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The top 50 songs of 2025

My brain got so blurbed to oblivion this year that I was about to skip doing a proper year end list, but this in-between week has given me a little…

Jan 2 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

December 2024

The top 15 songs of 2024 (+15 honorable mentions)

The countdown is over.

Dec 27, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#2 - LAZER DIM 700 - "TAKE U OUT" / "SPEED RACIN" (both prod. KRXXK)

These are easily the hardest beats LAZER has ever rapped over.

Dec 24, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#3 - Charli xcx - BRAT but it’s an EOY blurb, or something

I tried pitching this story to a dozen places, but nobody wanted it.

Dec 23, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#4 - Bassvictim - "Air on a G String"

Bach was GOATed but his G strings don’t have shit on Bassvictim.

Dec 22, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#5 - Syzy - "Take my energy!" / "Can you keep up?"

The first music genre I seriously got into as a tween was gloriously gaudy EDM trap. YouTube Minecraft PVP montages put me on to Flosstradamus, RL…

Dec 21, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#6 - xaviersobased - "Need Me"

So much of the most electrifying new rap music feels like it lives in a liminal realm between teenage bedrooms and Discord channels.

Dec 20, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#7 - EQ - "Boytoy"

Yes yes believe me I’m sick too of the endless tedious indie sleaze discourse — but forgive me this final paragraph on the subject.

Dec 19, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#8 - Jane Remover - "Flash in the Pan"

Jane’s catalog is an exquisite corpse, emphasis on exquisite. Her witches brew of sounds is almost always intoxicating, from dariacore to digital…

Dec 18, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#9 - Cash Cobain - "Rump Punch"

There was a whole lot of sexy drill this year that’s sweet, sensual, seductive—stuff you’d sing in the shower thinking about your crush or blast out of…

Dec 17, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#10 - Tinashe - "Nasty"

I’ve been a nasty girl, I whisper to my therapist as I join our weekly video call.

Dec 16, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#11 - Fine - "Coasting"

Everything is too fast nowadays, too stimuli-fucked sludge-content nightcore hysteria MrBeast retention-roided corecore psychoscrolling.

Dec 14, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

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