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per it but as good as this is had they stuck with the 2024 live versions double infinity by big thief 15 ryan davis and the roadhouse band new threats from the soul 57 minutes for seven tracks it has to be to fit the full weight of davis poetic exploratory eye for character sketches and the opulent take on alt country backing ryan davis the roadhouse band new threats from the soul by ryan davis the roadhouse band 14 youth lagoon rarely do i dream trevor powers late career renaissance continues with a vhs taped night drive all atmospheric synths and percussive movement with terrors perhaps lurking rarely do i dream by youth lagoon 13 pulp more for all the kings of britpop stuff doesn t this sound more like a natural successor to their pre his n hers identity albeit one that can afford strings more by pulp 12 wednesday bleeds karly hartzman still expertly poetically mining obervations of small town shame backed by a country rock band letting loose on shoegaze pedals bleeds by wednesday 11 model actriz pirouette so you can t combine dance beats and corrosive self examination cole haden s tense queer intimacy and vulnerability is made more apparent by its taut industrial percussiveness pirouette by model actriz 10 panic shack panic shack raucous funny occasionally meaningful occasionally social always the last girl gang in town the authentic sound of the womanby street st mary street junction panic shack by panic shack 9 billy woods golliwog sounds like nobody else clambering its way through thickets of disturbing ambient and jazz loops his and his guests flows detailing slices of paranoid life golliwog by billy woods 8 prolapse i wonder when they re going to destroy your face attacking noise guitar like reich breaking down motorik insistence and a drunk scotsman shouting absurdity 26 years away and still nobody quite sounds like their racket i wonder when they re going to destroy your face by prolapse 7 perfume genius glory as anyone who saw this being performed live there s an odd theatrically creeping in but not so much it affects mike hadreas idiosyncratically grand anxiety of self and dislocation glory by perfume genius 6 mclusky the world is still here and so are we if only everything in life were as reliable as andy falkous and also as impassionedly abrasively hilarious but then where would the uniqueness be the world is still here and so are we by mclusky 5 gwenno utopia ms saunders considers her previous lives sings in english judas and finds a dreamier more ruminative version of her playfully psychedelic self utopia by gwenno 4 for those i love carving the stone david balfe who married grief in spoken word with dancefloor euphoria four years ago casts an impassioned raging and rueful eye over his conflicted relationship with ireland also the most astonishing live set we saw all year 3 backxwash only dust remains mostly laying off on the punishing soundscapes of old but not the twisted samples and loops and absolutely not the darker than hell lyrical content building on a spiritual intensity that lays absolutely everything out only dust remains by backxwash 2 rosalia lux the year s most audacious album by some stretch symphony orchestra backed luxuriant dramatic and experimental transcendence across a range of languages and it all works out as a bjork inspired singularity 1 cmat euro country a remarkable record for ciara s miracle year her own reckoning with post celtic tiger ireland but also with her own impulses grief mental health and late stage capitalist personal identity with a unique lyrical eye also it s a pop record you feel in 2025 nobody else would have had the far sightedness to make either this or lux and that s why they re there posted by simon at 9 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels albums of 2025 tuesday december 23 2025 stn s albums of 2025 40 21 40 cheekface middle spoon america s local band signal more dispatches from the nerdy mostly impoverished artist ranks looking out wryly at the outside world middle spoon by cheekface 39 c duncan it s only a love song an unexpected turn into romantic chamber pop ornate swooning and swooping strings flavouring nilsson inspired songwriting that borders on the timeless it s only a love song by c duncan 38 tulpa monster of the week score another for skep wax ringing guitars and iridescent melodies nodding at us college rock s early 90s golden age harmonies and knowing raggedness intersecting monster of the week by tulpa 37 little simz lotus inflo doesn t come out of it well what does for the most part is a sense of simbi trying to find herself again and finding a jazzy stillness 36 sudan archives the bpm taking a turn to the club while crucially not letting the trap beats vocal effects and house 303s overtake her well established personality the bpm by sudan archives 35 adwaith solas a 23 track odyssey pushing their expanding post punk into new musical corners and emerging as psych dipped warriors ready for arenas or electronic worlds solas by adwaith 34 panda bear sinister grift the songs based on loops pick up where his sonic boom collaboration left off the stacked self harmonies collages and sunlit uplands refract his own past into something more easily accepting sinister grift by panda bear 33 sacred paws jump into life back to dance through the anxiety the exuberant hi life guitar and restless rhythms one more reflecting the internalised joy and tension jump into life by sacred paws 32 jens lekman songs for other people s weddings jens takes his talent for extraordinary detail to a lengthy concept based on his nuptials side hustle capturing unfolding stories amid a return to musical mini grandiosity songs for other people s weddings by jens lekman 31 lambrini girls who let the dogs out the riot grrrls are back alive and giving out about the ever growing list of ills with intense force both politically lyrically and in slabs of noise who let the dogs out by lambrini girls 30 anna b savage you i are earth newly moved to ireland and reckoning with her new rural surroundings this might be the most intimate she s been which is some benchmark you i are earth by anna b savage 29 wet leg moisturizer in which they not only have to build on the sturdy foundations but rhian is negotiating love turns out their expansive enough to make sure they re in it for the long haul moisturizer by wet leg 28 ex vöid in love again owen williams first of two appearances comes with his and lan mcardle s already defunct fuzzed out hook factory of a classic power pop outfit in love again by ex vöid 27 allo darlin bright nights back together more low key countrified and grown into the demands of family and coping with new priorities while still wistful for the bigger picture bright nights by allo darlin 26 alan sparhawk with trampled by turtles alan sparhawk with trampled by turtles sparhawk s first full band album since losing mimi parker joining local bluegrass heroes to emotively shape a world after grief with trampled by turtles by alan sparhawk 25 sharon van etten sharon van etten the attachment theory van etten forms a band around her and extends her already widescreen ambitions from indie folk safety into electronic gothic moods and spaces sharon van etten the attachment theory by sharon van etten 24 hayden pedigo i ll be waving as you drive away hurrah for the american primitive pedigo s fingerpicked instrumentals tell of wide open spaces rippling vistas and undimmed small scale ambition i ll be waving as you drive away by hayden pedigo 23 armand hammer the alchemist mercy billy woods first of two appearances on the list reteaming with elucid to outline a dank manual of survival keeping heads above the piano synth loop waters mercy by armand hammer the alchemist 22 cate le bon michaelangelo dying another twist in le bon s exploration of post bowie art pop even finding a distinct cryptic sometimes queasy voice in heartbreak of all potential cliches michelangelo dying by cate le bon 21 the tubs cotton crown owen again still sounding like richard thompson sings bob mould if more the latter s early solo stuff the jangle adjacent power pop mostly grown up and more contemplative cotton crown by the tubs posted by simon at 9 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels albums of 2025 monday december 22 2025 stn s albums of 2025 60 41 we ve never gone as far as a top 60 before but that s how packed out with goodness the year was on an lp scale when even number 60 is something as instant and likeable as 60 autocamper what do you do all day janglepop as she is spoke in the modern day taking the influences of the glasgow and dunedin scenes into their own cohesive whole what do you do all day by autocamper 59 hannah frances nested in tangles fingerpicked folk with emotional and musical complexity part produced by grizzly bear s daniel rossen touching on avant jazz and weird orchestrally influenced avenues nested in tangles by hannah frances 58 geese getting killed the new black idiosyncratic fragmentated shards of art rock pavementish slacker and fifty years of brooklyn cool getting killed by geese 57 florist jellywish emily sprague and co s fifth album of sumptuously textured folk on the wonders of the existential world jellywish by florist 56 laundromat chicks sometimes possessed vienna s janglepop emissaries third album feels like cramming a history of the genre into raggedly packaged small packages sometimes possessed by laundromat chicks 55 dancer more or less slightly less slippery slightly brighter and more approachable for newcomers yet still within its own sphere of angular post punk shapes more or less by dancer 54 melody s echo chamber unclouded all of thirty minutes of ethereal dreampop wrapped in a neo psych gossamer haze lifted by retro seeming breakbeats unclouded by melody s echo chamber 53 jasmine 4 t you are the morning shapeshifting coming out in more than one term for boygenius produced close to the bone songwriting against a range from spare piano ballad to extravagant orchestration you are the morning by jasmine 4 t 52 jeanines how long can it last 13 tracks in 22 minuted efficiently filled with melody and hooks on nodding terms with c86 and those bands own influences how long can it last by jeanines 51 bob mould here we go crazy he didn t need to reform sugar though he did to affirm that his command of fuzz pedaller power and meaningful charge is well into its latest wind here we go crazy by bob mould 50 neev how things tie in knots richly expanding plaintive indie folk founded in the tension of expectation and release of acceptance which could take on much more feted american contemporaries in her field how things tie in knots by neev 49 breakup haircut no worries if not diy punk pop and power pop joy sharper and often speedier digging its nails into itself no worries if not by breakup haircut 48 deradoorian ready for heaven as inquisitive with structure and vocal runs as her previous employer dirty projectors refracted through restless psychedelia and art pop ready for heaven by deradoorian 47 caroline caroline 2 progressive in the best sense experimental in the warmest sense a suite of snippets wild moments that gradually pull together and expansive post rock plaintiveness caroline 2 by caroline 46 tunde adebimpe thee black boltz overshadowed by tv on the radio s reformation tunde s solo debut bathes in insistent beats and electronics against that familiar holler thee black boltz by tunde adebimpe 45 joanne robertson blurrr the best of the new wave of dread filled singer songwriters brings a weird beauty in murk both lyrically and in the distant grouper like wraith of her solo sketches blurrr by joanne robertson 44 the cords the cords scotland s newest exponents of the jangle still teens but who seem to have infused and reframed decades of forebears the cords by the cords 43 emma jean thackray weirdo cosmic jazz funk with spiritual and oddball vibes born from personal tragedy sprawling into contemplative shapes trying to understand it all and move on into the mothership connection weirdo by emma jean thackray 42 matt berninger get sunk subtle textured lyrically sweeping the best album he s made for a while get sunk by matt berninger 41 snooper worldwide a frantic 28 minutes short records are a real thing this year huh but don t worry so will be long records of their self christened egg punk designed to repeatedly hurl itself into a brick wall worldwide by snooper posted by simon at 9 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels albums of 2025 friday december 19 2025 stn s tracks of the year 2025 well the coast seems clear this far in so here we go the hundred most exciting affecting thought provoking exhilirating hilarious and or joyous songs we ve heard this year your mileage may no absolutely 100 will vary sorry about the lack of individual track links below the spotify playlist but there s a hundred of them adults patterns adwaith planed allo darlin tricky questions amelia the housewives summer s over anna b savage mo cheol thú anna hillburg the shape s gonna shift my way anna von hausswolff feat ethel cain aging young women the baby seals tamoo trance backxwash black lazarus bar italia cowbella baxter dury feat jgrrey return of the sharp heads the beths metal big thief incomprehensible bill callahan the man i m supposed to be billy woods feat steel tipped dove blk zmby bobby conn never felt better bob mould neanderthal boko yout 9 2 5 breakup haircut spite spite spite brògeal vicar street days caroline total euphoria cate le bon is it worth it happy birthday c duncan think about it cheekface art house cmat the jamie oliver petrol station comet gain the ballad of the lives we led the cords fabulist dancer baby blue david lowery i wrote a song called take the skinheads bowling dry cleaning hit my head all day ducks ltd deleted scenes ellie o neill little sister ethel cain nettles ex vöid in love again factory floor between you florist gloom designs for those i love of the sorrows fortitude valley oceans apart frown line days without geese cobra girl group yay saturday glimmerpit nein danke goat feat mc yallah nimerudi gwenifer raymond jack parsons blues gwenno dancing on volcanoes hannah frances falling from and further hayden pedigo long pond lily james k on god jeanines you can t get it back jens lekman a tuxedo sewn for two jessica winter big star kelcey ayer different planets lael neale some bright morning lambrini girls cuntology 101 little simz feat michael kiwanuka yussef dayes lotus man woman chainsaw adam steve matt berninger bonnet of pins mclusky way of the exploding dickhead melody s echo chamber in the stars model actriz cinderella murder club cave in neev he built himself the new eves highway man nilüfer yanya where to look the orchestra for now 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