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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Best Albums of 2025
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Best Albums of 2024
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1. Cindy Lee - “Diamond Jubilee”
2. SOPHIE - “SOPHIE”
3. Mount Eerie - “Night Palace”
4. Being Dead - “Eels”
5. Adelyn Strei - “Original Spring”
6. Beak> - “>>>>”
7. Bina. - “Chaos Is Her Name”
8. Kim Gordon - “The Collective”
9. Muzi - “Forest Scenes”
10. Claire Rousay - “sentiment”
11. Akini Jing - “Villain”
12. Beth Gibbons - “Floating on a Moment”
13. The Smile - “Wall of Eyes”
14. Lexx Sequoia - “s/t”
15. chad vangaalen "full moon bummer 2"
16. Kendrick Lamar - “GNX”
17. Mizu - “4 | 2 | 3”
18. Atelier - “Light towards the Exit”
19. Mach-Hommy - “#Richaxxhaitian”
20. The Cure - “Songs of a Lost World”
21. Ylayali - “Birdhouse in Conduit”
22. samlrc - “A Lonely Sinner”
23. R Beny - “Discerned in the Fugue of Streams”
24. Mope Grooves - “Box of Dark Grooves”
25. Hannah Mohan - “Time is a Walnut”
26. Diode - “2”
27. Kelly Lee Owens - “Dreamstate”
28. Whitney Johnson - “Hav”
29. Spill Gold - “Zaza”
30. Hana Vu - “Romanticism”
31. Tweaks - “Home★Stretch”
32. The Drin - “Elude the Torch”
33. BABii - “DareDeviil2000”
34. Nighttime - “Lone Star”
35. Anna McClellan - “Electric Bouquet”
36. Body Meat - “Starchris”
37. Helado Negro - “Phasor”
38. Waxahatchee - “Tiger’s Blood”
39. Shabazz Palaces - “Exotic Birds of Prey”
40. Alan Sparhawk - “White Roses, My God”
41. Carolyn Kendrick - “Each Machine”
42. The Black Dog - “Sleep Deprivation”
43. Wand - “Vertigo”
44. Jamie XX - “In Waves”
45. Robber Robber - “Wild Guess”
46. Pale Jay - “Low End Love Songs”
47. Vanessa Bedoret - “Eyes”
48. Porridge Radio - “Clouds in the Sky They will Always be There for Me”
49. Windy & Carl - “Heavy Early & the Creation of Venus”
50. Sharp Veins - “People Pleaser”
51. Russian Baths - “Mirror”
52. Bnny- “One Million Love Songs”
53. Arushi Jain - “Delight”
54. Fontaines DC - “Romance”
55. Skaiwater- “#gigi“
56. Sun Cousto - “Imaginary Girls”
57. Adrienne Lenker - “Bright Future”
58. girl_irl - “(re) introduction”
59. Anastasia Coope - “Darning Woman”
60. Xiu Xiu - “Stiletto w’ Bison Horn Grips”
61. Lex Amor - “Forward Ever”
62. Kim Deal - “Nobody Loves You More”
63. Tasha - “All This and so Much More”
64. Sega Bodega - “Dennis”
65. Rick Farin - “Wretched”
66. Tyler, The Creator - “Chromakopia”
67. Habibi - “Dreamachine”
68. Thurston Moore - “Flow Critical Lucidity”
69. Alex Banin - “Since Winona”
70. Loma - “How Will I Live Without a Body?”
71. Benoit Pioulard & offtheksy - “Sunder”
72. White China - “Vavy”
73. Rubber Oh - “Soil”
74. Chanel Beads - “Your Day will Come”
75. DIIV - “Frog in Boiling Water”
76. Hildegard - “Jour 1596”
77. Giirls - “Time of Glass”
78. Dummy - “Free Energy”
79. Tara Jane O’Neill - “Cool Cloud of Okayness”
80. Moon Diagrams - “Mountain Radio”
81. The Submissives - “Live at Value Sound Studios”
82. Naima Bock - “Below a Massive Dark Land”
83. Lilacs & Champagne - “Fantasy World”
84. Aili - “Nandakke?”
85. Fennesz - “Mosaic”
86. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - “Woodland”
87. My Telephone Number - “Album #01”
88. Route 500 - “Island Perimeter”
89. Martha Sky Murphy - “Um”
90. Temir Alcy - “s/t”
91. Okokon - “Offering”
92. Tess Parks - “Pomegranate”
93. Night Beds - “Mountain Radio”
94. Princ€ss - “s/t”
95. Chelsea Wolfe - “She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She”
96. Skylar Gudaaz - “Country”
97. Ridgy - “Back to Earth”
98. The Black Dog - “Other Like Me”
99. Cuneiform Tabs - “s/t”
100. Pan-American & Kramer - “Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic”
101. The KVB - “Tremors”
102. Dehd - “Poetry”
103. Winged Wheel - “Big Hotel”
104. Nailah Hunter - “Lovegaze”
105. Old Saw - “Dissection Maps”
106. Marika Hackman - “Big Sigh”
107. Mary Ochre - “Your Guide to Revolution”
108. Bobby Would - “Relics of Our Life”
109. Astrel K - “The Foreign Department”
110. Laetitia Sadler - “Rooting for Love”
111. Tristan Arp - “A Pool, A Portal”
112. April Magazine - “Wesley’s Convertible Tape”
113. Fitkinwall - “Uist”
114. Peter Perrett - “The Cleansing”
115. Hot Garbage - “Precious Dream”
116. TR/ST - “Performance”
117. Dreams of Delvaux - “Shade Mystique”
118. Mars Kumari - “Daybreak”
119. Laura Jane Wilkie - “Vent”
120. The Smile - “Cutouts”
121. Arooj Aftab - “Night Reign”
122. Filther - “s/t”
123. Blood Estate - “Forever”
124. Amyl & the Sniffers - “Cartoon Darkness”
125. Quintelium - “Dream & Reality”
126. Ekin Fil - “Sleepwalkers”
127. The Spatulas - “Beehive Mind”
128. Soccer Mommy - “Evergreen”
129. Jack White - “No Name”
130. Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements - “Rain on the Road”
131. Chenayder - “Maybe in Another Life”
132. Shadow Show - “Fantasy Now!”
133. More Eaze - “Lacuna and Parlor”
134. Unlettered - “Five Mile Point”
135. Amie Blu - “How We Lose”
136. West of Roan - “Queen of Eyes”
137. Golden Bug - “Piscolabis II”
138. Childish Gambino - “Bando Stone and the New World”
139. The Marias - “Submarine”
140. Cass McCombs - “Seed Cake on Leap Year”
141. Roro - “2 Heaven”
142. Nala Sinephro - “Endlessness”
143. Matchess - “Stena”
144. Beige Banquet - “Ornamental Hermit”
145. Vegyn - “The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions”
146. Ganavya -“Like the Sky I’ve been too Quiet”
147. Michael A. Muller - “Mirror Music”
148. Omni - “Souvenir”
149. Military Genius - “Scarred for Life”
150. Tinashe - “Quantum Baby”
151. Hainbach - “Breve”
152. Yayoba - “A Maze of Glass”
153. Daisy Rickman - “Howl”
154. The Dharma Chain - “Nowhere”
155. Shady Cove - “Part II”
156. James Blackshaw - “Unraveling in your Hands”
157. Laura Marling - “Patterns in Repeat”
158. Conchis - “Chapters”
159. Arutani - “Who We Used To Be”
160. Quiet Commotion - “Red Grasshoppers”
161. Hovvdy - “s/t”
162. Shady Cove - “s/t”
163. Hurray for the Riff Raff - “The Past is Still Alive”
164. Squarepusher - “Dostrotime”
165. Fergus Jones - “Ephemera”
166. Angie Willcut - “Entries from Earth”
167. Ibukun Sunday - “Harmony / Balance”
168. Babehoven - “Water’s Here in You”
169. Orion Sun - “Orion”
170. White Poppy - “Ataraxia”
171. Leifur James - “Magic Seeds”
172. Workers Comp - “s/t”
173. Nemahsis - “Verbathim”
174. Swimming Bell - “Charlie”
175. Julia-Sophie - “Forgive Too Slow”
176. Clarence - “Smudge”
177. Jlin - “Akoma”
178. ROD - “Concrete Jungle”
179. Rose Droll - “With Strangers”
180. Verity Den - “s/t”
181. MGMT - “Loss of Life”
182. Cowboy Sadness - “Selected Jambient Works, vol. 1”
183. Jane Weaver - “Love in Constant Spectacle”
184. Sour Widows - “Revival of a Friend”
185. La Luz - “News of the Universe”
186. Cry Cry Horses - “Hold Me Please”
187. Kamixio -“Deathwork”
188. Kino Motel - “Visions”
189. Goat Girl - “Below the Waist”
190. Vera Sola - “Peacemaker”
191. Merope - “Vėjula”
192. Corto - “Sees00000”
193. Jenina MacGillivray - “Perseids”
194. Scott McMicken & the Ever-Expanding - “When It’s Happening”
195. Smoke Below - “Structurally Sound”
196. Jean Du Voyage - “Ritual”
197. Artificial Go - “Hopscotch Fever”
198. Velvet Sunset - “Only Lovers Left Alive”
199. Julia Holter - “Something in the Room she Moves”
200. Aluminum - “Fully Beat”
201. cumgirl8 - “the 8th cumming”
202. Crack Cloud - “Red Mile”
203. Eve Adams - “In Hell”
204. Oruã - “Passe”
205. Woebegone. - “You Look Like the Chair”
BEST EPs:
tg.blk - “ITS NOT THAT DEEP” (sic)
samlrc - “untitled”
Leya - “I Forget Everything”
Speckle - “Speckle Forever”
John Glacier - “Like a Ribbon”
Ninze - “Porzellan”
Winter - “… and she’s still listening”
Tanukichan - “Circles”
Funkenschleuder - “Indian Poppy”
Francine Thirteen - “Psalm of Tiamat”
Power Strip - “Nothing Yet”
Ebbb - “All At Once”
Salem & the Stellar Cats - “Salem!”
Flowerstream - “Flower Dream”
something in the lake - “listener”
Heith - “The Liars Tell…”
Julien Chang - “Home for the Moment”
Strum - “Picture That”
Kulku - “Reset To Be”
Red Pants - “Pale Shadows”
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Sunday, December 31, 2023
Less extensive list than usual this year, but the list as a whole has some pretty exceptional albums all around. Enjoy!
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1. Ulrika Spacek - “Compact Trauma”
2. Activity - “Spirit in the Room”
3. Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter - “Saved!”
4. Oneohtrix Point Never - “Again”
5. Teresa Winter - “Proserpine”
6. Bar Italia - “Tracey Denim”
7. Mars Kumari- “I Thought I Lost You”
8. Mary Ocher - “Approaching Singularity: Music for the End of Time”
9. African American Sound Recordings - “Share Spirit”
10. Dean Johnson - “Nothing for me, Please”
11. PJ Harvey - “I Inside the Old Year Dying”
Laurel Halo - “Atlas”
Woods - “Perennial”
Eartheater - “Powders”
Philipp Johann Thimm - “Birds Singing till the End of the World”
Zakè & Benoît Pioulard - “Eve”
Steph Green - “Lore”
Damien Jurado - “Passing the Giraffes”
Slowdive - “Everything Is Alive”
Jess Williamson - “Time Ain’t Accidental”
21. Wanderwelle - “All Hands Bury the Cliffs at Sea”
Eterna - “Wardrove”
Tim Hecker - “No Highs”
Marlene Ribeiro - “Toquei no Sol”
Nonconnah - “Unicorn Family”
La Timpa - “Pity by one All Good Treasure”
Spivak - “You Win Again”
Gruf Rhys - “The Almond & the Seahorse (OST)
Niecy Blues - “Exit Stimulation”
Young Fathers - “Heavy Heavy”
31. Wednesday - “Rat Saw God”
Bonny Doon - “Let There Be Music”
Sparklehorse - “Bird Machine”
Everything But The Girl - “Fuse”
Holy Hive - “Celeste”
Being Dead - “When Horses Would Run”
Frankie Rose - “Love As Protection”
Prewn - “Through the Window”
Mui Zwu - “Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century”
Gaz Coombes - “Turn the Car Around”
41. Laurel Halo - “Atlas”
Animal Collective - “Isn’t It Now?”
Bar Italia - “Twits”
Hania Rani - “Ghosts”
White China - “Hang Up the Lights”
Sun June - “Bad Dream Jaguar”
Flora Yin-Wong - “Cold Reading”
Emma Tricca - “Aspirin Sun”
Mizu - “Distant Intervals”
Edless - “Editing a Dream”
51. Yves Tumor - “Praise a Lord Who Chews but who does not Consume”
Glasser - “Crux”
Shabazz Palaces - “Robed in Rareness”
Ora Cogan - “Formless”
Ryuichi Sakamoto - “12”
Devendra Banhart - “
Modern Cosmology - “What Will You Grow Now”
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - “Datura”
Lost Girls - “Selvutsletter”
Ruby Haunt - “Between Heavens”
61. Loscil & Lawrence English - “Colours of Air”
Mhaol - “Attachment Styles”
Jackson & the Janks - “s/t”
The Black Dog - “The Grey Album”
Mutual Benefit - “Growing at the Edges”
Nighttime - “Keeper is the Heart”
Mark McGuire - “A Pocket Full of Rain”
Young Moon - “Triggered by Sunsets”
Maria BC - “Spike Field”
Heathered Pearls - “Loyal Extras”
71. Sex - “Textin’ Yr Exes”
Duff Thompson - “Shadow People”
DJ Shadow- “Action Adventure”
Mary Lattimore - “Goodbye, Hotel Arkada”
FACS - “Still Life In Decay”
Danny Paul Grody - “Arc of Light”
Saloli - “Canyon”
Tirzah - “trip9love”
Samuel Organ - “Guided by Horses”
Eye - “Honolulu Saigon”
81. Mitski - “This Land is Inhospitable & so are We”
Lusine - “Long Light”
Julie Byrne - “The Greater Wings”
De Ambassade - “The Fool”
Austra - “Swan Song (Original Score)”
Body/Negative- “Everett”
Jon Collin & Demdike Stare - “Minerals”
Katie Gately - “Fawn/Brute”
En Attendant Ara - “Principia”
V/Z & Valentine Magetti - “Sueno Assente”
91. Wiktor Stribog - “Astroenergoteropia”
Tomasz Bednarczyk - “Catbient”
Vanishing Twin - “Afternoon X”
Shana Cleveland - “Manzanita”
Otay:onii - “Dream Hacker”
Penelope Trappes - “
The Chap - “Burger Sauce”
Meernaa - “So Far So Good”
OZmotic & Fennesz - “Senzatempo”
Damien Jurado - “Motorcycle Madness”
101. Blush - “Supercrush”
Croatian Amor & Scandinavian Star - “Two
Autumns / Spring Snow”
Index for Working Musik - “Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole”
Cosmetics - “Baby”
Luca Beatović - “In Place”
Anika - “Eat Liquid”
Yaeji - “With a Hammer”
Vinyl Williams - “Aeterna”
TALsounds - “Shift”
Ruth Mascelli - “Non-Stop Healing Frequencies”
111. Holy Wave - “Five of Cups”
Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbeck - “The Friend’s Place”
Emil Amos - “Zone Black”
Favorite EPs:
Astral Swans & Chad Vangaalen - “split ep”
Lennie Rayen - “Believe That It’s Blue”
KMRU - “Drawing Water”
Kelly Lee Owens - “LP 8.2”
Carmen Villain - “
Color Me Blood Red - “s/t”
Alpha Maid - “spresso”
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