Top listens 2025

Top listens 2025

Note: I am still recovering from surgery (see this post). So there won't be links or short blurbs. When I am feeling better, I will edit this post to include those things.

These were my top listens in 2025 and it should be noted that not all of these were released in 2025. It is just when I discovered them.

Lastly, this is the first year where I mostly did not use streaming services. All of these were purchased (digital and physical media). This has made a huge difference in that I am once again engaged with (and excited for) music.

Top Listens (In no particular order)

  1. A Picnic of Sorts - Mobile
  2. Klaus Wiese - Sabiha sabiya
  3. Lawrence English - Even the horizon knows its bounds
  4. Moundabout - Goat skull table
  5. Ringo - Pax Texiana
  6. Maria Moles - For Leolanda
  7. Setting - At Black Mountain College Museum
  8. Tilth - Renewal
  9. Ikue Mori - Of ghosts and goblins
  10. Andrew Tuttle - A Cassowary apart
  11. Kim Hiorthey - Ghost note
  12. Gryphon Rue - I keep my diamond necklace in a pond of sparkling water
  13. William Tyler - Time Indefinite
  14. Swans - Birthing
  15. Laura Agnusdei - Flowers are blooming in Antartica
  16. Pan American and Kramer - Interior of an edifice under the sea
  17. Drew McDowall - A thread, silvered and trembling
  18. V/A - Submerge Sessions Vol 1
  19. Cosey Fanni Tutti - 2t2
  20. Chicago Underground Duo - Hyperglyph
  21. M. Sage - Tender / Wading
  22. Igorrr - Amen
  23. Kieran Hebden and William Tyler - 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
  24. Rafael Toral - Traveling light
  25. V/A - Past/Present 2024 Compilation
  26. Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
  27. SML - How you been?
  28. Tatsuro Murakami - in/naka
  29. Kali Malone and Drew McDowall - Magnetism
  30. Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider - A companion for spaces between dreams
  31. Black Dog - My brutal life 2
  32. Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello - Trinity
  33. Chris Abrahams / Oren Ambarchi / Robbie Avenaim - Placelessness
  34. Necks - Disquiet
  35. John Zorn - Chaos Magick
  36. Melvin Gibbs - Amnesia: Anamibia Sessions 2

Photo by Daniel De Los Santos, "Peanut" , Round Rock, TX