Our favorite MUSIC from 2024

Rachel Casperian (as Mephistopheles) singing "You and I" by Ingrid Michaelson to Jesse B Koehler (as Faust) in The How to Survive the End of the World Cabaret. Photo by Shubhra Mishra

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of music our community loved in 2024.


Thank you to the community who made and loved art this year! Please consider donating to Theater in Asylum so we can keep it going in 2025.

Albums

• Artificial Paradise by One Republic
  
• brat by Charli xcx (all iterations)
  
• Cowboy Carter by Beyonce
  
• Dragon New Warm Mountain by Big Thief
  
• folklore/evermore by Taylor Swift
  
• Javelin by Sufjan Stevens
  
• II by Kiasmos
  
• Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend
  
• the record by Boygenius
  
• SABLE by Bon Iver
  
• The Spoon Benders by The Spoon Benders
  
• Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going by Shaboozy
  

Songs

• “Carrying the Banner” from Newsies - my daughter’s favorite song bar none
• Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Sofia Gubaidulina
• "Guide You" from Little Big Things Musical Soundtrack
• "Hold That Spirit" by Rate Zaragoza
• “I AM” by Beautiful Chorus
• "I AM" by Stan Walker
• "Keep Marching On" from Suffs soundtrack
• “LEVII’S JEANS” by Beyoncé
• "New York" from Two Strangers Carry a Cake Across New York musical soundtrack
  
• “Reclaim” by Shawnee Kish
• “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz
• "Speed" from Lempicka soundtrack
• "Turn the Lights Back On" by Billy Joel
• “When Scars Become Art” by Gatton
  
• “Yemken” (Lennon's "Imagine" in Arabic) sung by Fairuz
• “You and I” by Ingrid Michaelson
• “we can’t be friends” by Ariana Granda