Best Music of 2025; or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ["Velvet and Volume"]

 25 for 25!    "Can't tell what's real life or dreams..."

Best Songs of 2025

0. Beacons (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Röyksopp

1. Denali - Portugal. The Man

2. BUTTERFLY - MARINA

3. Nosebleeds - Doechii

4. Illegal - PinkPantheress

5. TEETHSUCKER (YEA3x) - Rico Nasty

6. LATINA FOREVA - KAROL G

7. Orlando in Love - Japanese Breakfast

8. BLISS - Tyla

9. Folded - Kehlani

10. Love Is Unkind - BANKS

11. Spike Island - Pulp

12. Shovel - Deep Sea Diver

13. SPAGHETTI - LE SSERAFIM

14. Sweet n' Low - Peach PRC

15. Bunky Pop - Sleigh Bells

16. Jellyfish - Sigrid

17. pity dirty - pami

18. WIZARD - Castle Rat

19. Commando - Impalers

20. Let's Roll Again - neil young & the chrome hearts

21. Bookends - U.S. Girls

22. WDID - Sylvan Esso

23. Halcyon - Orbital

24. NIAMOS! (Chandrilian Club Mix) - Nicholas Britell

25. Golden - HUNTR/X

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+ Sparks, Mild Minds, Ty Segall, The Marías, IVE, Katseye

Best Albums:

#1 MARINA - Princess of Pop

#2 PinkPantheress - Fancy That 

#3 Momma - Welcome to my Blue Sky

#4  Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain

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+ Sparks, Panda Bear, Samia, Matt Berry, Rosalía, Doves

Best New:     INJI        Sea Lemon    Rocket     Mikayla Geier

Best Live:     Doechii   Sparks

Honorable Mentions:    

Nourished by Time, Stereolab, Snow Wife, Cheap Trick, Sharp Pins,

Dead Pioneers, Cypress Hill & the London Symphony Orchestra. 

2026...