DiS Album of the year 2025 - THE RESULTS

:sparkler: Welcome to the 2025 DiS Albums of the Year 2025 results thread! :sparkler:

The results have all been tallied, checked and the EUROCOUNTRY/EURO-COUNTRY/EuroCountry/Euro-Country/Euro Country votes for CMAT and Cmat, the many perfectly reasonable variations of that (The) Besnard Lakes album and the whole spectrum of slightly (sometimes beautifully) renamed albums have all hopefully been spotted and merged.

Thanks everyone for following the requested format in the polling thread, it made things a lot easier to work with and to check voter numbers reconciled last night.

@Severed799 will be along later this morning to host the results rundown. In the meantime, some headline figures for 2025:

173 voters (Just one shy of last year’s record turnout)
372 albums nominated
107 different albums received a first place vote
1 winner!

Congratulations to Ethel Cain, Sharp Pins and Smote who each made it onto the list with two separate releases.

I’ll be back at the end with some nice data to dive into, but for now thanks as always to @Severed799 for hosting.

Edit: AOTY 2025 Full Results Dashboard
(View on tablet or laptop)
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/wowee.zowee/viz/DiSAOTY2025/AOTY2025Summary

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And thanks to @woweezowee for running this year and to @Prob500 for all the years of polls and lists before!

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Aw here it goes

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One more stat while we are waiting for the results to start.

Shout out to @el-barnetto who was the only DiSer out of all 173 to submit five unique nominations!!

@rustypiss was there with @el-barnetto all the way until the penultimate vote when a second nomination for Laura Judd dramatically landed! :scream_cat:

As such then @rustypiss joins @SleepingCapybara just behind @el-barnetto in these standings, both with four unique nominations and one nomination with that received two votes.

Nice work all three of you.

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This is what the countdown is for, to inform me of everything I should have been listening to all year. =P

Definitely be checking out both Capybara’s and Barnetto’s suggestions, they might be onto something. =]

@SleepingCapybara - Quite liked what I heard from Kara-Lis Coverdale so far, I’ll give it a proper listen
And
@el-barnetto - Impurity’s album got my attention so I’ll give it a go too.

Cheers for the lists.

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Here’s hoping Geese can finally get a bit of recognition somewhere.

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Morning all, I just woke up as due to various delays to my trip home last night I didn’t get in until 1:45am so let us have a coffee and that to wake up first and then we’ll get going x

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No rush at all, whenever you are sorted. =]

I’m sure Mert can do another film list before we start.

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You won’t be disappointed.

It’s a honking record

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Ready to be disappointed :raised_hands:

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Haha awesome. I did think about tweaking my list to give Agriculture and Deafheaven (who were polling quite well) a boost, but stuck to my guns.

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How many posts until the first ā€˜oh my god, I can’t believe that the band that’s really popular on here has polled so well!!’ complaint? I’m saying around post 45.

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Here’s some phrases for us to copy and paste when the time comes:

ā€œPulp? They still going?ā€

ā€œGeese are overratedā€

ā€œTurnstile have a song that sounds like The Policeā€

ā€œI don’t get CMATā€

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Hmm nice punnage except for me

ā€œhonking goodā€ = very good

Honking = stinking

:thinking:

I’ve never heard honking to mean anything other than rubbish tbf

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Everyone prep their Untitled Goose Game GIFs now, only 100 places to go!

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Yeah that’s what I was confirming but if I saw it used with good I’d assume it improved the word good, like if I said something was ā€œhorribly goodā€.

Basically everyone goes on about the Geese album being amazing so wasn’t sure you could be a dissenter.

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Depends how long I take to get my shit together, I see some of you have already resorted to pretending to react to results in the interim

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Was just a pun about geese.

FWIW, they were my Number 1 pick.

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