This 12 months’s Tiny Desk Contest, NPR Music’s annual seek for the subsequent nice undiscovered artist, obtained almost 7,500 entries. It was a document quantity for the Contest, which has been crowning winners like Implausible Negrito, Tank and the Bangas and The Philharmonik every year since 2015.
Quickly, the Contest judges — a mixture of Tiny Desk producers, artists and music business insiders — will reveal this 12 months’s winner. Main as much as the announcement, they shared dozens of their favourite entries in our annual High Shelf collection on YouTube.
And now, they wish to hear from you. “The extent of expertise on this 12 months’s Contest has made it almost unattainable to select only one winner,” says Tiny Desk host and collection producer Bobby Carter. “We love the vitality that followers give us when Contest time rolls round, so it is time to give it again with the fan vote.”
Make amends for all of the High Shelf episodes and entry movies in this YouTube playlist, and vote beneath on your favourite of the 50 featured entries. The winner of the Fan Favourite vote will likely be introduced on NPR Music’s Instagram and within the Tiny Desk Contest e-newsletter.
- Becca Hannah, “Rewind”
- BeeTaylor, “BeeTaylor Kind Beat”
- BiQo and the LALA., “BIRIBI”
- Black Hibiscus, “So Lengthy”
- Chris Wallace, “Between”
- Treatment For Paranoia, “THE ARTSHOW”
- Dakota Bleu, “Nonetheless Outdoors”
- DAP The Contract & Kingsmen, “Fàájì”
- Emerson Woolf, “A Nook Retailer Hymn”
- Enter Sceptre, “Caspian’s Inquisition”
- Eph See, “Malachi The Uber Driver”
- FORAGER, “Cut up Lip”
- Funk Unity, “Tomorrow”
- Gillian Grogan, “Ants In The Backyard”
- IAHIAL, “In Move”
- Jeff Scott, “10,000 Toes”
- JoJo DiSalvo, “Angels”
- Lawd, Ito!, “Aguanile”
- Leah Marlene, “Flashes”
- Liam Taylor, “26 Missed Calls”
- Lovestreet, “You Ship Me”
- Lyra & The Mild, “Trick the Warden”
- Maia Kamil, “Good Life”
- Murphy (blindboymusic), “Late Bloomer”
- Nicholas Ryan Gant, “Simply Us”
- nobigdyl., “imago interlude”
- Olivia C. Dacal, “STAR”
- Ollie Gabriel, “RIC FLAIR”
- P.H.0, “Yè”
- Parisalexa, “Flygirl”
- Pump Motion, “Go away My Woman Alone”
- Pink Lotus & The Earthtones, “I Would possibly Fall In Love With You”
- Regi Angelou “U Scared”
- Ruby Ibarra, “Bakunawa”
- Sadia, “Good”
- Saeeda Wright, “Urgent On”
- Sally Child’s Silver {Dollars}, “Goodnight Miss Lulu White”
- Shannon Lauren Callihan “Do not Make Sense”
- Shua, “Damaged (Put Me Again Collectively)”
- Slumpwick Grummo, “Christ Pose / 90 Knot Water Whip”
- Speakeasy, “Monogamy”
- Taisha Estrada, “El Abstracto”
- The Brudi Brothers, “Me Extra Cowboy Than You”
- The Narcotix, “The Mystic”
- “Tiril Jackson, “Truman”
- Tish Hyman, “Fortunate”
- TreWay & The Now Technology, “Comfy”
- Vahn Black, “Die Simple”
- We Simply Met, “Massive Black Gap”
- YOYO, “Every little thing’s About Me”
Voting closes on Thursday, Might 1, at 11:59 p.m. ET. To be taught extra in regards to the Contest, and to get tickets for this summer season’s Tiny Desk Contest On The Highway tour, go to npr.org/tinydeskcontest.
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