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12. Madison Cunningham - Ace standouts: skeletree, golden gate (on and on), beyond that moon, best of us

11. PinkPantheress - Fancy That standouts: tonight, stars, stateside

10. Rachel Bobbitt - Swimming Towards the Sand standouts: hush, hands hands hands, deer on the freeway

9. Kevin Atwater - Achilles standouts: the cage, ferry beer, huntley, achilles

8. Billie Marten - Dog Eared standouts: feeling, crown, the glass, planets

7. Lucy Dacus - Forever Is a Feeling standouts: big deal, talk, bullseye, lost time

6. Laura Stevenson - Late Great standouts: #1, not us, instant comfort, late great

5. Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party standouts: kill me, true believer, parachute

4. Blondshell - If You Asked for a Picture standouts: t&a, arms, toy, model rockets

3. Jensen McRae - I Don't Know How but They Found Me! standouts: novelty, mother wound, praying for your downfall, massachusetts

2. Bon Iver - Sable, Fable standouts: awards season, short story, from, if only i could wait, there's a rhythmn

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MAYDAY (Bump of Chicken)

Can I hold my breath all the way to the bottom of your heart?/I plan to keep on diving until I find the part of you that you sunk yourself/As the pain grows, we get closer/When I breathe again, it would be with you

"The lyrics are just so goddamn optimistic and earnest and above all kind, and the music itself is the sort of happy that makes you feel Way Too Many Things and then you've got a lump in your throat but like, why? You're not sad, right? You're happy. So why are you crying so much? Bump of Chicken's specialty, to be honest, but this one goes even harder than many of their tracks. It just. Hits me right the hell where I live. It's so relentlessly sweet and I don't even usually go for that, but it's sweet in this wide-eyed sincere way, not sugary or fake but the kind that takes your hand and tells you it's gonna be okay and it won't leave you until it is. Ah, no, I got all fucked up just trying to describe it..."

Living Room, NY (Laura Stevenson)

I wanna feel you restless/I wanna wake up from it,/I wanna see you stare at ceilings until you fall back asleep/I wanna feel you restless/I wanna wake up from it,I wanna see you stare at ceilings until you fall back asleep

"The narrator wants to be with their love so badly, just even the restless nights where nobody can sleep, they'd give an arm just to be there with their love"

MAYDAY submitted by @afniel

Top 5 songs:

Not for nothing - Weakened Friends, from “Feels like hell”: this is how I feel every day, especially while running.

Small words - Logan Greene, single: I miss Logan so much. 

Polytunnel - Richard Dawson, from “End of the middle”: maybe I should garden. 

Hallways - PUP, from “Who will look after the dogs?”: I don’t collapse on the floor as much as this guy does, but I do feel sad sometimes.

What will you do? - JER, from “Death of the heart”: I am angry about the state of my country sometimes too. 

Top 10 records:

End of the middle - Richard Dawson: I only learned about this person’s music this year, and I feel like I’ve been listening to it forever. 

Feels like hell - Weakened friends: a heartbreaking record from the best band from Maine. A shift towards emo fits them well. 

Who will look after the dogs? - PUP: another record by this band that makes me feel like shit and somehow also like I belong. 

Part of the problem, baby - Fortitude valley: I love everything Nathy & co. does, and this record is no different. I’m excited to finally see them live in 2026. 

The black hole understands - Cloud nothings: I think Dylan Baldi writes great songs to run to because he himself is a runner. This record technically came out in 2020 but only became free in 2025 (and I didn't hear it until this year), so I'm leaving it in. Note also the companion record Life is only one event which is great because I can then run more while listening to cloud nothings!

Death of the heart - JER: ska never died and it will never die, it will just be infused with metal. 

Last night I heard the dog star bark - Gwenifer Raymond: holy fucking shit this blew my mind live. I love how dark and moody this record is, it fits my mood in Oxford most days. 

Late great - Laura Stevenson: Laura got divorced and wants to make sure everyone knows. I love her music but this record is a little hard to listen to sometimes — it’s both too on the nose and self serving to empathize with the same way as her other work. I still listen to it often.

Hell is an airport - Liquid Mike: Midwest emo never died and it will never die. 

Natural causes - Adult Mom: Putting this on my list because Rachel reminded me it existed and it's good. I used to listen to adult mom a lot, maybe I should again.

Here's a bonus photo of Brunnsviken from this morning: