Each week, 8 new releases are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner which will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter of the year, and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2025.

Last week's results:

Fat Dog - Pray To That [5]

Hayley Williams - Glum [4]

Miles Kane - Electric Flower [2]

Biffy Clyro - Hunting Season [1]

d4vd (feat. hannah bahng) - L.O.V.E.U [1]

Bastille - Bathsheba & Him [0]

The Goo Goo Dolls - Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes) [0]

IDLES - Rabbit Run [0]

Tiebreak results:

Tame Impala - End Of Summer [7]

Lola Young - d3aler [6]

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Total Votes: 13

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Each week, choose one song only that you feel is your favourite from the selection of releases that week. If you wish to post a rate of the selection of songs in the thread, please feel free to do so.

Here are this week's contenders:

BABYMETAL (feat. Spiritbox) - My Queen

Deftones - milk of the madonna

Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl

Glass Animals - Vampire Bat

Lucy Dacus - Bus Back To Richmond

Of Monsters and Men - Ordinary Creature

Wolf Alice - White Horses

Zach Bryan (feat. Kings of Leon) - Bowery

2025 Indie/Rock/Alt Track of the Week Winners

Week 1: N/A

Week 2: Ethel Cain – Amber Waves

Week 3: Mumford & Sons – Rushmere

Week 4: Nova Twins – Monsters

Week 5: SOFIA ISELLA – Dog's Dinner

Week 6: Oklou – blade bird

Week 7: Sam Fender – Remember My Name

Week 8: Fontaines D.C. – It's Amazing To Be Young

Week 9: Doves - A Drop In The Ocean

Week 10: Black Country, New Road – Happy Birthday

Week 11: Sleep Token – Emergence

Week 12: SOFT PLAY feat. Kate Nash – Slushy

Week 13: Linkin Park - Up From The Bottom

Week 14: Wet Leg - catch these fists

Week 15: Lana Del Rey - Henry, come on

Week 16: Lana Del Rey – Bluebird

Week 17: Lorde – What Was That

Week 18: Nilüfer Yanya - Cold Heart

Week 19: Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia

Week 20: Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom

Week 21: Pulp - Got to Have Love

Week 22: Pendulum - Save The Cat

Week 23: Ethel Cain - Nettles

Week 24: Twenty One Pilots - The Contract

Week 25: Muse - Unravelling

Week 26: Lorde - Shapeshifter

Week 27: Ethel Cain - F*ck Me Eyes

Week 28: Wolf Alice - The Sofa

Week 29: The Last Dinner Party - This is the Killer Speaking
Week 30: Tame Impala - End Of Summer

Week 31: Fat Dog - Pray To That

Went for Ethel Cain this week,

I'm unexpectedly really enjoying the Wolf Alice song so I went for that!

Edited Saturday at 22:321 day by Mangø

I think Zach / KoL get my vote here, but need to listen to Ethel's album in full (and Wolf Alice's in a couple of weeks).

BABYMETAL!

ordinary creature ATE DOWN

bowery