DistortionHead One of the best 2025 had to offer! I struggle to return as often due to the emotional weight I feel when listening. I didn't think this would beat her previous works, but hell, while a ballad centric project, it very well is in the discussion for her best work to date! Favorite track: History of Violence.

myneighborbrotoro beautiful, gripping, dark and intense themes with layered and fresh production. I can't say enough about how much I love this project Favorite track: Black Lazarus.

Tom Colquhoun 'People are dying while I'm playing dead; I'm fucked up in the head' - another album by a different artist, same year.
Backxwash is exploring personal pain through the lens of religious metaphor, radical theory and global injustice. There are recurring preoccupations from her previous work - overdose, greyhound buses, demonic possession. Her body of work is like a cloud of mirrors, reflecting emotional fragments; as the cloud grows we see more but it becomes more metaphorical and indistinct. Favorite track: History of Violence.

tomjohnhall Inventive beatmaking with passion and personality - a masterfully controlled patchwork of samples, found sounds, percussion and raw synths paying homage to a rich melting pot of inspirations. Favorite track: Nkyel.