Year Review in Music – 2024

Time to Read: 14 minutes (whole post)

It’s one of my favourite times of the year—time to celebrate and share some of my favourite releases from 2024 with you!

As always, there’s a strong focus on Pop music, with a sprinkling of other genres for good measure.

I genuinely think this year has been brilliant for Pop Music, especially for women in the genre. I don’t say that purely to be inclusive – the Pop girlies deserve to be celebrated this year. From Beyoncé to Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande to Sabrina Carpenter (our new Pop Princess), we’ve been spoiled with phenomenal albums.

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Monthly Mixtape: August ’24

Reading Time: 7 minutes

This is soooo late. What can I say? The end of August/beginning of September is a busy one.

Despite August being my least busy month, I always find it’s the month I listen to the least amount of music.

Initially there wasn’t that much here, then Sabrina Carpenter released her brilliant new album and it seems to have bulked out quite a bit!

As always, a huge thank you for reading. It really does mean the world.

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Monthly Mixtape: Jan ’24

It’s been a while! Some of you may know this as ‘Current Faves‘, which I posted regularly on the Instagram Stories on my music acount for 4 years. I’ve rebranded back to what I used to do here on the blog and call them my Monthly Mixtapes.

The idea? I love music (if you hadn’t already figured), especially discovering and sharing new finds. So on the last weekend of each month (late this time due to ill health), I’ll be posting a selection of songs I’ve been devouring that month. A selection of old and new. Some stuff will be commercial and some won’t. There are no rules, just songs which speak to me.

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