ok, i'm doing a thread of music i enjoyed in 2025.
it's going to be a large, large thread. acc'd to last fm, i listened to 655 different albums this year.
not gonna recommend them all, just some of the ones i really liked.
as per a prior post i made here, i don't really listen to brand new music, so most of these were not released in 2025. they were new to me, and could be new to you, if you want.
i'm just gonna list a few per day for a while, rather than try to blast em out in one go
Lucette Bourdin - Nordic Waves
4 and a half hours of some really well done, lovely new age / ambient compositions. there are many gorgeous moments in this collection.
32 track album
Percival Pembroke - Pembroke Autumn/Winter Catalog
i'm a huge fan of Percy's stuff, very classy arpeggiating synth works. this collection is from 2015.
https://percivalpembroke.bandcamp.com/album/pembroke-autumn-winter-catalog
19 track album
Scanner & Modelbau
i went through a big phase of listening to Frans de Waard's stuff as Modelbau recently, as i was really in the mood for grey, industrialish drones. his collab w/ Scanner is a lot prettier than any of his solo stuff, but you can hear the tension between Rimbaud's pastoral sounding loops and FdW's unsettling, noisier tendencies. fantastic record (and even released in 2025!)
10 track album
Yosuke Tokunaga - 5 doubts 5 occurs
strange rhythms and decaying atmospheres adding up to a kind of ambient that's hard to pin down, and constantly surprising. i've been digging into his albums and he's quite an interesting composer.
https://entangledvisions.bandcamp.com/album/5-doubts-5-occurs
10 track album
Shuta Hiraki - Fossils and Vein
i bought the entire discography of Chemifaserwerk's tape label Falt, and have been working my way through it. this has been a standout so far, some evocative little miniatures of electronic hum and crackle.
10 track album
Phil Struck - Schleswig-Holstein Aufnahmen
a lo-fi set of tones, beats, and textures vaguely informed by dub techno, but landing somewhere closer to the murkier output of Cluster.
https://philstruck.bandcamp.com/album/schleswig-holstein-aufnahmen
17 track album
c.reider 
Michael U