Our visit to Nashville in April 25 had a real influence on my listening last year. And this by:

Billy Strings - EP was my #AOTY25 #NowPlaying #vinylrecords

Yep I know it was released in 2016 but in 2025 it was the first time on vinyl #TMR

black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind. cover features a photo of a young Willems playing a drum strapped across her shoulder against a blue background

#NowPlaying #Vinyl
Karen Willems: A Fool's Guide To Reality
(Permanent Draft, 2025)

Heard this sublime record too late for inclusion in my #AOTY25 list but repeated trips into its otherwordly creative wonder have elevated it among my very favourites 💯

permanentdraft.bandcamp.com/album/a-fool...

Essentials 2025 par Fanny sur Apple Music Playlist · 100 morceaux

1 Year, 100 albums, 100 tracks.
Thank you for the music.
#PersonalPicks2025
#AOTY25

Absolutely chuffed to see ‘Ticking Haze’ so high in Janglepophub’s excellent Top 30 albums of 2025. 🤩

#musicsky #janglepop #aoty25 #indiepop #dreampop

#25of2025
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My 25 most loved albums of 2025. What a year again...
My #AOTY25 is definitely Racing Mount Pleasant.

Juhu. Endlich: Noch eine Jahresendliste, die Ihr ignorieren könnt. :)

10 (ZEHN, MÜCKSI!) beste Platten des Jahres 2025.
Mit einer Ausnahme ordentlich Radau.

Hey ho. Let's go.
#aoty #aoty25

Meine #AOTY25 und, dank @hellojed.de, mein universeller Jahressampler. link.deezer.com/s/31YGfv4skw...

Favourite Albums 2025 1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music 2 Saya Gray - Saya 3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny 4 Little Simz - Lotus 5 CMAT - Euro-Country 6 NewDad - Altar 7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends 8 Big Thief - Double Infinity 9 Maribou State - Hallucinating Love 10 Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime 11 Oklou - Choke Enough 12 Darkside - Nothing 13 Better Joy - Heading Into Blue ep 14 Better Joy - At Dusk ep 15 The Weather Station - Humanhood

Favourite Albums 2025 1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music 2 Saya Gray - Saya 3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny 4 Little Simz - Lotus 5 CMAT - Euro-Country 6 NewDad - Altar 7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends 8 Big Thief - Double Infinity 9 Maribou State - Hallucinating Love 10 Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime 11 Oklou - Choke Enough 12 Darkside - Nothing 13 Better Joy - Heading Into Blue ep 14 Better Joy - At Dusk ep 15 The Weather Station - Humanhood

My #top15of2025 #aoty25

1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music
2 Saya Gray - Saya
3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny
4 Little Simz - Lotus
5 CMAT - Euro-Country
6 NewDad - Altar
7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends
8 Big Thief- Double Infinity

Playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/4FC...

Full List

Jim Legxacy - Black British Music

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1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music

(The rapper & producer lurches from alt-rock to distortion & chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent & melodic record.[Guardian])

Songs:

Father

youtu.be/klPD-stNou0?...

06 Wayne Rooney

youtu.be/RhjZgIk9oCs?...

Saya Gray - Saya

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2 Saya Gray - Saya

(It’s why SAYA is a shoegaze album, a metal album, an art-pop album, an electronic album & a folk album all rolled into one [Paste])

Songs:

Thus Is Why (I Don't Spring 4 Love)

youtu.be/vRBa34X5Hwg?...

Lie Down

youtu.be/X0TAaRZdOAI?...

Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny

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3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny

(..stylish, dark, smoky fusion of trip-hop, hip-hop, reggae, neo-soul, R’n’B, and indie rock.[Song Bar])

Songs:

Glory

youtu.be/JNaNWwHGpUg?...

Nowhere Man

youtu.be/_d9ywY7uKzo?...

03. The Last Dinner Party - The Pyre. October 2025 82/100 #thelastdinnerparty #TLDP #AOYT #AOTY25 #bestof2025

Little Simz - Lotus

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4 Little Simz - Lotus

(..with the arrival of ‘Lotus’, her legacy as an all-time great has never been more assured.[DIY Magazine])

Songs:

Free

youtu.be/goChcI7lH0o?...

Flood

youtu.be/GvrNPiz7rHw?...

CMAT - Euro-Country

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5 CMAT - Euro-Country

(Vocally, lyrically, creatively, CMAT has never sounded better. In truth, you’d be hard pushed to find another record like this one. [The Skinny])

Song: The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station

youtu.be/BTWg-Ky6VZU?...

NewDad - Alter

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6 NewDad - Altar

NewDad 6th in my list 2 years running.

(a beautifully melancholy portrait of homesickness and sacrifice.[NME])

Song: Roobosh

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Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends

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7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends

(Shura’s exploratory take on pop is gorgeous, redemptive, and full of life. [Clash Music])

Song: Richardson (ft Cassandra Jenkins)

youtu.be/ZOV_T6B8UQ8?...

Big Thief - Double Infinity

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8 Big Thief - Double Infinity

(a gloriously satisfying record on which it feels like everything is in its right place.[DIY Magazine])

Song: Words

youtu.be/G0BZoZ6hBnc?...

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9 Maribou State - Hallucinating Love

(The album’s sweeping emotional range, intricate production, and moments of pure elation make it their most accomplished work to date.[Clash Music])

Song: All I Need

youtu.be/Tu_6kS_Evzc?...

De Selby's Golden Hours Twenty Top Tapes for 2025 Félicia Atkinson: Promenades (Shelter Press) Audio Obscura: As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth (self-released) Monika Badly / Shit Creek: Night Visions (Liquid Library) BALF: Sea Defence Ultra (Industrial Coast) Carnivorous Plants: Guaranteed Armour (Rat Run) The Chop: It's The Chop (Wrong Speed Records) Content Provider: Endless Summer (Drowned By Locals / Bokeh Versions) DJ Deathdefy: A Hopeful Monster (Industrial Coast) Francesca O: Cortado (Nyahh Records) Robert Dallas Gray: The Vallum (self-released) Ironic Hill: Master Peese (self-released) K Of Arc: Anti Drome (Cruel Nature) Anvar Kalandarov: Digging Central Asia: Musical Archaeology Along The Silk Road (Death Is Not The End) Klein: Sleep With A Cane (boomkat) La Brea Pulpit: Anandaride Aberration (Liquid Library) Milkweed: Remscéla (self-released) Tavare: Too Small To Be So High (Cruel Nature) Trium Circulorum: Wire Tripping (Third Kind) Unmaking: Absolute Immiseration (self-released) Various: Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture & Repair (Collapsing Drums)

A photo of the cassette cases for the releases from... (top, l-r) Milkweed, Audio Obscura, Ironic Hill, Trium Circulorum, Anvar Kalandarov (middle, l-r) DJ Deathdefy, Collapsing Tape, Robert Dallas Gray, K Of Arc, Monika Badly/Shit Creek (bottom, l-r) Tavare, Content Provider, Carnivorous Plants, La Brea Pulpit

The last #Cassunday before xmas so here are 20 of my favourite tapes released this year...
All can be found on bandcamp.
Thanks to all involved 🙏
#TwentyTopTapes #AOTY25 #2025Tapes

Listening again & oh my days, this would have been troubling my #AOTY25 list if I'd heard it in time! Stunning...

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10 Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime

(Across its ten tracks, the band abandon any fixed notion of genre, weaving together elements of alt-rock, folk & dreamy, blissful pop with remarkable ease[DIY Magazine])

Song: Take Out Your Insides

youtu.be/CgvibqxiaKw?...

Oklou - Choke Enough

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11 Oklou - Choke Enough

(Trance, medieval polyphony and Y2K pop may seem like odd bedfellows, but French singer-producer Oklou cast them all in a dawn-like haze on her gorgeous debut album.[Guardian])

Song: Take Me By The Hand

youtu.be/jdU16tnrt14?...

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#AOTY25
Really enjoyed this recent Midlake offering

Darkside - Nothing

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12

Darkside - Nothing

(Nothing is a refreshing exercise in disorientation, rewarding those willing to let go and get lost in its unpredictable soundscape.[Northern Transmissions])

Song: S.N.C.

youtu.be/fKiS9DPARDg?...

Better Joy - Heading Into Blue

Better Joy - At Dusk

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13 & 14

Better Joy - Heading Into Blue/At Dusk eps

(Bria Keely confirms herself as a rising force in indie-pop, an artist carving out her own space with precision, heart & undeniable presence[Taped Magazine])

Song: This Part Of Town

youtu.be/hD4dFWyb3BU?...

#top15albums25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

Albums I've bought in 2025. Bit of a mixed year, some real disappointments (Manics, Wolf Alice, No Joy), but there are about 10 that I absolutely love

Now with completed thread of descriptions & links...
#25for25 #AOTY25 #2025Albums

#NowPlaying #musicsky #vinylcommunity

Melody’ Echo Chamber, Unclouded (2025)

Second consecutive play of this new release. Suspect it’s going to be a very late contender for #AOTY25. Thanks to @vgbpw1.bsky.social for the early mention of this one.

Ninety Nine Eyes, by YUNIS 4 track album

Morning walk listening to...

Thanks to @deselbysgold.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention. #AOTY25

drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/ninety...

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15 The Weather Station - Humanhood

(a lush and stirring tangle of acoustic and electronic textures [Pitchfork])

Song: Mirror

youtu.be/WETpPlbdb3c?...