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music4myears.bsky.social
1 Year, 100 albums, 100 tracks.
Thank you for the music.
#PersonalPicks2025
#AOTY25
Essentials 2025 par Fanny sur Apple Music
Playlist · 100 morceaux
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December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
shapeslikepeople.bsky.social
Absolutely chuffed to see ‘Ticking Haze’ so high in Janglepophub’s excellent Top 30 albums of 2025. 🤩

#musicsky #janglepop #aoty25 #indiepop #dreampop
December 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
music4myears.bsky.social
#25of2025
#PersonalPicks2025
#5albums25

My 25 most loved albums of 2025. What a year again...
My #AOTY25 is definitely Racing Mount Pleasant.
December 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
spielbeobachter.bsky.social
Juhu. Endlich: Noch eine Jahresendliste, die Ihr ignorieren könnt. :)

10 (ZEHN, MÜCKSI!) beste Platten des Jahres 2025.
Mit einer Ausnahme ordentlich Radau.

Hey ho. Let's go.
#aoty #aoty25
December 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
pamphle-teer.bsky.social
Meine #AOTY25 und, dank @hellojed.de, mein universeller Jahressampler. link.deezer.com/s/31YGfv4skw...
December 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
regresssion.bsky.social
my aoty list ✨
but also you should go read the blurbs and tell me how cool i am for spending my xmas buried in adorno essays too
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December 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
regresssion.bsky.social
a christmas present to you all, here is a short essay about music and writing about it, and also my albums list for the year. enjoy, and i hope there is something rewarding in there for you x
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aoty25
> [13] all [14] (Adorno, (1998), 7) >I am tempted far beyond my knowledge to suggest that, faced with the need to defeat theatre, it is above all to...
regresssion.bearblog.dev
December 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of2025 #aoty25

1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music
2 Saya Gray - Saya
3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny
4 Little Simz - Lotus
5 CMAT - Euro-Country
6 NewDad - Altar
7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends
8 Big Thief- Double Infinity

Playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/4FC...

Full List
Favourite Albums 2025 1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music 2 Saya Gray - Saya 3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny 4 Little Simz - Lotus 5 CMAT - Euro-Country 6 NewDad - Altar 7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends 8 Big Thief - Double Infinity 9 Maribou State - Hallucinating Love 10 Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime 11 Oklou - Choke Enough 12 Darkside - Nothing 13 Better Joy - Heading Into Blue ep 14 Better Joy - At Dusk ep 15 The Weather Station - Humanhood Favourite Albums 2025 1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music 2 Saya Gray - Saya 3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny 4 Little Simz - Lotus 5 CMAT - Euro-Country 6 NewDad - Altar 7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends 8 Big Thief - Double Infinity 9 Maribou State - Hallucinating Love 10 Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime 11 Oklou - Choke Enough 12 Darkside - Nothing 13 Better Joy - Heading Into Blue ep 14 Better Joy - At Dusk ep 15 The Weather Station - Humanhood
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

1 Jim Legxacy - Black British Music

(The rapper & producer lurches from alt-rock to distortion & chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent & melodic record.[Guardian])

Songs:

Father

youtu.be/klPD-stNou0?...

06 Wayne Rooney

youtu.be/RhjZgIk9oCs?...
Jim Legxacy - Black British Music
December 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

2 Saya Gray - Saya

(It’s why SAYA is a shoegaze album, a metal album, an art-pop album, an electronic album & a folk album all rolled into one [Paste])

Songs:

Thus Is Why (I Don't Spring 4 Love)

youtu.be/vRBa34X5Hwg?...

Lie Down

youtu.be/X0TAaRZdOAI?...
Saya Gray - Saya
December 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

3 Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny

(..stylish, dark, smoky fusion of trip-hop, hip-hop, reggae, neo-soul, R’n’B, and indie rock.[Song Bar])

Songs:

Glory

youtu.be/JNaNWwHGpUg?...

Nowhere Man

youtu.be/_d9ywY7uKzo?...
Greentea Peng - Tell Dem It's Sunny
December 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
msw64.bsky.social
03. The Last Dinner Party - The Pyre. October 2025 82/100 #thelastdinnerparty #TLDP #AOYT #AOTY25 #bestof2025
The Last Dinner Party - This Is The Killer Speaking - Pukkelpop Festival 2025
YouTube video by The Last Dinner Party Brasil
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

4 Little Simz - Lotus

(..with the arrival of ‘Lotus’, her legacy as an all-time great has never been more assured.[DIY Magazine])

Songs:

Free

youtu.be/goChcI7lH0o?...

Flood

youtu.be/GvrNPiz7rHw?...
Little Simz - Lotus
December 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

5 CMAT - Euro-Country

(Vocally, lyrically, creatively, CMAT has never sounded better. In truth, you’d be hard pushed to find another record like this one. [The Skinny])

Song: The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station

youtu.be/BTWg-Ky6VZU?...
CMAT - Euro-Country
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

6 NewDad - Altar

NewDad 6th in my list 2 years running.

(a beautifully melancholy portrait of homesickness and sacrifice.[NME])

Song: Roobosh

youtu.be/7iZ4E4faWTk?...
NewDad - Alter
December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

7 Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends

(Shura’s exploratory take on pop is gorgeous, redemptive, and full of life. [Clash Music])

Song: Richardson (ft Cassandra Jenkins)

youtu.be/ZOV_T6B8UQ8?...
Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends
December 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

8 Big Thief - Double Infinity

(a gloriously satisfying record on which it feels like everything is in its right place.[DIY Magazine])

Song: Words

youtu.be/G0BZoZ6hBnc?...
Big Thief - Double Infinity
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

9 Maribou State - Hallucinating Love

(The album’s sweeping emotional range, intricate production, and moments of pure elation make it their most accomplished work to date.[Clash Music])

Song: All I Need

youtu.be/Tu_6kS_Evzc?...
December 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
deselbysgold.bsky.social
The last #Cassunday before xmas so here are 20 of my favourite tapes released this year...
All can be found on bandcamp.
Thanks to all involved 🙏
#TwentyTopTapes #AOTY25 #2025Tapes
De Selby's Golden Hours Twenty Top Tapes for 2025 Félicia Atkinson: Promenades (Shelter Press) Audio Obscura: As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth (self-released) Monika Badly / Shit Creek: Night Visions (Liquid Library) BALF: Sea Defence Ultra (Industrial Coast) Carnivorous Plants: Guaranteed Armour (Rat Run) The Chop: It's The Chop (Wrong Speed Records) Content Provider: Endless Summer (Drowned By Locals / Bokeh Versions) DJ Deathdefy: A Hopeful Monster (Industrial Coast) Francesca O: Cortado (Nyahh Records) Robert Dallas Gray: The Vallum (self-released) Ironic Hill: Master Peese (self-released) K Of Arc: Anti Drome (Cruel Nature) Anvar Kalandarov: Digging Central Asia: Musical Archaeology Along The Silk Road (Death Is Not The End) Klein: Sleep With A Cane (boomkat) La Brea Pulpit: Anandaride Aberration (Liquid Library) Milkweed: Remscéla (self-released) Tavare: Too Small To Be So High (Cruel Nature) Trium Circulorum: Wire Tripping (Third Kind) Unmaking: Absolute Immiseration (self-released) Various: Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture & Repair (Collapsing Drums) A photo of the cassette cases for the releases from... (top, l-r) Milkweed, Audio Obscura, Ironic Hill, Trium Circulorum, Anvar Kalandarov (middle, l-r) DJ Deathdefy, Collapsing Tape, Robert Dallas Gray, K Of Arc, Monika Badly/Shit Creek (bottom, l-r) Tavare, Content Provider, Carnivorous Plants, La Brea Pulpit
December 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
deselbysgold.bsky.social
Listening again & oh my days, this would have been troubling my #AOTY25 list if I'd heard it in time! Stunning...
deselbysgold.bsky.social De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · Dec 21
#NowPlaying #2025Albums
Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren

Had missed the new album by the wonderful Swedish free jazz collective til I belatedly read The Wire piece; a superbly crafted suite of soaring blow-outs, hushed eerie ambience & mind-expanding magic
annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...
Ensamseglaren, by Anna Högberg Attack
2 track album
annahogberg.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

10 Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime

(Across its ten tracks, the band abandon any fixed notion of genre, weaving together elements of alt-rock, folk & dreamy, blissful pop with remarkable ease[DIY Magazine])

Song: Take Out Your Insides

youtu.be/CgvibqxiaKw?...
December 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

11 Oklou - Choke Enough

(Trance, medieval polyphony and Y2K pop may seem like odd bedfellows, but French singer-producer Oklou cast them all in a dawn-like haze on her gorgeous debut album.[Guardian])

Song: Take Me By The Hand

youtu.be/jdU16tnrt14?...
Oklou - Choke Enough
December 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
knowsyen.bsky.social
#5albums25
#AOTY25
Really enjoyed this recent Midlake offering
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

12

Darkside - Nothing

(Nothing is a refreshing exercise in disorientation, rewarding those willing to let go and get lost in its unpredictable soundscape.[Northern Transmissions])

Song: S.N.C.

youtu.be/fKiS9DPARDg?...
Darkside - Nothing
December 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
jackabouting.bsky.social
My #top15of25 #AOTY25

#5albums25

13 & 14

Better Joy - Heading Into Blue/At Dusk eps

(Bria Keely confirms herself as a rising force in indie-pop, an artist carving out her own space with precision, heart & undeniable presence[Taped Magazine])

Song: This Part Of Town

youtu.be/hD4dFWyb3BU?...
Better Joy - Heading Into Blue Better Joy - At Dusk
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM