Submitting + Deadline
Previous years, I allowed troll subs and multi-subs.
For 2024, I’m maintaining the allowance of multi-subs. You are welcome to use an alias for them. I will not be accepting troll subs this year. Be earnest, please. (Humourous songs are still okay. Just don't obviously try to annoy me.)
You can submit to me via Discord (
_syn; you can also find me via the member bar in the walrus server) or here on the Syndicate by PM.
For the sake of easy data entry, removing the embeds would be appreciated. On TS, you can do this by using URL tags instead of just pasting in the URL alone. On Discord, you can do this by enclosing each URL in <>. Please submit YouTube links! It’s what the bot can play.
Submissions are open from February 1 -> February 29. If the calendar says March, you’re too late.
Reveals
Reveals will begin mid-March (16 or 17th), around 12:00 PM PST / 9:00 PM CET.
I will probably put the exact day up to a vote, but it’ll either be Saturday or Sunday. If other walruses are happening on the weekend by then, I’m happy to coordinate/switch.
The winner of the overall walrus gets a prize.
Taste Profile
Every year, there’s a few people who ask about my tastes so they can try to curate their submissions. I’ve always been pretty bad at helping with that.
I’m going to try and help more this time. I created a Spotify playlist that includes all the stand-out songs from Synphony 2023. It includes winners and songs that spent some time on my auditions list, which is where all potential daily-rider songs go to be judged for a while.
My tastes are largely the same as then. A little more tolerance for heavier sounds, within reason. Heavy metal is probably still going to be a miss. Songs over 7 minutes long are risky. Live music tends to do poorly with me (but it has happened before that it’s done decently). I love songs that emotionally break me.
If you want more help than that playlist, here are my top 100 songs in 2023.
And then finally, I have started keeping track of my top 10 songs every month. Here is an album of July until January:
https://imgur.com/a/mkJBPNj