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Albums Of The Year 2025
After much listening and lively debate, here are our Top 75 Albums of 2025
Lush ‘Sweetness And Light’
It’s 35 years since ‘Gala’ became Lush’s de facto debut album. Now available again as a deluxe reissue, songwriter and guitarist Emma Anderson looks back at the breakthrough track ‘Sweetness And Light’
‘Decoder’ soundtrack
Featuring Einstürzende Neubauten, Genesis P-Orridge, William Burroughs, Dave Ball and Matt Johnson, the epic soundtrack to sci-fi dystopia flick ‘Decoder’ is unlike any other
Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug)
Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug) has fused dub, drone, hip hop, grime, metal and isolationist ambient into confrontational, yet beautiful music. As a new album with Ghost Dubs drops, he shares his main influences
Eberhard Schoener ‘Bali-Agúng’ (Harvest, 1976)
“The renowned German musician, composer, conductor and arranger had discarded traditional orchestral instruments in favour of the Moog…”
The Alan Parsons Project: Future Tense
In 1977, ‘I Robot’ propelled The Alan Parsons Project to global success, all crisp disco beats and futuristic arrangements. Five decades on, with a deluxe reissue on the shelves, the man himself looks back fondly on “the rise of the machine”
Reviews
Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Tranquilizer’ (Warp)
Sample Relics
Factory Floor
Factory Floor are back… and feel like walking quickly but not quite running through a crumbling concrete industrial estate
Various Artists ‘Vari/Ations – Ode To Oram’ (Nonclassical)
Totally Rewired
Live Sessions
ESLS018 – Sunda Arc
Electronica and woodwind – together at last Sunda Arc is an electronic project that seamlessly blends digital soundscapes…
ESLS017 – Bodega
Brooklyn’s post-punk art rock stylings hit the Electronic Sound studio
ESLS016 – Ultramarine
Electronica blends into a sound art experience in the Electronic Sound studio
Recent
We have to suffer Mariah Carey
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is Christmas
Jo Johnson: This Year’s Grrrl
Inspired by the likes of Laurie Spiegel, Delia Derbyshire and Éliane Radigue, electronic minimalist Jo Johnson creates slow-burning sounds that shimmer with emotion and quiet intensity
Awkward Moments: Strange Brew
Club-fuelled hedonism, arty vibes and their own self-styled “techno opera” – get ready for the playful euphoria of Awkward Moments
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7132
ES7132 seven-inch features The Divine Comedy
Margomool
Anglo-Italian touts soulful electro-jazz
E.M.Arson
Experimentalist delves into society’s ills
The Human League ‘Holiday ‘80’
Resident archivist Jack Dangers takes a look at a rare pressing of ‘Holiday ‘80’ from The Human League Mk I days
‘Maximum Vaultage’
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: ‘Maximum Vaultage’
Egyptrixx
Scene stalwart returns with a bang
Ian Boddy and Chris Carter: Uncaged Melody
Twenty five years on from their spellbinding collaboration ‘Caged’, DiN founder Ian Boddy and Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter present a new edition with two reimagined tracks – an evocative reminder of their enduring alchemy
Al Brown
Golden Toad’s Al Brown on his first and last records, plus a go-to album
Past Inside The Present
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