Pretty soon we'll be in wrapped season again. Instead of summarising 2025 or waiting for the algorithm to tell me what I like - I thought I'd look a little further back, at the things from 2024 that defined the year for me, moved me and have stayed with me since.

Music

• $/He Who Feeds You...Owns You | The Brother Moves On (2022)
• Percieve it's Beauty Acknowledge it's Grace | Shabaka (2024)
• DJ E | Chuquimamani-Condori (2023)

Films

• Soundtrack to a Coup d'État | Johan Grimnoprez (2024)
• The Structure of Crystal | Krzysztof Zanussi (1969)
• Y Tu Mamá También | Alfonso Cuarón (2001)

Books

• The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)
• Tools for Conviviality | Ivan Illich (1973)
• A Thousand Mornings | Mary Oliver (2012)