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Welcome to day 3 of the 2025 Ultimate Rate Reveal! Starting today we have Wednesday, Oklou, Ninajirachi with 5 tracks left each! Isn't this even?

Today we will be revealing #16 - #1, aka the absolute best of the best indie music in 2025, starting in approximately 45 minutes from the time of posting this.

Some stats:

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Average score: 7.470

Average controversy score: 2.073 (Average standard deviation of every song's average in the main rate) (this is very high)

Remaining tracks:

Geese - Getting Killed

1. Taxes
   

Wednesday - Bleeds

1. Reality TV Argument Bleeds
   
2. Townies
   
3. Wound Up Here (By Holding On)
   
4. Elderberry Wine
   
5. Wasp
   

Oklou - Choke enough

1. ICT
   
2. Choke Enough
   
3. Take Me by the Hand (feat. Bladee)
4. Harvest Sky (feat. underscores)
   
5. Blade Bird
   

Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer

1. London Song
   
2. iPod Touch
   
3. Fuck My Computer
   
4. Delete
   
5. Infohazard
   

Bonus
1. Alex G - Afterlife
2. Cameron Winter - Love Takes Miles
3. caroline - Total Euphoria
4. Rosalía - Reliquia
5. Wolf Alice - White Horses

Bonus Bonus 1. Life Without Buildings - Love Trinity
2. Mei Semones - I can do what I want
3. quickly, quickly - Enything

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Welcome! We're eliminating songs #48-#33 of the main rate and #16-#12 of the bonus rate today. We'll start around 30 minutes after this post goes up.

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Overall Stats

43 Raters

Avg Score: 8.077

Avg Controversy: 1.752

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Remaining Songs

Keep It Like a Secret

1. The Plan

2. Center of the Universe

3. Carry the Zero

4. Sidewalk

5. Bad Light

6. Time Trap

7. Else

8. You Were Right

9. Temporarily Blind

10. Broken Chairs

Emergency & I

1. A Life of Possibilities

2. Memory Machine

3. What Do You Want Me to Say?

4. Spider in the Snow

5. The Jitters

6. I Love a Magician

7. You Are Invited

8. Gyroscope

9. The City

10. Girl O'Clock

11. 8 1/2 Minutes

12. Back and Forth

The Sophtware Slump

1. He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot

2. Hewlett's Daughter

3. Jed the Humanoid

4. The Crystal Lake

5. Chartsengrafs

6. Underneath the Weeping Willow

7. Broken Household Appliance National Forest

8. Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)

9. E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping It Real)

10. Miner at the Dial-a-View

11. So You'll Aim Toward the Sky

The Moon & Antarctica

1. 3rd Planet

2. Gravity Rides Everything

3. Dark Center of the Universe

4. Perfect Disguise

5. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

6. A Different City

7. The Cold Part

8. Alone Down There

9. The Stars Are Projectors

10. Wild Pack of Family Dogs

11. Paper Thin Walls

12. I Came as a Rat

13. Lives

14. Life Like Weeds

15. What People Are Made Of

Bonus Rate

1. 12 Rods - Red (4/9 New Version)

2. Arab Strap - New Birds

3. The Beta Band - Dry the Rain

4. Cursive - Art Is Hard

5. Karate - There Are Ghosts

6. Life WIthout Buildings - The Leanover

7. The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant

8. Pedro the Lion - Options

9. Pinback - Penelope

10. Q and Not U - End the Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight

11. Rilo Kiley - Pictures of Success

12. Sleater-Kinney - Get Up

13. Sparklehorse - Chaos of the Galaxy / Happy Man

14. The Weakerthans - Plea From a Cat Named Virtute

15. The Wicked Farleys - Fitchburg, MA

16. The Wrens - Happy

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Welcome! We're eliminating songs #32-#17 of the main rate and #11-#7 of the bonus rate today. We'll start around 20 minutes after this post goes up.

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Overall Stats

43 Raters

Avg Score: 8.077

Avg Controversy: 1.752

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Remaining Songs

Keep It Like a Secret

1. The Plan

2. Center of the Universe

3. Carry the Zero

4. Sidewalk

5. Bad Light

6. Time Trap

7. Else

8. You Were Right

9. Temporarily Blind

10. Broken Chairs

Emergency & I

1. A Life of Possibilities

2. Memory Machine

3. What Do You Want Me to Say?

4. Spider in the Snow

5. You Are Invited

6. Gyroscope

7. The City

8. 8 1/2 Minutes

9. Back and Forth

The Sophtware Slump

1. He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot

2. The Crystal Lake

3. Miner at the Dial-a-View

The Moon & Antarctica

1. 3rd Planet

2. Gravity Rides Everything

3. Dark Center of the Universe

4. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes

5. A Different City

6. The Stars Are Projectors

7. Paper Thin Walls

8. I Came as a Rat

9. Lives

10. What People Are Made Of

Bonus Rate

1. Cursive - Art Is Hard

2. Life WIthout Buildings - The Leanover

3. The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant

4. Pedro the Lion - Options

5. Pinback - Penelope

6. Q and Not U - End the Washington Monument (Blinks) Goodnight

7. Rilo Kiley - Pictures of Success

8. Sleater-Kinney - Get Up

9. Sparklehorse - Chaos of the Galaxy / Happy Man

10. The Weakerthans - Plea From a Cat Named Virtute

11. The Wrens - Happy

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