The Resident Annual 2024

our favourite releases of the year

The Resident Annual 2024 is now physically available to order online & to pick up in-store. 

Head on over to pick up your copy from the shop (no need to order – we have plenty here!), or order one to be delivered if you live further afield. 

The print version is well worth holding in your hand to peruse, but if you're more of a digital person (or are just impatient), you can browse the full Annual here.

It’s been a certifiable joy to have witnessed the development of the Lime Garden world over the last few years because the vivacious Brighton 4-piece are the real deal. Their earworm abundant debut has been a firm team favourite and a staple on the shop stereo since it was released back in February and now sees itself deservingly voted as Resident’s 2024 Album of the Year!

For Fans Of: 

Wet Leg / English Teacher / Goat Girl / NewDad / Pip Blom / Honeyglaze

What’s left to say about the most talked about album of the year? If you’ve already succumbed to the fanfare, you’ll know how special this album is but, if you’ve dismissed this as just another hyped-up pop record, then read on...

For Fans Of: 

Lorde / Billie Eilish / SOPHIE / Chappell Roan / Hudson Mohawke / The Dare

It’s country, but not Country. It’s indie, but not Indie. It’s DIY and rough around the edges. It’s immaculately composed. On her 6th record, Katie Crutchfield has made the raucous indie-country album we’ve been dreaming of.

For Fans Of: 

MJ Lenderman / Kurt Vile / Lucinda Williams / Gillian Welch / Cassandra Jenkins / Hurray For The Riff Raff

The trajectory of this band has been phenomenal to behold. They really do have the golden touch! In 2022, Jacob Slater’s (post-Dead Pretties) project released ‘Cub’, which popped up in various end-of-year lists but erroneously featured nowhere in ours. So we’re coming to the party pretty late, but we’re bringing the second wind energy, the best tunes and the whiskey to make up for it!

For Fans Of: 

Nirvana / Elliott Smith / The War On Drugs / Fontaines D.C. / Morphine

Easily one of the most played albums in the shop this year, the very-worthy-Mercury-Prize-winning debut album from the Leeds indie ascendants is one to come back to over and over, to fall in love with anew each time.

For Fans Of: 

Lime Garden / NewDad / Pip Blom / Goat Girl /The Last Dinner Party / Mary In The Junkyard

New label. New aesthetic. New producer. With every iteration, our mettlesome Dubliners have evolved, returning reinvigorated and packed full of surprises. This time, they’ve unravelled those comfy indie knits and have kitted themselves out with a whole new sonic wardrobe.

For Fans Of: 

Depeche Mode / Gurriers / Wunderhorse / Blur / The Murder Capital

Igniting the Belfast scene like George Best at a baby shower, Kneecap sweep everyone up in their turbo-charged hip-hop pyrotechnics. Sticking this on is like cracking into a 24 hour session in the rowdy pub of your dreams.

For Fans Of: 

Skepta / Casisdead / Chase & Status / Kojaque /TPM / Versatil

With the news of Geoff Barrow’s imminent exit fresh in our minds, Beak>’s 4th studio record of carefully-building, synapse-tickling, experimental rock juggernauts is now imbued with a fervent sense of melancholy.

For Fans Of: 

Pink Floyd / Rival Consoles / Tomaga / Snapped Ankles / The Oscillation / Can

Leaving their post-dubstep tones far behind, this is MK’s desert rock album. This sprawling work encompasses kosmische synthesis, sparkling timbre drops, rushing dream pop, and expands their horizons as far as the eye can see.

For Fans Of: 

James Blake / King Krule / Tangerine Dream / Burial / Tirzah / Nabihah Iqbal

We’ve fallen red-papier-mâché-head-over-heels in love with the debut album from this 6-piece! It’s become a good friend to us. Not a party animal, hedonist friend. But a reliable, warm and comforting friend that’s known you for years, knows when you just need to sit together, be still and decompress.

For Fans Of: 

Villagers / Lambchop / Bill Callahan / Nick Drake / The Smile / Micah P Hinson

Retaining that genre-fluid, hooky indie rock sound that enamoured us from day one, her 3rd record has seen the ever-evolving Londoner make an interesting label move over to Ninja Tune, exposing her robust and ebullient oeuvre to a fresh set of potentially appreciative ears.

For Fans Of: 

Arlo Parks / Helado Negro / Katy J Pearson / The xx / King Krule / Sudan Archives

Embracing the weird, the wacky, the wonky, and the downright wonderful, this fun-strapped, helter-skelter of a debut takes musical ley lines (trad music played on recorders) and warps it into fresh, cutting-edge shapes befitting the carnivalesque dancefloor of New Weird Britain.

For Fans Of: 

Jockstrap / Fischerspooner / Confidence Man / Yeasayer / Baby Hair / Lone Taxidermist / W.H. Lung

From tragedy to triumph - the Geordie lass’s fifth album is the unflinching sonic sequela of her horribly public breakdown - an extraordinarily candid, muscular and poignant rehabilitation.

For Fans Of: 

Anna B. Savage / Nick Cave /  Bat For Lashes / Ghostpoet /  Keeley Forsyth / Depeche Mode

The 16-year wait for their 14th record is finally over. And with that 16-year wait, comes 16 years of weight, of loss, of grief, of struggle, all permeating the lyrical and instrumental content with a deep gravity that will be all too familiar for those also scarred and bruised by life’s indiscriminate knocks.

For Fans Of: 

Joy Division / Cocteau Twins / Cranes / Fontaines D.C. / Jesus And Mary Chain

Few things make us happier than an artist 40 years into their career ripping up the rulebook and weaponising cutting edge sounds to exhilarating effect."

For Fans Of: 

Mandy, Indiana / The Bug / Throbbing Gristle / Dälek / The Body / Body/Head

Replete with grainy lo-fi melodies and muscular six-string wrangling, the Asheville multi-instrumentalist kicked out a thrilling 4th solo album of moreish country-tinged indie rock, perfectly poised for fans of heroic guitartistry and artful songwriting.

For Fans Of: 

Wilco / Waxahatchee / Neil Young / The Decemberists

Giving most generously with not one but two new albums in just ten months, both these volumes further their effortless, slinky-jazz musings as a now clearly defined vehicle in its own right.

For Fans Of: 

BEAK> / Radiohead / Sons Of Kemet / London Contemporary Orchestra

What can we say about the dearly departed? No words can cut it. This record will always have been born in the sad shadow of Steve Albini’s passing but, despite (or perhaps because of) that grim context, it hits double hard.

For Fans Of: 

The Jesus Lizard / DITZ / The Fall / Big Black / The None

There’s a euphonious heart double-fast-pumping beneath lovable licks and dangerously infectious lyrical twists that fires these jangly songs along like the proverbial train full of gasoline.

For Fans Of: 

Kiwi Jr / Orange Juice / The Go-Betweens / Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever / The Reds, Pinks & Purples

The indie folk prodigy eschews the more built up sounds of her day job in Big Thief for a tender, close and loose collection of poems set to ethereal country that sounds like Vashti Bunyan if she travelled the Appalachian Trail."

For Fans Of: 

Waxahatchee / Nick Drake / Vashti Bunyan / Neil Young / Nick Hakim / John Martyn

Click here to check out the full list of 

our top 100 albums of 2024