Dinner Music: 2024 favorites

lounge exotica, acid ambient western, baroque sixties pop

Dec 23, 2024

This week we’re listening to some favorite Dinner Music albums of 2024. Though nearly impossible to choose, here are fifteen albums that I returned to again and again, from quiet acoustic to exotica to funky jazz to re-issued soul. The artists come from Los Angeles, Japan, Mexico, London, Turkey, France, and many other locations, across the world.

For this week, I’ll leave the DINNER MUSIC WEEKLY playlist with the tracks from 2023 I discovered in 2024. The playlist for 2024 is below.

Enjoy and cheers to great year in music.

15 very good albums of 2024

Very good songs of 2024

Ordered(ish) by genre: ambient, lounge, jazz, funk, global groove, jazz-pop, nu-disco, dance, indie retro, indie folk, country, indie rock, pop

Spotify / Apple Music

Looking for a long playlist to soundtrack your holiday plans? Paid subscribers have access to the full Dinner Music archive (via Spotify and Apple Music), an after hours playlist, a “New York Grooves” playlist and more — hundreds of hours of groove, soul, jazz, folk, samba, hi-life, disco, electro, post-punk, funk and more, lovingly selected.

Pair with

Preserved Lemon and Tomato Chicken. A crowd favorite this year.
Populis Wabi-Sabi Red. A very good, drinkable, chillable red wine. If you missed it, last week I listed a bunch of very good box wines.
This interview with Michael Nau. Loved his album last year. “Music wallpapered the house that I grew up in. I knew what music was, and I knew what baseball was. I just began to study records, and I was drawn to recording music, without really thinking about it.”
Daughters by Dan Bevacqua in the Paris Review. “She was in the humanities library across campus, where the students did stress like other kids did drugs.”

*Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting,* Artemisia Gentileschi, 1638–39

Thank you, thank you. Have a great week.

Dinner Music

Dinner Music: 2024 favorites

lounge exotica, acid ambient western, baroque sixties pop

15 very good albums of 2024

1. Here in the Pitch - Jessica Pratt | soft acoustic indie

2. The Heartbroken Record - Lauren Watkins | twangy country

3. On The Lips - Molly Lewis | lounge exotica

4. New Internationale - Kit Sebastian | retro global groove

5. Sonido Cósmico - Hermanos Gutiérrez | acid ambient western

6. In Green We Dream - Parlor Greens | funk jazz

7. Charm - Clairo | retro bedroom pop

8. Paint a Room - Chris Cohen | acoustic indie jazz

9. Hotel New Yuma - Yuma Abe | retro global groove

10. Bird’s Eye - Ravyn Lenae | psych-jazz R&B

11. Dream With You - Thandii | lounge pop

12. When a Thought Grows Wings - Luna Li | ethereal indie

13. A LA SALA - Khruangbin | stripped-down global funk

14. Close to the Mystery - Jackie West | retro country lounge

15. One Million Love Songs - Bnny | bedroom pop

Bonus: Miles Away: One (Compilation) | funky soul

Very good songs of 2024

Spotify / Apple Music

Pair with

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