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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

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

The countdown is over.

Dec 27, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

My top 25ish songs of 2022 (plus 20 honorable mentions)

Here are my top 25 songs of 2022 with 20 bonus honorable mentions.

Dec 30, 2022 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

My top 10ish songs of 2023 (plus 20 honorable mentions)

IT’S TIME!!!!!

Dec 28, 2023 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

My Top 20ish Songs of 2021 (Plus 15 HMs)

BREAKING NEWS: Here are recently (belatedly) made Spotify and YouTube playlists with all the songs for easy listening.

Dec 28, 2021 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#15 - wokeups - "fragged aht"

Dearest Deacon of Fraggersville,

Dec 10, 2024 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

My 15 favorite live shows of 2022

This was the most concert-filled year of my life: 45(ish) shows, which is basically one per week, and over 150 artists.

Nov 28, 2022 • 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

#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

#16 - kaystrueno - "PRETTY B!TCHES NEVA DIE"

Similar to how Axxturel, lungskull, and some other glitchy SoundCloud musicians partly blew up because of Roblox TikTok, kaystrueno’s “PRETTY B!TCHES…

Dec 7, 2021 • Kieran Press-Reynolds

#9 - Ken Carson - "Lose It" / "Me N My Kup" (tie)

A Great Chaos really electrified me for the first time when I played it on a run.

Dec 17, 2023 • 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

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