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Acetone - Every Kiss: 8 They need to take a time machine to right now asap cause this is what's hot amongst the people today, Acetone would be placing a strong 13th in the IH AOTY rankings

Adeem the Artist - Reclaim My Name: 7 That doesn't sound like any time machine I've ever heard

Amanda - Worship Me: 8 The indieheads to Daddy Says No's popheads

The Armed - An Iteration: 9 Amanda hurt my ears worse so it maxed out at 9. Great album though, saw one of those himbos do a frog splash into the crowd at P4K

Bartees Strange - Mustang: 10 The tragedy of sending one of my favorite songs to 11 only to someone to send an even bigger 11. Anyway, everyone always talks about Boomer with its switchups but this is easily my favorite, an all-time bangs in the whip track. Love that oh so brief sound drop in the bridge, love Bartees's voice straining to hold one hell of a note, especially love that only running through the chorus once makes me wanna replay it immediately after to reach that high. Idk might be my favorite song of the decade so far

Birds In Row - Noah: 7 Needed more of that section with those thunderous drums, loved that bit

Brown Eyed Girls - Abracadabra: 7 That first verse rubbed my ears the wrong way, but the catchy chorus brings it back

Bruiser and Bicycle - Woods: 8 My fears about it being boring stomp-clap completely allayed, got such a fun momentum and some super crisp sounds

City and Colour - The Girl: 7 Need to see the score split of those who listened to the four minute one in the Youtube playlist and the six minute one on streaming (six minute, for the record). This is the type of song that can soundtrack a million high school relationships. I don't actually mean that as an insult lol, I might've been one of them if I had this. There's just a real potency in such a young feeling optimistic love song, but that makes it catnip for dudes to put on their playlists & feel vulnerable hearing in the dark of their room, feeling waaay too emotional about snuggling with their s.o. at a friend's bonfire three weeks before the end of junior year

The Constantines - The Long Distance Four: 8 Wish I had a college radio station, this would sound so good there

Courtney Barnett - Charity: 8 Just some solid indie rock that makes me do a lil Stone Cold "oh hell yeah"

Demilich - The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality: 7 What do you mean, "used to"

Emiliana Torrini - To Be Free: 5 Trip hop isn't really my thing but it does have a good sound

Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know the Ledge): 9 Mmmm baby that bass

Fk Buttons - Olympians: 8 This should play in a loop when all the countries come walking out

Ginger Root - Weather: 9 "Aggressive elevator soul" lmao. Ngl this is prime "artist I'm really into for a year due to a music festival" music but bad news y'all when it's good that's my JAM

Girl Talk - Triple Double: 9 There is something so special about a Girl Talk mashup. Paint It Black & Yellow? That's poetry. And if Luda was actually on 1901 it would've swept IPR rate no doubt. That said, all Good Day mashups pale in comparison to K.K. Good Day

Goldfrapp - Strict Machine: 8 I just know this probably advertised a laptop or something lol. But it's a great version of that! Rather a good commercial song than a bad one

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It): 8 "In 2023, rapper Pusha T remade the song in promotion for the film, Cocaine Bear, retitling it 'White Lines (Cocaine Bear Remix)', keeping the chorus, but replacing the original verses with his personally written lyrics."

Grouper - Headache: 9 Danny Devito wide eyed and crying gif

Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles: 9 Here we are, back again, in the aquarium for eleven whole minutes with Hikaru Utada. Anyway sorry for not saying anything & silently having a sensible chuckle when everyone kept thinking Roxie sent this

The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations: 10 As someone heavily influenced by some of Pitchfork's late 00s opinions I looove this album. Just a weird sounding dude sing-talking to some incredible heartland rock. Had one of the best sounding pianos in the biz on this

Hot Action Cop - Fever for the Flava: 5 If this was in the soundtrack of a video game I had actually played I would probably give this a higher score. But it wasn't, so I'm not

Invisible - Perdonado (Niño Condenado): 8 Was vibing a bit too hard to the intro which made me a little surprised when the dude came in. Guitar emote out in full force here

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love’s Refrain: 9 Bro.

Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing: 7 That's a crisp ass glockenspiel

Johnny Yeast and the Infections - Tyler Derden Was a Mother Fng P: 9 And it's right here that I realize that I can't remember what happens in Fight Club. Did chemical burns factor into the plot at all or?

K. Hand - Eternal: 8 Need a bunch of glow sticks on my person rn

Kelsey Lu - I'm Not In Love: 6 The ASMR for Big Boys section though

kendall﹕3 - blue shift: 7 I don't really know Owl City at all and someone will prob correct me on this but my mind's making the comparison anyway, at the very least the wave of 10s altish synthpop

Kessoku Band - Seishun Complex: 9 Watching anime just to hear some J-rock that you enjoy

kittydog - Bees in My Head (ADHD): 5 Beez nuts

The KLF - Justified & Ancient: 9 So which Nintendo platformer is Mu Mu Land from?

Les Panties - Diving: 7 This is exactly the sound I would expect out of an act described as a "Brussels cold wave band" (complimentary). Also what accent is this

Linda Smith - I So Liked Spring: 7 Lovely guitar tone

Lisa Germano - Puppet: 7 Really solid 90s alt

Mallrat - Charlie: 9 Basic bedroom pop for basic bitches like me

Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack: 8 Hit a little overplay recently that dings it slightly for me but still a smooth bop of the highest order

Michael Hurley - Slurf Song: 8 Now that's some mighty fine slurfin'

The Mountain Goats - This Year: 10 Extra marks for timeliness!

Neko Case - Star Witness: 9 Never gotten hugely into Neko Case solo but god I love her voice

ODESZA - Higher Ground: 6 Pretty good, but not the same without the giant EDM stage behind it

Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run: 10 S-tier first notes, and great first two parts that switch up right when they need to & finishes with an ace second half

Pearl Jam - Jeremy (MTV Live Unplugged): 8 Sir, a second Jeremy has hit indieheads rates

Perfume - Edge (triangle mix): 10 After this got submitted I watched the live performances of this so much, I was OBSESSED. Those ladies know how to work an onstage trio of giant screen towers

Porter Robinson - Musician: 10 If this wasn't already a rate winner it'd be a much bigger 11 contender for me this time around, anyway I'm gonna run through a sunny grass field rn see ya later

r-906 - Panopticon: 8 Of all the things Covid took from us, Hatsune Miku set on the 2020 Coachella live stream no doubt has to be number one

Rilo Kiley - A Better Son/Daughter: 10 Maybe this is finally the year I do a full go-through of this album

Rita Lee - Erva Venenosa: 8 Oh, that's a bigger groove that I thought

Rizzle Kicks - Down with the Trumpets: 6 Uh-oh, brief grade school crush on Rachel Bilson immediately re-activated

Robbie Williams - Me and My Monkey: 8 Not looking up the meaning of this, I refuse to believe this monkey is a metaphor for anything

Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches: 3 You're a few songs too late for the weeb section

RXKNephew - American tterroristt: 8 The way the lines occasionally run over each other makes this somehow feel even more like a fever dream than it already does

Say Sue Me - Old Town: 10 Ah hell, this one hit me bad. Should eventually get into their older work, this is very much in my wheelhouse. Can't wait to see what Say Sue Me song we send to Charity next time

Scatman John - Scatman's World: 9 All rise for the global anthem of Scatland

Serengeti - Dennehy: 10 Favorite discovery: Dennehy. Incredible wordplay and asolutely perfect at telling the story of a very specific kind of Guy. Bears. Hawks. Sox. Bulls.

Sir Lord Baltimore - Helium Head (I Got a Love): 7 A nice, wild, rockin cut

Sofia Portanet - Menschen und Mächte: 7 Pleasing voice, nice steady pace

St. Lenox - Nixon: 6 Honestly love the chorus even if (or maybe because?) it sounds weirdly like it could come from a musical. At the very least a theater kid writing music vibes, if the kid really idolized like Lin Manuel Miranda & Father John Misty. Writing that and realizing I just created a kid many of you immediately hate so I will step away

Sukpatch - Mexico City Big Vacation: 8 So grainy, but adds to the summer band vibes

Teenage Head - Disgusteen: 8 Keep thinking he's singing "Im Disco Steve" like f off no you're not. Legit extra point for this little skit in the bridge what is this

Tegan and Sara - The Con: 9 A third artist in this rate that I should really work on getting through the important parts of their catalogue sometime

Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town: 11 The boys are back baybeeeeeeeee!!! The way my last second ballot helped put this in indieheads favorite songs of the 70s list. Absolute all-timer riff, one of the most feel good guitar parts ever created. If you don't shout sing along to this what are you even doing??? Was planning to eventually send this to either of the Charity Rates eventually, so I'm so glad to see it here. A true classic in need of a jukebox to play it on and some boys (preferably in leather jackets) to play it

Toy Love - Squeeze: 8 Love the chorus, the way the guitar melody and the singer intertwine just works

Tøyen Holding - Frisk Kapital: 8 If this was on a GTA Radio Station it would kill. That said tbh the outro was the best part even if it hurt my ears a little

Westelaken - Pink Lights, and the Dixieland Band: 8 The horns

Wolfmother - High on My Own Supply: 7 This isn't good at all, but I think I got Wane-pilled & the music video being such blatant Influencer-core made me give this a way higher score than I would in a vacuum

Xinlisupreme - I Am Not Shinzo Abe: 9 A likely story

Yuki Saito - Itsuka: 9 A beautiful flower placed in between I Am Not Shinzo Abe & Jesus is the One (I Got Depression)

Zack Fox - Jesus is the One (I Got Depression): 10 Insane amount of quotables, just wall-to-wall. I feel the need to watch the making-of vid every so often too. Praise 🙌

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