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Deluxe anniversary editions, limited-edition pressings, comprehensive boxed sets, globe-trotting compilations, unearthed demo and live recordings — all of these and much more fill our editors’ lists of favorite archival releases from 2024.
We were most enchanted by two revelatory volumes of 2000-2009 demos from longtime staff favorites Broadcast. Strange bedfellows led the ’90s representatives: His Name Is Alive had their first three dizzying 4AD albums expanded with demos and rarities, while Shampoo — often dismissed back then as novelty pop-punks — saw the whole of their prophetic output anthologized. This was a great year for live sets, ranging from the authorized release of Sonic Youth’s Walls Have Ears (containing parts of three blazing pre-EVOL gigs) to the eighth volume of Miles Davis’ Bootleg Series (documenting the 1963-1964 origins and fruition of the trumpeter’s “second quintet”). Just as treasured as the Broadcast discs was Alice Coltrane’s The Carnegie Hall Concert, an essential 1971 date on which the harpist and pianist was backed by a double quartet that included saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp. No compilation did it for us as much as Pour a Little Sugar on It, a definitive 91-track overview of bubblegum.
Heather Phares
Broadcast – Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006
Broadcast – Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009
His Name Is Alive – How Ghosts Affect Relationships 1990-1993
Galaxie 500 – Uncollected Noise New York 88-90
The Go-Betweens – G Stands for Go-Betweens, Vol. 3
Margo Guryan – Words and Music
Shampoo – Complete Shampoo
Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
Various Artists – Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983
Various Artists – Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971
Tim Sendra
Barry Ryan – The Albums 1969-1979
Broadcast – Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006
Broadcast – Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009
Comet Gain – Radio Sessions BBC 1996-2011
East Village – Drop Out [Deluxe Edition]
Galaxie 500 – Uncollected Noise New York 88-90
Taana Gardner – When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings
The Go-Betweens – G Stands for Go-Betweens, Vol. 3
The Ladybug Transistor – The Albemarle Sound [25th Anniversary Expanded Edition]
The Saints – (I’m) Stranded [Deluxe Edition]
The Salsoul Orchestra – It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years 1975-1978
Shampoo – Complete Shampoo
Shop Assistants – Will Anything Happen [Deluxe Edition]
These Immortal Souls – EXTRA
West Coast Consortium – All the Love in the World: Collected Recordings 1964-1972
Mark Wirtz – Dream, Dream, Dream: The Anthology
Various Artists – From Far It All Seems Small: A Compilation from Seattle’s Underground
Various Artists – Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983
Various Artists – Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971
Various Artists – SAM Records Anthology: The Sound of New York City 1975-1983
Matt Collar
Bryan Ferry – Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023
McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson – Force of Nature: Live at Slugs’
Andy Williams – When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982
Cannonball Adderley – Poppin’ in Paris: Live at L’Olympia 1972
Miles Davis – Miles in France 1963 & 1964 – Miles Davis Quintet: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8
Los Reyes 73 – Baila Mi Son
Sonny Rollins – Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Recordings
Ellie Pop – Ellie Pop
Irakere – Teatro Amadeo Roldan Recital
Shampoo – Complete Shampoo
Loleatta Holloway – We’re Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings 1976-1982
Margo Guryan – Words and Music
Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert
George Benson – Dreams Do Come True: When George Benson Meets Robert Farnon
Chet Baker / Jack Sheldon – In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album
Various Artists – Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971
Marcy Donelson
Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert
Weezer – Weezer 30 [Anniversary Super Deluxe]
The Rascals – It’s Wonderful: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings
Paul McCartney & Wings – One Hand Clapping
Various Artists – Pour a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 1966-1971
Thom Jurek
Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert
Austin Peralta – Endless Planets [Deluxe Edition]
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Live in Paris 1970: Lost ORTF Recordings
Miles Davis – Miles in France 1963 & 1964 – Miles Davis Quintet: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul [Small Batch]
Grateful Dead – Friend of the Devils: April 1978
Soft Machine – Høvikodden 1971
Yusef Lateef – Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert in Avignon
Sonny Rollins – Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Recordings
Art Tatum – Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Live in Montreal May 1975
Cannonball Adderley – Poppin’ in Paris: Live at L’Olympia 1972
Neil Ardley – A Symphony of Amaranths
Larry Nozero Featuring Dennis Tini – Time
George Duke – From Me to You: The Definitive Collection 1977-2000
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Live in France: The 1966 Concert in Limoges
Mal Waldron / Steve Lacy – The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp
Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal – Catching Fire
Kevin Ayers – All This Crazy Gift of Time: The Recordings 1969-1973
Emily Remler – Cookin at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988
Andy Kellman [Spotify]
Cannonball Adderley – Poppin’ in Paris: Live at L’Olympia 1972
Blue Magic – Stop to Start: The ATCO & WMOT Recordings 1973-1977
Broadcast – Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 / Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006
CHBB – CHBB
Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert
Creation Rebel – High Above Harlesden 1978-2023
Essential Logic – John Peel Session 21.02.79
Margo Guryan – Words and Music
His Name Is Alive – How Ghosts Affect Relationships 1990-1993
Loleatta Holloway – We’re Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings 1976-1982
Hugo Largo – Huge, Large, and Electric: Hugo Largo 1984-1991
Byard Lancaster – The Complete Palm Recordings 1973-1974
Majesty Crush – Butterflies Don’t Go Away
Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
Take Three – Music and Time, 1983-1985
Tsunami – Loud Is As
McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson – Force of Nature: Live at Slugs’
Mal Waldron and Terumasa Hino – Reminicent Suite
Xmal Deutschland – Early Singles 1981-1982
Various Artists – New Jill Swing 1988-1994
Timothy Monger
Davy Graham – He Moved Through the Fair: The Complete 1960s Recordings
Lindsey Buckingham – 20th Century Lindsey
Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks, Vol. 50: Palladium – New York City, NY 5/3/77
Paul Simpson [Spotify]
His Name Is Alive – How Ghosts Affect Relationships 1990-1993
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Expanded Edition]
Can – Live in Paris 1973
Curve – Unreadable Communication: Anxious Recordings 1991-1993
Creation Rebel – High Above Harlesden 1978-2023
Cranes – Collected Works, Vol. 1: 1989-1997
36 – Dreamloops
Gas – Gas
Various Artists – Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94
Love Child – Never Meant to Be: 1988-1993
Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert
Crash Course in Science – Near Marineland
Various Artists – No Songs Tomorrow: Darkwave, Ethereal Rock and Coldwave 1981-1990
Broadcast – Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 / Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006
Robert Rental – Mental Detentions
Various Artists – Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola
Dettinger – Intershop [Remastered 2024]
Shop Assistants – Will Anything Happen [Deluxe Edition]
Roedelius – 90
Sun Ra – Excelsior Mill
Neil Z. Yeung
Curve – Unreadable Communication: Anxious Recordings 1991-1993
Linkin Park – Papercuts
Shampoo – Complete Shampoo
James Wilkinson
Broadcast – Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009 / Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006
Bob Dylan & the Band – The 1974 Live Recordings
Neil Young – Neil Young Archives, Vol. 3 (1976-1987)
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Expanded Edition]
East Village – Drop Out [Deluxe Edition]
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Souvenirs
Miles Davis – Miles in France 1963 & 1964 – Miles Davis Quintet: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8
Margo Guryan – Words and Music
Various Artists – Tomorrow’s Fashions: Library Electronica 1972-1987
Ron Geesin – Basic Maths: Soundtrack from the 1981 TV Series
Galaxie 500 – Uncollected Noise New York 88-90
Dorothy Ashby – Afro-Harping [Deluxe Edition]
Weezer – Weezer 30 [Anniversary Super Deluxe]
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul [Small Batch]
Nico – Desertshore
White Noise – An Electric Storm
Julian Cope – Fried
Kaleidoscope – Tangerine Dream
John Cale – Paris 1919 [Deluxe Edition]
John Barry – Something’s Up: Film, TV & Studio Work 1964-1967
