Part one of this End-of-Year Mixtape Series can be heard here. In the playlist below, you can find album review links, so feel free to take some time out to read why we thought this music was so special. All of the tracks in this playlist feature in our 2025 Albums of the Year list. There’s a broad mix of genres from folk and jazz to experimental and ambient.
It includes music from Alex Rex, Jim Ghedi, Blue Lake, David Allred, Alabaster DePlume, Ben LaMar Gay, claire rousay, Erlend Apneseth Trio/BLACK HAUGE, SML, Fuubutsushi, Jim White, Annie A / Maxine Funke, Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes, Fletcher Tucker, Glenn Kimpton, Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions, Chris Brain, Buck Curran, Greg Jamie, Cameron Knowler, Cerys Hafana, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, JJJJJerome Ellis, Clara Mann, Dylan Golden Aycock, Daniel Bachman, David Grubbs, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke, Emily A. Sprague, Eli Winter, and Setting.
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