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KALW Music Best Of 2024

You’ve made it through another year and I’d like to thank you for making KALW Music your soundtrack from season to season. Sharing music with you is our absolute privilege and our programmers would once again like to share some of the albums that they found themselves returning to in 2024.

Charlotte K

Devon Strolovitch

Dore Stein

Guy Buttery & Derek Gripper “Live in Cape Town” (Guy Buttery Music) 
Shakti “This Moment” (Abstract Logix)  
Meral Polat Trio “Ez Kî Me” (Self-Released)
Aleph Quintet “Shapes of Silence” (Igloo Records)  
Shemekia Copeland “Done Come Too Far” (Alligator Records) 
Ali Farka Touré “Voyageur” (World Circuit/Hannibal) 
Orchestra Gold “Medicine” (Orchestra Gold) 
Hijaz “Hijaz + Strings” (Zephyrus Records)
Driss El Maloumi “Aswat” (Contre-Jour) 
Naya Baaz (Rez Abbasi & Josh Feinberg) “Charm” (Whirlwind Recordings)

Emmanuel Nado

Eryka

aja monet "when the poems do what they do" (drink sum wtr) 
Phi-Psonics "Octava" (Gondwana Records)  
Kali Uchis "Red Moon In Venus" (Geffen Records) 
Matthew Halsall "An Ever Changing View" (Gondwana Records) 
Peso Pluma "GÉNESIS"  (Double P Records)
Alabaster DePlume "Come with Fierce Grace" (International Anthem Recording Company)  
Bobby Lee "Endless Skyways" (Tompkins Square)  
Zach Bryan "Zach Bryan" (Warner Records)  
Robert Finley "Black Bayou" (Easy Eye Sound)  
East Forest "Music For The Deck of The Titanic" (Bright Antenna Records)

J Boogie

Kevin Vance

LadyRyan

Marcus Rosario

Margarita Azucar

Peter Thompson

Wonway Posibul