We were trying to come up with a cool graphic to use for this “Top 5 Giveaway” thingie, but decided to use a clip from High Fidelity instead. Then we decided to rewatch the entire film…

Anyhoo… We’ve been thinking a lot about albums lately—not just as collections of songs, but as time capsules. The ones that stick around long after release cycles fade. The ones you return to without really knowing why.

So we wanted to open that up a bit.

Send us your top 5 favorite albums right now. No essays required. No justification necessary. Just the list as it stands in your head today. It can be all-time staples, recent obsessions, or something you rediscovered at 2am and haven’t stopped playing since.

That said—if you’d like your list to be included in the post we publish on the blog, we’ll need a small bit of writing alongside it. Nothing formal. A sentence, a thought, a fragment of why these records are in rotation for you right now. It doesn’t need to explain anything fully; it just helps give your list a bit of context if and when we share it.

We’ll be collecting submissions and featuring a selection of them in an upcoming post—part snapshot, part shared listening map of where people are at right now.

And yes, there’s a small incentive involved:

One contributor will receive an UpToHear T-shirt, along with a set of physical merch items (stickers, buttons, or keychains depending on what we’re working with at the time). These are part of a small batch of materials we’ve been experimenting with in collaboration with Sticker Mule’s new platform Give.

Nothing complicated. Just something tangible for taking part.

Again, to enter, click here.