The Best of 2025
Favorites Records Released in 2025
- Alexandra Spence “Your Whistle Tells of Landscape”
- Anthony Pateras “Reise der Schatten”
- Armand Hammer “Mercy”
- aya “hexed!”
- Blawan “SickElixir”
- Carrier “Rhythm Immortal”
- Catherine Lamb “interius/exterius”
- Claire Rousay “a little death”
- Costin Miereanu “Poly-Art Recordings, 1976-1982”
- Darkside “Nothing”
- Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt “lucre”
- Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon “To Cut and Shoot”
- Djrum “Under Tangled Silence”
- Double Virgo “Shakedown”
- Earl Sweatshirt “Live Laugh Love”
- Eliana Glass “E”
- Elisabeth Klinck “Chronotopia”
- Ellen Arkbro “Nightclouds”
- France “Destino Scifosi”
- Grace Rogers “Mad Dogs”
- Great Area “Good Coding”
- Hell “Submersus”
- Hilary Woods “Night CRIÚ”
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma “Gift Songs”
- Joanne Robertson “Blurrr”
- Joshua Bonnetta “The Pines”
- Jürg Frey “Composer, alone”
- Kara-Lis Coverdale “A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever” & “Changes in Air”
- La Tène “Moreïne / Déclives”
- Lucrecia Dalt “A Danger to Ourselves” & “Resident Advisor Mix 1005”
- Lucy Railton “Blue Veil”
- M. Sage & Lieven Martens “Chamber Music for Lawn Mowers”
- Mark William Lewis “Mark William Lewis”
- Mister Water Wet “Things Gone and Things Here Still”
- Nadah El Shazly “Laini Tani”
- Natural Information Society & B*tchin Bajas “Totality”
- The Necks “Disquiet”
- Old Saw “The Wringing Cloth”
- Oneohtrix Point Never “Tranquilizer”
- Pink Siifu “BLACK’!ANTIQUE”
- Purelink “Faith”
- Rafael Toral “Traveling Light”
- Rainy Miller “Joseph, What Have You Done”
- Rat Heart “Dancin’ in the Streets”
- Romance “Love is Colder Than Death”
- Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band “New Threats from the Soul”
- Sa Pa “Ambeesh” & “The Fool”
- Sharp Pins “Radio DDR”
- Shearling “Motherfucker, I am Both: “Amen” and “Hallelujah”…”
- Sister Irene O’Connor “Fire of God’s Love”
- Smerz “Big city life”
- Snuggle “Goodbyehouse”
- Sumac & Moor Mother “The Film”
- U.e. “Hometown Girl”
- Ugnė Uma “Rage Love Strange Love / Someone Call Donna”
- Water Damage “Instruments”
- YHWH Nailgun “45 Pounds”
Favorites Tracks Released in 2025
- Eliana Glass “Human Dust” [YT / BC / SP]
- Rafael Toral “God Bless the Child” [YT / BC /
SP]
- Double Virgo “Bemused” [YT / BC / SP]
- Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band “New Threats from the Soul” [YT / BC / SP]
- Omid Geadizadeh “My Eyes Drank Water” [YT /
BC / SP]
- 8485 “G.I.R.L. (feat. Danny Brown)” [YT / BC / SP]
- Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt “1” [YT /
BC / SP]
- Wednesday “Elderberry Wine” [YT / BC / SP]
- Sabrina Carpenter “Manchild” [YT /
BC / SP]
- Tom Boogizm “Young Bleed” [YT / BC /
SP]
- Dawuna “Love Jaunt” [YT / BC / SP]
- Lucrecia Dalt “cosa rara (feat. David Sylvian)” [YT / BC / SP]
- Ugnė Uma “Rage Love Strange Love II” [YT / BC / SP]
Favorite Reads
- Félix Fénéon, Novels in Three Lines, 1906/2012
- Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide? or, The Sulphitic Theory, 1906
- Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary, 1977-1979/2010
- Sophie Calle, The Sleepers, 1979/2024
- Abel Ferrara, Scene: A Memoir, 2025