The best album of 2025 is Can't Shake This Dream by Two Harbors. I've already chosen the title track as my track of the year but the whole record is mega. All ten tracks, beyond spectacular. I'm so grateful to this band for continuing to play that Brit rock sound and doing it so well.
Congrats to all top ten artists. Here's to 2025!!!
Welcome to the best tracks of 2025! Easily, one of the best lists I've ever made. So many choices and a really strange and diverse list. Without further adieu, here it is.
25. How To Make Your Ass Bigger by Six Sex
A crazy, fun song starts us off at number twenty five. Six Sex is a fucking riot!
24. Debut Song by KiiiKiii
Easily, the most adorable song of the year. Just wow!
23. Make Me Whole by Yukimi, Little Dragon
Slick, beautiful, nostalgic...just an amazing track.
22. Eyes Too Big For My Belly by Stereophonics
The 'phonics released a helluva a record this year. This track is the best one. Rocker!
21. Knocking (At Your Door) by Rusty Williams
Thank god for Hayley Williams grandpa. He made this record back in the day and now it's finally out. Soft rock bliss!
20. More The Life by The Horrors
The Horrors continue to blow me away. This track is chill to the core....literally
19. Speaker's Corner by Suzanne Vega
Nice to see Vega back with one of her finest efforts ever. This track is pure gold.
18. Everyday Magic by My Morning Jacket
Easily the most pure pop song on my list this year. Just a stunner....
17 Joyride by Kesha
"You say you love me. Well, so do I."
Hahahahahah....awesome:)
16 Feel Free by Jeff Tweedy
Love this one the moment I heard the first notes. One of his most personal and best tracks ever.
15 Never Know by Kooks
Kooks keep making great music. What a massively cool track...
14 Javelin by Rizzle Kicks
The vibe of this song is just fucking great. It simmers right along.
13. More Than a Friend by Triptides
Just gorgeous psych pop....so so good!
12. A Drop In The Ocean by Doves
Another gem from the Mancunian treasures. This song is universe expanding.
11. Hooked by Franz Ferdinand
This song just kicks ass. So so club!
10. Lay Low by Eddie Chacon
Please put this song on with some candlelight, wine and a romantic partner. Just beaucoups of romance!
9. Someplace on Madison by Monkey House
Monkey House is a great fucking band. They have recaptured a sound I thought was gone forever.
8. Can't Say No by The Wombats
Hey, the Wombats are back, la'! Thank goodness.
7. Mean Time by Born Ruffians
This song absolutely kicks ass all over the place. The hooks, my god the hooks!, all over the place and simply wonderful.
6. Walking Away by Michi
Sexiest song I've heard in years. I shake every time I listen to it...
5. Paradise by Durand Jones and the Indications
Durand Jones is a treasure of soul. He is carrying the torch foeward!
4. Coming Down The Road by Miles Kane
Miles...Miles...Miles....you wonderfully naughty boy. You keep making stellar music.
3. Seoul City by Jennie
What a song. Seriously, just sit back and imagine yourself in Seoul, South Korea. All the vibes and haps, folks. Just incredible.
2. Lovin' You by Richard Ashcroft
Richard Ashcroft (aka god's fist) is back with a new record that has this insanely good track on it. It makes me want to love everyone.
1. Can't Shake This Dream by Two Harbors
The best track of 2025 is Can't Shake This Dream by Two Harbors. It's the title track from their album released this year. Many things impress me about this song...the sound, of course, the female back up vocal that reminds one of some "Gimme Shelter" action, and the groove is most honest. Great rolling beats of love!
But the part of the song that is the best is how positive it is. The lads from Two Harbors are some of the kindest people I know who stick to their Oasis style of music no matter what. It's a really awesome thing to see that level of commitment in a band.
And their commitment is to having a kind, positive world where anyone can do anything.
Cheap Trick is back! And it's yet another classic fucking record that sounds like it came out in 1979. All Washed Up is pure Trick and it opens up that way.
The Rockford, Illinois lads sound better than ever on the eleven tracks contained on this smoker of a record.
It just keeps going...
It's one of those "never lets up" Cheap Trick records that puts the listener right back in the year 1979 with all its glory. Check it out!
Tulpa is a truly wonderful Brit Rock outfit. This Leeds outfit has their first offering out and it's called Monster of the Week. Straight away, it sends the mind out into the cosmos...
Next we get melancholy...
Later, things get really crazy...
The pscyh pop vibes are strong with this outfit. Start listening!
The Belair Lip Bombs are quite a fun band from down under. Their jangle pop is infectious! Their latest is called Again and it starts off with this catchy number...sort of the title track, I guess.
Daniel Caesar is back with a wonderful new record called Son of Spergy. It's quite a beautiful R&B kiss from the Canadian wunderkind. It opens with this tone setter...
The haunting nature just sucks you in...
Later we get this gem...
He lets us know where we are all at....
The future of soul music is secure with folks like this dude around!