In The Groove: The best music released in 2024, part 5

My favorite time of the year — end of year best of music lists!

This is the final installment of In The Groove’s Best Of 2024 series, with spotlights on Loma, Nilufer Yanya, Friko, TAMTAM, Mannequin Pussy, Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Rich Ruth and more.

You can see the playlist and listen back to previous shows below:

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five

Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.

In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for December 19, 2024

“Pink Sky” – Loma
“Method Actor” – Nilüfer Yanya
“Words fell out” – Goat Girl
“I Don’t Know You” – Mannequin Pussy
“Brown Paper Bag” – DIIV
“Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi” – Friko
“Bara To Yaju” – Haruomi Hosono
“Contact High” – Metronomy, Faux Real & Miki
“Exile” – Swim Surreal & Zero 7
“Go Down The Mountain” – TAMTAM
“Why You Lied” – Forest Law
“Breathe Now” – Tara Lily
“levels (IZCO & Reek0 Remix)” – oreglo
“As Above As Below” – Fievel Is Glauque
“A Day In The Life” – Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding
“Only One” – Cassandra Jenkins
“Lucy Takes A Picture” – Youth Lagoon
“No Muscle, No Memory” – Rich Ruth
“Dream Of You” – Lionlimb & Angel Olsen
“Grow In Pains (feat. SUGARTHIEF)” – Freya McKee
“Lie In The Gutter” – Peel Dream Magazine
“Better Hate” – Jessica Pratt
“Pretty Girls” – Honeyglaze
“Like I Say (I runaway)” – Nilüfer Yanya
“My Room” – Divorce
“Wristwatch” – MJ Lenderman
“Empires Never Know” – Jessica Pratt
“What Not to Do (Moodymann Remix)” – Róisín Murphy
“Outubro” – Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding
“100 Years Of Bill & Lil” – Joe Webb
“The Seer” – Nubya Garcia
“Good In The Bad (Thomas Xu Remix)” – Jihoon
“Sick Of The Blues” – Porridge Radio
“DNM” – Mk.gee
“Defense” – Panda Bear & Cindy Lee
“The Big Idea” – Lily Talmers
“Northern Shuffle” – Julian Lage
“That’s How I’m Feeling” – Jack White

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Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper is the award-winning host of "In the Groove" on 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. Hooper has covered stories for the New York Times, NPR, Detroit Free Press, Hour Detroit, SPIN and Paste magazine.
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