My favorite music of 2025

There’s a lot I have to say about the records you’re about to gaze upon. I think this post characterizes 2025 very well for me. I’ve had very little time to sit still and nourish little things like tracking my musical habits. This year has been both a blast and incredibly stressful. Music has been incredibly present and influential in that experience.

I’d love to talk about these records, each of them does have a story. Though I’m not allowing myself to spend the time to write all of that out, I will send out this post. If you’d really want to know all the deets, stories and context you’d have to coerce me into a conversation about them.

And I hope you know you can. I’m only a phone call away.

CHAMPION by Can of Bliss

UNKILLABLE ANGEL by Ada Rook

Freak Out Squares by Building Better Bombs

Miscontinuum by Jan St. Werner

アンハッピーリフレイン by wowaka

Stay up by 14.4ml

Shockout by Various (Shockout)

U.S. Caves by Caving

303 by HONDALADY

Dead Channel Sky by clipping.

And many others…

• Asbest Boys by Asbest Boys
• Bliss by DJ Clap
• NO by HYPNOSIS THERAPY
• Dizzee Rascal by Maths + English
• Dream Can by Into Sparks
• Death Of A Typographer by Byetone
• Amen Andrews vs. Spac Hand Luke by Amen Andrews
• VISION QUEST by Maria & the Mirrors
• Time Cow’s Live Prog Dancehall From Home by Time Cow
• 1-Bit Symphony by Trisan Perich
• Signals in My Head by DJ Manny
• Sonic Citadel by Lightning Bolt
• Who Let The Dogs Out by Lambrini Girls
• Anyway by Anamanaguchi
• Autogynephilic Lesbian Zero Forever by DJ ZITwerK

Lastly, the elephant in the room: The best music this year has of course been the music I’ve been allowed to experience in confidence. Whether making it or hearing it, with friends on the floors of their student dorms, in online calls on clipped out screenshares and in files sent over pre-mix. I can’t thank the muses I’ve been allowed to call my friends enough. You’ve made this year exactly what I hoped it’d be.

Thank you for the music. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your love.

• Love, Puk