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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2025 - BEST BEANS

AWARD NO.6 - BEST BEANS OF 2025

PAST WINNERS

2024 > Cassie Taylor (see winner HERE)

2023 > Nick Hankins (see winner HERE)

2022 > Matt Skillington (see winner HERE)

2021 > Hi5ghost (see winner HERE)

2020 > Richard Walsh (see winner HERE)

2019 > Paul Boumendil (see winner HERE)

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THE BEST BEANSONTOAST OF 2025

WINNER > Tom Clover - 8.5/10 rating (28/11/25)

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2025 - BEST MUSIC VIDEO

AWARD NO.5 - BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF 2025

PAST WINNERS

2024 > A$AP Rocky 'Tailor Swif' (see full list HERE)

2023 > Hak Baker ‘DOOLALLY’ (see full list HERE)

2022 > Weyes Blood - ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’ (see full lists HERE)

2021 > Squid - ‘Narrator’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Dorian Electra - ‘Gentleman / M’Lady’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Aldous Harding ‘The Barrel’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > HYUKOH - ‘SkyWorld’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Young Thug - ‘Wyclef Jean’ (see full list HERE)

2016 >Radiohead - ‘Daydreaming’ (see full list HERE)

2015 >Oneohtrix Point Never - ‘Sticky Drama’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Oneohtrix Point Never - ‘Boring Angel’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Grimes - ‘Oblivion’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > Hot Chip - ‘I Feel Better’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Fever Ray - ‘When I Grow Up’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Pivot - ‘In The Blood’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Grizzly Bear - ‘Knife’ (see full list HERE)

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I’ve really not watched many this year but i'll still highlight the ones i saw and liked.

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THE RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Paris Texas ‘They Left Me With A Gun’

Doechii ‘Denial Is A River’

Rosalia ‘La Perla’

Squid ‘Building 650’

Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Lifeworld’ / ‘D.I.S’ / ‘Cherry Blue’

Jim Legxacy ‘06 Wayne Rooney’

Perfume Genius ‘No Front Teeth’

Clipse ‘Chains & Whips’

Arca ‘Puta’

Turnstile ‘Never Enough’

Danny Brown ‘Starburst’

FKA Twigs ‘Love Crimes’

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MY TOP 3 MUSIC VIDEOS OF 2025

3. Jim Legxacy ‘Father’

2. Saya Gray ‘LIE DOWN..’

1. Rosalia ‘Berghain’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2025 - BEST GIG

AWARD NO.4 - BEST GIG OF 2025

PAST WINNERS

2024 > Oneohtrix Point Never @ Royal Festival Hall, London - 5/4/24 (see full list HERE)

2023 > Self Esteem @ Green Man Festival - 19/8/23 (see full list HERE)

2022 > Kendrick Lamar @ Glastonbury Festival - 26/6/22 (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem @ Green Man Festival - 22/8/21 (see full list HERE)

2020 > Hannah Diamond @ The Exchange, Bristol - 4/3/20 (see full list HERE)

2019 > Black Midi @ Fiddlers, Bristol - 20/6/19 (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito @ The Village Underground, London - 11/9/18 (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson @ Fiddlers, Bristol 23/6/17 & Richard Dawson @ Green Man Festival, Wales 17-20/8/17 (see full list HERE)

2016 > Death Grips @ Simple Things Festival, Colston Hall, Bristol - 22/10/16 (see full list HERE)

2015 >Super Furry Animals @ Green Man Festival - Wales 21-23/8/15 (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs @ Trinity, Bristol - 9/10/14 (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans @ Simple Things Festival, Bristol - 12/10/13 (see full list HERE)

2010 > Francois & The Atlas Mountains @ Fence Homegame, Scotland - 11/3/10 (see full list HERE)

2009 > Wild Beasts @ The Thekla, Bristol - 3/10/09 (see full list HERE)

2008 > Animal Collective & Atlas Sound @ Koko, London - 22/5/08 (see full list HERE)

2007 > King Creosote & Fence Collective @ Glastonbury Festival - June 07 (see full list HERE)

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It should be noted that other than the tours & festivals i did, i hardly went to anything this year.

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THE RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Good Sad Happy Bad @ Strange Brew, Bristol (24/4/25)

Squid @ The Roundhouse, London (26/4/25)

Panda Bear @ Bristol Beacon (5/6/25)

Richard Dawson @ Green Man Festival (15-17/8/25)

Pictish Trail @ Green Man Festival (15-17/8/25)

Perfume Genius @ Green Man Festival (15-17/8/25)

TV On The Radio @ Green Man Festival (15-17/8/25)

Mount Kimbie @ End Of The Road Festival (29-31/8/25)

Squid @ End Of The Road Festival (29-31/8/25)

These New Puritans @ End Of The Road Festival (29-31/8/25)

Adam Buxton @ End Of The Road Festival (29-31/8/25)

Eva May @ End Of The Road Festival (29-31/8/25)

Dry Cleaning @ Simple Things Festival (8/11/25)

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THE TOP 5 GIGS OF 2025

5. Charli xcx @ Glastonbury Festival (26-29/6/25)

4. Squid @ Bristol Beacon (5/3/25) 

3. Magdalena Bay @ SWX, Bristol (9/6/25)

2. Self Esteem - This entry covers all the theatre shows, UK tour & festivals (all year)

1. The Beta Band - This entry covers all 4 reunion shows i saw on the tour (Sept/Oct)

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2025 - BEST SONG

AWARD NO.3 - BEST SONG OF 2025

PAST WINNERS

2024 > Nourished By Time 'Hell Of A Ride' / 'Hand On Me' (see full list HERE)

2023 > Oneohtrix Point Never ‘A Barely Lit Path’ (see full list HERE)

2022 > Jockstrap ‘Concrete Over Water’ (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Jockstrap ‘Acid’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Weyes Blood ‘Andromeda’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Let’s Eat Grandma ‘It’s Not Just Me’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson ‘Ogre’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Solange ‘Cranes In the Sky’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Kendrick Lamar ‘The Blacker The Berry’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs ‘Two Weeks’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Oliver Wilde ‘Perrett’s Brook’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > Untold ‘Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix) (see full list HERE)

2009 > Joker - ‘Digidesign’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Lil’ Wayne - ‘A Milli’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Panda Bear - ‘Bros’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Hot Chip - ‘Over And Over’ (see full list HERE)

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RULES - A maximum of THREE tracks from any one artist. Songs can be tied in the same position.

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THE RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Nourished By time ‘BABY BABY’

Zoee ‘The Wave’

Jessica Winter ‘L.O.V.E’

Raisa K ‘Affectionately’ 

Jim Legxacy ‘Father’

Richard Dawson ‘The Question’

Smerz ‘You Got Time And I Got Money’

PinkPantheress ‘Girl Like Me’

James Yorkston ‘Oh Light, Oh Light (feat. Johanna Soderberg)’

Blood Orange ‘The Field’

Self Esteem ‘Focus Is Power’ 

Saya Gray ‘...THUS IS WHY (I DON’T SPRING 4 LOVE)’

Mun Sing ‘Somersault’

Clipse ‘Chains & Whips’ / ‘So Be It’

Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Boise, Idaho’ / ‘Our Home’

Pulp ‘Spike Island’

Memotone & Eva May ‘In Dreams’

Squid ‘Cro-Magnon Man’

Alabaster DePlume ‘Oh My Actual Days’

Daniel Loptain ‘I Love You, Tokyo’

Panda Bear ‘End’s Meet’

Charli xcx ‘House (feat. John Cale)’

MF Tomlinson ‘Blink And You’ll miss It’ / ‘Die To Wake Up From A Dream’

Content Provider ‘Endless Summer’

Chappell Roan ‘The Subway’

Dijon ‘Higher!’

Sunglasz Vendor ‘Ice Cream Tubs’ / ‘Brick King’

CMAT ‘Euro-Country’

Mogwai ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’

Gelli Haha ‘Bounce House’

MOULD ‘Snails’

Seamus Fogarty ‘I Passed Your House’

Pictish Trail ‘Another Way’

Caroline & Caroline Polachek ‘Tell Me I Never Knew That’

Jim E. Brown ‘The Queue At Greggs’

Danny Brown ‘Starburst’

Marie Davidson ‘Demolition’

Bon Iver ‘Day One’ / ‘I’ll Be There’

Factory Floor ‘Between You’

Kelan ‘Street Ease’

Adam Buxton ‘Doing It Wrong’

Jim Legxacy ‘06 Wayne Rooney’ / ‘Stick’

Mun Sing ‘The Hypocrite’

Oklou ‘Thank You For Recording’

Mumble Tide ‘Mawpao’

Dean Blunt & Elias Ronnenfelt ‘Tears On His Rings And Chains’

Perfume Genius ‘It’s A Mirror’

Viagra Boys ‘The Bog Body’

HAIM ‘Relationships’

Caroline ‘Total Euphoria’

These New Puritans ‘Industrial Love Song (feat. Caroline Polacheck)’

Marged ‘SICK’ 

Drugdealer & Weyes Blood ‘Real Thing’

Stealing Sheep ‘Found You’

Caroline ‘Total Euphoria’

Kelli Blanchett ‘Like A Wound’

Mantaraybryn ‘Something Like Your Lover’

Cate Le Bon ‘Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)’

Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Bumpy’

Perfume Genius ‘No Front Teeth’

Richard Dawson ‘Gondola’

Turnstile ‘NEVER ENOUGH’

Water From Your Eyes ‘Life Signs’

Panda Bear ‘Ferry Lady’

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THE TOP 25 SONGS OF 2025

25. Alex G ‘Afterlife’

24. Robyn ‘Dopamine’

23. Pictish Trail ‘Hold It’

22. PinkPantheress ‘Illegal’ 

21. Getdown Services ‘Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat’

20. Oklou ‘Obvious’

19. Dry Cleaning ‘Hit My Head All Day’

18. Bon Iver ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love’

17. Dijon ‘Yamaha’

16. Rosalia ‘Berghain’

15. Geese  ‘Taxes’ / ‘Cobra’

14. Kinlaw & Franco Franco ‘Pitstop 2024’

13. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Lifeworld’

12. Self Esteem ‘Lies (Feat. Nadine Shah)’

11. Nourished By Time ‘Max Potential’

10. Squid ‘Building 650’

9. Rosalia ‘La Perla’

8. Black Country, New Road ‘Besties’

7. Hen Ogledd ‘Scales Will Fall’

6. Cameron Winter ‘The Rolling Stones’ / ‘Drinking Age’

5. Geese ‘Au Pays du Cocaine’

4. These New Puritans ‘Bells’

3. Cameron Winter ‘Love Takes Miles’

2. Saya Gray ‘LIE DOWN..’

1. Self Esteem ‘The Deep Blue Okay’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2025 - BEST ALBUM

AWARD NO.2 - BEST ALBUM OF 2025

PAST WINNERS

2024 > Vampire Weekend 'Only God Was Above Us' (see full list HERE)

2023 > Squid - ‘O Monolith’ (see full list HERE)

2022 > Jockstrap - ’ I Love You Jennifer B’ (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem - ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > The Flaming Lips - ‘American Head’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Self Esteem - ‘Compliments Please’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito - ‘Time ‘n’ Place’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson - ‘Peasant’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Blood Orange - ‘Freetown Sound’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Holly Herndon - ‘Platform’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs - ‘LP1′ (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans - ‘Field Of Reeds’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Django Django - ‘Django Django’ (see full list HERE)

2011 > Shabazz Palaces - ‘Black Up’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > These New Puritans - ‘Hidden’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Wild Beasts - ‘Limbo, Panto’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Animal Collective - ‘Strawberry Jam’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Safetyword - ‘Man’s Name Is Legion’ (see full list HERE)

2005 > Animal Collective - ‘Feels’ (see full list HERE)

2004 > Devendra Banhart - ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ / ‘Nino Rojo’

2003 > Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy In Da Corner’

2002 > The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’

2001 > The Beta Band - ‘Hot Shots II’

2000 > Outkast - ‘Stankonia’

1999 > The Beta Band - ‘The Beta Band’

1998 > The Beta Band - ‘The Three EPs’

1997 > Radiohead - ‘OK Computer’

1996 > Beck - ‘Odelay’

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THE RULES - No Re-issues, Live Albums, Compilations, or EPs.

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SPECIAL MENTIONS for these things that don’t really live on the main lists.

Special mention for Cameron Winter’s ‘Heavy Metal’ which i didn’t hear at the end of 2024 but  considering how much ive loved it this year would have entered the top 3 and would also be the case this year if it could be accepted in this list.

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WORTH A MENTION (in no order) - A bunch of albums i enjoyed but didn’t quite make the final lists and others i just didn’t hear enough to be considered properly. 

Sharp Pins / Foot Foot / Alpha Maid / Junior Brother / Mogwai / KeiyaA / Hannah Frances / Divorce / Japanese Breakfast / Pulp / Bird Of Peace Orchestra / Tunde Adebimpe / Jane Remover / Twinsen / Jerkcurb / Lily Allen / De La Soul / Hayley Williams / Half Man Half Biscuit / Das Koolies / Faith Eliott / Painting / Wednesday / CMAT / Big Thief / Florence & The Machine / Rochelle Jordan / Anna B Savage / Francois & The Atlas Mountains / Geologist / Ninajirachi / Dave / Ex-Void / The New Eves / Gwenno / DITZ / DJ Koze / Los Thuthanaka / Deerhoof / The Golden Dregs / Yorkston Jaycock Langendorf / Klein / Firestations / Two Shell / Dominie Hooper / Matmos / Herbal Tea / Former Champ / Lichen / Gatekeeper / Animal Collective / ‘GAME’ OST / Lomond Campbell / Kathryn Joseph / Jim E. Brown

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2025 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Marie Davidson ‘City Of Clowns’

Content Provider ‘Endless Summer’

Raisa K ‘Affectionately’

John Glacier ‘Like A Ribbon’

Ichiko Aoba ‘Luminescent Creatures’

Scaler ‘Endlessly’

Jerskin Fendrix ‘Once Upon A Time… In Shropshire’

Everything Is Recorded ‘Richard Russell Is Temporary’

Jessica Winter ‘My First Album’

Quade ‘Beckett’

Sunglasz Vendor ‘Unwinding’

Dove Ellis ‘Blizzard’

Eiko Ishibashi ‘Antigone’

Mumble Tide ‘Might As Well Play Another One’

Claire Rousay ‘A Little Death’ & ‘No Floor’

Decius ‘Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience)’

Alex G ‘Headlights’ 

James K ‘Friend’

Zoee ‘Grandiose Love’

Jasmine.4.t ‘You Are The Morning’

Ethel Cain ‘Perverts’

Addison Rae ‘Addison’

Moonchild Sanelly ‘Full Moon’

Wet Leg ‘Moisturizer’ 

Tyler, The Creator ‘Don’t Tap The Glass’

Silver Waves ‘Aninstar’

Viagra Boys ‘viagr aboys’

Stereolab ‘Instant Holograms On Metal Film’

Sudan Archives ‘THE BPM’

Memotone ‘Smallest Things’ & ‘Pruning’

Gruff Rhys ‘Dim Probs’

Jennifer Walton ‘Daughters’

Earl Sweatshirt ‘Live Laugh Love’

Sorry ‘COSPLAY’

Kelan ‘Kelan’

Alabaster DePlume ‘A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole’

The Tubs ‘Cotton Crown’

JADE 'That's Showbiz Baby'

Adam Buxton ‘Buckle Up’

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MY TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2025

40. Blawan ‘SickElixir’

39. Turnstile ‘Never Enough’

38. Gelli Haha ‘Switcheroo’

37. HAIM ‘I Quit’

36. Little Simz ‘Lotus’

35. Horsegirl ‘Phonetics On and On’

34. Stealing Sheep ‘GLO (Girl Life Online)’

33. Joanne Robertson ‘Blurrr’

32. James Yorkston ‘Songs For Nina And Johanna’

31. YHWH Nailgun ‘45 Pounds’

30. Perfume Genius ‘Glory’

29. Smerz ‘Big City Life’

28. Danny Brown ‘Stardust’

27. MF Tomlinson ‘Die To Wake Up From A Dream’

26. Kinlaw & Franco Franco ‘Faith Elsewhere’

25. Bonnie Prince Billy ‘The Purple Bird’

24. FKA Twigs ‘EUSEXUA’

23. Water From Your Eyes ‘It’s A Beautiful Place’

22. Caroline ‘Caroline 2’

21. Aya ‘Hexed!’

20. PinkPantheress ‘Fancy That’

19. Jim Legxacy ‘Black British Music (2025)’

18. Blood Orange ‘Essex Honey’

17. Bon Iver ‘SABLE, fABLE’

16. Black Country, New Road ‘Forever Howlong’

15. Cate Le Bon ‘Michelangelo Dying’

14. Oklou ‘Choke Enough’

13. Richard Dawson ‘End Of The Middle’

12. Daniel Loptain ‘Marty Supreme’ OST

11. Rosalia ‘Lux’

10. Nourished By Time ‘The Passionate Ones’

9. These New Puritans ‘Crooked Wing’

8. Dijon ‘Baby’

7. Saya Gray ‘SAYA’

6. Panda Bear ‘Sinister Grift’

5. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Tranquilizer’

4. Self Esteem ‘A Complicated Woman’

3. Clipse ‘Let God Sort Em Out’

2. Squid ‘Cowards’

1. Geese ‘Getting Killed’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2025 - BEST EP

AWARD NO.1 - BEST EP OF 2025

PAST WINNERS

2024 > Nourished By Time 'Catching Chickens' (see full list HERE)

2023 > Tara Clerkin Trio ‘On The Turning Ground’ (see full list HERE)

2022 > Cryalot ‘Icarus’ (see full list HERE)

2021 > Tara Clerkin Trio ‘In Spring’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Jockstrap ‘Wicked City’ & ‘Beavercore’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Jockstrap ‘Lost My Key In The <3 Club <3′ (see full list HERE)

2018 > James Ferraro ‘Four Pieces For Mirai’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Yaeji ‘EP2′ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Oliver Wilde ‘Long Hold Star An Infinite Abduction’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Kelela ‘Hallucinogen’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Spectres ‘Hunger’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > James Blake - ‘CMYK’ (see full list HERE)

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2025 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Mount Kimbie ‘The Sunset Violent Remixes’

Alpha Maid ‘Shed’

RS Tangent ‘Crinkle’

Classic Trucks ‘Clown Town’ & ‘Century Songs’

Getdown Services ‘Crumbs 2’

Cheap Feel ‘Good Grace’

Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine ‘Rear Meat’

Pictureframes ‘Event On The Downs’

Bruce ‘The Price / Mimicry’

Nilufer Yanya ‘Dancing Shoes’

Jpegmafia ‘We Live In A Society’

Mun Sing ‘Acne Studios SS25 Show Soundtrack’

TOP 10 EP'S OF 2025

10. Jane Remover ‘♡’

9. MOULD ‘Almost Feels Like Purpose’

8. Minor Conflict ‘Parallels’

7. Bruce ‘Belly / Burned Alice’

6. Paris Texas ‘They Left Me With The Sword’ / ‘They Left Me With A Gun’

5. Ex Agent ‘New Assumptions..’

4. Moin ‘Belly Up’

3. Dean Blunt & Elia Ronnenfelt ‘Lucre’

2. Getdown Services ‘Primordial Slot Machine’ 

1. Mun Sing ‘Frolic’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2024 - BEST BEANS

AWARD NO.7 - BEST BEANS OF 2024

PAST WINNERS

2023 > Nick Hankins (see winner HERE)

2022 > Matt Skillington (see winner HERE)

2021 > Hi5ghost (see winner HERE)

2020 > Richard Walsh (see winner HERE)

2019 > Paul Boumendil (see winner HERE)

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THE BEST BEANSONTOAST OF 2024

WINNER > Cassie Taylor - 9.5/10 rating (14/12/24)

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2024 - BEST FILM

AWARD NO.6 - BEST FILM OF 2024

PAST WINNERS

2023 > Past Lives (see full list HERE)

2022 > Memoria (see full list HERE)

2021 > Another Round (see full list HERE)

2020 > Uncut Gems (see full list HERE)

2019 > Bait (see full list HERE)

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Not seen enough 2024 films for this to be considered a proper list but from what i have seen these are my favourites.

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RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Hoard

The Substance

Rap World

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MY TOP 3 FILMS OF 2024

3. La Chimera

2. Perfect Days

1. The Zone Of Interest

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2024 - BEST MUSIC VIDEO

AWARD NO.5 - BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF 2024

PAST WINNERS

2023 > Hak Baker 'DOOLALLY' (see full list HERE)

2022 > Weyes Blood - ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’ (see full lists HERE)

2021 > Squid - ‘Narrator’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Dorian Electra - ‘Gentleman / M’Lady’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Aldous Harding ‘The Barrel’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > HYUKOH - ‘SkyWorld’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Young Thug - ‘Wyclef Jean’ (see full list HERE)

2016 >Radiohead - ‘Daydreaming’ (see full list HERE)

2015 >Oneohtrix Point Never - ‘Sticky Drama’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Oneohtrix Point Never - ‘Boring Angel’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Grimes - ‘Oblivion’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > Hot Chip - ‘I Feel Better’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Fever Ray - ‘When I Grow Up’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Pivot - ‘In The Blood’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Grizzly Bear - ‘Knife’ (see full list HERE)

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I’ve really not watched many this year

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THE RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Nourished By Time ‘Hand On Me’

Clairo ‘Juna’ 

Oneohtrix Point Never ‘On An Axis’

Geordie Greep ‘Holy, Holy’

Charli XCX & Billie Eilish ‘Guess’

FKA Twigs ‘Eusexua’

Magdalena Bay ‘Death & Romance’

Self Esteem & Moonchild Sanelly ‘Big Man’

Kendrick Lamar ‘Not Like Us’

Tyler, The Creator ‘NOID’

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THE TOP 3 MUSIC VIDEOS OF 2024

3. Fontaines D.C. 'Starburster'

2. Charli XCX 'Von Dutch'

1. A$AP Rocky 'Tailor Swif'

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2024 - BEST GIG

AWARD NO.4 - BEST GIG OF 2024

PAST WINNERS

2023 > Self Esteem @ Green Man Festival - 19/8/23 (see full list HERE)

2022 > Kendrick Lamar @ Glastonbury Festival - 26/6/22 (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem @ Green Man Festival - 22/8/21 (see full list HERE)

2020 > Hannah Diamond @ The Exchange, Bristol - 4/3/20 (see full list HERE)

2019 > Black Midi @ Fiddlers, Bristol - 20/6/19 (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito @ The Village Underground, London - 11/9/18 (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson @ Fiddlers, Bristol 23/6/17 & Richard Dawson @ Green Man Festival, Wales 17-20/8/17 (see full list HERE)

2016 > Death Grips @ Simple Things Festival, Colston Hall, Bristol - 22/10/16 (see full list HERE)

2015 >Super Furry Animals @ Green Man Festival - Wales 21-23/8/15 (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs @ Trinity, Bristol - 9/10/14 (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans @ Simple Things Festival, Bristol - 12/10/13 (see full list HERE)

2010 > Francois & The Atlas Mountains @ Fence Homegame, Scotland - 11/3/10 (see full list HERE)

2009 > Wild Beasts @ The Thekla, Bristol - 3/10/09 (see full list HERE)

2008 > Animal Collective & Atlas Sound @ Koko, London - 22/5/08 (see full list HERE)

2007 > King Creosote & Fence Collective @ Glastonbury Festival - June 07 (see full list HERE)

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Note - Hardly went to anything this year!

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THE RUNNERS UP (in date order)

Los Campesinos! @ Troxy, London (17/2/24)

Gruff Rhys @ Strange Brew, Bristol (23/2/24)

Danny Brown @ 02 Academy, Bristol (24/5/24)

Jockstrap @ 02 Academy, Bristol (25/5/24)

Beak> @ Green Man Festival (16/8/24)

Mermaid Chunky @ Green Man Festival (16/8/24)

Pictish Trail @ Green Man Festival (18/8/24)

Richard Dawson @ End Of The Road Festival (29/8/24)

Jockstrap @ End Of The Road Festival (31/8/24)

The Lemon Twigs (covers set) @ End Of The Road Festival (31/8/24)

Yo La Tengo @ End Of The Road Festival (1/9/24)

Cornelius @ End Of The Road Festival (1/9/24)

Tara Clerkin Trio @ End Of The Road Festival (1/9/24)

Nourished By Time @ Strange Brew, Bristol (7/9/24)

Eva May @ The Exchange, Bristol (19/9/24)

Qu Junktions 20th Birthday Party @ Strange Brew, Bristol (28/9/24)

Geordie Greep @ The Fleece, Bristol (22/10/24)

Spectres @ Rough Trade, Bristol (31/10/24)

Trust Fund @ The Exchange, Bristol (19/11/24)

Bonnie Prince Billy @ Rough Trade East, London (1/12/24)

Beak> @ SWX, Bristol (14/12/24)

James Yorkston @ Jam Jar, Bristol (16/12/24)

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THE TOP 3 GIGS OF 2024

3. Nourished By Time @ End Of The Road Festival (31/8/24)

2. Bonnie Prince Billy @ End Of The Road Festival (29/8/24)

1. Oneohtrix Point Never @ Royal Festival Hall, London (5/4/24) - VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2024 - BEST SONG

AWARD NO.3 - BEST SONG OF 2024

PAST WINNERS

2023 > Oneohtrix Point Never 'A Barely Lit Path' (see full list HERE)

2022 > Jockstrap ‘Concrete Over Water’ (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Jockstrap ‘Acid’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Weyes Blood ‘Andromeda’ (see full list HERE)

2018 >Let’s Eat Grandma ‘It’s Not Just Me’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson ‘Ogre’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Solange ‘Cranes In the Sky’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Kendrick Lamar ‘The Blacker The Berry’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs ‘Two Weeks’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Oliver Wilde ‘Perrett’s Brook’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > Untold ‘Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix) (see full list HERE)

2009 > Joker - ‘Digidesign’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Lil’ Wayne - ‘A Milli’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Panda Bear - ‘Bros’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Hot Chip - ‘Over And Over’ (see full list HERE)

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RULES - A maximum of THREE tracks from any one artist. Songs can be tied in the same position.

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THE RUNNERS UP (in alphabetical order)

A.G. Cook ‘Pink Mask’

Astrid Sonne ‘Do You Wanna’

Beth Gibbons ‘Floating On A Moment’

Bon Iver ‘Things Behind Things Behind Things’

Bonnie Prince Billy & Tim O’Brien ‘Our Home’

Bullion & Charlotte Adigery ‘World Train’

Cassandra Jenkins ‘Only One’

Chappell Roan ‘Good Luck, Babe!’

Clairo ‘Juna’

Daisy Moon ‘Shadow Of Silhouettes’

Death’s Dynamic Shroud & Galen Tipton ‘Generate Utopia’

Fat White Family ‘Today You Become Man’ / ‘Bullet Of Dignity’

Faye Webster & Lil Yachty ‘Lego Ring’

Field Music ‘The Limits Of Language’

FKA Twigs ‘Eusexua’

Good Sad Happy Bad ‘Shaded Tree’

Gruff Rhys ‘Celestial Candyfloss’ / ‘Cover Up The Cover Up’

JPEGMAFIA ‘Sin Miedo’

Julia Holter ‘Spinning’

Katy J Pearson ‘Maybe’ / ‘Those Goodbyes’

Kendrick Lamar ‘ Squabble Up’

Kim Gordon ‘BYE BYE’

Laura Marling ‘Patterns’

The Lemon Twigs ‘My Golden Years’ / ‘A Dream Is All I Know’

Los Campesinos! ‘Long Throes’

Magdalena Bay ‘Killing Time’ / ‘Image’

Mantaraybryn ‘No Economy’

Marged ‘Bounce Back’

Mica Levi ‘Slob Air’

Mount Kimbie ‘Dumb Guitar’ / ‘Empty And Silent’

Nadine Shah ‘Topless Mother’

Naima Bock ‘Kaley’ / ‘Feed My Release’

Nilufer Yanya ‘Like I Say (I Runaway)’ / ‘Method Actor’

Nourished By Time ‘Romance In Me’

Panda Bear & Cindy Lee ‘Defense’

Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Mariachi 2000 de Curtberto Peerez ‘Peligro (Danger)’

Pictish Trail ‘Island Family (Summer Redux)’

Richard Dawson ‘Boxing Day Sales’

Saya Gray ‘Shell (Of A Man)’

The Smile ‘Wall Of Eyes’ / ‘Friend Of A Friend’

Spectres ‘Nice Knowing You’

Trust Fund ‘Has It Been A While’ / ‘The Mirror’

Tyler, The Creator ‘Noid’

WHY? ‘The Letters, Etc’ / ‘G-dzillah G’dolah’

William Doyle ‘Now In Motion’ / ‘Relentless Melt’ 

Willie J Healey ‘The Apple’

Yaeji ‘booboo’

Zoee ‘Blossom’

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THE TOP 25 SONGS OF 2024

25. Mun Sing 'Didn't Need U Anyway’

24. Beyonce ‘16 Carriages’

23. Fontaines D.C ‘Favourite’

22. Los Campesinos! ‘Feast Of Tongues’

21. Self Esteem ‘Love Second Music First’

20. Mermaid Chunky ‘Ceilli’

19. Richard Dawson ‘Polytunnel’

18. A.G. Cook ‘Britpop’

17. Mount Kimbie ‘Fish Brain’

16. Eva May ‘Where Does The Time Go’

15. Kendrick Lamar ‘Not Like Us’

14. MAY ‘Cynthia’

13. Squid ‘Crispy Skin’

12. Clairo ‘Sexy To Someone’

11. Magdalena Bay ‘Death & Romance’

10. The Lemon Twigs ‘How Can I Love Her More?’

9. JPEGMAFIA ‘I’ll Be Right There’

8. Mermaid Chunky ‘Chaperone’

7. Vampire Weekend ‘Capricorn’ / ‘Mary Boone’

6. Charli XCX ‘360’ / ‘Sympathy Is A Knife’

5. Charli XCX ‘Von Dutch’

4. Geordie Greep ‘Holy, Holy’

3. Self Esteem & Moonchild Sanelly ‘Big Man’

2. Vampire Weekend ‘Classical’

1. Nourished By Time ‘Hell Of A Ride’ / ‘Hand On Me’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2024 - BEST ALBUM

AWARD NO.2 - BEST ALBUM OF 2024

PAST WINNERS

2023 > Squid - 'O Monolith' (see full list HERE)

2022 > Jockstrap - ’ I Love You Jennifer B’ (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem - ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > The Flaming Lips - ‘American Head’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Self Esteem - ‘Compliments Please’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > Kero Kero Bonito - ‘Time ‘n’ Place’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson - ‘Peasant’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Blood Orange - ‘Freetown Sound’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Holly Herndon - ‘Platform’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs - ‘LP1′ (see full list HERE)

2013 > These New Puritans - ‘Field Of Reeds’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Django Django - ‘Django Django’ (see full list HERE)

2011 > Shabazz Palaces - ‘Black Up’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > These New Puritans - ‘Hidden’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Animal Collective - ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Wild Beasts - ‘Limbo, Panto’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Animal Collective - ‘Strawberry Jam’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Safetyword - ‘Man’s Name Is Legion’ (see full list HERE)

2005 > Animal Collective - ‘Feels’ (see full list HERE)

2004 > Devendra Banhart - ‘Rejoicing In The Hands’ / ‘Nino Rojo’

2003 > Dizzee Rascal - ‘Boy In Da Corner’

2002 > The Streets - ‘Original Pirate Material’

2001 > The Beta Band - ‘Hot Shots II’

2000 > Outkast - ‘Stankonia’

1999 > The Beta Band - ‘The Beta Band’

1998 > The Beta Band - ‘The Three EPs’

1997 > Radiohead - ‘OK Computer’

1996 > Beck - ‘Odelay’

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THE RULES - No Re-issues, Live Albums, Compilations, or EPs.

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SPECIAL MENTIONS for these things that don’t really live on the main lists.

Dean Blunt ‘Hackney Commercial Waste (2022-2023)’

SOPHIE ‘SOPHIE’

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WORTH A MENTION (in no order) - A bunch of albums i enjoyed but didn’t quite make the final lists and others i just didn’t hear enough to be considered properly. 

Giant Claw / Oliver Coates / Ise Jones / Iglooghost / Poppy / FLO / Arooj Aftab / Babymorocco / Skee Mask / Dali de Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling / Denzel Curry / Wendy Eisenberg / SZA / Death’s Dynamic Shroud / Rhodri Davies / Kinbote / Moor Mother / Afterlands / Omar Souleyman / Victoria Hume / L.T. Leif / Painting / WON’T / The Big Fuss Ensemble / Permapup / Tim Koh / More Eaze / Galen Tipton / Devonanon / Sega Bodega / COIMS / Copper Sounds, Dali St Paul, Laura Phillips, Dan Johnson / Holiday Ghosts / Bingo Fury / Ian Lynch / Permapup / Haley Heynderickx / Gerycz, Powers, Rolin / Goat Girl / Camera Obscura / Arab Strap / Four Tet / Myriam Gendron / Aphex Twin / Chinese American Bear / Violence Gratuite / James Devane / FearDorian / Tony Njoku / Joanna Wang / Matthew Herbert / GAISTER / Mstafa / Hayden Thorpe / Fievel Is Glauque / October Drift / Lanny / Niamh Regan / Extnddntwrk / Cowtown / Toro Y Moi / Fat Dog / Nicky / Beabadoobee / Excellent Birds / Fontaines D.C / Tyla / Black Decelerant / KOKOKO! / Remi Wolf / Shaznay Lewis / Sisso / Lava La Rue / Khruangbin / Robert Ouyang Rusli / Thom Yorke / Shabaka / Omni / Helado Negro / Nick Carlisle / Torres / Amyl And The Sniffers / Jordan Playfair / Bladee / Chat Pile / Jerry Paper / Our Girl / Beatrice Dillon / Rubie / Nicholas Craven & Boldly James / Kelly Lee Owens / Adam Ross / Jill Fraser / Dawn Richard / Caribou / The Hard Quartet / Vegyn / Elaine Howley / Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding / Anna Meredith / Plastic Beach / PACKS / Hurray For The Riff Raff / Real Estate / Kirin J Callinan / ScHoolboy Q / Waxahatchee / Lolina / St. Vincent / Bladee / Drahla / Nicolas Jaar / Bonny Light Horseman / Skee Mask / John Cale / Fire-Toolz / Joe Goddard / Los Bitchos / Laurie Anderson / Lia Kohl / Jamie xx / Xiu Xiu / Floating Points / Ginger Root / Hinds / Being Dead / Ezra Collective / Alan Sparhawk / Masayoshi Fujita / Famous / Yasmin Williams / Warmduscher / Martha Skye Murphy / Michael / Alexia Avina / Knife Liibrary

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2024 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

McClure & Whyte ‘Farming’

Actress ‘Statik’

Tapir! ‘The Pigrim, Their God and The King of My Decrepit Mountain’ 

Bianca Scout ‘Pattern Damage’

Galen Tipton & Holly Waxwing ‘KeepsakeFM’

Nia Archives ‘Silence Is Loud’

Bullion ‘Affection’

The Death Of Pop ‘FLOG’

Tierra Whack ‘World Wide Whack’

Blue Bendy ‘So Medieval’

Spirit Of The Beehive ‘You’ll Have To Lose Something’

Able Noise ‘High Tide’

Lots Of Hands ‘Fantasy’

Serpentwithfeet ‘GRIP’

The High Llamas ‘Hey Panda’

Underworld ‘Strawberry Hotel’

Bolis Pupul ‘Letter To You’

Colin Stetson ‘The Love It Took To Leave You’

Dorian Electra ‘Fanfare: The Lost Demos’

Yung Lean & Bladee ‘Psykos’

Adrianne Lenker ‘Bright Future’

Spresso ‘Pretty Penny Slur’

Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow ‘Civil War’ OST

Anna Erhard ‘Botanical Garden’

Galen Tipton ‘Tringle’

Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman ‘Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On’

Savage Mansion ‘The Shakes’

Susan Bear 'Algorithmic Mood Music’

Rhodri Davies ‘Creiriau y Delyn Rawn’

Liz Lawrence ‘Peanuts’

MJ Lenderman ‘Manning Fireworks’

English Teacher ‘This Could Be Texas’

Kim Gordon ‘The Collective’

Memotone ‘Spring Clean’

Field Music ‘Limits Of Language’

Nev Clay ‘So Little Happened For So Long’

Klein ‘Marked’

Godspeed You! Black Emperor ‘No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead’

Bulbils ‘80.Art’

Jane Weaver ‘Love In Constant Spectacle’

Hiro Ama ‘Music For Peace And Harmony’

Kayla Painter ‘Fractures’

Robin Allender ‘Yesterday’s Yet To Come’

Langkamer ‘Langzamer’

J Spaceman & John Coxon ‘Music For William Eggleston’s Stranded In Canton’

Soccer Mommy ‘Evergreen’

Ezra Feinberg ‘Soft Power’

Tom Rasmussen ‘Live Wire’

Kelela ‘RAVE:N, The Remixes’

Crack Cloud ‘Red Mile’

Friko ‘Where We’ve Been, Where We Go From Here’

Grandaddy ‘Blu Wav’

Jessica Pratt ‘Here In The Pitch’

Lil Yachty & James Blake ‘Bad Cameo’

BABii ‘DareDeviil2000’ 

This Is Lorelei ‘Box For Buddy, Box For Star’

Karl D’Silva ‘Love Is A Flame In The Dark’

Eiko Ishibashi ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ (OST)

LICE ‘Third Time At The Beach’

Orbury Common ‘Sylvan Chute’

Urika’s Bedroom ‘Big Smile, Black Mire’

Fat White Family ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’

Tindersticks ‘Soft Tissue’

Mabe Fratti ‘Sentir Que No Sabes’

The Smile ‘Cutouts’

Minotaur Shock ‘It All Levels Out’

JLin ‘Akoma’

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band ‘Loophole’

SML ‘Small Medium Large’

Various Artists ‘I Saw The TV Glow’ OST

Billie Eilish ‘Hit me Hard And Soft’

Jawnino ‘40’

Laura Marling ‘Patterns In Repeat’

Beth Gibbons ‘Lives Outgrown’

Dana Gavanski ‘Late Slap’

Euros Childs ‘Beehive Beach’

MGMT ‘Loss Of Life’

Clarissa Connelly ‘World Of Work’

Nadine Shah 'Filthy Underneath’

Jerskin Fendrix ‘Poor Things’ OST

Tim Heidecker ‘Slipping Away’

Lifter ‘Clasping Hands With The Moribund’

Nala Sinephro ‘Endlessness’

The Crying Nudes ‘The Crying Nudes’

Kamasi Washington ‘Fearless Movement’

Ishmael Ensemble 'Rituals'

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MY TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2024

50. James Ferraro ‘Genware I, II, III’

49. Louie Newlands ‘Shards Of The Vase (Songs From My 20s)’

48. Daniel Inzani ‘Selected Worlds’ 

47. Jabu ‘A Soft And Gatherable Star’

46. The Bug ‘Machines I-V’

45. Katy J Pearson ‘Someday, Now’

44. One True Pairing ‘Endless Rain’

43. Mk.gee ‘Two Star & The Dream Police’

42. Why? ‘The Well I Fell Into’

41. Naima Bock ‘Below A Massive Dark Land’

40. Group Listening ‘Walks’

39. Spectres ‘AM DRAM’

38. Bonnie Prince Billy, Nathan Salsburg, Tyler Trotter ‘Hear The Children Sing The Evidence’

37. Tyler, The Creator ‘CHROMAKOPIA’

36. The Smile ‘Wall of Eyes’

35. Beyonce ‘Cowboy Carter’

34. Vince Staples ‘Dark Times’

33. Cassandra Jenkins ‘My Light, My Destroyer’

32. Death’s Dynamic Shroud & Galen Tipton ‘You Like Music’

31. Deep Nalström ‘Baroud’

30. Los Campesinos! ‘All Hell’

29. Dean Blunt & Joanne Robertson ‘Backstage Raver’

28. Moin ‘You Never End’

27. Beak> ‘>>>>’

26. Ex-Easter Island Head ‘Norther’

25. Nilufer Yanya ‘My Method Actor’

24. Bill Ryder-Jones ‘Iecyd Da’

23. Gruff Rhys ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’

22. Memotone ‘Fever Of The World’

21. Still House Plants ‘If I Don’t Make It, I Love U’

20. William Doyle ‘Springs Eternal’

19. Daniel Blumberg ‘The Brutalist’ OST

18. Doechii ‘Alligator Bites Never Heal’

17. Julia Holter ‘Something In The Room She Moves’

16. Good Sad Happy Bad ‘All Kinds Of Days’

15. Astrid Sonne ‘Great Doubt’

14. Claire Rousay ‘Sentiment’

13. Cindy Lee ‘Diamond Jubilee’

12. Clairo ‘Charm’

11. Trust Fund ‘Has It Been A While?’

10. Mermaid Chunky ‘Slif Slaf Slof’

9. The Lemon Twigs ‘A Dream Is All We Know’

8. Kendrick Lamar ‘GNX’

7. Geordie Greep ‘The New Sound’

6. Mount Kimbie ‘The Sunset Violent’

5. JPEGMAFIA ‘I Lay Down My Life For You’

4. A.G. Cook ‘Britpop’

3. Magdalena Bay ‘Imaginal Disk’

2. Charli XCX ‘Brat’ (+ ‘Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat’)

1. Vampire Weekend ‘Only God Was Above Us’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2024 - BEST EP

AWARD NO. 1 - BEST EP OF 2024

PAST WINNERS

2023 > Tara Clerkin Trio 'On The Turning Ground' (see full list HERE)

2022 > Cryalot ‘Icarus’ (see full list HERE)

2021 >Tara Clerkin Trio ‘In Spring’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Jockstrap ‘Wicked City’ & ‘Beavercore’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Jockstrap ‘Lost My Key In The <3 Club <3′ (see full list HERE)

2018 > James Ferraro ‘Four Pieces For Mirai’ (see full listHERE)

2017 >Yaeji ‘EP2′ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Oliver Wilde ‘Long Hold Star An Infinite Abduction’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Kelela ‘Hallucinogen’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Spectres ‘Hunger’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > James Blake - ‘CMYK’ (see full list HERE)

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2024 RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Moses Sumney ‘Sophcore’

Susan Bear ‘Get By’

Little Simz ‘Drop 7’ 

Water From Your Eyes ‘MP3 Player 1’

Shabazz Palaces ‘Exotic Birds Of Prey’

Bon Iver ‘SABLE’

Spresso ‘Rockstars’ & ‘Fast Set Cement’

King Krule ‘SHHHHHHH!’

Shygirl ‘Club Shy’

Frost Children & Haru Nemuri ‘Soul Kiss’

Fcukers ‘Baggy$$’

James Blake ‘CMYK 002’

Amaarae ‘Roses Are Red, Tears Are Blue’

The JLB ‘The Crazy Shit We Pulled With The JLB’

The Financial Year ‘THANK you! CATS!!’

Bar Italia ‘The Tw*ts’

Anna Prior ‘Almost Love’

Jabu & Memotone ‘Oceanside Spider House’

The Orca ‘Demo’

Emily Breeze ‘Second Rodeo’

LA Priest ‘La Fusion’

Adrianne Lenker ‘I Won’t Let Go Of Your Hand’

Skee Mask ‘ISS010’

Wakey Wakey Rise & Shine ‘A Good Way To Get Yourself Killed’

Pictish Trail ‘Follow Footsteps’

Burial ‘Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above’

Smerz ‘Allina’

Los Campesinos! ‘More Hell’

Mad Girl ‘Body Count’

Alabaster DePlume ‘Cremisan: Prologue To A Blade’

Neko ‘Windfall’

Daisy Moon ‘System Creak’

Podcasts ‘Supreme Auctions’

Baby Rose ‘Slow Burn’ 

MOULD ‘MOULD’

Seraphina Simone ‘Wild’

Bethany Ley ‘Sundial’

Steve Mason ‘Take The People To The River!’

FKA Boursin ‘You Just Give In, Giving It All To The Wind’

Yokel ‘4 A.M’

TOP 10 EP’S OF 2024

10. Dean Blunt ‘🖤🗑️+4’

9. Aya ‘Lip Flip’

8. Saya Gray ‘QWERTY II’

7. Alice Longyu Gao ‘Assembling Symbols Into My Own Poetry’

6. Daisy Moon ‘Shadow Of Silhouettes’

5. Ship Sket ‘England As A Succubus’

4. Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Mariachi Tenochtitlan de Heriberto Aceves ‘Reset Mariachi EP’

3. Marina Satti ‘P.O.P’

2. May ‘EP1’

1. Nourished By Time ‘Catching Chickens’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2023 - BEST BEANS

AWARD NO.7 - BEST BEANS

PAST WINNERS

2022 > Matt Skillington (see winner HERE)

2021 > Hi5ghost (see winner HERE)

2020 > Richard Walsh (see winner HERE)

2019 > Paul Boumendil (see winner HERE)

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THE BEST BEANSONTOAST OF 2023

WINNER > Nick Hankins - 9/10 rating (4/8/23)

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2023 - BEST MUSIC VIDEO

AWARD NO.6 - BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF 2023

PAST WINNERS

2022 > Weyes Blood - 'It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody' (see full lists HERE)

2021 > Squid - ‘Narrator’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Dorian Electra - ‘Gentleman / M’Lady’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Aldous Harding ‘The Barrel’ (see full list HERE)

2018 > HYUKOH - ‘SkyWorld’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Young Thug - ‘Wyclef Jean’ (see full list HERE)

2016 >Radiohead - ‘Daydreaming’ (see full list HERE)

2015 >Oneohtrix Point Never - ‘Sticky Drama’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Oneohtrix Point Never - ‘Boring Angel’ (see full list HERE)

2012 > Grimes - ‘Oblivion’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > Hot Chip - ‘I Feel Better’ (see full list HERE)

2009 > Fever Ray - ‘When I Grow Up’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Pivot - ‘In The Blood’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Grizzly Bear - ‘Knife’ (see full list HERE)

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THE RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Kate NV ‘Confessions At The Dinner Table’

Dorian Electra ‘Freak Mode’

Yaeji ‘For Granted’

Richard Dawson ‘Horse And Rider’

Kirin J Callinan ‘ANÆMIC ADONIS’

Weyes Blood ‘Twin Flame’

El Londo ‘I’M PISSED’

Jockstrap ‘Red Eye’

CHAI ‘GAME’

Eartheater ‘Crushing’

Boil King ‘Homer’

Hak Baker ‘Telephones For Eyes’

Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Nightmare Paint’

Aphex Twin ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f’

Patten ‘Inhale’

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown ‘Scaring The Hoes’

Janelle Monae ‘Lipstick Lover’

100 gecs ‘The Most Wanted Person In The United States’

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THE TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS OF 2023

10. Bill Ryder-Jones ‘This Can’t Go On’

9. The Smile ‘Wall Of Eyes’

8. Danny Brown ‘Tantor’

7. Danny Brown ‘Jenn’s Terrific Vacation’ 

6. Feist ‘Borrow Trouble’

5. Caroline Polachek ‘Dang’ (Live on The Late Show)

4. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘A Barely Lit Path’

3. Little Simz ‘Gorilla’

2. Squid ‘Swing (In A Dream)’

1. Hak Baker ‘DOOLALLY’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2023 - BEST SONG

AWARD NO.5 - BEST SONG OF 2023

PAST WINNERS

2022 > Jockstrap 'Concrete Over Water' (see full list HERE)

2021 > Self Esteem ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ (see full list HERE)

2020 > Jockstrap ‘Acid’ (see full list HERE)

2019 > Weyes Blood ‘Andromeda’ (see full list HERE)

2018 >Let’s Eat Grandma ‘It’s Not Just Me’ (see full list HERE)

2017 > Richard Dawson ‘Ogre’ (see full list HERE)

2016 > Solange ‘Cranes In the Sky’ (see full list HERE)

2015 > Kendrick Lamar ‘The Blacker The Berry’ (see full list HERE)

2014 > FKA Twigs ‘Two Weeks’ (see full list HERE)

2013 > Oliver Wilde ‘Perrett’s Brook’ (see full list HERE)

2010 > Untold ‘Stop What You’re Doing (James Blake Remix) (see full list HERE)

2009 > Joker - ‘Digidesign’ (see full list HERE)

2008 > Lil’ Wayne - ‘A Milli’ (see full list HERE)

2007 > Panda Bear - ‘Bros’ (see full list HERE)

2006 > Hot Chip - ‘Over And Over’ (see full list HERE)

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RULES - A maximum of THREE tracks from any one artist. Songs can be tied in the same position.

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THE RUNNERS UP (in alphabetical order)

100 Gecs ‘Hollywood Baby’

Alabaster DePlume ‘Did You Know’

Animal Collective ‘Soul Capturer’ / ‘Defeat’

Aphex Twin ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f’

Avey Tare ‘The Musical’

Bar Italia ‘Nurse!’ / ‘My Little Tony’  

Bas Jan ‘No More Swamp’

BC Camplight ‘The Last Rotation Of Earth’

Beabadoobee & Clairo ‘Glue Song’

Beck & Phoenix ‘Odyssey’

Benjamin Spike Saunders ‘I Can’t Impress You’

Big Thief ‘Vampire Empire’

Biig Piig ‘In The Dark’

Blur ‘The Narcissist’

Danny Brown ‘Tantor’ / ‘Jenn’s Terrific Vacation’

Das Koolies ‘Pain Down The Drain’

Dean Blunt & TYSON ‘Rinsed’

Divorce ‘Scratch Your Metal’

Django Django ‘Don’t Touch That Dial’ / ‘Black Cadillac’

Dorian Electra ‘Puppet’

English Teacher ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’

Feist ‘Borrow Trouble’

Felicita ‘Spalarkle (Alys)'

Firestations ‘Undercover’

Hannah Diamond ‘Affirmations’ / ‘Twisted’

H. Hawkline ‘Plastic Man’

Janelle Monae, Seun Kuti, Egypt 80 ‘Float’

Jessy Lanza ‘Limbo’

Jockstrap ‘Sexy 2’

John Cale ‘Noise Of You’

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown ‘Scaring The Hoes’ / ‘Lean Beef Patty’

Kara Jackson ‘Dickhead Blues’

Katy J Pearson ‘Willow’s Song’

Kelela ‘Contact’

King Krule ‘Seaforth’

The Lemon Twigs ‘Any Time of Day’

Lil Yachty ‘Drive Me Crazy!’

Liz Lawrence & Steve Mason ‘I Was There’

Magdalena Bay ‘Top Dog’

Martha Ffion ‘The Wringer’

MAY ‘Phone Me’

Memotone ‘Door To The Sky’

MGMT ‘Bubblegum Dog’ / ‘Mother Nature’

Minor Conflict ‘Second-Hand Time / ‘Living Statue’

Mitski ‘Bug Like An Angel’

Mun Sing ‘Waiting In The Car’

Nadine Shah ‘Topless Mother’

Nourished By Time ‘Daddy’ / ‘The Fields’

Oneohtrix Point Never ‘On An Axis’

One True Pairing ‘Frozen Food Centre’

Overmono ‘Good Lies’

Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Adrian Sherwood ‘Whirlpool Dub’

Patten ‘Walk With U’

Pinkpantheress & Ice Spice ‘Boy’s A Liar Pt.2’

Pozi ‘Failing’ / ‘Pest Control’

Quade ‘Streching Out’

Roisin Murphy 'CooCool'

Rozi Plain ‘Complicated’ / ‘Painted The Room’

Seamus Fogarty ‘They Recognised Him’

Shabazz Palaces ‘Binoculars’

Sierra Manhattan ‘Smartphones’

Slauson Malone 1 ‘New Joy’

Sleaford Mods ‘UK Grim’ / ‘Force 10 From Navarone’

The Smile ‘Wall Of Eyes’

Squid ‘Siphon Song’ / ‘Undergrowth’

Steve Mason ‘The People Say’

Tapeworms ‘IRL’

Terry ‘Gold Duck’

Tirzah ‘No Limit’

Trust Fund ‘London’

Vagabon ‘Carpenter’

Warmduscher ‘Love Strong’

Weird Wave ‘Unrecognise!’

Wesley Gonzalez ‘Dress Rehearsal’ / ‘When I Rot’

Yaeji ‘For Granted’ / ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’

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THE TOP 25 SONGS OF 2023

25. Bjork & Rosalia ‘Oral’

24. MF Tomlinson ‘We Are Still Wild Horses’

23. Fever Ray ‘Even It Out’

22. Dorian Electra ‘Freak Mode’

21. Nourished By Time ‘Shed The Fear’

20. ANOHNI & The Johnsons ‘It Must Change’

19. Young Fathers ‘Rice’

18. Kwes, Sampha, Tirzah ‘Open Up’

17. Max Tundra ‘Lights 2023’

16. Squid ‘Undergrowth’

15. Tara Clerkin Trio ‘Marble Walls’

14. Rozi Plain ‘Help’

13. The Lemon Twigs ‘When Winter Comes Around’ / ‘Corner Of My Eye’

12. Animal Collective ‘Gem & I’

11. Max Tundra ‘This Woman’s Work’

10. Water From Your Eyes ‘Barley’

9. Django Django & Self Esteem ‘Complete Me’

8. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown ‘Burfict!’

7. Bill Ryder-Jones ‘This Can’t Go On’

6. Squid ‘Swing (In A Dream)’

5. Tara Clerkin Trio ‘The Turning Ground’

4. Lana Del Rey ‘A&W’

3. Steve Mason ‘Brixton Fish Fry’

2. Caroline Polachek ‘Dang’

1. Oneohtrix Point Never ‘A Barely Lit Path’

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BEANSONBREAD AWARDS 2023 - BEST FILM

AWARD NO.4 - BEST FILM OF 2023

PAST WINNERS

2022 > Memoria (see full list HERE)

2021 > Another Round (see full list HERE)

2020 > Uncut Gems (see full list HERE)

2019 > Bait (see full list HERE)

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Not seen enough 2023 films for this to be considered a proper list but from what i have seen these are my favourites.

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RUNNERS UP (in no order)

Infinity Pool 🇨🇦🇭🇷 

Blue Jean 🇬🇧 

Return To Seoul 🇫🇷🇰🇷🇧🇪🇰🇭🇩🇪🇷🇴

Pearl 🇺🇸 

Dream Scenario 🇺🇸

Skinamarink 🇨🇦

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MY TOP 3 FILMS OF 2023

3. Sick Of Myself 🇳🇴🇸🇪 

2. Beau Is Afraid 🇺🇸

1. Past Lives  🇰🇷🇺🇸