The only thing that makes the speed of this year's coming and going easier to comprehend is when you consider how many great albums have landed on your chosen streaming service and/or in your Amazon basket since you last sang Auld Lang Syne into a champagne bottle.
We reviewers at What Hi-Fi? all have our go-to playlists of familiar test tracks for putting new kit through its paces, which span as many decades as they do genres, as I'm sure you do too. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t constantly looking for new tracks to add to them. We’re hi-fi fans and therefore music fans, after all. So it sparked great debate when it came to collectively compiling this list of 2024 releases that we believe aren’t just solid songs but also solid test tracks.
