Best Music 🎵 of 2025!

[Nee Lewman]

Me on January 1: alright, this is it. This is going to finally be the year I force myself to consistently keep up with new releases

*first major release of 2025 is an 89-minute album being described as "ambient drone" and "slowcore"*
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89 minute ep

 

[gaporter]

89 minute ep

Ah, so it's just an EP, not an album, got it. I suppose that means I won't be seeing it on any AOTY lists on the end of the year?

 

[Nee Lewman]

Ah, so it's just an EP, not an album, got it. I suppose that means I won't be seeing it on any AOTY lists on the end of the year?

I blame Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Drake and Zach Bryan.

 

[Rip_City]

Ah, so it's just an EP, not an album, got it. I suppose that means I won't be seeing it on any AOTY lists on the end of the year?

It (along with all other EPs) will be eligible for the eventual 2025 MEGALIST.

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

I blame Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Drake and Zach Bryan.

Why do you blame them?

 

[Nee Lewman]

Why do you blame them?

Long ass quadruple album fuckers. To maximize tracks and therefore chart position.

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

Long ass quadruple album fuckers. To maximize tracks and therefore chart position.

It's kind of funny, I believe Ethel Cain had to fulfill her contract with her label and that required she release an EP.. so with an 89-minute runtime on an EP, she seems to be sticking it to the man

 

[Joe Mac]

I blame Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Drake and Zach Bryan.

I thought we established yesterday that everything is your fault?

 

[Nee Lewman]

It's kind of funny, I believe Ethel Cain had to fulfill her contract with her label and that required she release an EP.. so with an 89-minute runtime on an EP, she seems to be sticking it to the man

Yeah but fifty track albums help the argument that a 89 minute album is merely an Extended Play.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I thought we established yesterday that everything is your fault?

I was not involved in this!

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

I thought we established yesterday that everything is your fault?

I'll go along with that for 2025: everything is Lee's fault

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

New clipping. album just announced! Dropping March 14th!

The vinyl on BC is badass! I may have to pre-order

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

Excellent. Very compelling. The slowcore closer is also stellar.

Compelling, indeed!

 

[Nee Lewman]

I'll go along with that for 2025: everything is Lee's fault

Did I do that?

 

[Hollywood]

Most anticipated albums of 2025:

Bon Iver - fABLE 04/11
Lucy Dacus - Forever Is A Feeling 03/28
Darkside - Nothing 02/28
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power 03/28
Deftones - TBA
Lana Del Rey - The Right Person Will Stay 05/21
Doves - Constellation For The Lonely 02/28
DJ Koze - Music Can Hear Us 04/04
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) 03/02
Hamilton Leithauser - This Side Of The Island 03/07
Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking 02/14
Massive Attack - TBA
Men I Trust - Equus Asimus and Equus Caballus TBA
Mogwai - The Bad Fire 01/24
Nine Inch Nails - TBA
Perfume Genius - Glory 03/28
Snowpoet - TBA
SPELLING - Portrait Of My Heart 03/28
Michael Stipe - TBA
Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory 02/07
The Weather Station - Humanhood 01/17

 

[Hollywood]

 

[jdr2187]

My most anticipated.

Confirmed
Early James
The Weather Station
Rose City Band
Bonnie Prince Billy
Sam Amidon
Sunny War
The Delines
Hamilton Leithauser
Fust
Tobacco City
Christina Vane
Sean Thompsons Weird Ears
Todd Day Wait
Ben Kweller



Not confirmed but likely
Max Gomez
TK & The Holy Know Nothings
Sabine Mccalla
Lou Hazel
Hayden Pedigo
Hayden Pedigo/Chat Pile collab
Esther Rose
Kassi Vallaza
Vincent Neil Emerson
Riley Downing
Kristina Murray

Hopeful
Tom Waits
Ian Noe
Kevin Morby
Gwenifer Raymond

 

[wokeupnew]

This Ethel Cain EP is doing nothing for me. Tbf Dark Ambient is my least favorite Ambient sub-genre so this just might not be for me.

 

[gaporter]

Me on January 1: alright, this is it. This is going to finally be the year I force myself to consistently keep up with new releases

*first major release of 2025 is an 89-minute album being described as "ambient drone" and "slowcore"*
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Okay maybe I will end up giving Perverts a listen after all.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Okay maybe I will end up giving Perverts a listen after all.

She’s not wrong.