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For the sake of more easily sharing my favourite stuff from last year, this is a compilation post of all my separate posts. If you've already read all 12 of those posts, there's nothing new here, so feel free to skip this. For those of you who haven't though, this should be a handy way of keeping track of them all! chaosincurate's 2025 Favourites (1/12) - Jam of the Year chaosincurate's 2025…
John Michel & Anthony James - Egotrip Genre: Hip-Hop Saya Gray - SAYA Genre: Art Pop Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) Genre: Pop Rap $ilkMoney - WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE ONCE THE LEAVES DRY UP AND THE FRUITS NO LONGER BEAR Genre: Abstract Hip-Hop JID - God Does Like Ugly Genre: Hip-Hop Ninajirachi - I Love my Computer Genre: EDM Deftones - private music Genre: Alt. Metal Jane…
JID - Of Blue Genre: Hip-Hop Car Seat Headrest - Gethsemane Genre: Alt. Rock Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With the Beast Genre: Post-Rock Geese - Islands Of Men Genre: Indie Rock Magdalena Bay - Paint Me A Picture Genre: Prog Pop billy woods - Waterproof Mascara Genre: Experimental Hip-Hop Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party Genre: Indie Rock Danny Brown - Copycats Genre:…
I really want to stress here that this isn't dedicated to "finds" in the sense that these are super niche projects no one knows about. It's anything that I listened to for the first time this year. I just wanted to clarify that before I share my main pick. First though... Honourable mention: Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World In all honesty, this might be my favourite find of the year, but it felt…
This category is dedicated to the songs that I didn't get around to when they came out but discovered in the past year, whether that's because it came out before I was into music like I am now, or whether it's just one that escaped me the first time round. Honourable mention: Mk.gee - Alesis Two Star & The Dream Police was a strange album to get into. I was warned beforehand, but it didn't make…
This category is pretty straightforward, but a crucial one for any music fans journey: it's all about the albums that took me by surprise and opened me up to a new genre or style of music. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Normally this category would go to an album or artist that came out this year, but unfortunately no album or artist was able to break any boundaries for me with their releases this…
This superlative is dedicated to the album that best executed on it's concept. Naturally it needs to be a concept album of some description, but crucially the overall quality of the music isn't being judged here. It isn't the best concept album, it is the best concept for an album. Honourable mention: FKA twigs - Eusexua For 2025, twigs turned her attention to club culture for inspiration, hoping…
This category is dedicated to bands and artists that have taken a huge leap forward in living up to their creative potential. The band or artist that I choose here is a band or artist which has always seemed promising but has always seemed to be missing something that takes them from a talented act to keep an eye on, to a genuinely great act. Sorry (2025 project: COSPLAY) This was a tricky…
The album that I feel has gone most undeservedly under the radar Honourable mention: $ilkMoney - WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE ONCE THE LEAVES DRY UP AND FRUITS NO LONGER BEAR? Sometimes you will just see a title and decide you have to listen to the work just because that title is too compelling. This album is full of those types of titles, and the music backs it up. This album is about as…
The Leonard Cohen Award is for an album from this year that embodies the lines "There is a crack, a crack in everything // That's how the light gets in". It's not a perfect album by any means, but this album seems to defy critique, sometimes being entirely unaffected by it's flaws and sometimes even being improved by them. Lily Allen - West End Girl If you look at the publish dates of these posts,…
