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)
- A Picnic of Sorts - Mobile
- Klaus Wiese - Sabiha sabiya
- Lawrence English - Even the horizon knows its bounds
- Moundabout - Goat skull table
- Ringo - Pax Texiana
- Maria Moles - For Leolanda
- Setting - At Black Mountain College Museum
- Tilth - Renewal
- Ikue Mori - Of ghosts and goblins
- Andrew Tuttle - A Cassowary apart
- Kim Hiorthey - Ghost note
- Gryphon Rue - I keep my diamond necklace in a pond of sparkling water
- William Tyler - Time Indefinite
- Swans - Birthing
- Laura Agnusdei - Flowers are blooming in Antartica
- Pan American and Kramer - Interior of an edifice under the sea
- Drew McDowall - A thread, silvered and trembling
- V/A - Submerge Sessions Vol 1
- Cosey Fanni Tutti - 2t2
- Chicago Underground Duo - Hyperglyph
- M. Sage - Tender / Wading
- Igorrr - Amen
- Kieran Hebden and William Tyler - 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
- Rafael Toral - Traveling light
- V/A - Past/Present 2024 Compilation
- Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
- SML - How you been?
- Tatsuro Murakami - in/naka
- Kali Malone and Drew McDowall - Magnetism
- Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider - A companion for spaces between dreams
- Black Dog - My brutal life 2
- Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello - Trinity
- Chris Abrahams / Oren Ambarchi / Robbie Avenaim - Placelessness
- Necks - Disquiet
- John Zorn - Chaos Magick
- Melvin Gibbs - Amnesia: Anamibia Sessions 2
Photo by Daniel De Los Santos, "Peanut" , Round Rock, TX