It's been another great year of awesome music!

Here are my favourite albums for the year (in alphabetical order):

• Aminé “13 Months of Sunshine”
• Blondshell “If You Asked for a Picture”
• Dijon “Baby”
• INJI “SUPERLAME”
• Lucy Dacus “Forever is a Feeling”
• Ninajirachi “I Love My Computer”
• Petey (USA) “The Yips”
• Royel Otis “Hickey”
• Sleigh Bells “Bunky Becky Birthday Boy”
• Wet Leg “Moisturizer”

Here are other artists I support on Bandcamp

And the rest of a heap of music I listened to this year (also in alphabetical order):



Others:

• 2hollis “Star”
• Addison Rae “Addison”
• Anna of the North “Girl in a Bottle”
• The Beaches “No Hard Feelings”
• Benee “Ur an Angel I’m Just Particles?”
• Bleak Squad “Strange Love”
• Chance the Rapper “Star Line”
• Dar Williams “Hummingbird Highway”
• Haim “I Quit”
• Hatchie “Licquorice”
• Hayley Williams “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party”
• Infinity Broke “The Masthead”
• JENNIE “Ruby”
• Justin Bieber “Swag” I & II
• Kae Tempest “Self Titled”
• KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack
• Mallrat “Light Hit my Face Like a Straight Right”
• Jane Remover “Revengeseekerz”
• Jessie Murph
• joan “this won’t last forever”
• Julien Baker & Torres “Send a Prayer my Way”
• Kaytranada “Ain’t No Damn Way!”
• LANY “Soft”
• LISA “After Ego”
• Little Simz “Lotus”
• Miguel “CAOS”
• Nilüfer Yanya “Dancing Shoes”
• Pinegrove “Elsewhere 3”
• PinkPantheress “Fancy That”
• Qing Madi “I am the Blueprint”
• Ruel “Kicking my Feet”
• The Runarounds (Prime Video) Soundtrack
• Smith & Cohen “Half Life”
• Stray Kids 
• Sudan Archives “The BPM
• Turnstile “Never Enough”

EPs:

• Ax and the Hatchetmen “Constant Changes”
• Blusher “Racer”
• Cerrone & Christine and the Queens “Catching Feelings”
• piri & tommy “magic!”
• Rachel Chinourir “Little House”
• Rebecca Black “SALVATION”
• XG “XDM Unidentified Waves”

As always, I get my music from Bandcamp, AudioTree, YouTube Music, and FluxBlog. Also love NRP's Tiny Desk sessions and KEXP sessions.

Here are a few of my favourite music writers:

• Amanda Petrusich’s The Best Albums of 2025: (Remove Paywall)
• Matthew Perpetua's Fluxblog 2025 Survey Mix playlists on YouTube (and other platforms) 
• Sean Michaels’ Said the Gramophone Best Songs of 2025
• Steven Hyden’s Favourite Albums Of 2025

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What have you been listening to?