Ingenii Records

19/09/2025

19/09/2025

Bing or google?

19/08/2025

Yes, it’s August. Yes, this is a “Best of 2024” list.

Normies maintain that these lists belong in December, or maybe January at the latest. But in a year with music this dense and shape-shifting, why rush to a verdict? We’ve taken the long road: sitting with the releases, marinating, revisiting what stuck, discarding what didn’t, and letting the year’s most challenging, cathartic, and forward-thinking records reveal themselves in due time.

The result is a sprawling survey of where experimental and underground music found itself in 2024: math rock collapsing into ambient jazz, noise bleeding into shoegaze, hip hop cross-pollinating with post-everything. This is music that resists easy classification and sometimes resists the listener, too. It’s dissonant, obsessive, and abrasive. And, often, very beautiful.
Below, you’ll find our unranked list of favorite releases of the year, grouped into two tiers: “Best of 2024” and “Honorable Mentions.” We’ve compiled a massive Spotify playlist featuring every release on this list, clocking in at over 600 tracks and 38 hours of the finest math rock, post rock, slowcore, post jazz, hip hop, indie rock, post punk, noise rock, noise jazz, and general sonic weirdness from the year.

And if 38 hours sounds like a bit much (coward), we’ve also curated a more digestible 71-track abridged version featuring one essential cut from each release. Enjoy.

Links to the full writeup and Spotify playlists in the comments.

15/07/2025

from the album Endless Winter

15/07/2025

In 2024, virtuoso steel pannist and percussionist Aaron Abrahamson Cote (aka Panoramic View Steel Drums) challenged himself to compose, record, produce, and release new music every single week of the year. It was an ambitious undertaking, but he gritted it out and absolutely nailed it.

To celebrate, we interviewed Cote about the project. Here are some highlights, and head on over to the blog to read more. Link in comments.

12/04/2025

RECORD STORE DAY SPECIAL: use code “rsd25” for 25% off The Longest Year on Record vinyl today.

04/03/2025

04/03/2025

17/01/2025

Forgot to share this at the appropriate time, but 2024 was our best year yet. Thank you so much for the support! 5000 listeners in a year is a nice milestone.

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14/01/2025

We’re excited to share "Spectral Transmissions '24", a collection of the singles we released in 2024. Clocking in at just under 20 minutes, these 8 tracks are an unflinching and raw unguided tour through joyful sonic experimentation encompassing math rock, noise, electronic, post-rock, and ambient music. Our 2024 output features incredibly talented collaborators, strange instruments, and audio samples spanning three centuries.

Some of the highlights include:

•a mathy, eerie space odyssey featuring relentless Moog synthesizer arpeggios and warped glockenspiel
•microwave doors slamming
•dumbells clinking
•an abandoned film score from 2014
• Aaron Abrahamson Cote ripping steel pan over a noisy Christmas song

Thank you for being part of this wild ride. "Spectral Transmissions '24" is out now on all streaming platforms—we hope you enjoy listening.

Thank you for a great year.
D. Majestic and The Spectral Band

12/01/2025

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