100(ish) Favorite Albums of 2025
Agriculture — The Spiritual Sound (Ecstatic Black Metal)
Ahmed — سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Long From Post-Bop)
Alpha Hopper — Let Heaven and Nature Sing II (Thudding Art-Punk)
Augustin Braud — Trônes Amoncelés (Noisy Musique-Concrete)
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet — HausLive 4 (Live Guitarchestra)
Blank Hellscape — Hell 2 (Busted Technoise)
Carlos Ferreira & Pedro Vian — The beginning of eternity (Experimental Trance Ambient)
Casket Splinter — Nuclear Shadows (Free Improv Doom Metal)
Cast Off Form — Strings (Head-Rattling Noise/Drone)
Chaz Underriner — Moving (Deconstructed Chamber Music)
Cheater Slicks — Live at Double Happiness (Live Dismantled Blues Punk)
Chris Brokaw — Ghost Ship (Coruscated Slowcore)
Cisnienie — [angry noises] (Busted Jazz Rock)
Clang Quartet / Crank Sturgeon — Split (Post-Metal Noise)
Coca Leaves & Pearls — All One Song (Fake Neilcore)
Cory Hanson — I Love People (New American Rock Standards)
Craig Finn — Always Been (Rock Lexicon Singer Songwriter Hall of Fame)
Cruelster — Make Them Wonder Why (Cleveland’s Best Chunk Punk)
DANA — Clean Living (Avant-Garage Punk)
David Grubbs — Whistle From Above (Inquisitive Solo Guitar)
Dead Neanderthals — Incantations (Ritualistic Noise Jazz)
Dope Purple — Children in the Darkness (Spacy Psychedelic Rock)
Dorothy Carlos — Ear World (Experimental Cello Sound Art)
Dumbells — Up Late With (Aussie Power Pop)
Earth Ball — Outside Over There (Psych-Brit Noise Rock)
the educated fools — tantric decapitation: 69 mins of trichotomy and liquefaction (Avuncular Free Range Jams)
Eli Winter — A Trick of the Light (Orchestral Folk)
Emily Robb — Live at Jerry's (Deconstructing Rock In Real Time)
Enemy Zero — Move Fast and Break People (Microtonal No Wave Noise)
The Ex — If Your Mirror Breaks (Magisterial Post-Punk)
Eye Ball — Gull Songs (Classic Punk Rock)
FOMIES — Liminality (Classic Psych-Garage)
France — Destino Scifosi (Psychedelic Krautrock)
Geese — Getting Killed (Undeniable [for me at least] Indie Innovations)
Gnäw — Gnäw II (Finnish-Persian Kosmische)
Gnod & White Hills — Drop Out III (Minimalist Psych)
Guzoo — Compilado (Chilean Powerviolence)
Hal Lambert and Mitchell Mobley — Fuzz/Holler (Live Psych Drone Improvisations)
Haram — Why Does Paradise Begin in Hell (True NYC Punk)
Hell — Submersis (Blackened Doom Metal)
The Hell — The Hell (Classic Hardcore)
Index for Working Musick — Which Direction Goes the Beam (Dreamy Drone Rock)
Jason Doell & Naomi McCarroll-Butler — FOUR FORMER MYRRH FORMERS FORMED HER HORN FOR MURMURS (Musique Concrete Free Jazz)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift Songs (Warm and Jazzy Ambient)
John Krausbauer & Kaori Suzuki — Dream Visions of the Illumined Axis (Transcendent Microtonal Drone)
Jules Reidy & Sam Dunscombe — Edge Games (Melted Drone)
Julia Edith Rigby — Sea Cave Breathing (Operatic Field Recording)
Kiloff — SPITZHACKE (Polish Post-Punk)
Koenjihyakkei 高円寺百景 — Live at Club Goodman (Bugnuts Prog Rock)
Konrad Sprenger — Set (Trve Minimalism)
Leaking — In the Bag (Decomposing Drone Rock)
Li Jianhong — Shuttle Raven of the Dream (Psychedelic Drone Guitar)
Los Thuthanaka — Los Thuthanaka (Mind-Warping Avant-Trance)
Lucrecia Dalt — A Danger to Ourselves (Noir Pop)
Matt Lajoie — Stonehouse & Hiawatha Service (Kosmische Meditations)
mclusky — the world is still here and so are we (“Unc’s still got it” Noise Rock)
The Men — Buyer Beware (Dudes Rock Rock)
Midnight Mines — Feel I'm Slipping Away Now (Crusty, Dusty Garage Punk)
Molbo — Molbo (Fried Egg Punk)
Morbo — De Baja Calidad (Chilean Hardcore)
Michael Wertmüller - Shlimazl (Nefarious Big Band)
Mr Beast Death 2030 — Mr Beast Death 2030 (Freakazoid Post-Hardcore)
The Necks — Disquiet (Long Form Jazz)
peopling — Catatonia Estates (Decaying Psychedelic Hyperpop)
Peter Rehberg — Liminal States (Ambient Drone)
Pharaoh Overlord — Louhi (Hypnotic Stoner Rock)
Piss Rules — Repissues (Minimalist Egg Punk)
Primitive Man — Observance (Top-of-the-Game Doom Metal)
Primitive Motion — Lost Frequencies (Abstract Krautpop)
Purple Trap (Laswell/Haino/Ali) — The Stone (NOISE)
Pyrex — Body & Slugman (Greased Up Punk)
Ramleh — Hyper Vigilance (MORE NOISE)
Rapid Dye — Rapid Dye (Aussie Hardcore)
Ravi Shavi — Erase America (No Wave Groove Rock)
Red Stuff — Red Stuff (Tuneful Scruff Rock)
Robber — Bad Eggs (Aussie Sludge Punk)
Scotch Broom Collective — Insects & Water (Bedroom Post Punk)
Shaine Scarminach / Rob Magill Duo — Life and Death (Free Improv Jazz Rock)
Shearling — Motherfucker, I am Both: "Amen" and "Hallelujah"... (Evil Noise Metal)
SH!TOMATO - SH!TOMATO (Hypnotic Psych Noise)
Soga — Corrosion (Mexico City Hardcore)
Solderer — Normal Style (Anarcho-Sludge Punk)
Sovlscrapers — Sandpaper (Portuguese Noise Rock)
Spawn — Erebus & Terror (Experimental Noise Rock)
Street Gloves — Against Their World (Evil Cyberpunk)
Sumac & Moor Mother — The Film (Cinematic Drone Metal)
Sun & Rain — Waterfall (Frenetic Free Jazz)
Swingsets — Fixin' (Post-Rock Freakouts)
Territorial Gobbing — Hermit Card (Vocal-Heavy Free Improv)
Tim Barnes — Inside Energy (Improvisational Post-Rock)
Toru — Velours Dévorant (Proggy Noise Metal)
Trha — ∫um'ad∂ejja ∫ervaj & lact’eben (Post-Post-Black Metal)
TV Dust — Transition (No Wave Jazz Punk)
United Stare — United Stare (Rock And/Or Roll)
Violeta Garcia & Hora Lunga — I'll Wait For You In The Car Park (Orchestral Noise-Ambient)
Weston Olencki — Broadsides (Avant-Garde Banjo)
Wojciech Rusin — Honey for the Ants (Experimental Drone Classical)
Why Bother? — Case Studies (Tuneful Post-Punk)
Yellow Eyes — Confusion Gate (Experimental Black Metal)
Yes Deer — Everything That Shines, Everything That Hurts (Free Jazz)
Yokers — Flesh Narc (Butthole Surfin’ Weirdo Rock)
