Best Music of 2025

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I slipped into a bad habit last year. Despite regularly adding to my wishlist I neglected to go back to weed and/or buy tunes. As a result, the other day I excitedly thought I’d discovered a new (to me) track* only to realise it’s been in my wishlist for months.

So as a variation on the usual theme, here’s my Top 20 tunes and albums I wasn’t appreciating last year but could have been had I been more organizized. Selected this weekend from my Bandcamp wishlist and in no particular order:

Badbadnotgood - Found a Light (Beale Street)*

Giorgio Lopez - Sud des Îles

Kirk Degiorgio - Seven Minutes of Funk

Djrum - A Tune For Us

D.D. Mirage - Piranesi

Speakers Corner Quartet & Tirzah - This Is How We Walk On The Moon

Stella - Amour Propre

Joao de Pife - Garoto Do Pife

Greg Foat - 6 Days in Leysin

Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Close Your Eyes Okay Now Open Them

Poppeye - Be My Baby

Brittany Davis - Amid the Blackout of the Night

Mark Barrott, Norma Winstone & Leo Taylor - I Am The Sun, You Are The Moon

Cosmic Tones Research Trio - Cosmic Tones Research Trio

Hometown Girl - Lavender (NF)

Modha - River feat. Àbáse & Fanni Zahár

Transport - Message To You

J-Walk - Lovely Bijou Fantaisie

Sewell and The Gong - Patron Saint Of Elsewhere

Circling Sun - Orbits

There’s lots more but I’ll draw a line there. I’m sure most of the above were recommendations from you good folks so thanks to everyone for being so generous with the recommendations and generally being a top bunch of people. Here’s to more great music in 2026 and more collective resilience to the ongoing shitshow we’re living through.

Cheers :slight_smile:

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That Poppeye record is incredible. I’ve never heard it before but what an absolute belter. Vinyl is already $100+.

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Yeah, it’s fantastic, isn’t it? Pretty sure I added it when it was released so could’ve picked up the vinyl. I snoozed and I loozed :roll_eyes:

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That Brittany Davis album is fantastic, thanks

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Man, that Circling Sun album is a beauty, such a gorgeous, warm, spiritual sound.
Thanks.
My fave track.

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I have enjoyed listening to the vast majority of selections in this thread. It’s really broadened my listening over the last 4-5 weeks. It did the same last year so that’s why I was keen to make the playlist of all your picks.

Some reflections - I was amazed last year how horizontal a lot of your listening tastes are, and it’s the same again - so much of the music, and indeed whole albums feel almost like soundscapes. Absolutely no criticism there, I appreciate all the art and craft of it.

No Eddie Chacon this year? You all loved him the year before.

Less jazz in the picks this year too.

So… I thought I’d share another playlist. Mostly jazz, some electronic, and bits of blues, funk, hip hop, and Latin. All released last year.

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Seconded (thirded?!) anyway amazing stuff great tip sort of how I wished the Jill Scott comeback would sound like.

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Can we port the Apple Music playlist to Spotify?

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i use “tunemymusic” for this very purpose: Transfer Playlists Between Music Services | Tune My Music

i’d make you a spotify version, but i don’t have a spotify account. so, here’s an amazon music version! https://music.amazon.com/my/playlists/cbc1cedd-397e-4b55-9cc6-19ec748c6fb0

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I’ll try it out as soon as I find some free time

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Here you go, can’t believe how easy it was!:

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That’s cool. ^^ This one is my jazzy playlist of the year. I assumed the person who asked was after the big playlist of everyone’s picks from this thread that is further up the conversation.

Could that one be done too?

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Here you go: Best of 2025 - playlist by Plemont | Spotify

Really enjoying the jazzy one, so much great stuff id totally missed.

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