So here’s the beginning of my 2025 AOTY picks and mixes - this one focuses on January/February!
January
Am I in Trouble? – Spectrum (Track – Black)
Bee Hive Ski Race – Unlimited Violence Apologia (Track – Gish Gallop)
Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How (I’ll Take My Chances)
dax riggs – 7 songs for spiders (Sunshine Felt The darkness Smile)
Fka Twigs – Eusexua (Drums Of Death)
Grief Ritual – Collapse (Bile)
Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out? (Big Dick Energy)
Ethel Cain – Perverts (Pulldrone)
Jonathan Hulten – Eyes Of The Living Night (Starbather)
Wyatt E – Zamaru Ultu qereb ziqquratu (The Diviner’s Prayer to the Gods of the Night featuring Nina Saedi from Lowen)
Trauma Bond – Summer Ends. Some Are Long Gone. (Dissonance)
Beneath A Steel Sky – Cleave (the infinite silence that follows the absolute truth)
February
ADA ROOK – UNKILLABLE ANGEL (weed store kratom)
Oklou – choke enough (Viscus)
Love is Noise – To live in a different way (Sunshine)
Glixen – Quiet Pleasures (all tied up)
An Empty City – a lucid dream last night (wake up/nostalgia)
Everything Is Recorded – Richard Russell Is Temporary (The Meadows)
Cloakroom – Last Leg of the Human Table (Story Of The Egg)
Oversize – Vital Signs (Salt)
Abduction – Existentialismus (Truth is as sharp a sword as Vengeance)
Maud The Moth – The Distaff (Despeñaperros)
Larry June/2 Chainz/Alchemist – Life Is Beautiful (Generation)
Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory – self titled (I Want You Here)
Heartworms – Glutton For Punishment (Extraordinary Wings)
-(16)- – Guides For The Misguided (Blood Atonement Blues)
Palehorse/Palerider – Waves I (Division)
Richard Dawson – End Of The Middle (More Than Real)
Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression (Cosmic Abortion)
you,infinite – self titled (Currents)