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Time to call it.

The 50 Best Albums of 2025, according to me. Wanna read more about them? Check the newsletter link in the replies.

Plus, 100 of the year's best songs from A to Z (2 songs max per artist).
1. YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds 2. Model/Actriz - Pirouette 3. Jim Legxacy - Black British Music (2025) 4. Titanic - HAGEN 5. Joanne Robertson - Blurrr 6. Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn 7. Wednesday - Bleeds 8. Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt - lucre 9. Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up 10. Greg Freeman - Burnover 11. Clifford - Golden Caravan 12. They Are Gutting a Body of Water - LOTTO 13. Gelli Haha - Switcheroo 14. Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul 15. Cheem - Power Move 16. Fust - Big Ugly 17. crushed - no scope 18. Thomas Dollbaum - Drive All Night 19. Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer 20. Water From Your Eyes - It's A Beautiful Place 21. Nourished by Time - The Passionate Ones 22. Club Night - Joy Coming Down 23. Home Is Where - Hunting Season 24. Frog - 1000 Variations on the Same Song 25. Shallowater - God's Gonna Give You A Million Dollars 26. EERA - I'll stop when I'm done. 27. Hannah Frances - Nested in Tangles 28. Alex G - Headlights 29. Wishy - Planet Popstar 30. Mac DeMarco - Guitar 31. ira glass - joy is no knocking nation 32. voyeur - The Burden of Desire 33. Erika de Casier - Lifetime 34. Dove Ellis - Blizzard 35. Skullcrusher - And Your Song is Like a Circle 36. Sword II - Electric Hour 37, Dutch Interior - Moneyball 38. OHYUNG - you are always on my mind 39. Pretty Bitter - Pleaser 40. Lido Pimienta - La Belleza 41. Winter - Adult Romantix 42. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film 43. Steel Wool - Steel Wool 44. Deftones - Private Music 45. Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love 46. Fib - Heavy Lifting 47. Mei Semones - Animaru 48. aya - hexed! 49. Devin Shaffer - Patience 50. Never Young - Never Young
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Day 8 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - New Threats From The Soul
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Day 7 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal
December 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Day 6 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Morgan Wallen - I’m The Problem
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Day 5 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025)
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Day 4 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Model/Actriz - Pirouette
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Day 3 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Every year, list season wreaks havoc on r/indieheads, leading to many complaints about albums/artists not being on publications' lists, complaints that can easily be boiled down to "No _?"

Here's the list of artists/bands I've seen "No _?" comments for so far.
1. No Wednesday? x4 2. No Alex G? x6 3. No These New Puritans? x3 4. No Earl Sweatshirt? 5. No Armand Hammer? 6. No MIKE? x2 7. No Nala Sinephro? 8. No Jeff Tweedy? x5 9. No DIIV? 10. No Oneohtrix Point Never? x7 11. No Phish? 12. No Wet Leg? x7 13. No Divorce? x2 14. No PUP? x2 15. No Royel Otis? 16. No Heart Attack Man? 17. No Wavves? 18. No Truman Sinclair? 19. No Lawrence Hart? 20. No The Beths? x10 21. No Mogwai? 22. No DjRUM? 23. No James K? x3 24. No Dave? 25. No Tyler, the Creator? x2 26. No Tennis? 27. No Deafheaven? x15 28. No Joanne Robertson? 29. No Dijon? 30. No Fust? 31. No Panda Bear? x6 32. No Rosalia? x15 33. No Big Thief? x2 34. No FKA twigs? 35. No Cardiacs? 36. No Sigrid? x2 37. No Anna Von Hausswolff? x4 38. No Pond? 39. No Doom Gong? 40. No Ninajirachi? x8 41. No Turnstile? x14 42. No Viagra Boys? x33 43. No Maribou State? 44. No Pile? x15 45. No Friendship? x2 46. No The Reds, Pinks and Purples? x2 47. No Youth Lagoon? x2 48. No Model/Actriz? x6 49. No The Cords? x2 50. No Mount Eerie? 51. No Heartworms? x3 52. No Tame Impala? x2 53. No Foxwarren? x2 54. No Boko Yout? x2 55. No Florist? 56. No Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band? x5 57. No Japanese Breakfast? x6 58. No Titanic? 59. No Ideal Living? 60. No Nation of Language? x7 61. No La Dispute? x5 62. No Samia? x2 63. No Portugal. The Man? x3 64. No The Starting Line? 65. No Teen Mortgage? x2 66. No The Weather Station? 67. No Jadu Heart? 68. No Blondshell? x3 69. No Just Mustard? x2 70. No Backxwash? 71. No yeule? x3 72. No Sudan Archives? x4 73. No The Barr Brothers? 74. No Osees? x3 75. No Ty Segall? x3 76. No Frankie and the Witch Fingers? 77. No Psychedelic Porn Crumpets? 78. No Parcels? x2 79. No Petey USA? x2 80. No Ela Minus? x2 81. No Madison Cunningham? x4 82. No Horsegirl? 83. No Daughter of Swords? x2 84. No Will Stratton? 85. No Jeffrey Lewis? 86. No Ben Kweller? x3 87. No Folk Bitch Trio? 88. No Billie Marten? 89. No Jessica Winter? 90. No Hayes Carll? 91. No Anna Tivel? 92. No Olivia Dean? 93. No Neko Case? x2 94. No Polica? 95. No Doja Cat? 96. No Hannah Frances? x2 97. No Lily Allen? 98. No Geese? x5 99. No Sam Fender? x2 100. No Cory Hanson? x2 101. No DARKSIDE? x6 102. No Swans? x2 103. No Joanne Robertson? 104. No gumshoes? x2 105. No Mitchell Wolfe? 106. No Freddie Gibbs? x3 107. No Open Mike Eagle? x2 108. No Natalia Lafourcade? x2 109. No Goose? 110. No IDLES? 111. No Blood Orange? x3 112. No Rochelle Jordan? x2 113. No Taylor Swift? 114. No Bon Iver? x11 115. No DJ Haram? x3 116. No Colin Miller? 117. No Oklou? x3 118. No TAGABOW? x4 119. No Baxter Dury? x2 120. No Lana Del Rey? 121. No Addison Rae? x2 122. No Tate McRae? 123. No Cass McCombs? x2 124. No Magdalena Bay? x4 125. No Spalexma? (We Are Charlie Kirk) 126. No Ethel Cain? x3 127. No The Last Dinner Party? x2 128. No Black Country, New Road? x7 129. No McKinley Dixon? x3 130. No Stereolab? x3 131. No Weatherday? x3 132. No Alien Boy? 133. No Cameron Winter? 134. No Die Spitz? 135. No Hayley Williams? x7 136. No Robyn? 137. No The Weeknd? 138. No Maruja? x2 139. No Snõõper? x2 140. No CMAT? x5 141. No caroline? x2 142. No Venturing? 143. No Erika de Casier? 144. No Greg Freeman? x5 145. No Chat Pile? 146. No Black Eyes? x2 147. No Deftones? x6 148. No Twenty One Pilots? 149. No Aesop Rock? x2 150. No Mt. Joy? 151. No Lord Huron? 152. No Rainbow Kitten Surprise? 153. No JID? 154. No Ariel Pink? 155. No Eddie Chacon? 156. No Zara Larsson? 157. No Wolf Alice? x3 158. No Dirty Projectors? 159. No Annahstasia? 160. No Jason Isbell? x3 161. No Phoneboy? 162. No Lorde? 163. No Snocaps? 164. No Westerman? 165. No Way Dynamic? 166. No Pool Kids? x2 167. No Bad Bunny? 168. No Guck? 169. No Lucrecia Dalt? x2 170. No Saya Gray? x2 171. No Malibu? 172. No No Joy? x3 173. No Amaarae? 174. No DJ Koze? x6 175. No Loathe? 176. No Osamason? 177. No Lucy Bedroque? 178. No Clipse? x9 179. No Prewn? 180. No Maria Somerville? x4 181. No Arm’s Length? x2 182. No Nightmares On Wax? 183. No Marta? 184. No Home Front? 185. No Rubblebucket? 186. No Pulp? x2 187. No Born Ruffians? 188. No Jean-Michel Blais and Lara Somogyi? 189. No Leanne Betasamosake Simpson? 190. No The Besnard Lakes? 191. No The Dears? 192. No Greet Death? 193. No Sorry? 194. No Car Seat Headrest? 195. No Agriculture? x3 196. No Florence + The Machine? 197. No JADE? 198. No Jim Legxacy? x2 199. No Algernon Cadwallader? x2 200. No Destroyer? x2 201. No Mclusky? x2 202. No Prostitute? 203. No Dendrons? 204. No Night Tapes? 205. No NewDad? 206. No DJ Counseling? 207. No Preoccupations? 208. No Triathalon? 209. No Provoker? 210. No Paris Texas? 211. No Skeleten? 212. No Paper Jam? 213. No Goon? x4 214. No Rat Heart? 215. No Rose City Band? 216. No Sam Gellaitry? 217. No Men I Trust? x2 218. No Jane Remover? 219. No Mei Ehara? 220. No Danny Brown? 221. No Sleep Token? 222. No Cate Le Bon? 223. No Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory? 224. No Cloakroom? 225. No Automatic? 226. No Jay Som? 227. No Home Is Where? 228. Not Hotline TNT? x2 229. No The Armed? x3 230. No Peel Dream Magazine? 231. No Deep Sea Diver? x2 232. No Ray Vaughn? 233. No Pixel Grip? 234. No King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard? x2 235. No Shiner? 236. No Momma? x2 237. No Sumac? 238. No Gorillaz? 239. No Purity Ring? 240. No HEALTH? 241. No KPop Demon Hunters? 242. No Djo? 243. No Mourn? 244. No Fantasmage? 245. No .bd.? 246. No garbí? 247. No La Plata? 248. No EZEZEZ? 249. No Cobalt Boy? 250. No osoroshia kakumei? 251. No Puff? 252. No Betcover!!? 253. No Sagosaid? 254. No Lupe de Lupe? 255. No Socialclub Hwangju? 256. No Hesse Kassel? 257. No Holy Sons? 258. No Benjamin Booker? 259. No Greentea Peng? 260. No Baths? 261. No Great Grandpa? 262. No TTSSFU? 263. No Ghost? 264. No Lifeguard? x3 265. No Amyl and The Sniffers? 266. No Smushie? 267. No Cole Pulice? 268. No Givēon? 269. No Lucius? 270. No DITZ? 271. No The Beaches? 272. No Ron Pope?
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Day 2 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Day 1 of the 2025 Low Effort Album Review: Geese - Getting Killed
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I hate this man.
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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we talked about Tool on last week’s episode but neglected to mention the behind the scenes video Activision made about getting Tool in the game, so we had to open the show with it which includes this insanely cursed clip
August 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Happy birthday John. Sorry that your sons suck so much that it made me want to attack them with a hammer.
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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we’ve had a few people ask how we’re going to detect people posting AI music to the subreddit, and that’s a good question honestly. but it has an easy answer: these people are stupid enough to use generative AI to make music, and therefore are stupid enough to tell on themselves easily
August 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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we were probably going to do this soon no matter what the straw that broke the camel's back was either someone we banned for spamming their AI music across reddit and then using chatgpt to write their ban appeal or this extremely corny post from someone who uses AI for all their artwork
July 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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new tame impala song is apparently shitty EDM
the single cover of Dashboard Confessional’s “Vindicated”
July 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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best episode ever???
July 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Not really sure why you’re sharing a doctored screenshot, here’s the real one
A screen cap from the rapid aging sequence in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, overlayed with CNN graphics from their interview with Rahm Emanuel
July 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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25 songs for '25 years (so far)
2hollis - style Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles - Stranger Clifford - Ink Blot Club Night - Palace Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt - 5 Erika de Casier - Delusional Fib - Outro Friendship - Tree of Heaven Frog - TOP OF THE POPS VAR. I Grant Pavol - Left That Party Jim Legxacy - father LEYA - Corners (Chanel Beads Rework) Lido Pimienta - Aún Te Quiero Lifeguard - Like You'll Lose Mei Semones - I can do what I want MJ Lenderman - Dancing in the Club (This Is Lorelei Cover) Model/Actriz - Diva Open Head - Success Perfume Genius - It's a Mirror Steel Wool - Fading Turnstile - SEEIN’ STARS Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs Wishy - Over and Over yeule - Dudu YHWH Nailgun - Pain Fountain
June 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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May 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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May 16 & 23

bit of a slow week this week and last week, expecting things to pick up come June (but also I’ve become horribly addicted to ER after getting addicted to The Pitt)
May 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The A&R behind this should be drawn & quartered
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM