The Black Dog releases this year have been a revelation. The new "Loud Ambient" record and all of the Brutal Life stuff.
Daniel Avery's "Tremor" - nice departure and some great vocal collabs here
Barker "Stochastic Drift" - his sound design is so so good.
Eusebia "Undertones" - modern drum n bass
outside of electronic I mostly listen to sludge, doom, and black metal. Death-doom fans were feasting this year : Sunn O))) , Stygian Bough II, Evoken "Mendacium" , new Hooded Menace, the Mizmor/Hell split, and "Teeth to Sky" by Guiltless have all been on heavy rotation.
quoted 24 lines On Nov 25, 2025, at 20:59, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:> On Nov 25, 2025, at 20:59, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Getting a jump on the most important question of the year - what was good that came out this year?
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> Seems like the biggest thing would be the Autechre tour (which I didn’t catch any chatter about here?!) - got to see them three times, each very different, two of them extremely sick.
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> NHKyx did a good ep for Skam.
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> Ghost Dubs stuff from this year and last is very good - elegant, fresh and musical.
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> Foodman did some crazy releases. I caught him live doing an Electribe set. Very hype and mental - reminded me of 00s minimal at a happy hardcore tempo?
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> Cool seeing Topdown Dialectic do some gigs. Definitely melon twisting stuff that sounds great on a big system.
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> Not IDM but I also dug Sissy Spacek “Entrance” on Shelter Press, Ryu Hankil’s 8 Rhythm Machine, Rafael Toral’s “Traveling Light” and Takuma Kuragaki’s “Cleave” were all novel sounding and intense electronics records. Oh have to mention Nick Forte’s new harsh noise project Green Tea - brilliant.
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> Big year for familiar names impressing me massively on the dancefloor - DJ Sprinkles, Theo Parrish, Appleblim and Mark Ernestus all delivered.
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> Was it this year that a friend put me onto Guitar - Sunkissed? Positive, headnoddy, almost twee computer version of MBV. So sick.
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> Ok your turn
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