Even though I didn’t have as much time as I needed to write about all of these great releases from 2025, I was still able to listen to and obsess over quite a few. Here are some of my favorites of those releases, in no particular order:
- Heat Manager – Relaxed American
- Joseph Allred – Old Time Fantasias
- Battle Elf – 10
- Grass – s/t
- Sally Anne Morgan – Second Circle The Horizon
- James Waudby – In the Smallest Third
- Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
- Old Saw – The Wringing Cloth
- Sam Grassie – Caisteal Abhail EP
- Zachary Cale – Love’s Work
- Ornamental – Graveyard Demos
- Florry – Sounds Like…
- Damon Locks – List of Demands
- Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
- Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas – Totality
- The Royal Arctic Institute – s/t
- Marshall Allen – New Dawn
- Duncan Park – Path to the Gallows
- Swimming Bell – Somnia
- Barry Walker Unit – At the 13th Moon Gravity Well
- Cerca – Cross Through
- Jon Camp – Proceed
- Hour – Subminiature
- Ernie Francestine – Alternate Place
- Michael Hurley.- Broken Homes and Gardens
- Ella Hanshaw – Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book
- Totem Pocket – Stealing Time
- Tortoise – Touch
- David Bales – Ringing Fields
- Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
- Willie Lane – Bobcat Turnaround
- The Cosmic Tones Research Trio – s/t
- Gold Dust – In The Shade of the Living Night
- J.M. Hart – Turned Around
- Brigid Mae Power – Silver Strand Tapes
- Wonderful Aspirations of the Source – s/t
- Danielle Nia – A New Light
- Emergency Group – At Westbeth
- Sir Richard Bishop – Hillbilly Ragas
- Spiral Wave Nomads – The Weightless Sea
- Loamer – Travelogue
- Buck Curran – Far Driven Sun
- Ben LaMar Gay – Yowzers
- Davide Cedolin – 2022/2024: Unreleased Recordings pt. I
- Rootless & Starbirthed – s/t
- Golden Brown – Whisker Fatigue
- Tim Barnes – Inside Energy
- Soda Lite – Earthbound
- John Swanke – Rain Country
- Misha Sultan + Purpurniy Dyadya – THAI
- Makaya McCraven – The People’s Mixtape
- Cameron Knowler – CRK
- Prymek, Fuchs, Rose – Disagreements, Vol. 1
- John Martin – Western Mind
- Sean Pratt – Prairie Whistle Call
- Steve Gunn – Music for Writers
- Golden Brown – Patterner
- Agnes Martian – Elsewhere
- Flying Vipers – World Inversion
- Jesse Sheppard – Prayer of the Heart
- Saapato – In Alaska
- Matt LaJoie – Stonehouse
- Friends of the Road – Live
- Jacquelyn Roy – Museum of Time
- The Far Sound – To Heart, To Earth
- Wednesday Knudsen – Atrium
- Norma Dream – Mercy Drops
- Jerry David DeCicca – Cardiac Country
- Eli Winter – A Trick of the Light
- Slyne and The Family Stoned – The Future is a Valley
- Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian – Noor-e Vojood
- Upupayāma – Live At Fuzz Club Festival 2025
- Tacoma Park – Glosson Circle Sessions
- Juho Toivonen – Takaisin/Ääriasento/Enne
- Hermitess – Death & The Fool
- Junegrass – s/t
- Macie Stewart – When The Distance is Blue
- Meteor Infants – Pilliga Circumstance
- Aux Meadows – Draw Near
- The Peel – In The Ferns
- Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders – Synchronous Orbit
- Aidan Thorne and Jason Ball – Archwilio’r Traddodiad : Exploring The Tradition
- Gnäw – II
- Ofir Ganon – Same Air
- Joe Harvey-Whyte & Bobby Lee – Last Ride
- Glyders – Forever
- Sharp Pins – Balloon Balloon Balloon
Since my show had massive technical difficulties last week, you can catch me live on ElectroMagnetic Radio tonight trying again to spin a selection of favorite tracks from the last year. See you there, my fellow music heads.
-KH
