And on it all goes, Part Two of the 2025 best albums round up and the next batch that makes up our pick of what has been an even busier in terms of albums that the last year was. It is an almost impossible task and these are all excellent piece of work, all vital albums, all worth your time and effort, all worth taking a 15 second bite before hitting the next one, this art really does deserve your proper time…

The links will take you to the full reviews, the music and the details…

11: Cheer-Accident – Admission (SkinGraft Records) – Now that trumpet that sublimely eases in some three and a bit minutes in – three minutes twenty three seconds actually – is probably one of the most beautiful things ever to happen in music, I’ve already worn out one recording of Cold Comfort, the gorgeous second track on this new Cheer Accident album, everything about Cold Comfort is so so (so) right and the properly progressive prog as flip band, well; And then Cheer-Accident made (another) easy listening pop album. Is it really their best one yet?

12: Gösta Berlings Saga – Forever Now (Pelagic Records) – Forever Now has all the majesty right there, this feels vast, like some expanding universe, some weighty tome that just grows and grows. This is a really significant album made by a very special band…

13: Yowie – Taking Umbrage (SkinGraft Records) – ORGAN THING: Yowie’s new album then, Taking Umbrage is seriously hard-boiled, it is relentless, it does peck. Hypnotic, purely about playing with rhythm. Hyper composed math rock or something like that…

14: Pili Coït & Yowie – Split (DUR et DOUX / SKiN GRAFT Records) – Pili Coït and Yowie, a split album on Dur et Doux and SkinGraft Records – “Split? There’s nothing divisive about it”. Two highly recommended bands challenging both themselves and you and me with what surely will be one of the albums of the year when it comes to list these things…

15: HaywardxDälek – Hayward x Dälek (Relapse Records) – The important news here is that the very very real reality of this album sounds every bit as good as the prospect of it sounded on paper. And how good did it sound on paper! That low slung Dälek thing and yer man Charles Hayward from This Heat and currently Abstract Concrete coming together for an album – That double edge that is the HaywardxDälek coming together…

16: Aya – Hexed! (Hyperdub) – Something about a stopped clock and no half measure, dotting the teas and eating the eyes again. The next stop is Queens Road, she sounds like her London hometown, she sounds like her album cover, where did we put that game card? You wouldn’t want her to be on your train, you wouldn’t wish her on anyone’s last train, this is frantic, wire, frenetic, track-crossing – Aya’s Hexed caught up with…

17: Shearling – Motherfucker, I am Both: “Amen” and “Hallelujah”… Part One, if that is what this is, is a glorious noise, a stew of almost pained shouting and howling and the successfully running of mouths. Jarring, barbed, words as flow, string of what, as instruments clang and he screams about the need remind him of how the melody goes. it is hyperbolic, it is intense, the quite bits and the stops for air are as intense as the onslaughts… – this is one piece of music, it is a couple of minutes over an hour long, it is a rather remarkable hour, this bit right now is so quiet, almost delicate, – that vital Shearling experience…

18: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Live God (Play It Again Sam) – Oh look, Nick Cave hardly needs us now, he never has really, we need him though, we really need this version of Nick Cave we have right here making vital music right now. Nick Cave’s Live God experience…

19: IQ – Dominion (GEP) – A new IQ album? Do they still have it? IQ’s new album Dominion explored in full… Yep, IQ are still out there somewhere, somewhere still out there making great albums, epic prog albums, slightly different now, they are still doing it, so much emotion in the order cascading, so much emotion in this very fine album. And while we’re here, technically an album coming out in 2026 but it gives you some background if you don’t know IQ – IQ’s 1985 Live From London remastered and reissued. There was always something a little darker about them back there, all that gardening over it all and…

20: Toby Driver – Live at Roadburn – Where do we start with all this? We don’t hide the fact that we’re long term admirers of his craft, that KayoDot and pretty much everything Toby Driver is involved in matters so so much; this is his quieter side, his more reflective side. No less progressively epic, no less committed, no less anything, these are simple beautiful live versions, captivating versions of some of his songs that are much more that songs – KayoDot man Toby Driver’s Live at Roadburn solo album…

21: Univers Zero – Live at the Triton 2009 (Sub Rosa) – ORGAN: Albums, catching up on 2025 – Swans did that Birthing thing, Univers Zero released an epic live album, Henry Cow’s John Greaves launched a three piece called Gloyw, there were new albums from North Sea Radio Orchestra and Lost Crowns and Revolutionary Snake Ensemble did some stomping…

22: Michael J. Sheehy – Six Songs About Love & the Lack Thereof (Dimple Discs) – ORGAN THING: Michael J. Sheehy’s Six Songs About Love and The Lack Thereof – six rather beautiful songs that really do deserve to be heard…  and really it that this is only a mini album that is see it so far down a list that really is more impossible to make than ever this year

23: Hawkwind – There is No Space For Us (Cherry Red) – A first listen to Hawkwind’s newest new album There is No Space For Us, is this a new golden age? Is this their best of recent times? Did we ask that last time? Once again this probably is… yes indeed, they’re still making great records…

24: Koenjihyakkei – Live At Club Goodman (SkinGraft Records) – There are millions of bands in the world, thousands of rather good ones, hundred of brilliant bands, there are very few that are utterly vital, a small handful, Koenjihyakkei are one of those vital handful bands and here in this live state there are so so many colours flowing, mixing, colliding in that fluid way their music always does flow – The architecture of the new Koenjihyakkei live album danced around, they do go off and things…

25: Gloyw – My Father was a Tree (Dark Companion Records) – Henry Cow’s John Greaves; as innovative as you’d expect, an original sound, something to hold, to catch, something that exists only for you, these are words to explore, everything here is to explore, they might only be words and notes and sequences, they might be only for you and yes, of course Kew Rhone is Real and can heel like a dog at your feet – Henry Cow’s John Greaves launched a three piece called Gloyw…

Previously….

ORGAN: Our best albums of another very musically busy 2025. Who did we rate? Part One, 1 to 10…

The Next bits….

ORGAN: The Albums of 2025 – 26 to 60 with Lana Del Rabies, Dead Pioneers, Osmium, Rëlisp, Hawkwind, Drill for Absentee, Elliott Galvin and…

ORGAN: The Albums of 2025 – 61 to 80 with Horse Lords, The Tea Club, Swans, Hortvs, Me Lost Me, Edvard Graham Lewis and the best of the rest…