| 1 | FARRO | "Cliffs" | single | Springy, heroic arena-pop. |
| 2 | Bear Mountain | "Hopeful" | single | Fluttery Vancouver indie stomp-and-blip pop. |
| 3 | NateWantsToBattle | "Hello" | single | Minecraft-emo-core "Hello" cover. |
| 4 | TeraBrite | "I'll Show You" | single | Crushcrunch pop-screamo Bieber cover. |
| 5 | Clare Dunn | "Ferrari" | Clare Dunn 5 | Blaring country-rock shredding. |
| 6 | Samantha Crain | "Elk City" | Under Branch & Thorn & Tree | Heartbreaking, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"-grade indie-folk storytelling. |
| 7 | ANOHNI | "4 Degrees" | single | Clattery chamber-indie r&b-step collaboration between Antony Hegarty, Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never. |
| 8 | 廖文強 | "Wake Up" | 喜劇人生 | Expansive, earnest, guitar-lashed Taiwanese pop-rock. |
| 9 | Marnero | "Porti e labirinti" | La malora | Italian progressive blackened punk. |
| 10 | Cotton Mather | "The Book of Too Late Changes" | single | Hyper-neo-trad power-pop. |
| 11 | Tokami | "Anemone" | Metamorpha | Soaring visual-kei dramatics. |
| 12 | Armen Hambar | "Space and Time" | Pulse of Life | The epicore musical-equivalent of a coffee-table book of stock landscape photography. |
| 13 | Ed Kuepper | "Pavane" | Lost Cities | Atmospheric haunted-folk abstract-poetic hymns. |
| 14 | Aedliga | "Calculated Remorse" | Calculated Remorse +1 | And my own last frayed song for the year. |