A quick rundown of my favorite Finnish EPs. Same story as before. Numbers, but pretty arbitrary. Very subjective. Playlist on Tidal and Spotify. Oh and big praise to the Finnish EP of the year aka Kaikki on hattaraa by Huonosti puetut lapset. Absolutely loved it. One of my favorite Finnish releases of the year altogether. Considered it for the album category too, because it’s six songs and 26 minutes. It would have been in the top 10 among the albums too. I think it’s that good. A lot of other good ones here too. STINAKO had a gorgeous trilogy of EPs that share one spot here.
Next up my favorite Finnish albums of 2024. I already had the 30 albums picked, but then Emilia Sisco threw a last minute curveball and released a great album. So I expanded this to a weird amount of 35 favorites, because I didn’t have the heart to remove any that I already had there. Almost went with 50 though, because even with 35 I had to leave out so many good ones. There’s more on the playlist, if it doesn’t feel like enough.
Again there’s numbers, but they are mostly arbitrary. So don’t take them too seriously. Music is love, not a competition. The first two were pretty clear, but after that I could have switched them endlessly. And the order of the first two is a bit difficult too, because I listened Hattara the most but on the other hand, half of that Leija Lautamaja album hit me harder than anything else I heard this year. Sinun takiasi, Ylpeästi sun, Jos jos and Ilman sua tää ei ois elämää is such a tremendous song quartet that in the end it felt like Sydän tuli piilosta had to be the Finnish album of the year.
As usual, this is entirely subjective. I don’t try make an objective best of or try to figure what will stand the test of time. It’s a snapshot of what I loved in December 2024. Even my own list might look somewhat different in a few months.
I didn’t write any blurbs, because I’m lazy and don’t have the time. And most would probably just check out what’s on the list anyway. There’s a Spotify and Tidal playlist if you are into such things. They actually have a lot more than 35 albums, because that was my draft for this. But I left them there as a giant bubbling under section. Maybe not wise because I know there’s stuff missing too. I didn’t add many Bandcamp / YouTube embeds, because if there’s a lot of them the site will either crash or take forever to load. At least on mobile devices. It would make it easy to check out the records, but not worth it due to those issues.
Samae’s album was a tricky one, because I love that he made it and I wished that it would have aged really poorly. Unfortunately we just saw that it’s still very relevant. So extra bonus points for that important album, even though it’s not on this list.
It’s the time of the season. The year end routine starts with the albums of the year. A good year of music again and even though the list is absurdly long, I still would have loved to be able to squeeze in another 50 or so. If a record is missing from this, it doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. I covered well over 600 albums on the new music weekly posts, so there’s a lot of really good music out there.
I did put the numbers there, but it’s totally arbitrary. Music is love, not a competition. Maybe first 10-20 at the top were somewhat obvious and my biggest favorites this year. After that it could have been alphabetical order just as well. I could move these albums up or down 20 spots and be just as happy with it. So the numbers are only there to give you a vague idea of what I loved the most, because everyone isn’t a music addict and willing to listen all 100 albums (actually 101, because I couldn’t decide which Rambling Nicholas Heron to include and therefore those share one spot on the list).
As usual, the list is totally subjective. I never try to make an objective list of the best albums or try to figure out what will stand the test of time. It’s just a snapshot of my taste in December 2024. Even my own list might look a lot different in two months. For example right now as I compile this, I’m maybe little less into country than earlier in the year. So I might easily look back this later pondering why the hell I didn’t include more country albums. I’m also just one man and there’s tons of stuff I haven’t listened enough or at all. Not to mention the hundreds of records that I didn’t even knew existed before reading other people’s aoty lists.
I didn’t write any blurbs, because I’m lazy and don’t have the time. And most would probably just check out what’s on the list anyway. There’s a Spotify and Tidal playlist if you are into such things. They actually have a lot more than 100 albums, because that was my draft for this. But I left them there as a giant bubbling under section. Maybe not wise because I know there’s stuff missing too. I didn’t add many Bandcamp / YouTube embeds, because if there’s a hundred of them the site will either crash or take forever to load. At least on mobile devices. It would make it easy to check out the records, but not worth it due to those issues. You’ll easily find them on Bandcamp, if you so wish.
