Matt

new in 2025:

Wednesday "Bleeds"
Cate Le Bon "Michelangelo Dying"
Darkside "Nothing"
S.G. Goodman "Planting By The Signs"
Billy Woods "Golliwog"
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band "New Threats From The Soul"
Horsegirl "Phonetics On And On"
Aesop Rock "Black Hole Superette"
Blood Orange "Essex Honey"

new to me/reissued in 2025:

CCFX S/T
Jackie McLean "One Step Beyond"
Roy Brooks "The Free Slave"
Moebius Plank Neumeier "Zero Set"
La Revolucion De Emiliano Zapata S/T
Joe McPhee "Willisau Concert"
Billy Woods "Today, I Wrote Nothing"

Mark

NEW MUSICS (in no particular order):

Okonski "Entrance Music"
Phil Cook "Appalachia Borealis"
"Tsapiky! Modern Music from Southwest Madagascar"
Emily A. Sprague "Cloud Time"
Florry "Sounds Like..."
Setting "At Eulogy"
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler "41 Longfield Street Late 80's"
Dylan Golden Aycock "No New Summers"

LIFE-AFFIRMING EXPERIENCES:

Michael Hurley's final concert @ APLR
Pink Floyd "Live at Pompeii" on IMAX
RSD Summer Camp New Orleans w/ Ry Guy
Styrofoam Winos @ Bolo Bolo in Athens
Ida @ Owl Music Parlor in Brooklyn
Ellicott Hooligan / Orches Limita @ Harvest
Bonnie Prince Billy @ Grey Eagle
Wheeler Wednesday movie screenings @ Fine Arts Theatre
the 2025 Jacksonville Jaguars

Ryan

Horsegirl "Phonetics On and On"
Alabaster DePlume "A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole"
Panda Bear "Sinister Grift"
More Eaze & claire rousay "No Floor"
Bill Fox "Resonance"
billy woods "GOLLIWOG"
Stereolab "Instant Holograms on Metal Film"
Aesop Rock "Black Hole Superette"
Black Country, New Road "Forever Howlong"
S.G. Goodman "Planting by the Signs"
PinkPantheress "Fancy That"
Cass McCombs "Interior Live Oak"
Wolf Alice "The Clearing"
Greg Freeman "Burnover"
james k "Friend"
Ruth Parker "Otherwise Occupied"
Dean Johnson "I Hope We Can Still Be Friends"
Bitchin Bajas "Inland See"
Rafael Toral "Traveling Light"
Florence + the Machine "Everybody Scream"

Nathanael

YEAR END PICKS 2025
(New and/or New To Me)

Bathory "Bathory" (1984)
The Black Crowes "amorica. deluxe edition" (2025)
Marie Davidson "City Of Clowns" (2025)
Earthgang "Perfect Fantasy" (2024)
Emperor "In The Nightside Eclipse" (1994)
Ben LaMar Gay "Yowzers" (2025)
Manuel Gottsching "E2-E4" (1984)
Noah Howard "Berlin Concert" (1977) & "Schizophrenic Blues" (1978)
Madonna "Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter" (2025) & "Veronica Electronica" (2025)
Joe McPhee "Graphics" (1978)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio "All Of Them Witches" (2013) & "Bees In The Bonnet" (2025)
Project Pat "Mista Don't Play (Everythangs Workin)" (2001)
Sister Nancy "One, Two" (1982)
Alexander Von Schlippenbach "Globe Unity" (1967)
Wolves In The Throne Room (discography)

Meagan

2025 YEAR END LIST
(in no particular order)

Sofia Kourtesis "Volver"
Bitchin Bajas "Inland See"
Okonski "Entrance Music"
Michael Hurley "Broken Homes & Gardens"
SML "How You Been" 
Blood Orange "Essex Honey"
Sudan Archives "The BPM"
Tin Man "Acid Worlds: Part One"
k-lone "Sorry I Thought You Were Someone Else"
Rochelle Jordan "Through the Wall"
Wednesday "Bleeds"
Horsegirl "Phonetics On & On"
Rosalía "Lux"
Darkside "Nothing"
Ara Kekedjian "Bourj Hammoud Groove"

COMPS

V/A "Habibi Funk: A Selection From Libyan Tapes" 
V/A "Edna Martinez Presents Pico: Sound System Culture From the Colombian Caribbean"
V/A "Music for a Revolution Vol 1: Guinea's Syliphone Recording Label 1967-73"
V/A "Ghana Special: Highlife Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds, Ghanaian Blues 1967-76"
V/A "Latin Fire Cumbia Salsa Afro-Funk: Tropical Dance"

REISSUES

Hiroshi Yoshimura "Flora"
Bizimungu Dieudonne "Inzovu Y'Imirindi"
Lijadu Sisters "Danger"
Pharoah Sanders "Wisdom Through Music"
Sister Nancy "One, Two"
Ebo Taylor "Ebo Taylor"

OTHER NOTABLES

Big Ears 2025
Michael Hurley, Takaat & Water Damage at APLR
Costa Rica
Harvey Beach Trip to Folly
"Fela Kuti: Fear No Man" (12 episode podcast)
"Marty Supreme" 

Kendall

top albums of the year

Wet "Two Lives" 
Nourished By Time "The Passionate Ones"
ear "the most dear and the future"
Jane Paknia "Millions of Years of Longing"
Joanna Robertson "blurrr"
james k "Friend"
Gelli Haha "Switcheroo"
Glazyhaze "Sonic"
Kassie Krut S/T EP
Oklou "Choke Enough"
Shallowater "Gods Gonna Give You a Million Dollars"
Cryogeyser S/T
Molly Nilsson "Amateur"
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band "New Threats from the Soul"
Harmony Index "Winter Breaks"
Ohyung "You Are Always On My Mind" (remixes)
Greet Death "Die in Love"
Pile "Sunshine and Balance Beams"
Lily Seabird "Trash Mountain"

new to me

Astrid Sonne "Great Doubt"
Cindy Lee "Diamond Jubilee"
Marnie Stearn "This Is It and You Are It"
Marnie Stearn S/T
CC Dust "Shinkansen No. 1 / New Ways"
ML Buch "Skinned"
Anastasia Coop "Darning Woman"
Alsace Lorraine "Through Small Windows"
Land of the Loops "Bundle of Joy"
Buzzy Lee "Spoiled Love"
Korea Girl "Korea Girl"
Stina Nordenstam "Dynamite"
Nabihah Iqbal "Dreamer"
Sally Shapiro "Remix Romance Vol 1 & 2"
Sonic Youth "Evol"
Moose "Live a Little Love a Lot"

Kassie

Panda Bear "Sinister Grift"
Tyler, the Creator "Don’t Tap the Glass"
Rosalía "Lux"
Loaded Honey "Love Made Trees"
Tame Impala "Deadbeat"
Djo "The Crux" (Deluxe)
Oklou "Choke Enough" (Deluxe)
Destin Conrad "Love on Digital"
Saba & No ID "From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID"
Yukimi & Little Dragon "Yume" (EP)
Mei Semones "Animaru"
Alex G "Headlights"
Gelli Haha "Switcheroo"
Blood Orange "Essex Honey"
Dijon "Baby"
Puzzle "Damage Collection"
Water from Your Eyes "It’s a Beautiful Place"
Water from Your Eyes "It’s Beautiful" (EP)
This is Lorelei "Holo Boy"
Sudan Archives "The BPM"
Fred Again... "USB"
Darkside "Nothing"
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke "Tall Tales"

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