Hello everyone!
This is the nomination thread for Canada’s submission to Lemmyvision 3! Lemmyvision is an annual song contest held on the threadiverse, where regional communities / instances submit local songs to the global competition.
Timeline:
- You can nominate songs for our submission until Saturday April 25th 2026 in this thread.
- Afterwards, we create a poll with the valid nominations, and we will have 1 week to select our submissions, ending on Saturday May 2nd. Our team will then send our submissions to the wider contest.
- The Lemmyvision 3 contest voting runs from May 4th - 11th 2026
Nominating songs
Please comment your nominations in this thread for them to be considered. This post will be pinned to the instance briefly, but you can continue nominating songs until Saturday April 25th 2026. You will be able to find this post in !canada@lemmy.ca
When you make a nomination, please include the following information:
- The name of the song
- The name of the artist
- Which language category the nomination will be placed under (ex. ‘
English’, ‘French’, ‘Inuktitut’, etc.). We are able to submit multiple songs, one from each language category. However, it must be one of the official, Indigenous, or regional languages of Canada. - (optional) A link to “prove” that the song was released after January 1st 2025, especially if it is not clear or near the cut off.
Requirements:
- The song must have been released after January 1st 2025
- The song must not be an international hit
- The song must be “Canadian”. You are allowed to make a case for your song as appropriate
About Lemmyvision
Please see this post for official information: https://jlai.lu/post/35451902
- local link 1: https://lemmy.ca/post/62723163
- local link 2: https://piefed.ca/c/lemmyvision/p/634784
Resources
Song Lists:
- 2026 Juno nominees (cbc.ca)
- 2026 Polaris Album Prize Winner & Short List
- The top 100 Canadian songs of 2025 (cbc.ca)
What we’ve done in previous years:
- https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-04-10_lemmyvision-2025
- https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-04-08_lemmyvision-2024
If you have a helpful resource, such as a compilation of Canadian artists in the past year, let me know and I can edit it into this post.
Looking forward to all the submissions!
Meta, but I wonder if there is some way we could create an ongoing playlist for these noms?
Would any service but youtube work?
I’m happy to pin a playlist if someone wants to maintain it :)
Otherwise we will probably make a playlist or two once all the nominations are in
I’m going to regret this when not high, but I’d be happy to maintain a list if someone can suggest a service with which to do so that isn’t youtube.
(Fine, maybe if we have to via youtube but I have to think one of you groovy folks know of something better.)
Thank you!
Last I checked, there wasn’t a good way to mirror playlists across different platforms. Maybe I’ll just post on here and ask if there are suggestions
[Français] Thick Glasses - ELIZA
Angine de Poitrine comes to mind, but I think they are an international hit…
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2246245/angine-poitrine-groupe-viral-spotify
They are now the “most viral band” on spotify across the world.
I guess one could argue that when their first album came out, they were pretty much unknown, so it must count for something.You should recommend a song from them.
From what I could gather in the Lemmyvision post, they created this rule because Germany sent Rammstein one of the years. Angine de Poitrine is big, but not 10M views in a single song big.
*edit: this one is a banger https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/fabienk-2
They absolutely kick ass.
I feel like if it is decided its not an international hit, Angine de poitrine must be the representative. They have just been absolutely blowing up lately.
DIminishing Returns - Dan Mangan (English)
From Dan Mangan’s Natural Light album, released in May 2025.
Dan Mangan is a longstanding favourite of mine, and I believe I nominated Call Me Up High last Lemmyvision. As such, here’s some bonus Dan Mangan tracks:
- Robots, live at Granville Island, probably his biggest song, performed live in his hometown, outdoors.
- Troubled Mind, one of my personal favourites.
- There’s A Tumour In the White House, no reason…
Edit: extra plug, Dan Mangan will be doing some BC shows in September, maybe I’ll see you there!
Nomination for [English]
Song: burnouts
Artist: ilysm ft. sor uh
Released June 29th, 2025 as a part of the album burger world peace & the endless mediocrity
ilysm is from Edmonton, and sor uh has released music using the “Canada” tag on Bandcamp before, including here.
[English] Men I Trust - To Ease You (Equus Caballus)
[English] Headstones - AN EFFORT TO FORGET
Solid music, great song, thanks for recommending!
Not a big fan of the art on their most recent discs, https://headstones.bandcamp.com/album/burn-all-the-ships
[English] BRKN LOVE - Pulling Leeches
Thanks for recommending another banger.
What a great album! It is hard to pick a favourite from there. I like Cruel lyrics, that 12 Wings is an earworm, the riff and the chorus are stuck in my mind. And that bass line and drums on Pulling Leeches, well, the whole song is chef’s kiss.
I will leave this here as Bandcamp Friday is coming (May 1st) https://brknlove.bandcamp.com/album/the-program
[English] The Free Label - Dancing on Your Own https://thefreelabel.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-on-your-own
Learned about them on Musora, they made a cover of Alice in Chains - Them Bones
No idea this band existed but holy shit are they good. Thanks for the suggestion.
Never heard of Boy Golden, and only heard this song on the radio while driving a month or so ago. Thank goodness for our modern high tech radios, I noted the song info, and it is now in my regular offline backup MP3 collection.
This song is so big in my part of the country it’s hard to believe it’s not an international hit. Good nomination!
Thank you for the recommendation, first time I hear of Boy Golden (btw don’t search the other way around, some sort of anime smut). Suffer is solid, and the whole CD is great. Saving the link for bandcamp friday https://yaboygolden.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-our-possible-lives
I should’ve included Bandcamp links, it’s a good way to support the artists. Thanks!
My nominations for French language:
Fabienk by Angine de Poitrine.
It is quite the upcoming and popular band, and they are something entirely unique and Quebecois. Although, arguably there is no French being spoken in the music persay, but they are from Saguenay Quebec. If they don’t count as an international hit already, this is absolutely my top choice.
Stable by oui merci.
This song is rather unlike their other music, and for the better in my opinion. This is really catchy and distinct from other music and is pleasant to listen to.
Dogue by Ariane Roy
Very slow but methodic, and sung with a rather beautiful voice.
Anarcolique by Jérôme 50
Jérôme is an absolutely wonderful artist and I would struggle to imagine someone more fit to represent Quebec in music than the artist who made the iconic Tokébakicitte. He is clearly proud of being from Quebec and keeps his music rooted in that. This would be my second top nomination.
I really want to nominate P’tit Belliveau, but he has not released any songs in 2025 or sooner :(
I’ll post some more nominations for the English language category, as well as some for the first nations languages. I found and know of a couple of artists who might fit that description – I feel like im awfully uncertified to judge their music though since its so culturally different to what I know and I do not understand the language even a bit. Feels wrong to just rank it purely based on how it sounds without knowing the content and cultural context, y’know?
