There were some really great records this year. The songs that made our list are the ones that we had in heavy rotation in 2025. 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