Every #1 Album from Each Year of the IPU's Annual Countdowns.

When Stella Chronopoulou, the Athens-based producer who records as ∑tella, finished her new fifth album, Adagio, her first listen back set her hopes for the record.

"When I heard the whole thing."…

"Every day I wake, wait for the tragedy" sings Emily A. Sprague, as the very opening line of Jellywish, the fifth LP for her New York-based band Florist.

It sets the tenor…

"In a lot of ways it's been in the making my whole life," says Marlon Williams about his new album, Te Whare Tiwekaweka.

Written and sung entirely in te reo Māori, the…

"Lightness and softness," Marylou Mayniel acknowledges, are the definitive elements of the songs she records under the name Oklou.

The 31-year-old Paris-based producer makes music that uses ambient sounds in pop-song format; employing…

In 2024, Alan Sparhawk —after 30 years and 13 albums with the band Low— released his debut solo LP, White Roses, My God.

Low had come to an end following the death…

After releasing six albums under her own name, Sharon Van Etten has issued her seventh record with the band handle Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory.

The billing reflects the making of…

Anna B Savage's new album, You & i are Earth, is about love. Love for a person, and love for a place, and how those two feelings can be interwoven together.

The…

When Ela Minus was at work on her second album, the image that kept coming to her was one of "turning a light on".

So, for her follow-up to her 2020 debut acts…

The 25th Annual IPU Albums-of-the-Year Countdown.