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