Best of 2025

Circles was my most irresistible earworm of the year.

Not as colossal as the last one but still lovely.

Dreamy instrumentals.

Another good one from the witty Canadian indie-popsters. See them if you can!

Discovered his previous record at the start of the year, saw him play to about 20 people in the middle, and by the end he was a big star!

You know when you just want to be someone's friend?

There are lots of Big Feelings about these guys in both directions. I just enjoyed it!

Channelling Woody Guthrie and Dylan/Baez.

They were a little dull live, but I love the record - 2468 is a bop.

This obscure indie band from York have somehow got David Pajo on this record and West/Nastanovich on a previous one.

Just a really pretty folky singer-songwriter record.

Righteous anger and saxophones combine well.

Loving the Velvets-y drone, sad I missed out on seeing her live.

Ridiculously talented (and young) guitarist blending indie with bossa nova.

Island of Noise is one of my favourite of the 2020s, and this is almost as good.

Each track is album-length on its own, but this is the one that's best captured their mesmeric live show for me.

More than we expected, more than we deserved.

A rocking great time from some veteran post-punkers.

Not sure how I haven't come across them before, nice Bill Callahan vibes.

I really enjoyed his vocoder-fucked freak-out too, but this is stunning.