One last look at cool music that came out in 2025. A good year for indie, shoegaze, newer stuff from older bands of the Britpop era, some ambient, some spoken word and that stuff they call "post-punk".

In other words, rock and roll.

Song: Fragmented Film
Artist: Brian Eno
Album: AURUM

Song: Movement 1
Artist: Echodrone
Album: Music for Six Musicians

(I apologize for not making the transition between these songs seamless - very frustrating miss for me)

Song: Stranger
Artist: Miki Berenyi Trio, Lol Tolhurst & Gray
Album: Single

Song: Mayfield
Artist: Drop Nineteens
Album: 1991

Song: Where are You?
Artist: The Chameleons
Album: Arctic Moon

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Song: Lonely Town
Artist: Steve Queralt & Emma Anderson
Album: single

Song: Antidepressants
Artist: The London Suede
Album: Antidepressants

Song: Poison Vine (feat. P.P. Arnold)
Artist: Cast
Album: single

Song: Grim Symmetry
Artist: Ducks Ltd.
Album: single

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Song: Causing Trouble Again
Artist: Gina Birch
Album: Trouble

Song: T.H.
Artist: Sault
Album: 10

Song: Transmuted Matter
Artist: Stereolab
Album: Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Song: Glad
Artist: Saint Etienne
Album: 10

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Song: Metal
Artist; The Beths
Album: single

Song: Across a Sea
Artist; Exploding Flowers
Album: Watermelon/Peacock

Song: Wonderful Sunlight
Artist; LAKE
Album: Bucolic Gone

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Song: Paint By Number
Artist; Coral Grief
Album: Air Between Us

Song: Willow
Artist; She's Green
Album: Chrys

Song: I Only Ever Wanted to See You Fail
Artist; The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Album: The Past Is a Garden I Never Fed

Song: Loline
Artist; The Bats
Album: single

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Song: Coda
Artist; Waves Crashing
Album: Effections

Song: Lights
Artist; Seasurfer
Album: Electronic Monsters

Song: Neptune
Artist; The Asteroid No.4
Album: single

Song: Jacked
Artist; Heartworms
Album: Glutton For Punishment (The Poetry Edition)

Song: William J. Canning & Cryogeyser
Artist; Lock of Love
Album: The Heavens Laugh Along With Us

Song: Break
Artist; Mechanical Plague
Album: Society Tomb - EP

Song: pinball wanderer
Artist; Andy Bell
Album: pinball wanderer

Song: I Lied to You
Artist; Miles Caton
Album: Sinners (Soundtrack_