Stupid Says Run from Kaprekar’s Constant alumni, Dorie Jackson, was my first album review of 2025, and even at that very early stage of the year, was a certainty to be featured in the website’s annual awards review. This is Dorie’s second solo album, and can be purchased at https://talkingelephantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stupid-says-run

Any one of the twelve tracks on offer could have won an award, but I plumped for The Daylight Gate, perfectly describing the horrors that sufferers of insomnia have to go through.

As a whole work, this album is one of those this website lives for. Impossible to categorise and full of creativity, the joy of sounds permeating every single second.