And on we go with that end of year list of the best albums we encountered in 2025, here comes number 61 to 80 as well as the best of the rest in what has been a very busy very musically rewarding year where it has been almost impossible to keep up…
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61: The Tea Club – Chasm (96/24) – Some of this is properly full on proper prog in the sense of that cool as flip prog thing bands like UK or King Crimson or Yes or Kansas once made, some of it is (adult orientated) pop music, challenging crafted pop music mind you… – The proper Prog of The Tea Party…
62: Fulguromatic – Fulguromatic (Margen/áMARXE) –Fulguromatic’s is a thrilling ride, both musically and in terms of the many rhythms of it all, a very French avant feel, a creative blend of Canterbury flavours, jazz-rock, a touch of colourful Zeuhl and some properly inventive properly progressive prog…
62: – Why Patterns – Screamers (Human Worth) – That bit there is sounding like it was going to go off and things (we might have said that before?) and I tend to repeat myself when under stress (I might have said that before as well), this is serious alternative noise fuelled stream of consciousness lyricism, stream of consciousness everything – Why Patterns aren’t an easy listen, I don’t imagine they want to be, this is what you wanted…
63: Me Lost Me – This Material Moment (Upset the Rhythm) – Me Lost Me is the rather beguiling deceptively powerful project of Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent, this is her fourth album, it is essentially rather forward looking folk music with an experimental edge and a need to not just repeat things in that ‘nice’ way that English folk so often does – New Me Lost Me…
64: Swans – Birthing – (Young God) – The ritual that is (or should that be the rituals that are) Swans and a seventeenth studio album. Birthing, a brooding album that came out back at the end of May this year – Swans did that Birthing thing…
65: Ash Barrett – Uncaged (Feral Crone) – Uncaged isn’t quite brutal, it isn’t ever that obvious, it is dark, it is punishing, it is indeed, to quote the label, “music without mercy: a stark rejection of polish, and a return to pure sonic brutality”, it is more than that though – And so Sam An, aka Lana Del Rabies started her own label, Feral Crone, uncaged an Ash Barrett album and…
66: Wippy Bonstack – Tactile Demons – Wippy Bonstack is the very musical busy instrumental solo project of songwriter/composer Ben Coniguliaro (Sun Colored Chair, Wyxz, Filibuster Saloon, In-Dreamview). Tactile Demons is overloaded with notes, most of them in the right order, it feels like several good cups of tea, that bit there is rather delightful, actually the whole thing is a clever delight. Wippy Bonstack is clever, he doesn’t ever need to tell us this, fear not, this is not one of those show off prog instrumental albums – The Prog of Wippy Bonstack…
67: Dead Otter – The Sentinel (Riot Season/Echodelick) – ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Maria Iskariot’s properly brilliant punk rock energy, those urban train punks Eastfield, the dark dream-pop of Magic Wands, the psychedelic heavy rock of Dead Otter, the noise rock of Tickles, the art of CxBxT and…
68: Psychonaut – World Maker (Pelagic Records) – When they’re not using a sledgehammer to bludgeon a walnut Belgium’s Psychonaut are rather wonderful in several of those epic post rock meets prog metal kinds of ways. When they really take it out there and touch the sky –the epic depth of Belgium’s Psychonaut…
69: Hortvs – Domimium Trerrae (Attenuation Circuit) – An album from Hortvs, a warm and beautiful thing, a spiritual thing, an uplifting journey into otherness, an embracing process, a glowing positive…
70: U – Archenfield – Sometime in October, U, whoever he is, released an album – Who or what is U? Black Vaughan instantly demands attention, something to do with the atmosphere, or is it the inviting textures, those dark rumbles…
71: Edvard Graham Lewis – Alreet? (Upp Records) – “Maverick musician and artist Edvard Graham Lewis returns with Alreet?: an exciting album of majestic, experimental pop” so it says here, a new solo album from Wire’s always interesting Mr. Lewis. yes, that cheery North Eastern greeting of an album title kind of belies the tension and drama that lies within – Wire’s Edvard Graham Lewis asks if you’re Alreet? (yeah we sneeked an extra one in)
71: Pharaoh Overlord – Louhi (Rocket Recordings) – Pharaoh Overlord from Pori, Finland and a brooding beast of an album that, without needing to smash anyone around the head, demands from the start. Just two pieces of music, Louhi part one and two, both just short of twenty minutes each, both very much two sides of the same heavyweight coin – Pharaoh Overlord’s broodingly ritualistic otherness…
72: Jeff Arnal / Dietrich Eichmann – Tides of Unrest / Berlin 2023 (No Business) – – There’s a fluidity that stops it all falling down the stairs, at times it all sounds like a Jackson Pollock painting, or a series of his paintings, at times like spiders, or rain on a tin roof – the experimental chemistry of Jeff Arnal and Dietrich Eichmann…
73: The Below – Immutable Behaviour (Accelerating Blue Fish) = Industrial yes, plenty of industrial clanking and banging, properly industrial, rather different though, darkly dramatic, dare we say theatrical? A Swedish industrial post-punk thing is how they describe it. The Below and some theatrical industrialness…
74: Black Country, New Road – Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune) – If the truth be told the album rather disappointed when it came out, it wasn’t until we caught them live that it really worked – The closing day of All Points East 2025, the positives of where a very different Black Country, New Road are now, that four wheel drive of the Midnight Dipper and Warmduscher’s low slung disco-fried funk in the dust of it all…
75: Empty Threats – Happy Birthday (Anti Dismal) Kaurna-based sextet The Empty Threats fuse Australian post-punk and noise rock into a metallic rainbow of snarling bass, frenzied guitar work, restless percussion, and electric clarinet – Albums, albums, albums – The post punk noise rock of Empty Threats…
76: The Necks – Disquiet (Nothern Spy Records) – The Necks are one of the great cult bands of Australia. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz… A quiet album from the legendary Australian trio, well the first twenty minutes of the the first fifty-seven minute long piece is quiet – the disquiet of The Necks and…
77: Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt – FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field – Extended Field unites Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt for the eighteenth volume of FRKWYS, an intergenerational collaboration of adventurous musicians drawn to the sonically radiant world of just intonation – The sonically radiant intonation of Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt…
78: Flesh Narc – Yonkers (Decoherence Records) – Disoriented no-wave/noise rock and well They do sound rather hatstand, rather deranged, relentlessly so. Flesh Narc have evolved into a powerhouse band with the addition of two drummers, increasing the density of their wall of sound with double the strength and rhythmic intricacy. Acidic guitars burn through a slew of psychedelic textures – the derangement of Flesh Narc…
79: Bruit≤ – The Age Of Ephemerality (Pelagic) – It is very much that big instrumental symphonic widescreen heroic filmoid post rock big big bigness thing – More albums, Bruit≤, Planning For Burial, El Chico Fuendre, The Pale White, Fir Cone Children, Mark Fredson and…
80: Brass Camel – Camel (Dromedary Records) – Well now, this is the no holds bared real deal, Brass Camel aren’t hiding anything back here, that twelve minute album ending that is Another Day is totally utterly over the top. This is a kitchen sink and everything else thrown in old school gloriously backward looking prog rock delight – Down that prog rock rabbit hole, this time new albums from Edensong, Brass Camel, The Book of Moons, Soft Hearted Scientists and more…
And in alphabetical order, a cherry pick of the best of the rest…
Adam Walton – Burmo – …the delight of Adam Walton.
Bandler Ching – Mercurial (Sdban Ultra) – Bandler Ching’s blend of jazz, electronics, hip-hop….
Bank Myna – Eimuria (tellar Frequencies/Modulor) Down that prog rock rabbit hole again with Bank Myna…
Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere (Inside Out) – The complexity of Between The Buried And Me…
Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) – Bob Mould’s latest solo album…
Bunsenburner – Reverie – (Bensnburner records) – Are Bunsenburner as good as their album cover?
Cheer-Accident – New Ear 25 – Cheer Accident’s New Ear has landed, as glorious as this album is, as proper as this is, this is not a proper Cheer Accident album, I mean it is, everything they do is proper…
Children of The Night – Children of The Night (Mannequin Records) – Children of The Night’s dark horror film soundtracks and…
Christopher Trull – Frown Sounds – Something of a more experimental nature in the shape from Terms man Christopher Trull…
Circuit des Yeux – Halo On The Inside (Matador) – The richness of Circuit des Yeux’s Halo On The Inside…
CocoRosie – Little Death Wishes (Joyful Noise) – CocoRosie’s Little Death Wishes…
The Cry – The Lost Tapes – and Christine Ott’s The Cry…
Darkside – Nothing (Matador) – Nothing is the third album from Darkside, nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation, Nothing is rather different…
Dominic Sanderson – Blazing Revelations – Down that prog rock rabbit hole again, this time with Dominic Sanderson’s full on throw in a couple of kitchen sinks classic 70s flavoured prog, that and some Syrinx and a touch of Stinkbug and…
Doomsday – Never Known Peace (Creator-Destructor Records) – Oakland’s Doomsday with some crossover hardcore metal thrashing goodness…
Eastfield – Eastfield (Grow Your Own Records) – Those urban train punks Eastfield…
Edensong – Our Road To Dust (Laser’s Edge) – Down that prog rock rabbit hole, this time new albums from Edensong, Brass Camel, The Book of Moons, Soft Hearted Scientists and more…
El Chico Fuendre – Ragas for City Dwellers (El Chico Records) – More albums, Bruit≤, Planning For Burial, El Chico Fuendre, The Pale White, Fir Cone Children, Mark Fredson and…
Erlend Apneseth –Song over støv (Hubro) – Erlend Apneseth’s Song Over Støv…
The Exu – The Exu (Discus Music) – Some Jazz stuff, the good kind from The Exu…
Florist – Jellywish (Double Double Whammy) – The very friendly sound of Florist…
Fältsånger – One Day I’ll Own A Spaceship And I’ll Fly Far Away From Here (Fieldsongs) – ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Fältsånger’s mellow space rock, Nick Cave’s Live God experience, a Vennart live album and Aya’s Hexed caught up with…
Geneva Jacuzzi – Tripple Fire (Dais Records) – ORGAN THINGS: Marie Davidson has an electronically sharp, rather smart album called City Of Clowns out this month, she’s in East London this Tuesday and then seven days later Los Angeles synth pop performance artist Geneva Jacuzzi hits the same part of town… and it really was Geneva Jacuzzi’s live show that did it for us – Geneva Jacuzzi’s art certainly is dangerous, a cold night in East London more than warmed up at Hackney’s Moth Club…
Ghostwoman – Welcome to the Civilized World – (Full Time Hobby) – More albums – New Umlaut, this time with two Mr Bungles, meanwhile, there is no reason for Ghostwoman’s fourth album to exist while Steiger seek to explore unfamiliar territory and Why Patterns aren’t an easy listen, I don’t imagine they want to be, this is what you wanted…
Horse Jumper of Love – Disaster Trick (Run For Cover Records) – the heartfelt looseness to the way Horse Jumper Of Love play…
Intercourse – How I Fell In Love With The Void (Brutal Panda) – More albums – The Prog of Wippy Bonstack, Pharaoh Overlord’s broodingly ritualistic otherness, Czonka, Rotersand, a self-titled record by a band called Wolves, Connecticut’s self-deprecating noise rock entity Intercourse and…
Jeff Barksy – Voice Paintings – Something of a more experimental nature from Bedmaker’s Jeff Barksky…
Jerzy Mączyński – DO 555ps (Vibrasjon) – ORGAN: Albums – One time Hawkwind Gunslinger Alan Davey with a new solo album, while Jerzy Mączyński fuses utopian electronics and organic improvisation on what he calls a sci-fi jazz odyssey and what can possibly be said about experimental drone metal trio Apparitions?
Kali Trio – The Playful Abstract (Ronin Rhythm Records) – ORGAN: Albums – The richness of Circuit des Yeux’s Halo On The Inside, Kali Trio’s The Playful Abstract, The Below and some theatrical industrialness, Children of The Night’s dark horror film soundtracks and…
Kandodo – Solstice / Dub / Dusk / Dawn (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube) – ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – The proper Prog of The Tea Party, Kandodo’s motorik flavours, the delight of Adam Walton, Roger Miller’s current rock band Trinary System and catching up with The Scaramanga Six before it really is too late…
Kate Carr and Matt Atkins – Organelles (Flaming Pines) – ORGAN: And then there were three things, a taste of the new Bruit≤ album, Markus Guentner’s Black Dahlia, sound artists Kate Carr and Matt Atkins release Organelles and…
Klamp – Totaal Techniek (Human Worth) – ORGAN ALBUMS: Erlend Apneseth’s Song Over Støv, the “formidable musical collective” knows as Klamp, Black Country New Road’s new direction and don’t look now ’cause here’s young William, I guess his generation don′t mean a thing now and, well, is this really what you want?
Lars Fredrik Frøislie – Gamle Mester (Old Master) – Down that prog rock rabbit hole again with the new Star Period Star album, Airbridge main man Lorenzo Bedini’s solo album and a taste of things to come from Wobbler’s Lars Fredrik Frøislie, Bank Myna, Ekzilo and…
Legendary Pink Dots – So Lonely In Heaven (Metropolis Records) – ORGAN: Albums – Wire’s Edvard Graham Lewis asks if you’re Alreet? Legendary Pink Dots floating in a tin can, Marc Neys has some poetic piano, the not so bleak post rock of Beneath a Steel Sky, Canada’s Megafauna, Motherhood’s Thunder Perfect Mind and…
Lords of Form – False Light – Albums – The fluid space rock of Lord of Forms, Jazz Sabbath’s lost ’68 recordings that some other band might have heard, the experimental chemistry of Jeff Arnal and Dietrich Eichmann, RZWD crafting dance noise club music…
Lorenzo Bedini –Who Never Was – ORGAN THING: Down that prog rock rabbit hole again with the new Star Period Star album, Airbridge main man Lorenzo Bedini’s solo album and a taste of things to come from Wobbler’s Lars Fredrik Frøislie, Bank Myna, Ekzilo and…
Marc Neys – Harmonium (for Wallace) – ORGAN: Albums – Wire’s Edvard Graham Lewis asks if you’re Alreet? Legendary Pink Dots floating in a tin can, Marc Neys has some poetic piano, the not so bleak post rock of Beneath a Steel Sky, Canada’s Megafauna, Motherhood’s Thunder Perfect Mind and…
Marie Davidson – City Of Clowns (Deewee) – Marie Davidson has an electronically sharp, rather smart album called City Of Clowns out this month, she’s in East London this Tuesday and then seven days later Los Angeles synth pop performance artist Geneva Jacuzzi hits the same part of town…
Mark Stewart – The Fateful Symmetry (Mute) – Mark Stewart’s ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime (Bébe Durmiendo Cumbia Bootleg)’ has just been shared ahead of release of The Fateful Symmetry album and a couple of art exhibitions featuring the work of Mark and Long time collaborator Peter Harris…
Megafauna – I Owe This Land a Body – Albums – Wire’s Edvard Graham Lewis asks if you’re Alreet? Legendary Pink Dots floating in a tin can, Marc Neys has some poetic piano, the not so bleak post rock of Beneath a Steel Sky, Canada’s Megafauna, Motherhood’s Thunder Perfect Mind and…
Miss Lava – Under A Black Sun (Small Stone) – Miss Lava’s psychedelic heavy stoner rock…
Moja – I’m Hungry – All that scratching us making me itch, more of that headpecking, that urgent thing only two piece bands seem to do – Japanese headpecking duo Moja…
Mondo Wave – Gonzo (Monster Zero) – ORGAN: Albums – Rustorm, Pulkas people still digging holes, Mondo Wave, a punk band from Mars via Bristol, Los Angeles band Crymwav sound like the very real deal when it comes to that raw no messing NWOBHM thing and Italian Crossover/Thrash Metal maniacs Spoiled…
Peretsky – It Doesn’t Get Cold In October Anymore (Whited Sepulchre Records) – Peretsky’s inward looking slightly Radioheadish post-rock flavoured things…
Prayer Group – Strawberry (Reptilian Records) – Two albums today, the strawberry flavoured hardcore alt.noise of Prayer Group and this weird and wonderful record from Friendly Rich…
Roger Eno – Without Wind/Without Air (Deutsche Grammophon) – Without Wind/Without Air, Roger Eno’s third release for the rather prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label is a beautifully quiet crafted album that…
Rotersand – Don’t Become The Thing You Hated (Metropolis) – Rotersand do sound like a darkly goth flavoured Pet Shop Boys, sounds good to me…
Rustorm – Gravity (self release) – Albums – Rustorm, Pulkas people still digging holes, Mondo Wave, a punk band from Mars via Bristol, Los Angeles band Crymwav sound like the very real deal when it comes to that raw no messing NWOBHM thing and Italian Crossover/Thrash Metal maniacs Spoiled…
The Scaramanga Six – Glut / Dearth (Wrath Recordings) – Albums, albums, albums – The proper Prog of The Tea Party, Kandodo’s motorik flavours, the delight of Adam Walton, Roger Miller’s current rock band Trinary System and catching up with The Scaramanga Six before it really is too late…
Scary Hours – Can’t Contend – Albums – Are Bunsenburner as good as their album cover? A Thresher/EarthBall Split? There can never be too much EarthBall. Some Jazz stuff, the good kind from The Exu and some blisteringly healthy politically charged hardcore metal-edged punk from Scary Hours…
The Sick Man Of Europe – The Sick Man Of Europe (The Leaf Label) – The Sick Man Of Europe’s 80s sounding, slightly post-punk flavoured crisp clean alternative sounding machine-driven electronic debut album is about to land…
Singlelito – Non-Consciousness (áMARXE) – ORGAN: Albums, albums, albums – Nyos, Gelbart, Clipping, Singlelito and that vital Shearling experience, more of that end of year clearing the decks…
Star Period Star – Twilight Saving Time (Jet Propulsion Records) – Down that prog rock rabbit hole again with the new Star Period Star album, Airbridge main man Lorenzo Bedini’s solo album and a taste of things to come from Wobbler’s Lars Fredrik Frøislie, Bank Myna, Ekzilo and…
Steiger – Mowglowski’s First Take – More albums – New Umlaut, this time with two Mr Bungles, meanwhile, there is no reason for Ghostwoman’s fourth album to exist while Steiger seek to explore unfamiliar territory and Why Patterns aren’t an easy listen, I don’t imagine they want to be, this is what you wanted…
Sterbus – Black and Gold – Sterbus are quietly dancing around a sometimes very English sounding almost folky mix of considered prog rock that flows in a gentle crafted deliciously detailed uncluttered way…
Stinkbug – Between Timid and Timbuktu – Down that prog rock rabbit hole again, this time with Dominic Sanderson’s full on throw in a couple of kitchen sinks classic 70s flavoured prog, that and some Syrinx and a touch of Stinkbug and…
Sturle Dagsland – Dreams And Conjurations (Bolgen Music) – We could talk of kitchen sinks thrown in, certainly no notion of less ever being more here. Experimental pop music maybe – Albums, albums, albums – Japanese headpecking duo Moja, Ger Eaton’s Season Changes. Meanwhile, from Ukraine we have Vøvk, from Norway we have Sturle Dagsland and from Stourbridge, new Pop Will Eat Itself…
Tan Cologne – Unknown Beyond – More albums – New Me Lost Me, King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto, avant-garde guitarist David Kollar and visionary trumpeter Paolo Raineri have a second Komara album, instrumental duo Lyndhurst, Peretsky, Tan Cologne and…
Trinary System – The Hard Machine (Cuneiform Records) – Albums, albums, albums – The proper Prog of The Tea Party, Kandodo’s motorik flavours, the delight of Adam Walton, Roger Miller’s current rock band Trinary System and catching up with The Scaramanga Six…
Umlaut – Desolë (Overdrive Records) – More albums – New Umlaut, this time with two Mr Bungles, meanwhile, there is no reason for Ghostwoman’s fourth album to exist while Steiger seek to explore unfamiliar territory and Why Patterns aren’t an easy listen, I don’t imagine they want to be, this is what you wanted…
Wolves – Self Titled (Ripcord) – ORGAN ALBUMS: More albums – The Prog of Wippy Bonstack, Pharaoh Overlord’s broodingly ritualistic otherness, Czonka, Rotersand, a self-titled record by a band called Wolves, Connecticut’s self-deprecating noise rock entity Intercourse and…
And that was it, out 43 picks in terms of the best albums of 2025, although, there was no way we could cut it down to just 43 this time and well, we don’t have time to sum things up, new albums for the new year are already stacking up and demand all the hours the day has to offer….
Previously….
ORGAN: Our best albums of another very musically busy 2025. Who did we rate? Part One, 1 to 10…
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ORGAN: Our best 43 albums of a very musically busy 2023. Who did we rate?
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