interscope)
B L A C K I E "Noise God" (Self Released)
Sissy Spacek "Mirror Aggressor State" (Helicopter)
Suppression "Spiritual Sepsis" (To Live A Lie)
Kidnapped “Disgust” (DAZE)
Tyler the Creator "Chromakopia" (Columbia)
Collapsed Skull "Your Father's Rage Evaporated In The Sun" (Closed Casked Activities)
Dissolve - Paul List:
Sumac "The Healer" (Thrill Jockey / Sige)
Mary Timony "Untame The Tiger" (Merge)
Melt-Banana "3+5" (A-Zap)
High On Fire "Cometh The Storm" (SPV / MNRK Heavy)
Kim Deal "Nobody Loves You More" (4AD)
Shellac "To All Trains" (Touch & Go)
Chelsea Wolfe "She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She" (Loma Vista)
Bed Maker "Bed Maker" (Dischord)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Wild God" (Bad Seed / Play It Again Sam)
Kim Gordon "The Collective" (Matador)
Doom Beach - James List:
MIKE & Tony Selzer "Pinball" (10K)
Missouri Executive Order 44 "Salt Sermon"(Learning Curve / The Ghost Is Clear)
Blind Girls "An Exit Exists" (Secret Voice / Persistent Vision / Life.Lair.Regret)
Magdalena Bay "Imaginal Disk" (Mom + Pop)
Mount Kimbie "The Sunset Violent" (Warp)
Honorable Mentions: Space Camp, Intercourse, Chopx7, Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean, Kidnapped
Tongue Depressor Henry Birdsey List:
Paysage d’Hiver "Die Berge" (Kunsthall Produktionen)
Lukas de Clerck "The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas" (Ideologic Organ)
Jim Strong "My Enemies Are Mine to Keep" (Horn O Plenty <0)
Lise Barkas "Cinq Ponts" (INSUB.records)
Reverorum ib Malacht "Martyrium Matrimonii : Sacrificium Christi" (Ajna Offensive)
L "Marylin Monroe - all of us" (Waxxy Poodle)
Liang Yiyuan & Li Daiguo "Sonic Talismans" (Full Spectrum)
Pipe Majors John Burgess & John MacLellan with Calum Johnston "The Very Air: Pibroch ca 1964" (Canary Records)
Marios Moras "Non Living Nature" (More Mars Team)
Drekavac / Orgy of carrion [split] (Satanik Requiem / Perverse Homage)
Antoni Maiovvi / Ye Gods (of many projects) List:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (Constellation)
Harold Budd, Cocteau Twins "The Moon And The Melodies" Reissue (4AD)
Xeno & Oaklander "Via Negativa (In The Doorway Light)" (Dais)
Coil "Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)" Reissue (Dais)
Seefeel "Everything Squared" (Warp)
Legowelt "A Field Guide To The Void" (Clone Jack For Daze)
Umberto "Black Bile" (Thrill Jockey)
Aphex Twin "Selected Ambient Works Volume II" Reissue (Warp)
Oranssi Pazuzu "Muuntautuja" (Nuclear Blast)
The Cure "Songs of a Lost World" (Polydor / Fiction / Capitol)
Doom Beach - Ryan List:
The Supervoid Choral Ensemble "Live From The Downwhen Terminus" (Vitriol)
Space Camp "How Could I Not Be Your Girl" (Self Released)
Mdou Moctar "Funeral for Justice" (Matador)
Thou "Umbilical" (Sacred Bones)
Sumac "The Healer" (Thrill Jockey / Sige)
Intercourse - Tarek List:
Crippling Alcoholism "With Love From A Padded Room" (Fisher King / Aonair)
Chat Pile "Cool World" (Flenser)
The Jesus Lizard "Rack" (Ipecac)
Couch Slut "You Could Do It Tonight" (Brutal Panda)
Nø Man "Glitter And Spit" (Iodine)
Blood Incantation "Absolute Elsewhere" (Century Media)
Black Curse "Burning In Celestial Poison" (Sepulchrual Voice)
Spectral Wound "Songs Of Blood And Mire" (Profound Lore)
Shellac "To All Trains" (Touch & Go)
Terror Cell "All Quiet" (Fisher King)
Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean “Sisyphean Cruelty” (Redscroll)
Doom Beach "Burden" (The Ghost Is Clear)
Knife Kickers - John List:
Alexander "Lucky Life" (Self Released)
Doom Beach "Burden" (The Ghost Is Clear)
Thou "Umbilical" (Sacred Bones)
Jake McKelvie "A New Kind Of Hat" (Self Released)
22º Halo "Lily of the Valley" (Tiny Library)
Kryssi of Mountain Movers and various projects List:
Nowhere Flower "Ruts The Place" (Self Release)
Los Doroncos "昼花火 / Sun And Fireworks" (An'archives)
Rosali "Bite Down" (Merge)
Spatulas "Beehive Mind" (Post Present Medium)
Animal Piss It's Everywhere "Grace" (Sophomore Lounge / Half A Million)
David Nance & Mowed Sound "David Nance & Mowed Sound" (Third Man)
Shirese "Hardly Cricket" (C/Site / Grapefruit)
Mope Grooves "Box Of Dark Roses" (12XU)
Mordecai "Seeds From The Furthest Vine" (Petty Bunco)
The Blisks "Elixa" (Efficient Space)
Keanu Nelson "Wilurarrakutu" (Mississippi Records / Altered States Tapes)
April Magazine "Wesley's Convertible Tape For The South" (Digital Regress)
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+ Lots of mentions for reissues and archival collections! (I'll get Kryssi to let me know those I couldn't figure out soon enough too)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Mark-rotated.jpegMark of Manic Presents List:
Fontaines D.C. "Romance" (XL)
MJ Lenderman "Manning Fireworks" (Anti-)
Waxahatchee "Tiger's Blood" (Anti-)
Jessica Pratt "Here In The Pitch" (Mexican Summer / City Slang)
The Cure "Songs of a Lost World"(Polydor / Fiction / Capitol)
St. Vincent "All Born Screaming" (Total Pleasure)
Jack White "No Name" (Third Man)
Magdalena Bay "Imaginal Disk" (Mom + Pop)
https://redscrollrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/david-shapiro.jpegDavid Shapiro of Alexander and of accompanying Kath Bloom etc. List:
Dora Morelenbaum "Pique' (Mr Bongo)
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek "Cool Hand / Yakamoz" (Big Crown)
Myriam Gendron "Mayday" (Feeding Tube / Thrill Jockey)
Virgil Anderson "On The Tennessee Line" Reissue (Self Released)
Andy McLeod "Bolero" (Self Released)
The Children's Hour "Going Home" (Sea Note)
Rock Candy "Swimming In" (Carbon)
The Mountain Movers "Walking After Dark" (Trouble In Mind)
Etran De L'Aïr "100% Sahara Guitar" (Sahel Sounds)
Mdou Moctar "Funeral for Justice" (Matador)
Tongue Depressor - Zach Rowden List:
L "Marylin Monroe - all of us" (Waxxy Poodle)
Germ Lattice "Gipping Through the Ages" (Horn O Plenty <0)
Reverorum ib Malacht "Martyrium Matrimonii : Sacrificium Christi" (Ajna Offensive)
Spectral Voice "Sparagmos" (Dark Descent)
Shadow Pattern "Chimerism" (Adhuman)
Omieda Live at Zadar
Full Size "Full Size" (Open Mouth)
Leila Bordreuil "1991, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire" (Hanson)
Tominsky "In Bog" (Self Released)
Morgan Garrett "Purity" (Orange Milk)
Intercourse - Sean List:
Frail Body "Artificial Bouquet" (Deathwish)
Porcelain "Porcelain" (Portrayal of Guilt Records)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (Constellation)
The Jesus Lizard "Rack" (Ipecac)
Kim Deal "Nobody Loves You More" (4AD)
Oranssi Pazuzu "Muuntautuja" (Nuclear Blast)
Shellac "To All Trains" (Touch & Go)
Chat Pile "Cool World" (Flenser)
Crippling Alcoholism "With Love From A Padded Room" (Fisher King / Aonair)
Couch Slut "You Could Do It Tonight" (Brutal Panda)
Ben of Manic Presents List:
Wreckage "Self In All" (Scheme)
Shirese "Hardly Cricket" (C/Site / Grapefruit)
Sonic Youth "Walls Have Ears" Reissue (Goofin')
Galaxie 500 "Uncollected Noise New York ’88 -’90" (Silver Current)
Mess "Under Attack" (Pirates Press)
Pissed Jeans “Half Divorced” (Sub Pop)
Chat Pile "Cool World" (Flenser)
Oxblood "Oi! NYC Skins" (Nuclear War Now)
Hope Conspiracy "Tools Of Oppression / Rule By Deception" (Deathwish)
Kidnapped “Disgust” (DAZE)
Rick of Shaki Presents and Mountain Movers etc. List:
Rick goes through some gig highlight for him this past year. Traveling with Turbo Sonidero, Meridian Brothers and more! Seeing Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Iron Maiden, Mad Professor! Going on tour as a member of Mountain Movers. And more... give it a listen and Rick will tell ya including a special one from his travels in Peru!
Various "Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra" (Smiling C / Seance Centre)
Prince Philip "Presents : Dubplates And Raw Rhythm From King Tubby's Studio 1973-1976" (DKR)
Tía Rosa "Misterio Lounge 3000" (Inscrutable)
Los Doroncos "昼花火 / Sun And Fireworks" (An'archives)
Love Wonderland "The Best Twilights of Love Wonderland" (Camisole)
Sternpost "Ulrika" (Concentric Circles)
Cho Co Pa Co Cho Co Quin Quin "Tradition" (Cho Co Pa Records)
The Blisks "Elixa" (Efficient Space)
Rahman Mammadli "Azerbaijani Gitara Volume 2" (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Meridian Brothers "Mi Latinoamérica Sufre" (Ansonia / Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Plus a list of honorable mentions!
Thanks to everyone who sent in lists. Thanks to everyone who listened to this! Check out the music that piqued your interests. Holler if you want to pick any of it up. Most of it should be stocked here. I know a few sold out, but hopefully they’ll get represses.
Happy new year. Let’s keep building on to what we’re already doing with all y’all’s help!
The Redscroll Podcast is a monthly show (first of the month going forward) that works as a companion to what we do at Redscroll Records in Wallingford, CT USA. We are a record store that has a heavy emphasis on the left of center / underground music of the world. Whether it be underappreciated or just has a niche audience, marginalized or just off the radar it’s all of interest to us. With the show we’ll generally have a localized focus. We’ll discuss upcoming releases and what is in our personal rotation at the moment. We’ll talk about upcoming area musical activities. We’ll talk to guests who have to do with all of the above. And we’ll talk about specific dealings with the store. If you have input you’re welcome to contact us through email (redscroll@gmail.com).
