In 2024, KALX DJs played songs from over 40,000 releases! Out of those, here’s the 300 most played albums of the year.
- La Luz – News of the Universe (Sub Pop)
- Various Artists – American Soul Music: This Is The Place 1963-1974 (Cairo)
- ML Buch – Suntub (15 love)
- Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer)
- Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee (Realistik)
- Broadcast – Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 (Warp)
- Shannon & The Clams – The Moon Is In The Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
- Beak> – >>>> ( Invada/Temporary Residence)
- Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future (4AD)
- Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (Verve)
- Various Artists – Brown Acid “The Seventeenth Trip” (RidingEasy)
- Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico (Easy Eye)
- Belong – Realistic IX (kranky)
- Various Artists – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93 (Soundway)
- Brian Eno – ENO (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Verve)
- Astrid Sonne – Great Doubt (Escho)
- Peggy Gou – I Hear You (XL)
- Various Artists – European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987) (NTS)
- Ibibio Sound Machine – Pull the Rope (Merge)
- The Lostines – Meet the Lostines (Gar Hole)
- Kim Gordon – The Collective (Matador)
- Skyminds – Echoes On the Shore (Inner Islands)
- Sahra Halgan – Hiddo dhawr (DANAYA)
- La Sécurité – Stay Safe! (Mothland)
- Mizu – Forest Scenes (NNA Tapes)
- Forest Swords – Bolted (Ninja Tune)
- Bombino – Sahel (Partisan)
- Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
- Khruangbin – A La Sala (Dead Oceans)
- Loma – How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)
- The Umbrellas – Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
- Chicano Batman – Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
- Various Artists – Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants – Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 (Anthology)
- Hiroshi Yoshimura – Surround (Temporal Drift)
- Various Artists – I Saw The TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) (A24 Music)
- Laetitia Sadier – Rooting for Love (Drag City)
- Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen (Apm: alien pop music) (Potomac)
- Memotone – Tollard (The Trilogy Tapes)
- Joe Gibbs & The Professionals – The 1970s Dub Albums Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
- Ka Baird – Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos (RVNG Intl.)
- Badiaa Bouhrizi – KahruMusiqa (Akuphone)
- Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Trip to the Moon (Karma Chief)
- Faye Webster – Underdressed at the Symphony (Secretly Canadian)
- Helado Negro – PHASOR (4AD)
- Blonde Redhead – Sit Down for Dinner (Section 1)
- Philip Glass – Philip Glass Solo (Orange Mountain)
- Bolis Pupul – Letter To Yu (Soulwax / DEEWEE)
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland (Acony)
- Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – BRSB (Big Crown)
- Various Artists – Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24 Music)
- Brabrabra – Mangooona (Absolutely Kosher)
- The Bevis Frond – Focus on Nature (Fire)
- Nihiloxica – Source of Denial (Crammed Discs)
- Brijean – Macro (Ghostly International)
- The Helltones – Medusa (S/R)
- Champagne Dub – Rainbow (On The Corner)
- Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
- Ritmos Tropicosmos – La Vida Es Pa’ Vivir (Econo Jam)
- Tashi Wada – What Is Not Strange? (RVNG Intl.)
- Andreas Werliin, Johan Berthling, and Oren Ambarchi – Ghosted II (Drag City)
- Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown (Domino)
- Say She She – Silver (Karma Chief)
- Dennis Bovell & The 4th Street Orchestra – The 4th Street Orchestra Collection (Doctor Bird)
- Various Artists – Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia (Ostinato)
- Charles Mingus – Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings (Rhino Atlantic)
- Angelo Outlaw – Axis of Time (Eraserhood)
- Tolerance – Complete Discography + Demos ( Vanity)
- Caroline Shaw & So Percussion – Rectangles and Circumstance (Nonesuch)
- Yin Yin – Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat)
- Kali Malone – All Life Long (Ideologic Organ)
- Brittany Howard – What Now (Island)
- Arial Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, and Marta Sofia Honer – The Closest Thing to Silence (International Anthem)
- bar italia – The Twits (Matador)
- Sml – Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
- Glass Beams – Mahal (Ninja Tune)
- Kee Avil – Spine (Constellation)
- África Negra – Antologia Vol. 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows)
- KOKOKO! – BUTU (Transgressive)
- Meridian Brothers – Mi Latinoamerica Sufre (Ansonia)
- Arushi Jain – Delight (Leaving)
- Chrystabell & David Lynch – Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bone)
- Camera Obscura – Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge)
- Drahla – angeltape (Captured Tracks)
- Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee (Palto Flats)
- Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement (Young)
- Robert Finley – Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)
- Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood (Anti/Epitaph)
- Clairo – Charm (Clairo)
- Liana Flores – Flower of the soul (Verve)
- Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)
- Somesurprises – Perseids (Doom Trip)
- Various Artists – My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall (Oh Boy)
- Charming Hostess – Feast (!aNGRr!)
- Erika Angell – The Obsession With Her Voice (Constellation)
- Michelle Moeller – Late Morning (AKP)
- Cindy Lee – What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25TH / Superior Viaduct)
- Jane Weaver – Love in Constant Spectacle (Fire)
- Floating Points – Cascade (Ninja Tune)
- Juicebumps – JUMBO (Rocks in Your Head)
- Laurie Anderson – Amelia (Nonesuch)
- Cleo Sol – Gold (Forever Living Originals)
- Thee Sinseers – Sinseerly Yours (Colemine)
- Chanel Beads – Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
- Creation Rebel – Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
- Martina Bertoni – Hypnagogia (Karlrecords)
- Violence Gratuite – Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala)
- Bruno Berle – No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God (Play It Again Sam)
- Various Artists – Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light In The Attic)
- Bastards Of Soul – Give it Right Back (Skylark Soul)
- Niecy Blues – Exit Simulation (kranky)
- Salamanda – In Parallel (Wisdom Teeth)
- Zoe Boekbinder – Wildflower (Are and Be)
- Hania Rani – Ghosts (Gondwana)
- Meklit – Ethio Blue (S/R)
- Bloodshot Bill – Psyche-O-Billy (Goner)
- Jlin – Akoma (Planet Mu)
- Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free (Jagjaguwar)
- Nala Sinephro – Endlessness (Warp)
- Vince Clarke – Songs of Silence (Mute)
- Newen Afrobeat – Grietas (Lichens Family)
- Jackson Greenberg – The Things We Pass On Through Our Genes (Cmntx)
- Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me (Daptone)
- MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks (Anti- / Epitaph)
- Parlor Greens – In Green We Dream (Colemine)
- Various Artists – Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985 (Time Capsule)
- Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice (Matador)
- Emel – MRA (Little Human)
- Raymond Richards – Sand Paintings (ESP Institute)
- Various Artists – Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980 (Nippon Columbia )
- Magic Fig – Magic Fig (S/R)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (Constellation)
- Robyn Hitchcock – 1967: Vacations in the Past (TINY GHOST)
- Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Remixes) (Ninja Tune)
- Shay Hazan – Wusul (Batov)
- Omar Souleyman – Erbil (Mad Decent)
- Howie Lee – At the Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery (Mais Um)
- CAN – LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (Mute)
- Hauschka – Philanthropy (City Slang)
- Johnny Cash – Songwriter (Mercury Nashville)
- Church Chords – elvis, he was Schlager (Otherly Love)
- Amyl and The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness (B2B)
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – These Things Remain Unassigned (Bulbous Moncole)
- Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive (Nonesuch)
- Lankum – False Lankum (Rough Trade)
- Ride – Interplay (Wichita)
- Sampha – Lahai (Young)
- Sote – Ministry of Tall Tales (SVBKVLT)
- Nouvelle Vague – Should I Stay or Should I Go? ([PIAS])
- Onra – Nosthaigia (All City)
- Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Flung – All Heartbeat (Get Better)
- Galya Bisengalieva – Polygon (One Little Independent)
- Bixiga 70 – Vapor (Glitterbeat)
- Prairiewolf – Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force)
- LA LOM – The Los Angeles League Of Musicians (Verve)
- Various Artists – The Soul of Congo – Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963) (Planet IIunga)
- Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island)
- Charli xcx – BRAT (Atlantic)
- Seefeel – Everything Squared (Warp)
- Princ€ss – Princ€ss (wherethetimegoes)
- Scott Amendola, Henry Kaiser & Michael Manring – Haunted by Eternity (Fractal)
- Otyken – Phenomenon (Aboriginal)
- Dummy – Free Energy (Trouble In Mind)
- beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
- Sylvaine – Eg Er Framand (Season of Mist)
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragguti & Frank Rosaly – MESTIZX (International Anthem)
- Various Artists – The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed (Light in the Attic)
- St. Vincent – All Born Screaming (Total Pleasures)
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – of the Last Human Being (AVANT NIGHT)
- Acid Arab – ٣ (Trois) (Crammed Discs)
- Ollella – Back Back Back (S/R)
- Leyla McCalla – Sun Without The Heat (Anti/Epitaph)
- Ki! – Yong-Gwanglo Part One (Crunchy Frog)
- Erika de Casier – Still (4AD)
- Maria Chiara Argirò – Closer (Innovative Leisure)
- Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
- Various Artists – Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 (Light in the Attic)
- Barry Can’t Swim – When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune)
- Laura Cannell – The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined (Brawl)
- Bex Burch – There is only love and fear (International Anthem)
- The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Rhapsody (Colemine)
- Melenas – Ahora (Trouble in Mind)
- Avi C. Engel – Too Many Souls (Somnimage)
- Matmos – Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Soft Science – Lines (Shelflife)
- Pylon Reenactment Society – Magnet Factory (Strolling Bones)
- Nourished by Time – Catching Chickens EP (XL)
- Irreversible Entanglements – Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
- Pauline Anna Strom – Trans-Millenia Consort (RVNG Intl.)
- Mary Halvorson – Cloudward (Nonesuch)
- Bound By Endogamy – Bound by Endogamy (Bongo Joe)
- Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes (Unheard Of Hope)
- Luxury Skin – It’s All Over (S/R)
- Ana Lua Caiano – Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (Glitterbeat)
- Matt Robidoux – Music For Aluminum Corn (Crash Symbols)
- Gerycz / Powers / Rolin – Activator (12XU)
- April Magazine – Wesley’s Convertible Tape For the South (Digital Regress)
- Sheer Mag – Playing Favorites (Third Man)
- Surplus 1980 – Illusion of Consistency (Surplus Industries)
- Aziz Konkrite – Siba Sawt-System #1 (Shouka)
- The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World (Polydor)
- Elisapie – Inuktitut (Bonsound)
- DJ Raff – Encontrar (Nacional)
- Various Artists – Late Night Phone Call (Edgetone)
- Grazia – In Poor Taste – EP (Feel It)
- Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
- Kronos Quartet – Outer Spaceways Incorporated – Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra (Red Hot Organization)
- Didje Doo – Vitalize It (Turntables on the Hudson)
- 33EMYBW – Holes of Sinian (SVBKVLT)
- Various Artists – Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación! (Bongo Joe)
- Amen Dunes – Death Jokes (Sub Pop)
- citron citron – Maréeternelle (Bongo Joe)
- Anna St. Louis – In the Air (Woodsist / Mare)
- Fatima – Love On Acid EP (Eglo)
- Lara Sarkissian – Born of the Sea (Lower Grand Tapes)
- Marlov Barrios – Manjar Profano (Identidata)
- Dina Ögon – Orion (Playground Music)
- Paramore – This Is Why (Atlantic)
- IE – Junk Body (Ish)
- Habibi – Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars)
- Mc Yallah – Yallah Beibe (Hakuna Kulala)
- Woo – Xylophonics + Robot X (Independent Project)
- OBJECT AS SUBJECT – Heretic (Lost Future)
- SAICOBAB – NRTYA (Thrill Jockey)
- Yea-Ming and The Rumours – I Can’t Have It All (Dandy Boy)
- Emerald Suspension – Sounds to Hear Alone (S/R)
- Glasser – Crux (One Little Independent)
- Vegyn – The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (PLZ Make It Ruins)
- Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan Records)
- Death and the Maiden – Uneven Ground (Occultation)
- Umeko Ando – Upopo Sanke (Pingipung)
- Seablite – Lemon Lights (Mt.St.Mtn.)
- Melt-Banana – 3+5 (A-ZAP)
- Hinds – VIVA HINDS (Lucky Number)
- The Jump Hounds – Out And About (S/R)
- Bibi Club – Feu de garde (Secret City)
- The Mutilations – It Won’t Take Long (Sausage King)
- Abdallah Oumbadougou – AMGHAR The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 (Petaluma)
- Edinburgh School for the Deaf – New Youth Bible (Absolutely Kosher)
- DJ Female Convict Scorpion – Paradise Re-lost (S/R)
- Fabiana Palladino – Fabiana Palladino (XL)
- Otis Sandsjö – Y-OTIS TRE (We Jazz)
- Marbled Eye – Read the Air (Summer Shade/Digital Regress)
- Neutrals – New Town Dream (Slumberland)
- Thomas Carnacki – Rencontre Fortuite (Alethiometer)
- Magic Tuber Stringband – Needlefall (Thrill Jockey)
- Bobby Lee – Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square)
- Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland – Ghost Moon (Edgetone)
- Various Artists – Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Kobayashi) (Batov)
- Clarissa Connelly – World of Work (Warp)
- African Head Charge – A Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
- Love Child – Never Meant to Be : 1988-1993 (12XU)
- Earthtones – We Can Live Together (Wonderwheel)
- Jungle – Volcano (Caiola)
- X – Smoke & Fiction (Fat Possum)
- L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
- Force & Jarboe – The Embrace (Diamond Cutter)
- dBridge – Vemödalen (Exit)
- Dolly Parton – Rockstar (Butterfly)
- The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
- Joni Mitchell – Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) (Rhino/Elektra)
- Circles Around The Sun & Mikaela Davis – After Sunrise (Jealous Butcher)
- AUNTY RAYZOR – Viral Wreckage (Hakuna Kulala)
- Torrey – Torrey (Slumberland)
- Moor Mother – The Great Bailout (Anti/Epitaph)
- Sahan Arzruni – By Women: Piano Works by Armenian Women Composers (AGBU)
- Meril Wubslin – Faire ça (Bongo Joe)
- Seafood Sam – Standing on Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
- The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective – Fiesta at Caroga (S/R)
- Finom – Not God (Joyful Noise)
- Various Artists – Remixes JID020 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Ellen Reid – Big Majestic (New Amsterdam)
- Louis Armstrong – Louis In London (Live At The BBC) (Verve)
- Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood – Reset in Dub (Domino)
- OSEES – SORCS 80 (Castle Face)
- Laufey – Bewitched: The Goddess Edition (AWAL)
- Chris Cohen – Paint a Room (Hardly Art)
- Akini Jing – VILLAIN (88rising)
- Bas Jan – Back to the Swamp (Fire)
- En Attendant Ana – Principia (Trouble in Mind)
- XiaoWang – KACHAKACHA (Damnably)
- Orquesta Akoká – Caracoles (Daptone)
- Rahill – Flowers At Your Feet (Big Dada)
- Sandman Project – Where Did You Go? (Batov)
- Various Artists – Brown Acid “The Eighteenth Trip” (Riding Easy)
- Bullion – Affection (Ghostly International)
- Various Artists – 15 Years of Gondwana Records (Gondwana)
- Luna Li – When a Thought Grows Wings (In Real Life)
- Novalima – La Danza (Pt. 1) (Six Degrees)
- Marcel Wave – Barrow Boys (Upset The Rhythm)
- Black Market Brass – Hox (Colemine)
- Sonya Cohen Cramer – You’ve Been A Friend To Me (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Kelly Stoltz – La Fleur (Agitated / Dandy Boy)
- Chick Corea & Bela Fleck – Remembrance (Thirty Tigers)
- Kim – Sir Kim (Death Maiden)
- Jamie xx – In Waves (Young)
- Gumby’s Junk – Demo 2023 (S/R)
