2025 has brought amazing music. Throughout the year, we have covered a wide range of bands and artists across a wide array of genres and styles. Our growing team of writers have nominated albums that they believe represent the year of 2025.
Beans on Toast continues his tradition of releasing an album every birthday. Kill Them With Kindness, is the usual mix of domesticity and polemic but, perhaps, it’s his hardest-hitting yet…
The prodigious talent of Dick Gaughan, in his heyday, and largely solo prime in this BBC set.
Calling You Home is a solo piano album, full of contrasts and different moods, created by a very gifted musician and composer.
Ranagri once again team up with Tony Christie for another selection from the Great Irish Songbook.
A Kate Rusby Christmas bonanza – the new double album and seasonal tour hit Manchester – all on the same day.
The Magpie Arc weld their bombast to the folk frame, with lashings of prog and metal, along with a little unexpected goth.
Forging ahead from what came before – the latest chapter in the story of Spock’s Beard.
Long Distance Calling provide a musical experience on a par with the likes of Hawkwind and leave you in awe of the music they accomplish.
Forget any fall from grace, this shows Talbot ascending even further still.
The Haar shine more new light through familiar windows, spruced up with even more global vision and design.
Dream Theater mark the return of MP to the fold with a all encompassing 40th anniversary live set.
Tangerine Dream reissued with groundbreaking and genre defining ambient electronics – plus load of live stuff!
Shouting At The Moon, the third solo album from Brinsley Schwarz, the man who gave his name to a band, is a triumph.
Fuzzy lights shine over the fens once more; dare you stray into their playground?
