Expanding to One
A late goodbye to 2025. Pull up that misshapen beanbag chair from last year (options are limited) and summon a small white dog to join you by the fireplace simulation.
Here is my 11th annual list of favourite musical releases from the past year. Unranked but endlessly mulled over.
Tap/click on the titles to listen & support artists if you're able to. Invest in some physical media, even? It's tough out there.
I also made a big playlist of some favourite songs from the year, on Tidal and Sp°tify. No one is free until all are free. Favourite releases: side 1 Phi-Psonics – Expanding To One Ganavya – Nilam Friendship – Caveman Wakes Up Natalie Bergman – My Home Is Not In This World Laurie Torres – Après Coup Joshua Burnside – Teeth of Time Nourished By Time – The Passionate Ones Cass McCombs – Interior Live Oak Emily A. Sprague – Cloud Time Alex G – Headlights Eliot Krimsky – I Made My House Colter Wall – Memories and Empties Joan Shelley – Real Warmth Lucrecia Dalt – A Danger to Ourselves Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – That Wasn’t A Dream Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Mercy Organic Pulse Ensemble – Oppression Is Nine Tenths Of The Law Joseph Decosimo – Fiery Gizzard FACS – Wish Defense Steve Gunn – Daylight Daylight Yves Jarvis – All Cylinders U.e. – Hometown Girl Weirs – Diamond Grove Brìghde Chaimbeul – Sunwise Ganavya & Sam Amidon – Would Be Better side 2 The Cosmic Tones Research Trio – S / T Samantha Crain – Gumshoe Doug Paisley – Streets Of Heaven Tobacco City – Horses Eliana Glass – E Djrum – Under Tangled Silence Mess Esque – Jay Marie, Comfort Me Fust – Big Ugly Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On Phil Cook – Appalachia Borealis Cosmic Ear – Traces John Also Bennett – Στον Ελαιώνα / Ston Elaióna Oddisee – En Route The Necks – Disquiet Eliza Niemi – Progress Bakery Jessica Moss – Unfolding Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Gift Songs Ora Cogan – Bury Me Destroyer – Dan's Boogie YHWH Nailgun – 45 Pounds Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes – Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes Clarice Jensen – In holiday clothing out of the great darkness Lisa O’Neill – The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right Favourite reissue + archival releases: David Michael Moore – Umburkus Returns Cindy Lee – Cat O’ Nine Tails Joe Henderson - Multiple Arvo Pärt – Silentium Galaxie 500 – CBGB 12.13.88 Soar – Soar Yo La Tengo – Old Joy OST Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love Nick Drake – The Making of Five Leaves Left Various – Imaginational Anthem vol. XIV : Ireland Duffy Driediger – Under The Cities Lies A Heart Made Of Ground [remastered]