100 Songs of 2025
There were some really great records this year. The songs that made our list are the ones that we had in heavy rotation in 2024. There’s post-punk, synthpop, shoegaze, electronic, and more on here.
See our list and listen to the playlist down below!
BARCLAY’s - comatose
Bedridden - Heaven’s Leg
Blackberry Crush - With/Without
Blackwater Holylight - Wandering Lost
Bleary Eyed - Heaven Year
blue heron holy ghost - Shift
Cathedrale - The Setting Sun
The Cords - Fabulist
Cosmic Kitten - Hole in my Soul
Dead Spells - Until Hell
Diary - Stevie
The Discussion - In The Mirror
Docents - Garden
doubleshot - modern vision
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas - Tristan
EERA - Forget Her
Elle Barbara - Hitler, Satan & Associates LLP
Emily Breeze - Forever Money
Empty Nesters - On Read (feat. Ribbon Skirt)
Exit Moon - Camera Shy
False Flowers - Chatham Rules
Farmer’s Wife - Dirty Shirley
Fotoform - This City is Over
Frida KIll - City Gurl
Gardenia - Lana Del Rey
Glimmer - To Believe
Homescreen - Statues
Hunx & His Punx - Alone In Hollywood On Acid
Jawdropped - Skully
Jimi Lucid - Paranoia
Katzin - Anna
KEG - St Michael
Kills Birds - Behind
Kinlaw - SPIT
Kissing on Camera - Corner Couch
L.A. WITCH - Icicle
Lathe of Heaven - Aurora
LAWN CHAIR - Fancy Car, Girlfriend and the Big House
Lézard - Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Stop
Libby Quinn - HA (Gabaldon)
Living Hour - Best I Did It
Local Weatherman - Thread
los frankies - I’m On Drugs
Luje - Don’t Go
Michael Sanders - the wild
Monobloc - Line of Feeling
moondaddy - Great Expansion
Moontype - Starry Eyed
Muscle - Carpenter
Native Sun - Down My Line
navel grazr - PUFF PIECE
The New Romantics - Low Stakes
Niis - STK
Nympho - Looney Tune
Odonis Odonis - Work it Out
OHYUNG - no good
Orchid Mantis - Comedown Phase
Pamphlets - Autowash
PANIK FLOWER - rearview
phantom signals - sentimental
Phantom Wave - Echoes Unknown
Pink Breath of Heaven - Blue Is The Morning
PONZI - Small
Public Circuit - No Faith
Pynch - How You Love Someone
QWAM - Something Bad
Ribbon Skirt - Earth Eater
Sally Shapiro - The Other Days
Sea Lemon - Stay
Sextile - Women Respond to Bass
The Shallows - Red Shift
Short Porch - Panic City
Silk Daisys - someday
SKORTS - Burden
Slash Need - BORDER TOWN
Sleep Tactics - THE LAUGHING HEARTS
SNAKEY DUBLAY - FRIENDLY GHOSTS
Softer - Cry, Laugh
some fear - The Faucet Does All The Crying
Sophia Center - Signals
Spirit Hotel - Perfume
Star Card - Ambitious Guy
Sterling - I Can Be Convinced
Steve Queralt & Emma Anderson - Lonely Town
Sympathy Flowers - In Solitude
Taleen Kali - Aepex
thistle. - It’s Nice To See You, Stranger
Tiffadelic - Nazareth(B.O.P.)
Titan - Conjuring
Trophy Wife - So Hard
TV Face - White Noise White Lies
TVOD - Party Time
Two-Man Giant Squid - Weird Recordings (you’ve got some)
verity den - wet glass
VIAL - IDLE HANDS
wavepool - Blue Moon
Weird Era - Marian
Welcome Strawberry - violets & honey
Yndling - It’s Almost Like You’re Here