The 15th Annual Expert Witness Poll: Singletons
The 196 albums that got precisely one vote
30 Door Key: A Warning to the Curious
AJ Lee & Blue Summit: City of Glass and Covers Project EP
Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto: Djiyo
Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette
Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound
Allo Darlin’: Bright Nights
Amaarae: Black Star
Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey from a Winter Stone
Anika: Abyss
Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back
Anthony Worden and the Illiterati: Plain Angels
Apathy: Mom & Dad
Aram Bajakian: Carillon: Sounds from a Dislocated Piano
Armand Hammer & the Alchemist: Mercy
Audrey Hobert: Who’s the Clown
August Fanon & Billy Woods: Gowillog
Balimaya Project & Discos Pacificos All-Stars: Calima
Big Freedia: Pressing Onward
Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
Blawan: SickElixir
Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture
Bon Iver: Sable/Fable
Brandi Carlile: Returning to Myself
Brian Dunne: Clams Casino
Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars
Caroline: Caroline 2
Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day
Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter
Ches Smith: Clone Row
Chini.png: Via Lo Orozco
Chuck D: Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon
Clipping: DeadChannel Sky
Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out
Common & Pete Rock: The Auditorium Vol. 1-5
Cymande: Renascence
Cyrus Pireh: Thank You, Guitar
DJ Danz: Budots Dance Party Vol. 2
DJ Ericnem: New TikTok Budots Party 2025
DJ Ericnem: New TikTok Thai Mix 2025
DJ Joecel: New Year Countdown 2026 (TikTok Hits)
DJ K: Radio Libertadora!
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: Fantasy
David Lowery: Fathers, Sons, Brothers
De La Soul: Cabin in the Sky
Deafheaven: Lonely People with Power
Dean Wareham: That’s the Price of Loving Me
Decius: Decius Vol. II
Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart
Deftones: Private Music
Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie
Die Spitz: Something to Consume
Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer
Doja Cat: Vie
Double Virgo: Shakedown
Ela Minus: Día
Emily C Browning: Primary
Emma Swift: The Resurrection Game
Esther Rose: Want
FKA Twigs: Eusexua
Florist: Jellywish
Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time
Friendship: Caveman Wakes Up
Fust: Big Ugly
Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity with Signe Emmeluth & Kjetil Møster: Great Intentions
Gelli Haha: Switcheroo
Go Kurosawa: Soft Shakes
Good Flying Birds: Talulah’s Tape
Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain
Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment
Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People
His Lordship: Bored Animal
Home Is Where: Hunting Season
Hot 8 Brass Band: Fat Tuba
Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears
Introspekt: Moving the Center
Ivy: Traces of You
Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Jennie: Ruby
Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter: Forever, I’ve Been Being Born
Joan Shelley: Real Warmth
Joe Harvey Whyte & Paul Cousins: In a Fugue State
John Glacier: Like a Ribbon
Joy Crookes: Juniper
Juana Molina: Doga
Julien Baker, Torres: Send a Prayer My Way
K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas: The Blue Album
Kae Tempest: Self Titled
Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Let the Spirit Out: Live at ‘Mu’ London
Ken Kweller: Cover the Mirrors
Kev Hopper: XiX
King Yosef: Spire of Fear
Kitchen Cynics/Margery Daw/Grey Malkin: To the Green Round
Kyle Dion: Soular
Lady Gaga: Mayhem
Lael Neale: Altogether Stranger
Lake Ruth: Hawking Radiation
Lella Fadda: Magnün Deluxe
Lido Pimienta: La Belleza
Lisa: Alter Ego
Lorde: Virgin
Los Originarios del Plan: ¡Puritito Michoacán!
Luke Stewart Silt Remembrance Ensemble: The Order
Maren Morris: Dreamsicle
Marie Davidson: City of Clowns
McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive!
Me Lost Me: This Material Moment
Mei Seimones: Animaru
Melissa Mary Ahern: Kerosene
Melody’s Echo Cahmber: Unclouded
Melvin Gibbs: Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2
Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguaria Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard
Miso Extra: Earcandy
Monaleo: Who Did the Body
Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered)
Ms. Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head
Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Multau
Nakibembe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida: Phantom Keys
Natural Information Society: Perseverance Flow
Neba Solo: Tuma Duma
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Live God
Nick León: A Tropical Entropy
Nightmares on Wax: Echo45 Sound System
Noura Mint Seymali: Yenbett
Obongjayar: Paradise Now
Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving
Omaha Diner: Omaha Diner
Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
Panda Bear: Sinister Grift
Peter Stampfel: Song Shards
Prolapse: I Wonder When They’re Going to Destroy Your Face
Pulselovers: Northern Minimalism 4
Purity Ring: Purity Ring
R.A.P. Ferreira & Kenny Segal: The Night Green Side of It
Ravyn Lenae: Bird’s Eye
Ribbon Skirt: Bite Down
Richard Aufrichtig: Everybody on the Breeze
Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall
Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway
S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs
Sailorr: From Florida’s Finest
Salt Collective: A Brief History of Blindness
Samantha Fish: Paper Doll
Samia: Bloodless
Sammy Virij: Same Day Cleaning
Saya Gray: Saya
Sharp Pins: Radio DDR
Shayne P Carter: REforms
Shego: No lo volveré a hacer
Shiran & Bakal: Electro Baghdad
Silvana Estrada: Vendrán Suaves Lluvias
Simon Cropp: Paperback Dream
Skrillex: F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3
Slamdinistas: Wild & Restless
Snocaps: Snocaps
Sofia Kourtesis: Volver
Sons of Southern Ulster: Through the Bridewell Gate
State Offf: Hard Currency
Styx: Circling from Above
Summer Walker: Finally Over It
Sunny Sweeney: Rhinestone Requiem
Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes
Sylvie Courvoisier, Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells
Tate McRae: So Close to What
Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl
Thalin, Cravinhos, VCR Slim: Maria Esmeralda
The Beverage Station: Little Grey Cells
The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
The New Existentialists: Bad Astrology
The Tubs: Cotton Crown
This Is Lorelei: Holo Boy
Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz
Ty Segall: Possession
Tyler, the Creator: Don’t Tap the Glass
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: IC-02 Bogotá
Van Morrison: Remembering Now
Various artists: Avenida Paulista, da Consolação ao Paraíso
Various artists: Champeta with Edna Martinez: Diblo Dibala Special
Various artists: Chuck Eddy’s 160 Best Singles of 1985
Various artists: Digital Ngoma Vol. 2
Various artists: Não Estragou Nada
Various artists: Tehranageles Vice (Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993)
Various artists: Tsapiky! Modern Music from Southwest Madagascar
Various artists: Zulu Guitar Blues
War and Treaty: Plus One
Weed520: Amor De Encva
Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World
Wrens: Half of What You See
YS: Burn
Youssou Ndour: Éclairer le Monde (Light the World)
Yves Jarvis: All Cylinders
Zanussi 3: A Keen Beast
Zheani: Long Live the Old Dead Gods
And here are the EPs that got one vote:
ARTMS: Club Icarus
Aespa: Rich Man
Anastasia Coope: Dot
Anish Kumar & Baalti: Stunt Doubles Pt. 2
Ariana Grande: Eternal Sunshine: Brighter Days Ahead
Ata Kak: Batakari
Baileyrp: Everything Else (Reimagined)
Blusher: Racer
Casiokids: Sjelden vare
Chloe Qisha: Modern Romance
Chung Ha: Alivio
Cindy Wilson: Second Sight
Clutter: Loves You
DJ Jeffdepl: Set Forrozhino
DJ Travella: Twende
David Boulter: Whitby
Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love
Effie: Pullup to Busan 4 More Hyper Summer It’s Gonna Be a Fuckin Movie
Fan Club: Stimulation
Field Hospitals: Ethel Green
Hyperflu: Existez-moi
Ibibio Sound Machine: Anyone Like You
Illuminati Hotties: Nickel on the Fountain Floor
Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (2025)
Kathleen Edwards: Covers
Kayla Painter: Ambient Owl Core, Vol. 4
Kinan Azmeh & Palaver Strings: Syrian Dances
King Princess: Cherry
Kronos Quartet + The Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain
Lupe Fiasco: Samurai DX
Makaya McCraven: PopUp Shop
Makaya McCraven: The People’s Mixtape
Manuka Honey: Road Rage
Marianne Faithfull: Burning Moonlight
Minnie: Her
Mulgrave Audio: Patchwuff
NMIXX: Fe3O4: Forward
Niis: Niis World
Orcutt Shelley Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller
Rebecca Black: Salvation
Reyna Tropical: Malegría en la Oscuridad
Ricky Hollywood: Musique Magique
Six Sex: X-Sex
Sophie Hunter: Go!
Summer Dean: Life AF Session
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’: Room on the Porch for Everyone
The Dare: Freakquencies: Volume 1
The Knocks & Dragonette: Revelation
Tune-Yards: Tell the Future with Your Body
Twice: Strategy
Tyla: WWP
Vicky: Wann Album?
Xiangyu & Gimgigam: 遠慮のかたまり
YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds