The 13th Annual Expert Witness Poll: Singletons

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Albums that received one vote

Actress: LXXXVIII

Alex Lahey: The Answer Is Always Yes

Allah-Las: Zuma 85

Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy: O Yinne!

Altin Gun: Ask

Amaarae: Fountain Baby

Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song

Andy Fairweather Low: Flang Dang

Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid, Savannah Harris: Beyond Dragons

Armand Hammer: We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile

Avalon Emerson: & the Charm

Baaba Maal: Being

Baby Rose: Through and Through

Balka Sound: Balka Sound

Bat Italia: Tracey Denim

Beneficence & Jazz Spastiks: Summer Night Sessions

Beverly Glenn-Copeland: The One Ahead

Bill Scorzari: The Crosswinds of Kansas

Billy Nomates: Cacti

Black Belt Eagle Scout: The Land, the Water, the Sky

Blondshell: Blondshell

Body Type: Expired Candy

Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know

Brennen Leigh: Ain't Through Honky Tonkin' Yet

Buggin: Concrete Cowboys

Bully: Lucky for You

CMAT: If My Wife New I'd Be Dead

Cat Clyde: Down Rounder

Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Mélusie

D'Athiz, Ke-nny, Locofire: What's the Sounds?

DJ Black Low: Impumelelo

DJ Finale: Mille Morceau

DJ Jeffdepl: CD Forrozinho Fim De Ano 2.0

DJ Jeffdepl: Forrozinho CD De Carnaval 2023

Dan Ex Machina: Ex's Sexts

Debby Friday: Good Luck

Dlala Thukzin: Permanent Music 3

Emperor X: Suggested Improvements to Transportation Infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor

Esther Rose: Safe to Run

Eyelids: A Colossal Waste of Light

Faizal Mostrixx: Mutations

Fever Ray: Radical Romantics

George Coleman: Live at Smalls Jazz Club

Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly

Guided by Voices: Welshpool Follies

Hamell on Trial: Bring the Kids

Hannah Diamond: Perfect Picture

Henry Threadgill Ensemble: The Other One

Hotline TNT: Cartwheel

Irreversible Entanglements: Protect Your Light

J Noa: Autodidactica

Jane Remover: Census Designated

Janelle Monáe: The Age of Pleasure

Jelly Roll: Whitsitt Chapel

Jermey Dutcher: Motewolonuwok

Jess Williamson: Time Ain't Accidental

Jlin: Perspective

Julia Byrne: The Greater Wings

Kabeaushe: Hold on to Deer Life

Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus

Kara Jackson: Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love

Kelala: Raven

Kesha: Gag Order

King Krule: Space Heavy

Lakecia Benjamin: Phoenix

Lenhart Tapes: Dens

Leroy: Grave Robbing

Lil Durk: Almost Healed

Liquid Mike: Liquid Mike

Los Mohanes La Tumbia: Los Mohanes La Tumbia

Loupe: Do You Ever Wonder What Comes Next?

Lubomyr Melnyk: The Sacred Thousand

Ludwig Göransson: Oppenheimer

Lukas Traxel Trio: One-Eyed Daruma

MC Madan: Controle Mental

MTS No Beat: Outubro 2023

McKinley Dixon: Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?

Molly Tuttle: City of Gold

Mon Laferte: Autopoiética

Montparnasse Musique: Archeology

Ndox Electrique: Tëd ak Mame Coumba Lamba ak Mame Coumba Mbang

NewJeans: Get Up

Novagang & Zephrxd: The Hellsing Conspiracy

Nídia: 95 Mindjeres

Núria Graham: Cyclamen

Okwy Osadebe & Highlife Soundmakers International: Igbo Amaka

Os Tincoãs: Canto Coral Afrobrasileiro

Paramore: This Is Why

Parchman Prison Prayer: Some Mississippi Sunday Morning

Paul Simon: Seven Psalms

Peter Brúotzmann, Majid Bekkas, Hamid Drake: Catching Ghosts

Peter Gabriel: i/o

Plains: I Walked with You a Ways

Ria Treanor & Ocen James: Saccades

Ricardo Dias Gomes: Muito Sol

Robert Finley: Black Bayou

Rodney Crowell: The Chicago Sessions

Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds

Romance & Dean Hurley: River of Dreams

Smokey Robinson: Gasms

Snõõper: Super Snõõper

Sofia Kourtesis: Madres

Sowal Diabi: De Kaboul a Bamako

Sparklehorse: Bird Machine

Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz: Ex Machina

Subatlantic: Say It Again

Sufjan Stevens: Javelin

Sundae Painters: Sundae Painters

Sunny War: Anarchist Gospel

Sweeping Promises: Good Living Is Coming for You

Sylvie Courvoisier: Chimaera

Tamara Stewart: Woman

Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor's Version)

Terra Lightfoot: Healing Power

The Clientele: I Am Not There Anymore

The Lemon Twigs: Everything Harmony

The Mark Lomax Trio: Tapestry

The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein

The National: Laugh Track

The Rempis Percussion Quartet: Harvesters

The Replacements: Tim (Ed Stasium mix)

Uncle Waffles: Asylum

V/Z: Suono Assente

Various artists: Bié Records Meets Shika Shika

Various artists: Clairvoyance Is the Dance

Various artists: Piconema: East African Hits on the Colombian Coast

War and Treaty: Lover's Game

Witch: Zango

Yeule: Softscars

Yonic South: Devo Challenge Cup

Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Singles that received one vote

100 Gecs: I Got My Tooth Removed

2KBABY: 40's and 9's

ASAP Rocky: Same Problems?

Alex Lahey: The Answer Is Always Yes

Altégo: Dark Horse x Better Off Alone (Katy Perry x Alice Deejay)

Amaarae: Counterfeit

Amaarae: Sociopathic Dance Queen

Amanda Shires & Bobbie Nelson: Old Fashioned Love

Anohni and the Johnsons: Scapegoat

Anohni and the Johnsons: Silver of Ice

Ashley McBrde: Light On in the Kitchen

Ava Max: One of Us

Billie Eilish: Hotline (Edit)

Billie Eilish: What Was I Made For?

Björk & Rosalía: Oral

Body Type: Miss the World

Bombay Bicycle Club: I Want to Be Your Only Pet

Boygenius: $20

Boygenius: Afraid of Heights

Boygenius: True Blue

Brennen Leigh: Running Out of Hope, Arkansas

Burial: Unknown Summer

Burna Boy & 21 Savage: Sitting on Top of the WOrld

CMAT: California

CMAT: Whatever's Inconvenient

CMAT & John Grant: Where Are Your Kids Tonight

Carly Rae Jepsen: Shy Boy

Caroline Polachek: Welcome to My Island

Chappell Roan: Femininomenon

Chappell Roan: Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl

Charlotte Cardin: Confetti

Chris Stapleton: White Horse

Corinne Bailey Rae: New York Transit Queen

DJ Arana & MC Lan: ABCDário Da Guerra

DJ Bosak, MC DA 12, MC GW, MC Biel PR: Realidade Extradimensional

DJ Jeffdepl, Murilo Cajaiba, MC Gw: Forrozinho Tô Invisível

DJ Maphorisa, Tman Xpress, Mellow & Sleazy: Chukela

DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: Say What You Mean

DJ Will DF, MC Pipokinha, MC Naninha: Bota Na Patricinha Com Carinha De Piranh4

Dan Ex Machina: I Just Want to Get Your Mother High

Dan Ex Machina: Then-Wife

Dave & Central Cee: Trojan Horse

Debby Friday: So Hard to Tell

Destroy Boys: Shadow (I'm Breaking Down)

Diners: Someday I'll Go Surfing

Doechii & Kodad Black: What It Is (Block Boy)

Doja Cat: Demons

Doja Cat: Paint the Town Red

Eftalya Yagci: Darbuka

Elle King: Jersey Giant

Elle King & Miranda Lambert: Drunk (and I Don't Wanna Go Home)

Everything But the Girl: Nothing Left to Lose

Feza: Siwei

Gina Birch: I Play My Bass Loud

Gogol Bordello & Bernard Sumner: Solidarity

Gossip: Crazy Again

Grupo Frontera & Bad Bunny: un x100to

Hamell on Trial: Jelly

Hamell on Trial: Pray

Hamish Hawk: Money

Harry: Something More

Headache: The Party That Never Ends

Hemlocke Springs: POS

Ice Spice: In Ha Mood

Ice Spice: Princess Diana

Indigo De Souza: You Can Be Mean

Iris DeMent: Goin' Down to Sing in Texas

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown: Lean Beef Patty

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown: Scaring the Hoes

Jake Shears: Too Much Music

Jane Remover: Census Designated

Janelle Monáe: Lipstick Lover

Jason Isbell: Cast Iron Skillet

Jenny Lewis: Psychos

Jeon Somi: Fast Forward

Jess Williamson: Time Ain't Accidental

Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!

Joy Oladokun: Keeping the Light On

Julia Mestre: Arrepiada

Jungle: Back on 74

Kah-Lo: Fund$

Kah-Lo: GD Woman

Karol G: Mi Ex Tenia Razon

Killer Mike, Future, André 3000: Scientists and Engineers

Kylie Minogue: Padam Padam

Lady Amar, JL SA, Cici, Murumba Pitch: Hamba Juba

Latto & Cardi B: Put It on Da Floor Again

Lewis Capaldi: Heavenly Kind of State of Mind

Lewis Capaldi: Pointless

Lori McKenna: 1988

Lori McKenna: The Old Woman in Me

Luke Combs: Fast Car

Lydia Loveless: Sex and Money

MC Pipokinha & DJ Kleytinho: Bota Na Pipoka

MC Pipokinha, MC Jhenny, DJ Boladão dz7: Alarme Da Putaria

MSPAINT: Hardwired

MTS No Beat & MC Pipokinha: Bota Na Pipokinha - Quando Morre Eu Quero Ser Entrada De Quatro (Forrozinho remix)

Margaret Glaspy: Female Brain

Marina Sena: Tudo Pra Amar Você

Mary Apelona, MC Boyugo: O Apelão Me Convocou

María Daniela y Su Sonido Lasser: Mosca Muerta

María Daniela y Su Sonido Lasser: Robot Pantera

Megan Moroney: Sleep on My Side

Miley Cyrus: Flowers

Miley Cyrus: Handstand

Mititarie Gun: Do It Faster

Mitski: My Love Mine All Mine

Morgan Wade: Losers Look Like Me

Morgan Wade: Phantom Feelings

Morgan Wallen & Eric Church: Man Made a Bar

Mourning [a] BLKstar: Catch 22

Nabihah Iqbal: The World Couldn't See Us

Natalie Merchant: Sister Tilly

NewJeans: Ditto

NewJeans: ETA

NewJeans: OMG

Noel Gallagher: Pretty Boy

October London: Back to Your Place

Olaf Dreijer: Rosa Rugosa

Olivia Rodrigo: Pretty Isn't Pretty

Palehound: Independence Day

Peggy Gou: (It Goes Like) Nanana

PinkPantheress: Angel

PinkPantheress: Mosquito

Priya Ragu: Black Goose

Ratboys: Black Earth, WI

Reet Talwar: Meherbaan

Rolling Stones: Get Close

Romy: The Sea

Romy: Weightless

Romy & Fred Again: Strong

Rosalía: LLYLM

Sampha: Spirit 2.0

Sexyy Red & Chief Keef: Ghetto Princess

Smokey Robinson: I Wanna Know Your Body

Sofia Kourtesis: Si Te Portas Bonito

Sparks: Nothing Is as Good as THey Say It Is

Speedy Ortiz: Scabs

Sufjan Stevens: Shit Talk

Superviolet: Locket

Taking Meds: Memory Lane

Taylor Swift: Cruel Summer (live)

Terrace Martin & Channel Tres: Chucks

The Beaches: Blame Brett

The Beatles: Now and Then

The Beths: Watching the Credits

The Chemical Brothers: Beautiful Feeling

The Flints: Different Drun

The National: Weird Goodbyes

The New Pornographers: Cat and Mouse with the Light

The Paranoid Style: I Love the Sound of Structured Class

The Paranoid Style: Print the Legend

The Tubs: I Don't Know How It Works

Troye Sivan: One of Your Girls

Turnpike Troubadours: A Cat in the Rain

Tyla: Water

U.S. Girls: Only Daedalus

U.S. Girls: So Typically Now

U2: Atomic City

Uncle Waffles: Yahyuppiyah

Underscores: Seventyseven Dog Years

Vayda: Bingo

Vic Brow & Grag Queen: Fofoca

Victoria Monét: Good Bye

Water from Your Eyes: Barley

Wednesday: Bath County

Wednesday: Got Shocked

Wilco: Evicted

Xiangyu: 道端にネギ

Zuchu: Honey

EPs that received one vote

99 No Beat: Tremzinho do 99

Ashley McBryde: Cool Little Bars

Bl4ck M4rket C4rt: Today I Laid Down

Blue Dolphin: Robert's Lafitte

Booger68: Scrapyard

Boygenius: The Rest

Cumgirl8: Phantasea Pharm

Cydnee with a C: Confessions of a Fangirl

DJ Alef Rodrigo: Evolução do Mandelão

Dlala Thukzin: Permanent Midnight 3

Earl Sweatshirt & the Alchemist: Voir Dire

Femtanyl: Chaser

Grrrl Gang: Spunky!

Jack Harlow: Jackman

Jeong Dong Won: Collection of Props Vol. 1

Jlin: Perspective

Khalil Epi: Romena

Lauren Alaina: Unlocked

Lilts: Waiting Around

MC Rogerinho: DVD Pode Crê (Ao Vivo)

MTS No Beat: Outubro 2023

Marta & Tricky: When It's Going Wrong

Nei Lopes: Nei Lopes 80

Ná Ozzetti, Zécarlos Rebeiro, Danilo Penteado: Ná Canta Zécarlos Rebeiro

ONETWOTHREE: Welcome!

Olivia Rodrigo: Guts: The Secret Tracks

Panic Shack: Baby Shack

Quadeca: Scrapyard III

RXK Newphew & DJ Rude One: The ONEderful Nephew

Tasha & Tracie, Kyan, Rapper Gregory: Yin Yang

The Cucumbers: Old Shoes

The Tubs: Dead Meat

Tia Maria Produções: São Dicas

Tyla: Tyla

YMA & Jadsa: Zelena

Yahritza y Su Esencia: Obsessed Pt. 2

Yonic South: Devo Challenge Cup

Live artists who received one vote

100 Gecs

Alejandro Escovedo

Alex Lahey

Amyl and the Sniffers

Baby Queen

Be Your Own Pet

Bikini Kill

Billy Nomates

Bombino

Booker T. Jones

Boygenius

Carsie Blanton

Ceramic Dog

Christian McBride

Courtney Barnett

Danny Brown

Deafheaven

Drive-By Truckers

Drug Church

Emperor X

Ezra Furman

Homeboy Sandman

Hurray for the Riff Raff

Immanuel Wilkins

Irreversible Entanglements

Ivey Ford

James Brandon Lewis

Jamila Woods

Jeffrey Lewis & the Volts

Kevin Burt

Kim Gordon

L7

Lizzo

Los Lobos

Lubmyr Melnyk

Mdou Moctar

Militarie Gun

Mount Eerie

Neil Young

Nikki Lunden's Natural Habits

Old 97's

Olivia Rodrigo

Patti Smith

Pavement

People's Pop Polls Commentariat

Perfume Genius

Pernice Brothers

Pigs and Clover

R.A.P. Ferreira

Ratboys

Ronan McManus

Sexyy Red

Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Soul Glo

Subatlantic

Sun Ra Arkestra

Superchunk

Sweeping Promises

Taylor Swift

The Beths

The Feelies

The Hold Steady

The Mavericks

The Murphy Fisher Quartet

The Perceptionists

The Pretenders

The Roots

Tinariwen

Tri-County Liquidators

Tune-Yards

Yo La Tengo