Best Music 🎵 of 2025!

[Rip_City]

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

She’s not wrong.

They will never make me hate you, Hayden

 

[jt4527]

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.

Now, dark ambient is my favourite ambient sub-genre, so I shall have to give this a listen!

 

[Thackeraye]

Trying out something different this year. I picked up a few of these Field Notes Log Books to keep track of the albums I check out/enjoy in 2025. These seem very practical for getting down my thoughts and for ranking albums. Pretty excited to use these!

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This is a great idea. Just bought a 2025 journal, so I'm adding this to it.

 

[boychik0830]

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

I listened to some of the songs from perverts and I wasn't a big fan of them. I don't care for ambient or drone music. I like stuff like american teenager, gibson girl and family tree more than what I listened to on perverts.

 

[Hollywood]

Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow OUT MARCH 7th!

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

First death metal release of 2025 (that I've checked out). And it's pretty damn good

 

[Hollywood]

Perfume Genius - Glory OUT MARCH 28th!

 

[Hollywood]

Lucy Dacus - Forever Is A Feeling OUT MARCH 28th!

 

[Fleetwood-Matt]

Crazy how many albums announced the past week are all produced by the same person. Seems to be a huge year for Blake Mills who is producing the new Lucy Dacus, Perfume Genius and Japanese Breakfast albums. Even crazier that all 3 were announced this week, all 3 come out in March and 2 of them even come out on the same day

 

[avecigrec]

Even crazier that all 3 were announced this week, all 3 come out in March and 2 of them even come out on the same day

 

[Nee Lewman]

So… about a third of the way through Perverts by Ethel Cain. It is absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. There is very little chance I will ever listen to it again. It is the aural equivalent of a horror movie. It is atmospheric, dark and extremely creepy. Like NIN on quaaludes telling a brilliant season of American Horror Story or something. If you can stomach it, I think it is worth the effort. In fact, I’d be curious what @LeeVing thinks of it.

Ultimately, it is not what I am looking for in music. But damn … is it great. Art doesn’t get much higher than this.

Edit: Etienne is actually very playful and provides a moment of emotional respite after the climax of Pulldrone. Amber Waves is straight up beautiful and provides a bit of a hope at the conclusion.

The whole piece is an interesting meditation on the dark parts of the human condition.

 

[avecigrec]

Ultimately, it is not what I am looking for in music. But damn … is it great. Art doesn’t get much higher than this.

I feel like this is very close to where I'm at, put more succinctly than I've been able to put it thus far. I don't love it in the way that I wished I would, but it's brilliance is undeniable.

That said, I do intend to listen to it at least thrice more before the end of the year.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I feel like this is very close to where I'm at, put more succinctly than I've been able to put it thus far. I don't love it in the way that I wished I would, but it's brilliance is undeniable.

That said, I do intend to listen to it at least thrice more before the end of the year.

I probably will listen to it again at some point. Especially at the end of the year because it belongs in the best of discussion. I just can’t imagine a scenario where I’m like “tonight I’d like to invoke existential terror while thinking about the depravity of the species.” Probably the same reason I don’t listen to The Terror or Embryonic by Flaming Lips very often.

 

[Nee Lewman]

It’s like that Carlos Nino album Placenta. Like the concept is cool and all and it works, but I don’t actually want to listen to a kid being born while I’m digging records on Jazz Sunday morning and drinking my coffee.

 

[LeeVing]

So… about a third of the way through Perverts by Ethel Cain. It is absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. There is very little chance I will ever listen to it again. It is the aural equivalent of a horror movie. It is atmospheric, dark and extremely creepy. Like NIN on quaaludes telling a brilliant season of American Horror Story or something. If you can stomach it, I think it is worth the effort. In fact, I’d be curious what @LeeVing thinks of it.

Ultimately, it is not what I am looking for in music. But damn … is it great. Art doesn’t get much higher than this.

Edit: Etienne is actually very playful and provides a moment of emotional respite after the climax of Pulldrone. Amber Waves is straight up beautiful and provides a bit of a hope at the conclusion.

The whole piece is an interesting meditation on the dark parts of the human condition.

I'll give it a listen sometime and let you know.

 

[Rip_City]

So… about a third of the way through Perverts by Ethel Cain. It is absolutely gobsmackingly brilliant. There is very little chance I will ever listen to it again. It is the aural equivalent of a horror movie. It is atmospheric, dark and extremely creepy. Like NIN on quaaludes telling a brilliant season of American Horror Story or something. If you can stomach it, I think it is worth the effort. In fact, I’d be curious what @LeeVing thinks of it.

Ultimately, it is not what I am looking for in music. But damn … is it great. Art doesn’t get much higher than this.

Edit: Etienne is actually very playful and provides a moment of emotional respite after the climax of Pulldrone. Amber Waves is straight up beautiful and provides a bit of a hope at the conclusion.

The whole piece is an interesting meditation on the dark parts of the human condition.

It is my favorite release I have listened to so far in 2025 (out of five that I have cared to try). Hayden pulls off dark ambient/drone better than many.

 

[jt4527]

Definitely my AotY so far.

(Ethel Cain)

 

[Thackeraye]

Gave it two tries and it didn't click. Might try it again later in the year.

 

[musicjunkiegreg]

It is my favorite release I have listened to so far in 2025

Same.

 

[LeeVing]

Well...I'm not saying I don't like it. But I suppose I really need to be in the right frame of mind for that.

I only got 3 or 4 "songs" in, so I haven't given it a full listen, but I will when I'm ready for it. And I'll get out the headphones, as I would think that would get the best out of it.