A good year for music if nothing else: Jennifer Kelly’s 2024 review
Ben Chasny came to VT in 2024, go figure.
Things have been feeling very end of the world for a few years now, and 2024 (especially from November on) only intensified my sense of doom. It’ll get worse, too, in 2025. The vilest, stupidest people on earth are in change, and oh boy, do they have a lot of ideas, all of them bad.
But you lived through last year, too, and if you’re lucky, you’ll get to experience whatever hell 2025 brings. It’s scary shit, but also deeply tedious, so let’s talk about music instead.
Because music came through in a big way this year. There was so much of it, and so much that was great.
PYPY — Sacred Times (Goner)
At various points in Sacred Times, PYPY jitters through a fusillade of funk shrapnel a la ESG, chugs a fuzzy freak beat like the Dirtbombs and tears a hole in the sky psychedelic-style. How you think about this veteran Montreal psych punk band depends, largely, on where you put the needle down, but if the form shifts, the intensity stays constant. This is one of the best punk albums of 2024, and not coincidentally, the hardest to pigeonhole.
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