Best CDs of 2025
1. Lady Gaga "Mayhem"
2. Todd Snider "High, Lonesome And Then Some"
3. Soulwax "All Systems Are Lying"
4. The Beths "Straight Line Was A Lie"
5. Steeleye Span "Conflict"
6. The Hives "Forever The Hives"
7. The Delines "Mr. Luck & Mrs. Doom"
8. Squid "Cowards"
9. Rosalía "Lux"
10. Saint Etienne "International"
11. Nation of Language "Dance Called Memory"
12. The Swell Season "Forward"
13. Turnstile "NEVER ENOUGH"
14. Sloan "Based On The Best Seller"
15. Model/Actriz "Pirouette"
Bon Iver "SABLE, fABLE"
Geese "Getting Killed"
David Byrne "Who Is The Sky?"
Big Thief "Double Infinity"
Pulp "More."
Car Seat Headrest "The Scholars"
Wednesday "Bleeds"
The Swans "Birthing"
John Gorka "Unentitled"
The Last Dinner Party "From The Pyre"
Ethel Cain "Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You"
Sharp Pins "Balloon Balloon Balloon"
Sparks "MAD!"/"Madder!"
PUP "Who Will Look After The Dogs?"
MARINA "Princess of Power"
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2024 CDs I missed out on
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Cindy Lee "Diamond Jubilee"
Father John Misty "Mahashmashana"
FKA Twigs "EUSEXUA"
Japanese Breakfast "For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)"
Soundtrack "The Ballad of Wallis Island"
Best Techno CDs of 2025
1. Nils Frahm "Day"/"Night"
2. Brutalismus "GOODBYE SALÒ (EP)"
3. Tom Rowlands "Mussolini - Son of the Century (Original Series Soundtrack)"
4. Public Service Broadcasting "The Last Flight"/"Night Flight - The Last Flight Remixes"
5. Susumu Yokota "Skintone Edition"
Bioscope "Gentō"
Death In Vegas "Death Mask"
Nine Inch Nails "TRON: Ares - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
Röyksopp "True Electric"
M83 "A Necessary Escape" [Dakar Chronicles Original Soundtrack]
Matmos "Metallic Life Review"
Thom Yorke & Mark Pritchard "Tall Tales"
Burial "Comafields / Imaginary Festival"
Two Shell "NEW TWO SHELL 24HRS"
Best CD Reissues of 2025
1. Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey "Our Back Pages"
2. Colin Hay "Man @ Work Volume 2"
3. Orchestral Manoevers In The Dark "Crush"
4. SOPHIE "Product (Extended)"
5. The Vapors "Waiting For The Weekend"
The Futureheads "Decent Days & Night : The Singles"
The Residents "I Know An Old Lady....."/"Leftovers 1970-1988"
Aphex Twin "Surfing On Sine Waves" [Expanded Edition]
Squarepusher "Stereotype"
Ultravisitor: 20th Anniversary Edition
Buckingham Nicks "Buckingham Nicks"
Madonna "Veronica Electronica"
Various Artists "Deep Entries: Gay Electronic Excursions 1980-1985"
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp "The Complete Recordings"
John Oswald "wounded"
Peter Gabriel "In The Big Room"/"Live At WOMAD 1982"
Prince & The Revolution "Around The World In A Day" (2 CDs)
The Replacements "Let It Be" (Expanded)
Pink Floyd "Live At Pompeii MCMLXXI"
Worst CDs of 20245
1. Lady Gaga "Harlequin"/"Joker: Folie à Deux"
2. Arcade Fire "Pink Elephant"
3. Black Country, New Road "Forever Howlong"
4. Taylor Swift "The Life of a Showgirl"
5. David Longstreth, Dirty Projectors & s t a r g a z e "Song Of The Earth"
6. Sault "10"
7. Katy Perry "143"
8. Spinal Tap "Back From The Dead"
9. Kamasi Washington "Fearless Movement"
10. Thomas Bangalter "Mythologies"
Roger Waters "This is Not A Drill - Live From Prague"
David Gilmour "The Luck and Strange Concerts"
Craig Finn "Always Been"
Chris Stamey "Anything Is Possible"
Mumford & Sons "RUSHMERE"
Bob Mould "Here We Go Crazy"
The Orb "Buddhist Hipsters"
Wet Leg "moisturizer"
The Goo Goo Dolls "Summer Anthem"
Franz Ferdinand "The Human Fear"
Purity Ring "Purity Ring"
Alex G "Headlights"
Jason Isbell "Foxes In The Snow"
Tunde Adebimpe "Thee Black Boltz"
My Morning Jacket "is"
Skrillex "F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3"
Best CD Cover of 2025
1. Lorde "Virgin" (with transparent CD)
Garbage "Let All That We Imagine Be Light"
Viagra Boys "viagr aboys"
Jason Isbell "Foxes in the Snow"
Model/Actriz "Pirouette"
Quadeca "Vanisher, Horizon Scraper"
Nation Of Language "Dance Called Memory"
David Byrne "Who Is The Sky?"
Worst CD Cover of 2025
1. Sabrina Carpenter "Man's Best Friend"
The Residents "Doctor Dark"
Black Country, New Road "Forever Howlong"
Eric Clapton "Meanwhile"
Andy Bell "Ten Crowns"
Sting "3.0 Live"
Car Seat Headrest "The Scholars"
Aya "Hexed!"
Bad Bunny "Debí Tirar Más Fotos"
Skrillex "F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3"
CMAT "Euro-Country"
Wet Leg "moisturizer"
Wednesday "Bleeds"
Best Movies of 2025
1. Sisu: Road To Revenge
2. Myth Of Man
3. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
4. Weapons
5. The Phoenician Scheme
6. The Ballad Of Wallis Island
7. Please Baby Please
8. Grand Theft Hamlet
9. Sinners
10. Black Bag
11. Architecton
12. The Ugly Stepsister
13. The Naked Gun
14. The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
15. The Life Of Chuck
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Dog Man
Wallace & Grommit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Sonic 3
Paddington In Peru
One Battle After Another
Materialists
Final Destination Bloodlines
The Monkey
Bob Trevino Likes It
Companion
The Penguin Lessons
Presence
The Bad Guys 2
Bugonia
Now You See Me: Now YOu Don't
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Nonnas
The Thursday Murder Club
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Good Movies From Last Year I Finally Saw This Year
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The Paragon
Kneecap
The Substance
Worst Movies of 2025
1. Parthenope
2. The Surfer
3. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
4. The Old Guard 2
5. Ne Zha 2
The Fountain Of Youth
Working Man
Speak No Evil
Drop
Heart Eyes
Best Videogames of 2025
Cookie Clicker
Power Wash Simulator
Re:Call
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Best Phone Games of 2025
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Mouse Hunt
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