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The Clearing - Wolf Alice
Release date : August 2025
Genre : Soft RockI randomly watched the music video for Bloom Baby Bloom back in May and it instantly stuck with me.
Rec. : Bloom Baby Bloom, The Sofa & White Horses.
So much that this band that I never heard of before became my top artist of the year. The songwriting is top notch but it's really the lead vocalist's charisma that captivated me. -
NEVER ENOUGH - Turnstile
Release date : June 2025
Genre : Hardcore / Pop-punkI love me some melodic punk tunes! Their sound is just soooooo pleasant and impactful.
Rec. : BIRDS & I CARE.
There is a visual/movie for the whole album that I haven't watched yet, but it sounds cool enough. -
choke enough - Oklou
Release date : February 2025
Genre : Art-Pop / Synth-Pop / Ambient TranceThis album is #3 on here, but #1 in my heart. The instrumentals are full of details yet relaxing, the vocals are catchy and smooth, the lyrics are simple but meaningful. It gives Hyperpop, it gives ASMR. LOVE IT.
Rec. : There is a video on youtube of Oklou performing three of her songs on an ice rink while six ice skaters in sequins do their thing around her and it's a masterpiece.
Idk man, sometimes art just feels like it was made for me and this is one of these instances. -
viagr aboys - Viagra Boys
Release date : April 2025
Genre : Dance-PunkShrimp this, shrimp that. I've been a big fan these classy gentlemen since I heard their debut single "Sports" back in 2015. This new album is more of the same, but better? It feels evolved. Weirder, crunchier, funnier.
Rec. : The Bog Body, Uno II & Man Made of Meat.
Dance-Punk has always been a favorite subgenre of mine (Gang of Four, Le Tigre, Peaches, The Rapture, Bloc Party, Gossip, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Klaxons, Liars) so it's always a treat to hear from these guys as they are the only dance-punk act I'm still keeping up with. -
MAYHEM - Lady Gaga
Release date : March 2025
Genre : Synth-PopChromatica is my favorite Gaga album (controversial?) but this might be my second (unless we count Dawn of Chromatica). Abracadabra as a single is incredible and its music video is peak art-pop. The costumes... the choreography... the scream! Die With a Smile is very much out of place on this project but it's still a bop. Shoutout to Gaga's prop cigarette from the music video!
Rec. : Disease, Garden of Eden & Abracadabra.
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EUSEXUA - FKA Twigs
Release date : January 2025
Genre: Art-Pop / Alternative R&B / Experimental Electronic
Rec. : Perfect Stranger, Drums of Death & Striptease.
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Headlights - Alex G
Release date : July 2025
Genre : Indie Folk / Singer-Songwriter
Rec. : June Guitar, Afterlife & Bounce Boy. -
Ego Death At a Bachelorette Party - Hayley Williams
Release date : August 2025
Genre : Indie Rock / Alt-Pop
Rec. : Ego Death At a Bachelorette Party, Parachute & True Believer.
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Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay
Release date : August 2024
Genre : Neo-Psychedelia / Synth-Pop
Rec. : Image & That's My Floor,
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Phantom Island - King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard
Release date : June 2025
Genre : Symphonic Rock / Progressive Pop
Rec. : Deadstick & - trypophobia trigger warning! - Grow Wings and Fly .
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Fancy That - PinkPantheress
Release date : May 2025
Genre : Dance-Pop / UK Garage
Rec. : Tonight, Stateside and this live version of Illegal.
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Mahashmashana - Father John Misty
Release date : November 2024
Genre : Singer-Songwriter / Chamber Pop
Rec. : She Cleans Up, Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose & I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All.
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ANARCOLIQUE - Jérôme 50
Release date : May 2025
Genre : Pop-Punk / Ska / Chanson québecoise
Rec. : La plus belle fille du moshpit, Y a pu d'poude dans poude & a very québecois rendition of Big D and The Kids Table's Noise Complaint : Plainte de bruit. -
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
Release date : September 1999
Genre : Indie Pop / Indie Folk
Rec. : Epitaph for My Heart & Andrew in Drag. -
Britpop - A. G. Cook
Release date : May 2024
Genre : Bubblegum Bass / IDM
Rec. : Soulbreaker & the Charli xcx feat. Britpop.
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monde autour - Comment Debord
Release date : Septembre 2023
Genre : Indie Pop / Funk / Chanson québecoise
Rec. : Blood pareil. -
Alter Ego - Lisa
Release date : February 2025
Genre : Pop Rap / Contemporary R&BI got into K-Pop this year and all I have to show for it is this mid album!
Rec. : New Woman (fun Rosalía feature) & BORN AGAIN (bad Doja Cat verse, great RAYE chorus) & Rockstar (cool Fortnite emote).
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Cartoon Darkness - Amyl and the Sniffers
Release date : October 2024
Genre : Garage Punk / Glam PunkI got tickets to see them this summer!
Rec. : U Should Not Be Doing That, Jerkin & Big Dreams.
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Girl with No Face - Allie X
Release date : February 2024
Genre : Synth-Pop / Coldwave
Rec. : Off With Her Tits (top surgery anthem), Weird World & Galina (eczema cream anthem).
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Ege Bamyasi - Can
Release date : October 1972
Genre : Krautrock
Rec. : Sing Swan Song (sample from Kanye and Mos Def's Drunk and Hot Girls anyone?) & Vitamin C. -
Fear Fun - Father John Misty
Release date : May 2012
Genre : Indie Folk / Singer-Songwriter
Rec. : I'm Writing a Novel & Nancy From Now On & Well, You Can Do It Without Me. -
SALVATION - Rebecca Black
Release date : February 2025
Genre : Electropop / Hyperpop
Rec. : Sugar Water Cyanide & Salvation.
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Icon Baby - Chase Icon
Release date : March 2025
Genre : Pop Rap / HyperpopNone of it was as iconic as Like Me.
Rec. : Bands On Me & Missed Connections -
Private Music - Deftones
Release date : August 2025
Genre : Alternative Metal / Post-HardcoreI saw them during the fall with Idles as the opening act!
Rec. : Infinite Source & Milk of the Madonna.
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Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
Release date : September 1987
Genre : Synthpop / Darkwave
Rec. : Never Let Me Down Again & Strangelove.