ILM's 2025 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

It's been another year, and it's time to settle some scores. You know what to do.

- Nominations are open until midnight PST on Friday January 2nd.

- Everyone gets a max of 30 nominations, split as you see fit across tracks and albums. You can nominate 15 albums and 15 tracks, or 29 albums and 1 track, or 0 albums and 30 tracks - you get the idea.

- Please make sure it's obvious which nominations are tracks and which are albums.

- Always use the order "Artist - Track"/"Artist - Album", never put the artist second. It's hard enough to filter out duplicates as it is.

- Ctrl+F through the thread before nominating, or check the spreadsheets:

Tracks Nominations
Album Nominations

Request for volunteers: will be great if someone can create playlists. Also, if anyone is keen to help with posting the rollout threads, that will be great too - post here or ILXmail me.

Spotify Albums Playlist

Spotify Tracks Playlist

Favorite part of the year

Kicking things off:

TRACKS

Jasmine Hamdan - Shmaali شمالي Tarweeda (Nicolas Jaar Remix)
Laura Groves - Deep Blue
IU ft. Balming Tiger - A Beautiful Person
Florence Adooni - A.E.I.O.U.
CHUU - Back in Town
Call Super - Waterways
CHAEYOUNG ft. Gliiico - Avocado
Jens Lekman ft. Matilda Sargren - On a Pier, on the Hudson
Halima - Eau de Vie

ALBUMS

Kelela - In The Blue Light
Javiera Mena - Inmersión
Kali Uchis - Sincerely,
Halima - SWEET TOOTH
Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE
Infinity Machine - Angelic Ascent

15/30

Nice. I'm happy to do a Spotify list for albums again (*rockist alert*) assuming folks are still okay with that platform.

i'm on a train, might as well...

ALBUMS

Oklou - Choke Enough
Doves - Constellations for the Lonely
PinkPantheress - Fancy That
Edith Frost - In Space
Call Super - A Rhythm Protects One
Tony Molina - On This Day
Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones
George Riley - More is More
Living Hour - Internal Drone Infinity
Patrick Wolf - Crying the Neck
Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers - Clube da Mariposa Mórbida
John Glacier - Like A Ribbon

TRACKS

Patrick Wolf - Jupiter
Harmony - Where Strangers Go
Spellling - Ammunition
Jane Remover ft. Danny Brown - Psychoboost
Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics
Ezra Furman - Grand Mal
Amaarae - S.M.O.
Cate Le Bon - Body as a River
Stereolab - Transmuted Matter
Sherelle - XTC
IE - Simplify
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta - Nitaangaza
Real Lies - Arielle
Cleo Reed - Wash All Over Me
Sword II - Sentry
Jim Legxacy - SOS
Products Band - You Bend the Light
The Convenience - Vanity Shapes

30/30

TRACKS

George Riley - Slow
Mallrat - Pavement
Sudan Archives - DEAD
SoFTT - Cerca Al Cielo
Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

ALBUMS

Addison Rae - Addison
Annahstasia - Tether
Lorde - Virgin
Rochelle Jordan - Through The Wall
Rose Gray - Louder Please

10/30

The beginning of an ALBUMS PLAYLIST (SPOTIFY): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2krvHSQuxyZAmB49vFG6LR

I'll hopefully update a few times per day...

copying from a recent post on another thread

ALBUMS

Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake II
Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise in the Hold
Acopia - Blush Response
Lowli - Window in the Woods
Akasha System - Heliocene
Akasha System - Sun Archive
Rene Najera - Painted Life

7/30

ALBUMS

Gajek - Cutting Together Apart
Felicity J Lord - FJL
Aris Kindt - Now Claims My Timid Heart
Ryan Sawyer's Shaker Ensemble - Those Who Wish To Sing Will Always Find A Song
The Dwarfs Of East Agouza - Sasquatch Landslide
Derek Baron - The Holy Restaurant
Sam Weinberg Trio - Of Peeling Passage: Live at Sisters
Chris Weisman - Lightly
caroline - caroline 2
Justin Bieber - SWAG
Havard Volden - Small Lives
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer
Deftones - private music
Sam Wilkes - Public Records Performance
Bitchin Bajas - Totality
Tortoise - Touch
Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow
Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet
Paul Cornish - You're Exaggerating!
Billy Hart Quartet - Just

TRACKS

Wednesday - Elderberry Wine
Justin Bieber - Speed Demon
Dean Blunt, Elias Rønnenfelt - lucre 2
Artificial Go - The World Is My Runway
Dijon - FIRE!
Wally Badarou - You can't hide always
Dale Cornish - Blindspot
Jens Kuross - Stereotype
Nourished By Time - Crazy People

30/30

ALBUMS

The Tubs - Cotton Crown
DjRUM - Under Tangled Silence
McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!
The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie
Real Lies - We Will Annihilate Our Enemies
Florence Adooni - A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity)
james K - Friend
Ex-Void - In Love Again
Haim - I Quit

TRACKS

Avalon Emerson - Eden
Darkside - S.N.C
Pinkpantheress - Illegal
Neggy Gemmy - Mysterious Girl
Wolf Alice - White Horses
Momma - I Want You (Fever)

15/30

ALBUMS

TV Girl & George Clanton - Fauxllennium
Adrianne Lenker - Liver at Revolution Hall
Erika de Casier - Lifetime
Kate NV - Room for the Moon Live
Domenique Dumont - Deux Paradis
Tropical Fuck Storm - Fairyland Codex
E Ruscha V - Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 004: E Ruscha V (Cosmos)
Blawan - SickElixer
Makaya McCraven - Off the Record
Surgeon - Shell~Wave

TRACKS

clipping - Dominator
Men I Trust - The Landkeeper
Nilüfer Yanya - Cold Heart
Laura Groves - Yes

14/30

Tracks

Wet Leg - mangetout
Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild
Justin Bieber - DAISIES
Lana Del Rey - Henry, come on
Addison Rae - Headphones On
Chappell Roan - The Subway

Albums

Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal

7/30

TRACKS:

Ratboys - Light Night Mountains All That
Ratboys - What's Right?
Ratboys - Anywhere
Stereolab - Melodie is a Wound

ALBUMS:
The Chills - Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs
De La Soul - Cabin in the Sky
Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
Good Flying Birds - Talulah's Tape

8/30

ALBUMS

ROSALÍA - LUX
Anna von Hausswolff - ICONOCLASTS
Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying
Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone
JADE - THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!
Maria Somerville - Luster
Lily Allen - West End Girl
Juana Molina - DOGA
Emma Pollock - Begging the Night to Take Hold
Hilary Woods - Night CRIÚ
Titanic - HAGEN
Hydroplane - A Place in My Memory is All I Have to Claim
These New Puritans - Crooked Wing
Westerman - A Jackal's Wedding
Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures

16/30

Adrianne Lenker - Liver at Revolution Hall should be Adrianne Lenker - Live at Revolution Hall

TRACKS

deWaal - Surface Desire
Electrospy - Electrobum
4:32am - Speaking in Silence

3/30

Tracks

The Beths - Take
The Beths - Metal
Wolf Alice - The Sofa
Ichiko Aoba - Luciferine
Jade - Unconditional
Jade - Plastic Box
Hatchie - Only One Laughing
Saint Etienne - Take
Miley Cyrus - The End Of The World

Albums

Sofia Kourtesis - Volver
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (And Sad Women)
Tops - Bury The Key
Cmat - Euro-Country
Phoebe Rings - Aseurai
Melody’s Echo Chamber - Unclouded
Saint Etienne - International
Hatchie - Liquorice
Hayley Williams - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Wolf Alice - The Clearing
Jens Lekman - Songs From Other People’s Weddings

20/30

Daryl Johns self titled album came out late December '24. Can I nominate it?

Tracks:

Slayyyter - Beat Up Chanel$
CMAT - Euro-Country
Wednesday - Bitter Everyday
Grimes - Artificial Angels
Canelle - Fille
Judeline - Chica de Cristal
Ch111oe - Road
Debby Friday - All I Wanna Do Is Party
S1rena - Oxytoc1n
Chase Icon - Bands On Me

Albums:

Chase Icon - Icon Baby
d.silvestre - O Que as Mulheres Querem
Wednesday - Bleeds

14/30

TRACKS

C Duncan - Think About It
Gorillaz, Sparks - The Happy Dictator
Lexa Gates - Nothing To Worry About
Cristale, Toddla T - Vogue
Aitch - BOUNCE
Jennifer Walton - Born Again Backwards
Lianne La Havas - Disarray

ALBUMS

Ø/Mika Vainio – Sysivalo
Daniel Caesar - Son Of Spergy
kwn - with all due respect
Suzanne Vega - Flying with Angels

11/30

Tracks:

Sigrid - Jellyfish
d.silvestre - Ela Trava

16/30

Tracks:

A. G. Cook - Dread
Bad Bunny - NUEVAYoL
Breka - Are We There
Cafuné - Temporary Lover ft. Riovaz
Cameo Blush - One Chance
Chip - Grime Scene Saviours
deBasement - Aperol Spritz
Disclosure & Anderson .Paak - NO CAP
Doechii - Nosebleeds
Greta Isaac - Soft Scoop Talking Dog
Hul - Parasite
Kate Nash - GERM
Kevin Sanderson - Detroit (Vocal Mix)
Loula Yorke – Time is a Succession of Such Shapes
Lung Leg feat. Lora Logic - Girls
Marie Davidson - Demolition
Molly Sanden - Trophy
Myd - The Wizard
Night Tapes - Storm
Pinkpantheress - Stateside
Pulp - Slow Jam
Snapped Ankles - Raoul
Sudan Archives - My Type
The Dare - Tambourine
The Lewis Express - Run Tell That

25/30

ALBUMS

Yves Jarvis - All Cylinders
Ben Lamar Gay - Yowzers
Resavoir & Mat Gold - Horizon
Jim Legxacy - Black British Music
Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson & Sam Wilkes - Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
Sofie Birch & Antonia Nowacka - Hiraeth
Dijon - Baby
Chronixx - Exile
Holden & Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care Of You
Disiniblud - Disiniblud
Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise
Sarathy Korwar - There Is Beauty, There Already
Various Artists - Emerald: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records
Park Jiha - All Living Things

TRACKS

Moliy + Silent Addy - Shake It to the Max (FLY)
Ayo Maff - Lazy Baby
Rema - Baby (Is It a Crime)
Shallipopi - Laho
Armanii - JUMP (BOUNCE)
Kehlani - Folded
Ayetian, Govana & Nvtzz - Wah Yo Deh Pan
Skippa - WYFL

(22/30)

ALBUMS

Taku Hannoda & Kazuhisa Uchihashi - ABA
Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack - Six Tenants Killing One Home Owner Six Times Over
Katarina Gryvul - Spomyn
Ted Hearne & The Crossing - Farming

(4/30)

Tracks

Marie Davidson - Unknowing
upsammy - Open Catalyst
Rivet - Sacrosanct
Jlin - B12
Rian Treanor - Another Future Is Impossible
Peter Van Hoesen - Prime Directive
Coen - Headbanger
Minor Science - Mortals
Cleyra - There's Nothing Happening Between Us
The Body - Empty Hearth

(10/30)

ALBUMS

Circuit des Yeux - Halo On The Inside
Unspecified Enemies - Romance in the Age of Adaptive Feedback
Coen - Moshpit
Zombie Zombie - Funk Kraut
Water Damage - Instruments
Destroyer - Dan's Boogie

(16/30)

ALBUMS:

The New Eves - The New Eve Is Rising
Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight

18/30

Albums:

Ragana & Drowse - Ash Souvenir
Die Spitz - Something To Consume

20/30

TRACKS

Cuco - Dreamin'
4batz - act xv: could we last 4ever?
Miami Nights 1984 - Golden Hour
GammaFlow - The Gift

ALBUMS

Chicks on Speed - HEARandNOWtopia
Jonathan Richman - Only Frozen Sky Anyway
Trystero - Humming Fuzz
Beaabea - Chrome Abyss

19/30

ALBUMS

Smerz - Big City Life
Raisa K - Affectionately
Pink Must - Pink Must
Anthony Naples - Scanners
Teal - Original Watercolour
Cloth - Pink Silence
SML - How You Been
The Necks - Disquiet
Lucy Gooch - Desert Window
Voice Actor, Squu - Lust (1)
Joanne Robertson - Blurrr
Volodja Brodsky - Raindrops
YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds
feeo - Goodness
Coatshek - Sound Bath

(15/30)

ALBUMS

Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Cory Hanson - I Love People
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Enji - Sonor
Franco Rossino - Franco Rossino #1
Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On

6/30

I didn't mind doing the tracks Spotify list last year, it made me pay more attention to it. Happy to do it again unless someone else wants to (or wants to share the duty).

ALBUMS

Okonski - Entrance Music
The Circling Sun - Orbits

TRACKS

Jon Batiste - PINNACLE
Charley Crockett - Lonesome Drifter
Jason Isbell - Bury Me
John Glacier - Ocean Steppin'
Anna B Savage - Lighthouse
Shura - World's Worst Girlfriend
Richard Dawson - Gondola
Nation of Language - Under the Water
Charli xcx, John Cale - House
Sans Beanstalk - Producdivvity

12/30

ALBUMS

MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - Opening Night
Debbie Sings - Debbie's Songs
100%WET - 100%WET
Heathe - Control Your Soul's Desire For Freedom
Køs - Worldsorrow

5/30

ALBUMS

Darryl Johns - s/t
Safe Mind - Cutting The Stone
Moreish Idols - All In The Game

3/30

TRACKS

Dijon - Yamaha

1/30

Albums:

Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Isabella Lovestory - Vanity

22/30

Albums:
Darkside - Nothing
Men I Trust - Equus Caballus
Nikki Nair - Violence is the Answer EP
Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin - Ghosted III
Eliot Krimsky - I Made My House
Ensemble Nist-Nah - Spilla
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
Chicago Underground Duo - Hyperglyph
Tom Skinner - Kaleidoscopic Visions
Simon Popp - Trio
Yasmine Hamdan - I Remember I Forget
Nakibemebe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida - Phantom Keys
Sam Prekop - Open Close
Bill Stewart - Live at the Village Vanguard
Wolfgang Muthspiel / Scott Colley / Brian Blade - Tokyo
Charlie Hunter & Ella Feingold - Different Strokes for Different Folks
Thomas Morgan - Around You Is A Forest
Sebastien Forrester - Shield
Jako Maron - Mahavelouz

Tracks:
Nikki Nair & Foodman - Sorry I Lost My Glasses in the Public Bathhouse

20/30

TRACKS

Serena Jasmine - Labyrinth
CROOKS INC - You & I
John Maus - Came & Got
GammaFlow - Femme Fatale
El Michels Affair, Florence Adooni - Say Goodbye
The Salt Collective, Aimee Mann - The Waiting Game
A Vision of Panorama - WLM
Henrik Villard - Soft Touches
Lisa Knapp - Train Song
DJ Q, K Dot - Bassline
DJZRX - ERROR K1

30/30

TRACKS

Elaine Howley - Hold Me In A New Way

1/30

TRACKS

Keanu Nelson - Place Where I Go

2/30

TRACKS

Ana CMP - Onegai
Acolyte - The Blue Dark (Eyes Of Others Remix)
Johnny Sais Quoi - Love On Ice
Bibi Club - Amaro
DJ Subaru - Dog feat. Chopper Johnson
WITCH - Once In A Lifetime
Fleet Dreams - Secret Of The Golden Flower
Liquid Earth - Supersonic Madonna
Decius - I Gave Birth 2 U
Delores Galore - The Veil
Tony Morris & Isa Gordon - Wake Up Baby
A Sagittariun - Microdreaming

14/30

TRACKS

D. Tiffany - Heaven Tomorrow

15/30

OK, I've got a tracks playlist started here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7DXpVNcUiHwTrb3O7dRE6l?si=213f219497424db3

Just the first 41 tracks so far, I'll get caught up over the next day or so.

^ Cool! Haven't even used Spotify since doing this stuff last time around but I do enjoy a cram-a-thon of recent releases at this time of year.

ALBUM

Francie - Jane Doe

1/30

Oh this has started already. Some of my noms are already in… here’s some more top of my mind that I want to get in straight away incase I can’t come back before the deadline:

TRACKS

Dj Python - Marry Me Maia
Elaine Howley - Hold Me In A New Way
Herbert & Momoko - Babystar
Joseph Shabason & Dawn Richard - Broken Hearted Sade
Nilüfer Yanya - Treason
Oklou & FKA Twigs - Viscus
Saya Gray - Lie Down..

Lol just started listening to the tracks playlist on shuffle and have fallen in love twice already.

ALBUMS

Weed420 - Amor de encava
Stara Rzeka - Wynoś się z mojego domu
Gingerbread - Apiary
Boldy James & Real Bad Man - Conversational Pieces
Dano - Nuevos tapos
Gelli Haha - Switcheroo
Pyramids - Pythagoras
John Michel & Anthony James - Egotrip
Celestaphone & Dealers of God - Cult Subterranea
Black Milk & Fat Ray - Food from the Gods
Sexores - Sangre
Midnight Odyssey - Master of the Nebulous Reach
Raekwon - The Emperor's New Clothes
Boldy James & Chuck Strangers - Token of Appreciation
Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mountain Pleasant
Aktor - Professori (Season Two)
ST 37 - Ballardesque

(17/30)

Albums:

Bad Bunny - Debi Tirar Mas Photos
Silvana Estrada - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias
Summer Walker - Finally Over It
Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves
Mekons - Horror
Ruger - BlownBoy RU
Jazzwrld and Thukuthela ‧ The Most Wanted
Dlala Thukzin - 031 Studio Camp 2.0
billy woods - Golliwog
Mavis Staples - Sad and Beautiful World
Amaarae - Black Star

(11/30)

hey I got nothin' against TS! I own three albums, lol, I def have the cooties. I do think I would recognize it, is all I'm saying, and the last thing I heard in the wild by her was "Shake It Off", other than that it's been months as far as I know.

i looked it up and while the song was big hit #1 in the states, it was a bigger hit internationally and went triple platinum in canada

that makes more sense! also, wow.

speaking of omnipresence (in my household at least, and many others), I think these should be nominated at least

TRACKS

HUNTR/X - Golden
Saja Boys - Soda Pop

18/40

haha definitely, now those I have heard in the wild

Oh shit yeah, I might even vote for one or both of those. Can't believe they weren't nominated before!

Yeah. We played those songs for our three year old a couple of days ago, and now it's all he wants to hear. The N songs, he calls them, because they're on Netflix.

ALBUMS
Colin Steele Quartet – The Blue Nile – Jazz Interpretations Of The Blue Nile Songbook
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed
Grubby Mitts - Love in the Misanthropocene
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – New Threats From The Soul
Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington – Rebuilding

TRACKS
Lilly Hiatt - Kwik-E-Mart
Destroyer - Hydroplaning Off The Edge Of The World
Eric Church - Hands of Time
Weather Station - Window
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - London May
Boof - We Won
Lola Kirke - Trailblazer
Blondshell - What's Fair
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – The Simple Joy
Grubby Mitts - Love in the Misanthropocene
The Memory Band - Albions' Daughter (analogue mix)
Rose Gray - Damn
Cate LeBon - Mothers of Riches
Big Thief - No Fear
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - First Fire of Winter

ALBUMS

Cocojoey - Stars
Mörda - Asante III
Geologist & D.S. - A Shaw Deal
Manslaughter 777 - God's World
Xexa - Kissom
Dlala Thukzin - Mayvis

TRACKS

Debbie Sings - 2010
Nikolaj Nørlund - Det bedste vi har lært
Sharp Pins - I Wanna Be Your Girl
No Joy feat. Fire-Toolz - Jelly Meadow Bright
Cocojoey - Trust In Events
Dlala Thukzin - Indaba
Tobias Rahim - Ingen yin uden yang
Skomager feat. chrome - Makeup
Snuggle - Dust
Uden ord - Held & lykke
Mas - Bare vent
B From E - Mushrooms
100%Wet - Ether
DJ Koze feat. Markus Acher & The Notwist - What About Us

25/40

bingo dabber acid, is the album nom Debit - La Ronda Y El Sonideor ++ possibly a reference to this longplayer which contains that track?

Debit - Desaceleradas

Oh! Yes, thanks NNN can that be corrected to the proper LP title pls (:

While I think of it, some more..

TRACKS

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta - Bonne Année
FKA twigs - Drums of Death
Marie Davidson - statistical modelling
Mount Kimbie - Shipwreck (Special Request remix)
Isabella Lovestory - Puchica
MC Yallah & Debmaster - Kyika
Prolapse - Err On The Side Of Dead
Prolapse - The Fall of Cashline
Molly Nilsson - Get A Life
Tim Reaper - Dry Heat
Tim Reaper - Bullseye
Esdeekid - LV Sandals
Snõõper - In The Dark
Snõõper - company car
Snõõper - blockhead
Lambrini Girls - Love

(37/40)

TRACKS

Ground - IkoIkoIko
Yaleesa Hall - Voices
Braga Circuit - DOML

ALBUMS

Init - Pool Jams

(20/40)

Albums

Valerie June - Owls, Omens, and Oracles

Karol G - Tropicoqueta

20/

TRACKS

Lover's Touch - Thinking About You

21/40

"ophelia" is a #1 radio hit in america and yet it is still very easily escapable. the top radio hits now get way fewer impressions (estimated "listens") than they did last decade. even on a top 40 station, someone tuning in for one song is as likely to encounter a big hit from 5-15 years ago as a current hit. streaming numbers are also generally weak right now, with many old songs shockingly high in the rankings. new mainstream music is less easily escaped when people are actually listening to it.

i also live in philly tho my experience of it is certainly rather different from table's and more attuned to radio, generic drugstores and so on. tho "ophelia" is played fairly regularly by our stations now (to those who actually listen), the uptake of that song at philly's stations seems (to me) to have lagged well behind the national average basically every step of the way

and as has also been noted it is a very easy song to fail to notice (as new) when not previously aware of it

TRACKS
The Beaches - Lesbian of the Year
Bon Iver - There's A Rhythm
Chloe Qisha - 21st Century Cool Girl
Debbii Dawson - Chemical Reaction
FKA twigs - Perfectly
Fred Again, Plaqueboymax & Skepta - Victory Lap
George Riley, Mura Masa - Forever
Jamie xx feat. Erykah Badu - F.U.
jasmine.4.t - Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation
Kali Uchis - Sunshine & Rain
Kesha feat. T-Pain - YIPPEE-KI-YAY
Lady Gaga - Garden of Eden
Laundry Day - Damn Shame
Lorde - Man of the Year
MARINA - CUNTISSIMO
Miguel - New Martyrs (Ride 4 U)
Obongjayar - Not in Surender
Oklou, Bladee - take me by the hand
Rosalia - La Perla
Sabrina Carpenter - Never Getting Laid
Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay
Sharon Van Etten - Idiot Box
Tei Shi - Best Be Leaving
Teyana Taylor feat. Jill Scott & Tyla - Pum Pum Jump
Twin Shadow - As Soon As You Can

(25/40)

TRACKS

Danny L Harle, Caroline Polachek - Azimuth
Daphni - Eleven
Josi Devil - No More
Man Power - Zang Tum Tumb
Odee X - Agent X
Romy - Love Who You Love
Shook & Legowelt - Zeitverwarpung
μ-ziq - Houzz 14

ALBUMS

Mechatok - Wide Awake
Time Cow - Scaring 1100 Chickens To Death

40/40

Tracks

Mike Clark, Jr. - Keep on Steppin

21/

dyl, didn’t realize you were a philly person. hi! fwiw i live in West, and only really shop at a few grocery stores.

flopson, i sincerely didn’t mean my posts to make some sort of anthropological assumptions about you. i mostly meant “i don’t listen to the radio, ever,” lol. (except WPRB and WKDU, two local college-commercial stations).

i was actually thinking when you mentioned radio that it was possible that the song was much bigger in your location, which i now see is correct!

~10 hours left to nominate!

ALBUMS

Fieldwork - Thereupon
Ganavya - Nilam
Benedicte Maurseth - Mirra
Throwing Shapes - Throwing Shapes

TRACKS

H1-KEY - Summer Was You
Kedr Livanskiy - Night Trains
Maria Somerville - Garden
Sofia Kourtesis - Canela Pura
Avalon Emerson ft. Anunaku - Sort of Like a Dream
IVE - 삐빅 (♥beats)
pôt-pot - 22° Halo
Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE

40/40

TRACKS

Tortoise - Vexations

30/30

ALBUMS

Hyloxolos - Hyloxolos
Kettel - Dubio
Yosi Horikawa - Impulse

TRACKS

Jimi Tenor & Freestyle Man - Schrödinger's Love
Headache - Nineteen Sixty Five
Floating Points - Dexion
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles - Not Broken
Automatic - mq9
Barry Can't Swim - Like It's Part of the Dance
fka boursin - Listless Intertext

40/40

TRACKS

Ivan & Johnny - Balance No Bass
Eva - Take Me...Mr. Love (Luca dell'Orso Remix)
Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich & Tenniscoats - Lose My Breath
C.A.R. - Shyana
Snapped Ankles - Pay the Rent
Pleasure Systems - Diet Pepsi

(40/40)

ALBUMS

Mallrat - Light hit my face like a straight right
Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

TRACKS

Debby Friday - 1/17
Doja Cat - Silly! Fun!
Ela Minus - QQQQ
Jewel Owusu & Cydnee with a C - Spark
Kelly Lee Owens - ASCEND
Oklou - dance 2
Rose Gray - Party People
Sega Bodega & Judeline - PIKI

40/40

ALBUM

Rose City Band - Sol Y Sombra

TRACKS

Yumi Zouma - Bashville on the Sugar
Men I Trust - To Ease You

27/40

map, you’ve made many posts where you’re implying i love some lavish life. i am a college teacher, my partner is an independent film maker, our household income is below median in canada and we live a modest lifestyle. before landing this gig (which tbf is a dream job for me that i am extremely appreciative of) i was a graf student and postdoc for a decade. if that makes me a lex luthor villain in your eyes, so be it, but your preoccupation with me (you’ve made posts like this several times across different threads) makes me uncomfortable and i wish you didn’t. ftr I’ve always liked your posts and have absolutely nothing against you

ok flopson, i'm sorry and i'll cool it.

thanks for more detail about hearing the song. and honestly thanks for your disclosure and your request. i'm very sorry for the inappropriate posts.

Tracks

Magdalena Bay - Second Sleep
Magdalena Bay - Star Eyes
Jay Som - Float

Albums

Adwaith - Solas
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Perimenopop
Laufey - A Matter Of Time

26/40

Albums:

Andy Bell – pinball wanderer
The Divine Comedy – Rainy Sunday Afternoon
Edwyn Collins – Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation
Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind
Paul Weller – Find El Dorado
Richard Ashcroft – Loving You
Ashes and Diamonds – Ashes and Diamonds Are Forever
Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy
David Byrne – Who Is the Sky?
Étienne de Crécy – Warm Up
Dean Wareham – That’s the Price of Loving Me
The Hives – The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
Ivy – Traces of You
The Lemonheads – Love Chant
Robert Forster – Strawberries
Sloan – Based on the Best Seller
Superchunk – Songs in the Key of Yikes
The Waterboys – The Life and Death of Dennis Hopper

18/40

Haha I came here because I was like “ummm I really want to be able to vote for “1/17” in the tracks poll. Thanks as always monotony!

TRACKS

Lady Donli — Keep on Lovin' Me (Biko Biko)
Sewa - Lagos Lovin'
Louzio - Mannequin
Davido feat. Omah Lay - With You

20/40

Also I have heard “The Fate of Ophelia” (and also “Opalite”) pretty much everywhere in public since the TS album came out (much more than I have heard any other TS in the wild in the past six years, which I kinda resent?), but OTOH in my non-defence, I do kinda live a lavish lifestyle, so

40/40

ALBUMS
Blood Orange - Essex Honey
Brad Mehldau - Ride Into the Sun
Eliza McLamb - Good Story
Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
Indigo De Souza - Precipice
Jay Som - Belong
Joe Armon-Jones - All the Quiet (Part I)
Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Kassa Overall - Cream
Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn
Nick Leon - A Tropical Entropy
Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
Peel Dream Magazine - Taurus
Pino Palladino and Blake Mills - That Wasn't a Dream
Sam Amidon - Salt River
Snocaps - Snocaps
SPELLLING - Portrait of My Heart
This Is Lorelei - Holo Boy
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - IC-O2 Bogota
U.S. Girls - Scratch It
William Tyler - Time Indefinite

TRACKS (19)
Beach Bunny - Chasm
Doechii - Anxiety
Eddie Chacon ft. John Carroll Kirby - Empire
FKA Twigs - Perfect Stranger
FKA Twigs - Room of Fools
Frankie Cosmos - Vanity
Gwenno - Dancing on Volcanoes
Haim - Down to Be Wrong
Hayley Williams - Mirtazepine
Horsegirl - Well I Know You're Shy
Jay Som ft. Soft Glas - What You Need
Madeline Kenney - Scoop
Madison McFerrin - Ain't It Nice
Mei Simones - I Can Do What I Want
Mogwai - God Gets You Back
Nao - Wildflowers
SML - Taking Out the Trash
SZA ft. Kendrick Lamar - 30 for 30
Tortoise - Oganesson

Tracks:

Geese - Long Island City Here I Come
Geese - Husbands
Cameron Winter - Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)
Wet Leg - CPR
Big Thief -Incomprehensible
Sabrina Carpenter - House Tour

Albums:

Panda Bear - Sinister Grift

25/40

Tracks

Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia

Albums

Cut Copy - Moments

27/40

When I was in the high-stakes baccarat room at the Wynn, it was like fucking wall-to-wall "The Song of Ophelia," like the were trying to mesmerize the whales.

dammit, edit

ALBUMS

Leon Thomas - PHOLKS
anaiis - Devotion & the Black Divine
Andrew Aged - crowned

TRACKS

Leon Thomas - Just How You Are
Tanerélle - Feels Like Love
Sassy 009 - Tell Me (feat. Blood Orange)
Ali Berger - Life in Twilight
Arsene - Jack Shit
Lekan - Make It Right
Steve Lacy - Nice Shoes

40/40

ALBUMS

Aki Onda - In the Depth of Illusion: A Soundtrack for Nervous Magic Lantern
Igor Dyachenko - Remnants Of Noise
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift Songs
Lauri Porra - Seasons in Moominvalley
Maurice Louca - Barĩy (Fera) برٌِي
Posuposu Otani - Posuposu Otani
Quiet Light - Pure Hearts
Ylem - Ylem

40/40

Yoshika Colwell - On The Wing
HAAI - Humanise

Tracks

Rachel Chinouriri & Sombr - All I Ever Asked
Chrissie Hynde & Alan Sparhawk - County Line
Jamie Woon - The Heart’s Mountains

30/40

First two of last post are albums.

going to close up shop in ~20 minutes, if you have any last-minute nominations better hop to it

I wish I’d spent a bit more time with the music Ella Minus and Sofia Kourtesis released last year. Gonna try to manage my listening/focus better in 2026.

Thank you so much, poll mods!!!!

A couple of final tracks

The Cure - Alone (Four Tet remix)
The Cure - Endsong (Orbital remix)

32/40

ALBUMS

Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done
Amber Mark - Pretty Idea
Ben Kweller - Cover The Mirrors
Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist - Life Is Beautiful
Aminé - 13 Months of Sunshine
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - A City Drowned In God's Black Tears
Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums
Flock of Dimes - The Life You Save
Coco Jones - Why Not More?
Mick Jenkins & Emil - A Murder of Crows
Lanie Gardner - Faded Polaroids
Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
Splitsville - Mobtown
Repelican - Dim Halo
Cam - All Things Light

TRACKS

BigXthaPlug - The Largest
Tate McRae - Revolving Door
Parker McCollum - What Kinda Man
Balu Brigada - So Cold
Lola Young - Messy
Kendrick Lamar f/ SZA - Luther
Hudson Westbrook - House Again
Jenevieve - Head Over Heels
Zara Larsson - Crush
Tyler, The Creator f/ GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne - Sticky
Drake - Nokia
Megan Thee Stallion - Bigger In Texas

(27/40)

Ok that's it! Voting will kick off later today. Can a helpful mod lock this thread?