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Favorite music (2025 releases)
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2025 Releases I kept returning to again and again
(Excluding Dear Life releases or albums I was directly involved with. I listened to a lot of that stuff too. Ranking is based on how many times I revisited and the lasting impact the music has had in my memory)
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Robin Holcomb and Peggy Lee - Reno (Songlines)
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Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone (Drag City)
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Liz Durette - Well Up (Feeding Tube)
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Yves Jarvis - All Cylinders (In Real Life)
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Shoulderbird- Neighbors (Schmuck Records)
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Lily Talmers - It’s Cyclical, Missing You (El Tee Records)
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Molly Raben - In the Kingdom of Flowers (Love’s Devotee)
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Eliza Niemi - Progress Bakery (Tin Angel Records)
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Mairi Morrison, Alasdair Roberts & Pete Johnston - Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia (Drag City)
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Hal Hartley - Adventures in Learning (Possible Films)
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jason Calhoun & foresteppe - A Four Part Cure (florabelle)
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Derek Baron - The Holy Restaurant (Recital Program)
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Nathan Salsburg - Ipsa Corpora (No Quarter)
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Masakatsu Takagi - Hibi Piano 2011-2022 (self-released)
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Dimples’ - Obscure Residue (Feeding Tube)
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Spring Onion - Seated Figure (Anything Bagel)
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Ada Lea - When I Paint My Masterpiece (Saddle Creek)
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Bill Fox - Resonance (Eleventh Hour Recording Co.)
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WPTR - Redness and Swelling at the Injection Site (Lame-O)
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Equipment Pointed Ankh - Eggs a Little Late (Sophomore Lounge)
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Paco Cathcart - Down on Them (Wharf Cat)
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Scree - August (Ruination)
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Shane Justice McCord - Iron Goddess of Mercy (Tree of Heaven)
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Old Saw - The Wringing Cloth (Lobby Art)
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Cedric Dind-Lavoie - Archives B Sides/C Sides (self released)
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Lia Ouyang Rusli - Sorry, Baby (OST) (A24 Music)
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Rafael Toral - Traveling Light (Drag City)
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Maia Friedman - Goodbye Long Winter Shadow (Last Gang)
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Sarah Mary Chadwick - Take Me Out To a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars)
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Richard Dawson - End of the Middle (Domino)
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The Fascinating Chimera Project - Songs for the Moon (self-released)
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Joan Shelley - Real Warmth (No Quarter)
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Bonnie Prince Billy - The Purple Bird (No Quarter)
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Aux Meadows - Draw Near (Eiderdown Records)
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Walker Rider - Fair (self-released)
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Colin Miller - Losin’ (Mtn. Laurel Recording)
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Zach Puls - Nowhere Else (Strange Dust)
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Talons’ - in retreat (self-released)
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The Bird Calls - Melody Trail (Ruination)
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Lina Tullgren - Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking (post present medium)
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Owls - Rare Birds (New Amsterdam)
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Laurie Torres - Apres Coup (Tonal Union)
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Macie Stewart - When The Distance Is Blue (International Anthem)
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World Standard - Komorevia (Far Side Music)
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Erica Eso - Songs in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Hausu Mountain Records)
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Way Dynamic - Massive Shoe (Spoilsport Records)
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Zach Phillips - True Music (La Loi)
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E.R. Visit - my children will ignore you, my children will type amen (self-released)
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Jonathan Richman - Only Frozen Sky Anyway (Blue Arrow)
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The Derberts - Healthy, Cool, and Interesting (self-released)
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Non-2025 Music I spun a lot
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Deeper State - White Noise for Babies
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Music for Sleep - Conference of Morning Birds
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Classical Discoveries w/ Marvin Rosen on WPRB
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Canary Records subscription program
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Field Recorders’ Collective - A Survey of Traditional Music Box Sets Vol. 1-3
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Hal Hartley - No Such Thing (OST)
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David Ackles - Five and Dime
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Keith Jarrett - The Melody At Night, With You
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Jimmy Scott - Dream
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Joan Shelley - Like the River Loves the Sea
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Jon Birdsong and Anthony Romaniuk - Nocturnes
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G.S. Schray - Whispered Something Good
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Mary Margaret O’Hara - Beautiful Tool
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Eddie Marianukroh - Chained Echoes (OST)
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Hasaan Ibn Ali - Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings
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Gary Yershon - Another Year (OST)
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D’Angelo - Black Messiah
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World Standard - Lumia
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John Prine - Bruised Orange
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Fred Eaglesmith - 6 Volts
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Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen (Acoustic)
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Ellen Arkbro and Johan Graden - I get along without you very well
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Henry Mancini - A Warm Shade of Ivory
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Dan Reeder - this new century
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Norma Whinstone and the North - Wheeler with Words