Best Music 🎵 of 2025!

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ALBUMS:
FKA twigs – Eusexua
Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out
Ethel Cain – Perverts
Ambrose Akinmusire – Honey From A Winter Stone
Damon Locks – List Of Demands
Wyatt E. – zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1
The Weather Station – Humanhood
Ocean Moon – Ways To The Deep Meadow
Ela Minus – DÍA
EPs:
Yola – My Way
Sam Cohen – Continuum Part I-IV
Mong Tong – On Audiotree Live
 
avecigrec said:
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ALBUMS:
FKA twigs – Eusexua
Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out
Ethel Cain – Perverts
Ambrose Akinmusire – Honey From A Winter Stone
Damon Locks – List Of Demands
Wyatt E. – zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1
The Weather Station – Humanhood
Ocean Moon – Ways To The Deep Meadow
Ela Minus – DÍA
EPs:
Yola – My Way
Sam Cohen – Continuum Part I-IV
Mong Tong – On Audiotree Live
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Not to be that guy... But Perverts is technically an EP 🤷‍♂️
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The top list is the things I’ve listened to that I would recommend without hesitation so far this year. I would also say that the new Bonnie Prince Billy and Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits are worth a listen.

January 25 top ten:
  1. Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone
  2. Ethel Cain - Perverts
  3. The Weather Station - Humanhood
  4. Anna B Savage - You and I are Earth
  5. Ela Minus - DÍA
  6. Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out
  7. MF TEEN - Your Concurrence in the Above is Assumed
  8. Chihei Hatekeyama - Lucid Dreams
  9. FKA Twigs - EUSEXUA
  10. Flora Hibbard - Swirl
My most listened looks like this:
  1. MF TEEN - Your Concurrence in the Above is Assumed
  2. Seong-Jin Cho - Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works
  3. Chihei Hatekeyama - Lucid Dreams
  4. Anna B Savage - You and I are Earth
  5. The Weather Station - Humanhood
  6. Ela Minus - DÍA
  7. FKA Twigs - EUSEXUA
  8. The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow
  9. Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out
  10. Larkin Poe - Bloom
 
Nee Lewman said:
It may be in higher placement (as on the list for the quarter), but I have only given it a very cursory listen at this point.
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Same. My listening have been interrupted, but I've loved what i have heard, which doesn't surprise me. He an Albanese are pretty constant loves for me.
 
Nee Lewman said:
The top list is the things I’ve listened to that I would recommend without hesitation so far this year. I would also say that the new Bonnie Prince Billy and Ludovico Einaudi’s The Summer Portraits are worth a listen.

January 25 top ten:
  1. Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone
  2. Ethel Cain - Perverts
  3. The Weather Station - Humanhood
  4. Anna B Savage - You and I are Earth
  5. Ela Minus - DÍA
  6. Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out
  7. MF TEEN - Your Concurrence in the Above is Assumed
  8. Chihei Hatekeyama - Lucid Dreams
  9. FKA Twigs - EUSEXUA
  10. Flora Hibbard - Swirl
My most listened looks like this:
  1. MF TEEN - Your Concurrence in the Above is Assumed
  2. Seong-Jin Cho - Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works
  3. Chihei Hatekeyama - Lucid Dreams
  4. Anna B Savage - You and I are Earth
  5. The Weather Station - Humanhood
  6. Ela Minus - DÍA
  7. FKA Twigs - EUSEXUA
  8. The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow
  9. Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out
  10. Larkin Poe - Bloom
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I almost bought swirl on vinyl as I liked auto icon, Jesse and code but didn't because I wasn't a fan of canopy and the other super country sounding songs as i don't like country music. I decided to go for the upcoming Sharon van etten and deep sea diver albums i liked what I heard from those albums more than anything on swirl.
 
For the past two or three years now, I have been sending a handful of friends a monthly 10 song playlist of odds and ends that caught my ear over the preceding month, and usually got played a lot while I was streaming. There's no set metric for what makes it and what doesn't—sometimes something quirky and whimsical slips in, and sometimes my choices may be a bit predictable ("ooooh, another month with a Moor Mother track or collaboration, how shocking!") The most important thing is I very much enjoy the songs, and I really love putting the playlist together. Some months it's hard to whittle the accumulated tracks down to 10* and others it can be pretty easy.

Anyhow, I figured this year I'd share here for kicks in case any of y'all are interested:



*while there is no set metric in place, often songs that appear in my top 9 for a given month are some of the first to get whittled away from the playlist, which is why, for instance, "****ology 101" by Lambrini Girls didn't make this edition of the playlist, despite being an absolute jam that I definitely played a LOT.
 
avecigrec said:
For the past two or three years now, I have been sending a handful of friends a monthly 10 song playlist of odds and ends that caught my ear over the preceding month, and usually got played a lot while I was streaming. There's no set metric for what makes it and what doesn't—sometimes something quirky and whimsical slips in, and sometimes my choices may be a bit predictable ("ooooh, another month with a Moor Mother track or collaboration, how shocking!") The most important thing is I very much enjoy the songs, and I really love putting the playlist together. Some months it's hard to whittle the accumulated tracks down to 10* and others it can be pretty easy.

Anyhow, I figured this year I'd share here for kicks in case any of y'all are interested:



*while there is no set metric in place, often songs that appear in my top 9 for a given month are some of the first to get whittled away from the playlist, which is why, for instance, "****ology 101" by Lambrini Girls didn't make this edition of the playlist, despite being an absolute jam that I definitely played a LOT.
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Just to clarify, the songs featured do not necessarily have to be from albums that were newly released in the preceding month, correct?
 
musicjunkiegreg said:
Just to clarify, the songs featured do not necessarily have to be from albums that were newly released in the preceding month, correct?
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Correct. Sometimes they're singles off forthcoming albums, or one-off singles, stuff from compilations, or something that was maybe released the month before but I got to late—or sometimes a single had been released months before but I didn't catch it until it saw a different release.

When I first started doing them I would include newly discovered stuff from years ago, or an old favorite that made a comeback in my consciousness for awhile, but generally these days I tend to aim for timlier things with a focus toward discovery. But as I said there's no strict metric so there aren't really rules for me to break or follow. Other than 10 songs. That part is firm (yet arbitrary!)
 
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