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)

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