Next up my favorite songs of the year 2024. The international edition. As usual this is pretty much just a giant playlist for the onechordnet history books, because all the on-going playlists will move to 2025. But here’s some sort of top 10 to go with the playlist. After that everything is in completely random order and I’m sure there’s stuff still missing. The trouble with the mega lists is that at some point I just completely lose track what I’ve added and what I haven’t and therefore something important might be missing, because I assumed it’s already there. So feel free to send hate mail, if your song is missing. It’s most likely by accident.

Office Culture’s album was my big late addiction of 2024 and it has at least half a dozen songs that I love dearly. It might not be the kind of stuff I feature the most, so it might be a little bit surprising #1. Not completely out of the blue though. Heck, even the previous Office Culture album made my AOTY list. But yeah, while there’s actually several songs that could be the song of the year, it was the heart of the album Was I Cruel that really opened the floodgates and after that it was nothing but love. So that’s my song of the year.

The number #2 might a little surprising too, but VanWyck knocked it out of the park with Another to Do and it landed right into my heart. Lou Hazel’s County Clown is also a huge favorite. That also has the best song and music video combination. The video just matches every line in the song. What a beautiful work of art. I could throw any The Lostines song here too, but let’s go with the wonderful opener A Tear. It was probably on an earlier song of the year list too, but whatever. Loved it when the single came out and still love it now that the album is here. And of course everything else mentioned below or featured on the playlist is also wonderful. I think with songs it’s even more ridiculous to make a list, because there’s hundreds that feel worthy. So I don’t really know are the next 10 my absolute favorite songs of the year, but I do know that I love all of them.

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Next up my favorite Finnish songs of the year 2024. As usual this is pretty much just a giant playlist for the onechordnet history books, because all the on-going playlists will move to 2025. But here’s some sort of top 20 to go with the playlist. After that everything is in completely random order and I’m sure there’s stuff still missing. The trouble with the mega lists is that at some point I just completely lose track what I’ve added and what I haven’t and therefore something important might be missing, because I assumed it’s already there. So feel free to send hate mail, if your song is missing. It’s most likely by accident.

Anyway, this is an important category, because the song Mehiläisille by Olva defined my year in music. There’s nothing music-related that I loved as much as I loved this song. Actually there’s very few music things I’ve loved as much during the 23 years I’ve been making this blog. What a special song where bees try to thrive on a planet that the humanity failed. So poignantly beautiful and while there’s melancholy, it doesn’t sound anything like a cold and dark dystopian nightmare. Instead it’s warm-hearted and even somehow comforting. Incredible song.

This was also the year of ITE EEROLA and Leija Lautamaja when it comes to Finnish songs. Leija Lautamaja made my Finnish album of the year and that album has so much great songwriting. I went with Ylpeästi sun on this one, but on another day it could have been Sinun takiasi, Jos jos or Ilman sua tää ei ois elämää just as well and I did sneak them all into the playlist. All five hearts songs in my books (yes, back when I wrote reviews I gave hearts, not stars). And yeah, there’s more greatness on that record, but those are my own favorites.

ITE EEROLA didn’t release an album this year, but there’s four songs available and I love them all. I listen to hundreds of artists and love many of them, but if someone would force me pick just one favorite songwriter, lately the answer to that question has been Reetta Eerola. Somehow their songs really resonate with me almost every time. I chose Näidenkin seinien takana to this list, because it hits close home on a personal level. But it really could be anyone of them and yes I definitely included all of them on the playlist part of this.

And of course anything else mentioned here and/or featured on the playlist also rules. And yeah, there’s probably some additions coming to the playlist when I figure out what I forgot to include.

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A quick rundown of my favorite EPs of 2024. Same story as before. Numbers, but pretty arbitrary. Very subjective. Not many bandcamp / youtube embeds, because too many will cause the site to crash on mobile devices. Rosy Boa’s Love Truth Time is the EP of the year. I guess it’s a bit borderline whether it’s an album or EP with six songs and 25 minutes, but went with it anyway. What matters is that it’s wonderful. John Calvin Abney was the other that I considered for the first place, but that just came out so I went with the one that I already know by heart. But yeah, loving that John Calvin Abney EP a lot as well. Oh and there’s a playlist on Tidal and Spotify. Maybe some kind of favorite songs list still to come, but don’t know exactly when.

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