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  1. CW: Albums the Fediverse Loved in 2025 (CW'd because it's a looooooong post)

    Albums the Fediverse Loved in 2025

    And here we have it: a list of 151 albums (plus a few artists/labels in general) that kept 64 of us going in 2025, nearly 75% of those 2025 releases and the rest earlier gems! Given our collective eclectic tastes, voting/ranking was not attempted, but bolded titles and post tags indicate albums that were submitted by multiple Fedizens. Genre tags are included as tasting notes (apologies if I got any wrong), each title is linked to its Bandcamp/Songlink when possible, and footnotes list who submitted each album along with extra comments they included (warning: comments may include MOAR ALBUMS; also note: footnotes look way better on the blog). So, click and listen away – perhaps you’ll find a new-to-you album that gets you through 2026!

    Thanks so much to the Fedizens who joined in, it’s so nice to see familiar faces from the 1001 Other Albums project as well as some new ones! And, as always, it’s lovely to get a glimpse of how diverse our tastes in music are, and to see people trying something new solely based on a random Fedi recommendation. The Fedi music community truly is a bright spot, and I personally am immensely grateful for it. 🙏🏻

    Band – Title (year released, place of origin; genre)footnote

    Action/Adventure – Ever After (2025, US; pop-punk)1

    AFI – Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (2025, US; post-punk, gothic rock)2

    Against Me! – White Crosses (2010, US; punk rock)3

    Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs (2024, US; punk rock)4

    Am I in Trouble? – Spectrum (2025, US; avant-garde black metal)5

    Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet and the Madman (2025, US/Morocco; Moroccan gnawa, gospel, jazz)6

    An Abstract Illusion – Woe (2022, Sweden; atmospheric black/death/prog metal)7

    Analog Africa (label, in general) (1960s-80s, Africa; reissues)8

    Anna Tivel – Animal Poem (2025, US; indie folk)9

    Archon Satani – The Righteous Way to Completion (1997, Sweden; death ambient/black industrial)10

    Ashbreather – La Grande Bouffe (2025, Canada; progressive sludge/death metal)11

    Au4 – …And Down Goes The Sky (2013, Canada; prog rock)12

    aya – hexed! (2025, UK; electronic, noise)13

    Bad Cop/Bad Cop – Lighten Up (2025, US; punk rock)14

    Baghed – Smear Campaign (2025, US; punk rock)15

    Bank Myna – Eimuria (2025, France; post-rock/metal, doom gaze, slow core)16

    Belle and Sebastian – Push Barman to Open Old Wounds (2005, Scotland; indie pop)17

    Benedicte Maurseth – Mirra (2025, Norway; folk, jazz)18

    Bill Frisell – Harmony (2019, US; folk-jazz)19

    Black Flower – Kinetic (2025, Belgium; Ethio-jazz, Afrobeat, dub)20

    Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE (2025, US; indie folk/pop)21

    Brittany Davis – Black Thunder (2025, US; cosmic jazz, r&b/soul, singer-songwriter)22

    CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso – Papota (2025, Argentina; experimental trap, hip-hop, EDM, jazz, Latin pop)23

    Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet – Orange (2019, US; classical, ambient, folk)24

    Castle Rat – The Bestiary (2025, US; fantasy heavy metal)25

    Causa Sui – Pewt’r Sessions 1 (2011, Denmark; psych/stoner rock)26

    Celeste – Woman of Faces (2025, UK; neo-soul, jazz, singer-songwriter)27

    Charlie Hunter, Carter McLean featuring Silvana Estrada – s/t (2018, US/Mexico; jazz)28

    Circuit des Yeux – Halo on the Inside (2025, US; singer-songwriter, experimental)29

    Civic – Chrome Dipped (2025, Australia; punk)30

    clipping – Dead Channel Sky (2025, US; hip-hop)31

    Dan Mangan – Natural Light (2025, Canada; indie rock/folk)32

    Daniela Pas – Spira (2023, Italy; singer-songwriter, electronic, experimental)33

    Data Rebel – Single Cell (2025, UK; electronic, IDM, ambient)34

    Dax Riggs – 7 Songs for Spiders (2025, US; blues metal/shoegaze blues)35

    Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power (2025, US; blackgaze, metal)36

    Degraved – Spectral Realm of Ruin (2025, US; death metal)37

    Delobos – Cabal (2025, Spain; post-alt rock, post-rock, psychedelia)38

    Devil ANTHEM. – Profound Rebuild (2025, Japan; J-pop)39

    Die Spitz – Something to Consume (2025, US; punk, alt rock)40

    Divide and Dissolve – Insatiable (2025, Australia; doom, drone, neo classical)41

    Dödsrit – Mortal Coil (2021, Sweden; atmospheric/melodic black metal, blackened crust)42

    Dool – The Shape of Fluidity (2024, Netherlands; rock, alternative)43

    downy – 8th Album/Untitled (2025, Japan; math rock/post-rock)44

    Drab Majesty – Completely Careless (2012-2015) (2016, US; darkwave, shoegaze, dream pop)45

    Dropkick Murphy – For The People (2025, US; Celtic punk)46

    Eikichi Yazawa – I believe (2025, Japan; rock)47

    El Pino & The Volunteers – The Long-lost Art of Becoming Invisible (2009, Netherlands; alt country/folk)48

    Elli De Mon – Raìse (2025, Italy; blues, dialect, garage, psychedelic)49

    Eric Church – Evangeline vs. The Machine (2025, US; country)50

    Ethmebb – Allo Babar et les Caramboleurs (2025, France; progressive melodic blackened death power metal)51

    Ex-Vöid – In Love Again (2025, UK; indie pop/rock)52

    EYES – Spinner(2025, Denmark; hardcore, noise rock)53

    FACS – Wish Defense (2025, US; noise rock, neo-post-punk)54

    Faetooth – Labrynthine (2025, US; fairy doom/stoner metal)55

    False Aralia (label) – ALL the new 12-inch singles (2025, US; abstract electronic)56

    Fever Ray – The Year of the Radical Romantics (2025, Sweden; experimental, electronic, pop)57

    FOKALITE – Fokas, Lite & Four Shooting Riddles (2025, Japan; J-pop)58

    Françoise Hardy – La question (1971, France; French pop, Brazilian saudade/bossa nova)59

    Fust – Big Ugly (2025, US; rock)60

    Geese – Getting Killed (2025, US; art/experimental rock)61

    Gnome – King (2022, Belgium; stoner/prog/hard rock)62

    Habak – Mil orquídeas en medio del desierto (2025, Mexico; melodic crust)63

    Hallelujah the Hills – DECK (2025, US; indie rock)64

    HANABIE – Bucchigiri Tokyo (2024, Japan; metalcore)65

    Hatchie – Liquorice (2025, Australia; indie/dream pop)66

    Hole – Live Through This (1994, US; alt rock)67

    IAN – Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing! (2025, UK; experimental, post-rock/metal)68

    Igorrr – Amen (2025, France; experimental/avant-garde metal)69

    Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar (2025, US; experimental metal)70

    In the Womb of the Universe – Searching for Sunrise (2024, US; electronic, synthpop)71

    In the Woods… – Otra (2025, Norway; avant-garde metal)72

    Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun (2014, Finland; melodic death metal)73

    Jade Bird – Who Wants to Talk About Love (2025, UK; folk rock, singer-songwriter)74

    JER – Death of the Heart (2025, US; ska punk)75

    Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (1972, UK; prog rock)76

    Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (2024, UK; heavy metal)77

    Just Mustard – We Were Just Here (2025, Ireland; post-punk, noise, shoegaze, trip hop)78

    Kaku P-Model – unZIP (2025, Japan; experimental, electronic)79

    Kieran Hebden and William Tyler – 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s (2025, UK; electronic)80

    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013, Australia; psychedelic pop)81

    Kostnatění – Přílišnost (2025, US; avant-garde black metal)82

    Küenring – In Search of Paradise (2025, Austria; heavy metal/hard rock)83

    L.A. Salami (artist, in general) (UK; folk, post-modern blues, acoustic, rock)84

    Labyrinthus Stellarum – Rift in Reality (2025, Ukraine; atmospheric/cosmic black metal)85

    Lorien Testard – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) (2025, France; soundtrack)86

    Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (2025, US; death metal/deathcore)87

    Lucy Dacus – Forever is a Feeling (2025, US; indie rock, folk-pop, singer-songwriter)88

    Maeror Tri – Multiple Personality Disorder (1993, Germany; ambient, noise, drone)89

    Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Khadim (2025, Germany/Senegal; mbalax, experimental, dub techno)90

    Marshall Allen – New Dawn (2025, US; avant-garde jazz)91

    Max Cooper – On Being (2025, UK; electronic, ambient, avant-garde)92

    Messa – The Spin (2025, Italy; doom metal)93

    Michel Legrand – The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection (2005, France; soundtrack, compilation)94

    MIKE – Showbiz! (2025, US; hip-hop/rap)95

    Miynt – Rain Money Dogs (2025, Sweden; indie/bedroom rock)96

    Modern English – Mesh & Lace (1981, UK; post-punk)97

    Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky (2025, US; alt/indie rock)98

    more eaze & claire rousay – no floor (2025, US; experimental, ambient, avant-pop, sound collage)99

    Moron Police – Pachinko (2025, Norway; concept album)100

    Morris Kolontyrsky – Origination (2025, US; ambient, drone, experimental)101

    Nærværet – Når Man Ser Inn I En Annens Hjerte (2024, Sweden/Norway; experimental, field recording, tape manipulation/loops)102

    Nailed to Obscurity – Generation of The Void (2025, Germany; melodic/prog death/doom metal)103

    Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks / Apartment House – G O M B E R T (2025, Flanders/UK; contemporary classical)104

    Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman – Lady of the Lake (2023, US; folk)105

    Nout – Live Album (2024, France; alternative, punk, rock, jazz, noise)106

    Olga Anna Markowska – Iskra (2025, Poland; modern classical, ambient)107

    Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis (1995, UK; heavy metal)108

    Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – That Wasn’t a Dream (2025, Wales/US; experimental jazz)109

    Point Mort – Le Point de Non-retour (2025, France; blackened crust postcore)110

    Plague of Carcosa – In The Dreamless Deep (2025, US; doomnoise, experimental metal)111

    Population II – Maintenant Jamais (2025, Canada; art/prog/psychedelic rock)112

    Primal Scream – XTRMNTR (2000, Scotland; experimental electro-rock)113

    Priscilla Block – Things You Didn’t See (2025, US; country, singer-songwriter)114

    Psychonaut – World Maker (2025, Belgium; post-metal)115

    Queens of the Stone Age – Alive in the Catacombs (2025, US; rock)116

    Radiopuhelimet – Kosminen Tiedottomuus (2020, Finland; alt rock)117

    Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes – Reverie (2025, Canada; modern classical)118

    Rivers of Nihil – s/t (2025, US; death/prog metal)119

    Rogue Jones – Dos Bebés (2023, Wales; folk, indie pop)120

    Shayfer James – Summoning (2025, US; noir-pop, dark cabaret)121

    Shedfromthebody – Whisper and Wane (2025, Finland; doomgaze, [post-]metal)122

    Shepherds of Cassini – In Thrall to Heresy (2025, New Zealand; prog metal)123

    Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (2025, Mexico; singer-songwriter)124

    Silvana Estrada (with Charlie Hunter) – Lo Sagrado (2017, Mexico/US; singer-songwriter)125

    Širom – In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper (2025, Slovenia; instrumental avant-garde imaginary folk)126

    SKC & The Poem – s/t (2025, Belgium; alt/folk rock)127

    SKLOSS – The Pattern Speaks (2025, US/Scotland; space gaze, post-metal)128

    Soulwax – All Systems Are Lying (2025, Belgium; electronic alt rock)129

    Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea (2025, Canada; metalcore)130

    State Azure – The Light That Remains (2025, UK; electronica, ambient, downtempo)131

    Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-5 (2024, UK/France; avant-pop)132

    Steve Tibbetts – Close (2025, US; jazz fusion)133

    Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers (2025, US; hardcore)134

    Suede – Antidepressants (2025, UK; post-punk, gothic rock)135

    Summer Walker – Finally Over It (2025, US; R&B, singer-songwriter)136

    Susan Bear – Algorithmic Mood Music (2024, Scotland; electronic, alt-pop)137

    Swansea Sound – Twentieth Century (2023, Wales; indie pop)138

    TDJ (artist, in general) (Canada; electronic)139

    Terveet Kädet – Lapin Helvetti (2015, Finland; hardcore punk)140

    Tool – Lateralus (2001, US; prog rock/metal, art rock)141

    The Bug Club – “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales” (2025, Wales; indie rock)142

    The New Eves – The New Eve Is Rising (2025, UK; avant-garde/art rock)143

    Trio del Mango – Cómelo (2025, US/Puerto Rico; experimental, noise)144

    Turnstile – Never Enough (2025, US; alt rock)145

    UNIVERSITY – McCartney, It’ll Be OK (2025, UK; punk, noise rock)146

    Water Damage – Instruments (2025, US; experimental psych/drone-rock)147

    Weakened Friends – Feels Like Hell (2025, US; indie rock)148

    Weirs – Diamond Grove (2025, US; trad folk, experimental noise)149

    Wet Leg – moisturizer (2025, UK; indie rock)150

    White Lies – Five V2 (2019, UK; post-punk)151

    X-Cetra – Summer 2000 (Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition) (2025, US; sleepover core, dance-pop)152

    Yara Asmar – everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (2025, Lebanon; modern classical/ambient)153

    Yugen Blakrok – Anima Mysterium (2019, South Africa; hip-hop)154

    Yws Gwynedd – Codi/ \Cysgu (2014, Wales; indie rock)155

    Footnote Number. Fediverse username(s): Comments

    1. poisonous ↩︎
    2. buffyleigh: My emotional support album of the year. I’ve been a fan of AFI since 2000 but haven’t liked an album since 2006. The second I heard the first single “Behind The Clock”, my expectations for this album skyrocketed, and they were absolutely exceeded. It sounds nothing like anything they’ve ever done, and yet it feels like this was the album they’ve always been moving towards. Song of the year goes to the entirety of side A, and Davey Havok’s unexpectedly different sound on this album is my overall favourite vocal performance of year. ↩︎
    3. Braininabowl ↩︎
    4. umrk: top album requested by my kids in the car this year ↩︎
    5. brh ↩︎
    6. RolloTreadway: The most gloriously unhinged album I’ve heard this year. Twists together ideas from everywhere without the slightest consideration of whether doing so might be normal or accepted. The kind of album where a classic French chanson or some deep filthy funk just appears out of nowhere and then is never referred to again. It shouldn’t work but it absolutely does. ↩︎
    7. gavin57: That last one is an all-timer. It’s astonishing. ↩︎
    8. platenworm ↩︎
    9. rachelcholst ↩︎
    10. 3rik: This has been a year for nighttime music and music for trying to sleep. ↩︎
    11. swampgas: definitely my most played this year. A sludgy, deathdoom concept album about greed and gluttony and corruption thats riffy and groovy af. These are driving rhythms that chug hard! ↩︎
    12. MichaelMcWilliams: The one album that tops my list this year also appears in the 1001 Other Albums list. Band website offering free download of the album: https://au4.ca ↩︎
    13. brh ↩︎
    14. poisonous ↩︎
    15. jake4480 ↩︎
    16. mbr ↩︎
    17. riff: Most “Wait why did i never listen to this band before ?” of the year. ↩︎
    18. keefeglise ↩︎
    19. eamonn ↩︎
    20. _slotek_ ↩︎
    21. onuryasar: My kind of, very balanced Indie Pop: just the right amount of Indie but not too much and just the right amount of Pop but not too much 🙂 ↩︎
    22. icastico ↩︎
    23. santialone ↩︎
    24. eamonn ↩︎
    25. burnitdown || MetalheadDana ↩︎
    26. cloudtripper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_e5kKzlFqU&list=RD8_e5kKzlFqU&start_radio=1 ↩︎
    27. nevar23 ↩︎
    28. debonaire: Recency bias is pushing me to three Silvana Estrada albums. I love her voice, I love the music, I love her with Charlie Hunter. ↩︎
    29. otherdog ↩︎
    30. fistfulofdave: Aussie punk in the vein of The Saints and Radio Birdman. ↩︎
    31. rothko ↩︎
    32. Chigaze: what happens when four guys to go a cottage in Ontario, find a flow state, and record an album over a few days. I got to see them play the album through at the Winspear in Edmonton and it’s way up there on my concert experience list. ↩︎
    33. evilchili: The Italian singer and composer’s debut is a hypnotic journey of loops, bloops, and dramatic and impassioned vocalizations. ↩︎
    34. nellie_m ↩︎
    35. fistfulofdave: Blues metal? Shoegaze blues? I don’t know or care, I like it. ↩︎
    36. tym || niels ↩︎
    37. jake4480 ↩︎
    38. santialone ↩︎
    39. Kingu ↩︎
    40. tym || demon6 ↩︎
    41. otherdog ↩︎
    42. MetalheadDana: I listened to this album when it first came out in 2021 but for some reason it didn’t click with me. But apparently 2021 Dana had horrible taste in music, because in early 2025 I randomly tried Dodsrit – Mortal Coil again and fell in love and have been obsessed with it all year, it’s the perfect blend of crust punk and black metal and I love it. ↩︎
    43. TG_Esq ↩︎
    44. rustynail ↩︎
    45. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    46. Chigaze: nails it just as a solid Dropkick’s album but goes farther with songs made for the times. “Who’ll Stand With Us” and “School Days Over” are amazing workers songs while “Chesterfields and Aftershave” takes me back to my own grandfather. ↩︎
    47. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
    48. Braininabowl ↩︎
    49. riff: Most listened this year. ↩︎
    50. Mark52 ↩︎
    51. Moss ↩︎
    52. e (eva) ↩︎
    53. steveroyle: Leaving out Never Enough by Turnstile as I’m sure that’ll get plenty of votes. ↩︎
    54. fistfulofdave: Angular, noise rock, neo-post punk. Unsettling, laid-back, yet aggressive. And yes it was the last album Steve Albini recorded. ↩︎
    55. MetalheadDana || demon6 ↩︎
    56. soundclamp: Runner-ups – https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/muzak-for-the-encouragement-of-unproductivity; https://myheartaninvertedflame.bandcamp.com/album/my-heart-an-inverted-flame-apparitions-split; https://timbarnes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-words-1 ↩︎
    57. buffyleigh: I’ve known of Fever Ray since first seeing the TV show Vikings, but I for some reason didn’t check them out further until this year, when their s/t album came up for a blog post. I was floored. As it happens, their kinda sorta live album was set to come out soon after my first listen of the s/t, so I got caught up on the full Karin Dreijer discography, got super duper obsessed with their spectacular ARTE concert (which is essentially the same versions performed on the new album), and proceeded to be immensely inspired – nay, awakened – by this artist. ↩︎
    58. Kingu ↩︎
    59. onuryasar: I’ve first discovered the song Apocalypse by Cigarettes After Sex (I know, late comer), which brought me to Greg Gonzalez’s Wikipedia page, that says “Gonzalez was heavily inspired by French singer Françoise Hardy and her album La question”. I remember this album being mentioned in my Fedi timeline recently, so I gave it a spin and it turned on and on for the remainder of the year. [Editor’s note: Also see the 1001 OA spotlight on this album from earlier this year!] ↩︎
    60. rachelcholst ↩︎
    61. mynameistillian ↩︎
    62. burnitdown ↩︎
    63. demon6 ↩︎
    64. donutage: I was a bit skeptical of this, and sure, in a 52-song project there’s some unevenness, but between the sheer audacity of the attempt & the frequent successes it scores, definitely one of the more remarkable records of the year. ↩︎
    65. Tak ↩︎
    66. e (eva) ↩︎
    67. Lizahadiz ↩︎
    68. mbr ↩︎
    69. brh ↩︎
    70. umrk: my fav album released in 2025 ↩︎
    71. superflippy ↩︎
    72. raisedfist ↩︎
    73. gavin57 ↩︎
    74. Mark52: Jade Bird has been by far my most listened to album this year. ↩︎
    75. poisonous ↩︎
    76. derthomas: I kept coming back to this album because it just fits every mood. It’s peak Jethro Tull if you ask me, it’s perfect in any way. Also the Steven Wilson Remaster sounds incredible. ↩︎
    77. burnitdown ↩︎
    78. jebeyer: a longer list is here – https://www.buymusic.club/list/whistlingkitty-some-of-my-favorite-2025-releases ↩︎
    79. thesinkingbelle: honorable mentions – Scare – In The End, Was It Worth It; Creatvre – Toujours Humain
; Guck – Gucked Up
; AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN; Saor – Amidst the Ruins
; Jessica93 – 666 tours de periph’
; Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services; 
LS Dunes – Violet; 
Aesop Rock – I Heard It’s A Mess There Too
; Fishbone – Stockholm Syndrome
; Dead Pioneers – Po$t American
; Ethereal Wound – Defile | Demise; 
Sci Fi Industries – Initial States ↩︎
    80. soundclamp ↩︎
    81. cloudtripper ↩︎
    82. rustynail ↩︎
    83. derthomas: My AOTY from a very underground Heavy Metal band from Austria. ↩︎
    84. platenworm ↩︎
    85. raisedfist ↩︎
    86. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
    87. t4s: Honorable mentions – The Halo Effect, Machine Head, Heaven Shall Burn, Spiritbox, Jinjer, Allegaeon ↩︎
    88. rachelcholst ↩︎
    89. 3rik ↩︎
    90. Wintergr33n: Percussion-driven music from Senegal on a self-released album: https://ra.co/news/82509. ↩︎
    91. platenworm: 5 things that ruled my world musically this year:
      – The Analog Africa Label
      – The Artist L.A. Salami
      – The knowledge that you can have too much music
      – The knowledge that you can make your solo debut album when you are 100 years old……Hail Hail Marshall Allen 
      – And that everybody loved Ozzy ↩︎
    92. nellie_m: The music project that somehow touched me most deeply was the result of two years of work by Max Cooper. „Powerful works of art have traditionally sprung from some source deep within an artist and, if they strike the right tone, resonate with an audience to leave a lasting mark. But what if that equation were reversed: what if an artist were to draw their inspiration from deep within their audience, and use that to reflect those ideas, emotions, hopes, fears, pains and aspirations back to us?…“ ↩︎
    93. niels || TG_Esq || sentynel || otherdog || umrk ↩︎
    94. eamonn ↩︎
    95. jake4480 ↩︎
    96. steveroyle ↩︎
    97. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    98. BramMeehan ↩︎
    99. avi_miller: All three fall into the more ambient realm, and they all are absolutely phenomenal. I love music that is based more around textures and creating a mood than creating a melody, and this year had some really good ones. ↩︎
    100. niels ↩︎
    101. TG_Esq ↩︎
    102. 3rik ↩︎
    103. raisedfist ↩︎
    104. keefeglise: Compositions by Nicholas Gombert and James Weeks. Performed by Apartment House. Flanders/UK. Contemporary Classical (Debatable! Gombert died in 1560.) ↩︎
    105. evilchili: Two hipster kids from Brooklyn play 100 year old Appalachian folk tunes and make them come alive. Honest, reverential, and true. ↩︎
    106. riff: “Instantly burned in my brain” this year (well, it was actually their KEXP session from april that blew my mind, but since i have to submit an album, it’ll do nicely 🙂 ). ↩︎
    107. avi_miller ↩︎
    108. derthomas: I discovered this album this year on a metal journey (yeah, late to the party) and I loved it. It’s my favourite Ozzy album. ↩︎
    109. _slotek_ ↩︎
    110. mbr ↩︎
    111. tym: Oh and not a brand new release, but the remaster and new tracks for the 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Takk…’ by Sigur Rós are pretty great. That and ( ) are still what I listen to the most, this year and apparently every year. ↩︎
    112. Kingu ↩︎
    113. epu: I had all but forgotten party drug enthusiasm tracks like ‘higher than the sun’ from 1991, and it turns out they made so many albums since I last tuned in. This one really resonates with my reaction to USpol this year. It rekindled my love for this band; I bought Evil Heat import on CD, my first physical purchase since last year. ↩︎
    114. Mark52 ↩︎
    115. sentynel ↩︎
    116. Braininabowl ↩︎
    117. jiiruu ↩︎
    118. avi_miller ↩︎
    119. jiiruu || t4s || gavin57 ↩︎
    120. Steffi ↩︎
    121. superflippy ↩︎
    122. rustynail: most played ↩︎
    123. sentynel ↩︎
    124. debonaire ↩︎
    125. debonaire ↩︎
    126. TwoClownsEating: I discovered this band in 2025. Absolutely incredible, I’ve bought their entire catalogue and had the privilege to see them live a few months ago. Unbelievably good musicians. Magical music. ↩︎
    127. jomel: 2025 was a great year for Belgian music. Stef Kamil Carlens, co-founder of dEUS has released a gem with his new band The Poem. I have seen SKC twice this year, once in a solo gig, and the second time (in less then 2 weeks) for the “worst Case scenario” rewind from (and so with) dEUS, those two concerts were fabulous, and at the time, I wasn’t expecting this release.
      Bonus Albums: The live album from Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City; Arvo Pârt – Credo (released Alpha Classics label) which includes his “hits”
 – Credo
, Fratres
, Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten (my favourite one)
 https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/arvo-part-credo; 2025 Bryan Ferry release, with Amelia Barrat as female lead singer/speaker. Some of his material came from the 70’s and were updated, it’s a timeless album, and elegant as always https://soundcloud.com/bryanferry/sets/loose-talk-4 ↩︎
    128. jebeyer ↩︎
    129. jomel: (AKA 2manydj’s) Yep, those guys will make you dance, and rock, I guess they’ve listened to Kraftwerk & Front242. ↩︎
    130. Tak ↩︎
    131. nellie_m ↩︎
    132. cloudtripper ↩︎
    133. _slotek_ ↩︎
    134. t4s ↩︎
    135. Lizahadiz ↩︎
    136. slamma ↩︎
    137. e (eva): algorithmic mood music was my fav last year! but i’m still listening to it and i didn’t submit anything then. ↩︎
    138. Steffi ↩︎
    139. BramMeehan: I’ve listened to so much TDJ, though no one release in particular. ↩︎
    140. jiiruu ↩︎
    141. buffyleigh: There’s so many other albums I’d love to list here for exposure, but it feels more honest to list this masterpiece, my first obsession of the year, courtesy of catching their amazing set at the big Black Sabbath/Ozzy send-off concert. I mean, I even titled my AOTY list “Forty Six & 2”, since that was the first song Tool played there and got my attention. Said list is here. ↩︎
    142. epu: Ok, this one’s kind of a cheat, it’s an EP.
      2024, my friend turned me on to Bug Club for its lo-fi production aesthetic, humor and infectious fun/dark undertones. Marriage from 2023 album ‘Rare Birds: Hour of Song’ was the hook.
      You can get this band straight into your heart and mind with this EP. And it takes me back to that one time I did go to Wales. ↩︎
    143. jomel: This newcomer British female band has written the ultimate feminist anthem as opening track. || RolloTreadway: I don’t tend to be very much of a rock person, so for a big brash rock record to have such an impact on me must say something. It’s noisy and it’s loud and it has guitars and drums and punkiness. And, er, flutes. Harmonicas. Cellos. Weird interpretations of bible stories. All chaos and absurdity and celebration and being absolutely done with the patriarchy and above all else fun. So much fun. ↩︎
    144. soundclamp ↩︎
    145. santialone ↩︎
    146. steveroyle ↩︎
    147. jebeyer ↩︎
    148. donutage: far & away my number 1; an angry & desperate neo-grunge banger. Sonia Sturino is a force of nature. ↩︎
    149. RolloTreadway: In parts weird and experimental, in others traditional. Here there’s strange droney noise, and then there’s some light, old-fashioned fiddle playing. Electronic distortion, a choir recorded live outdoors singing a simple hymn. It’s an astonishingly creative and unique folk record. ↩︎
    150. donutage: not as jaw-dropping as their debut (my runaway 2022 fave), but with a lot of the same qualities. It’s dancy, smart, & sexy, without ever once being submissive. || slamma ↩︎
    151. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    152. slamma ↩︎
    153. keefeglise ↩︎
    154. evilchili: Afro-futurist South African Hip-Hop Mysticism. Blakrok instantly became my favourite female MC. ↩︎
    155. Steffi ↩︎

    #AOTY #AOTY2025 #CastleRat #Deafheaven #DieSpitz #Faetooth #ListenToThis #Messa #music #musicDiscovery #RiversOfNihil #TheNewEves #WetLeg

  2. CW: Albums the Fediverse Loved in 2025 (CW'd because it's a looooooong post)

    Albums the Fediverse Loved in 2025

    And here we have it: a list of 151 albums (plus a few artists/labels in general) that kept 64 of us going in 2025, nearly 75% of those 2025 releases and the rest earlier gems! Given our collective eclectic tastes, voting/ranking was not attempted, but bolded titles and post tags indicate albums that were submitted by multiple Fedizens. Genre tags are included as tasting notes (apologies if I got any wrong), each title is linked to its Bandcamp/Songlink when possible, and footnotes list who submitted each album along with extra comments they included (warning: comments may include MOAR ALBUMS; also note: footnotes look way better on the blog). So, click and listen away – perhaps you’ll find a new-to-you album that gets you through 2026!

    Thanks so much to the Fedizens who joined in, it’s so nice to see familiar faces from the 1001 Other Albums project as well as some new ones! And, as always, it’s lovely to get a glimpse of how diverse our tastes in music are, and to see people trying something new solely based on a random Fedi recommendation. The Fedi music community truly is a bright spot, and I personally am immensely grateful for it. 🙏🏻

    Band – Title (year released, place of origin; genre)footnote

    Action/Adventure – Ever After (2025, US; pop-punk)1

    AFI – Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (2025, US; post-punk, gothic rock)2

    Against Me! – White Crosses (2010, US; punk rock)3

    Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs (2024, US; punk rock)4

    Am I in Trouble? – Spectrum (2025, US; avant-garde black metal)5

    Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet and the Madman (2025, US/Morocco; Moroccan gnawa, gospel, jazz)6

    An Abstract Illusion – Woe (2022, Sweden; atmospheric black/death/prog metal)7

    Analog Africa (label, in general) (1960s-80s, Africa; reissues)8

    Anna Tivel – Animal Poem (2025, US; indie folk)9

    Archon Satani – The Righteous Way to Completion (1997, Sweden; death ambient/black industrial)10

    Ashbreather – La Grande Bouffe (2025, Canada; progressive sludge/death metal)11

    Au4 – …And Down Goes The Sky (2013, Canada; prog rock)12

    aya – hexed! (2025, UK; electronic, noise)13

    Bad Cop/Bad Cop – Lighten Up (2025, US; punk rock)14

    Baghed – Smear Campaign (2025, US; punk rock)15

    Bank Myna – Eimuria (2025, France; post-rock/metal, doom gaze, slow core)16

    Belle and Sebastian – Push Barman to Open Old Wounds (2005, Scotland; indie pop)17

    Benedicte Maurseth – Mirra (2025, Norway; folk, jazz)18

    Bill Frisell – Harmony (2019, US; folk-jazz)19

    Black Flower – Kinetic (2025, Belgium; Ethio-jazz, Afrobeat, dub)20

    Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE (2025, US; indie folk/pop)21

    Brittany Davis – Black Thunder (2025, US; cosmic jazz, r&b/soul, singer-songwriter)22

    CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso – Papota (2025, Argentina; experimental trap, hip-hop, EDM, jazz, Latin pop)23

    Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet – Orange (2019, US; classical, ambient, folk)24

    Castle Rat – The Bestiary (2025, US; fantasy heavy metal)25

    Causa Sui – Pewt’r Sessions 1 (2011, Denmark; psych/stoner rock)26

    Celeste – Woman of Faces (2025, UK; neo-soul, jazz, singer-songwriter)27

    Charlie Hunter, Carter McLean featuring Silvana Estrada – s/t (2018, US/Mexico; jazz)28

    Circuit des Yeux – Halo on the Inside (2025, US; singer-songwriter, experimental)29

    Civic – Chrome Dipped (2025, Australia; punk)30

    clipping – Dead Channel Sky (2025, US; hip-hop)31

    Dan Mangan – Natural Light (2025, Canada; indie rock/folk)32

    Daniela Pas – Spira (2023, Italy; singer-songwriter, electronic, experimental)33

    Data Rebel – Single Cell (2025, UK; electronic, IDM, ambient)34

    Dax Riggs – 7 Songs for Spiders (2025, US; blues metal/shoegaze blues)35

    Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power (2025, US; blackgaze, metal)36

    Degraved – Spectral Realm of Ruin (2025, US; death metal)37

    Delobos – Cabal (2025, Spain; post-alt rock, post-rock, psychedelia)38

    Devil ANTHEM. – Profound Rebuild (2025, Japan; J-pop)39

    Die Spitz – Something to Consume (2025, US; punk, alt rock)40

    Divide and Dissolve – Insatiable (2025, Australia; doom, drone, neo classical)41

    Dödsrit – Mortal Coil (2021, Sweden; atmospheric/melodic black metal, blackened crust)42

    Dool – The Shape of Fluidity (2024, Netherlands; rock, alternative)43

    downy – 8th Album/Untitled (2025, Japan; math rock/post-rock)44

    Drab Majesty – Completely Careless (2012-2015) (2016, US; darkwave, shoegaze, dream pop)45

    Dropkick Murphy – For The People (2025, US; Celtic punk)46

    Eikichi Yazawa – I believe (2025, Japan; rock)47

    El Pino & The Volunteers – The Long-lost Art of Becoming Invisible (2009, Netherlands; alt country/folk)48

    Elli De Mon – Raìse (2025, Italy; blues, dialect, garage, psychedelic)49

    Eric Church – Evangeline vs. The Machine (2025, US; country)50

    Ethmebb – Allo Babar et les Caramboleurs (2025, France; progressive melodic blackened death power metal)51

    Ex-Vöid – In Love Again (2025, UK; indie pop/rock)52

    EYES – Spinner(2025, Denmark; hardcore, noise rock)53

    FACS – Wish Defense (2025, US; noise rock, neo-post-punk)54

    Faetooth – Labrynthine (2025, US; fairy doom/stoner metal)55

    False Aralia (label) – ALL the new 12-inch singles (2025, US; abstract electronic)56

    Fever Ray – The Year of the Radical Romantics (2025, Sweden; experimental, electronic, pop)57

    FOKALITE – Fokas, Lite & Four Shooting Riddles (2025, Japan; J-pop)58

    Françoise Hardy – La question (1971, France; French pop, Brazilian saudade/bossa nova)59

    Fust – Big Ugly (2025, US; rock)60

    Geese – Getting Killed (2025, US; art/experimental rock)61

    Gnome – King (2022, Belgium; stoner/prog/hard rock)62

    Habak – Mil orquídeas en medio del desierto (2025, Mexico; melodic crust)63

    Hallelujah the Hills – DECK (2025, US; indie rock)64

    HANABIE – Bucchigiri Tokyo (2024, Japan; metalcore)65

    Hatchie – Liquorice (2025, Australia; indie/dream pop)66

    Hole – Live Through This (1994, US; alt rock)67

    IAN – Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing! (2025, UK; experimental, post-rock/metal)68

    Igorrr – Amen (2025, France; experimental/avant-garde metal)69

    Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar (2025, US; experimental metal)70

    In the Womb of the Universe – Searching for Sunrise (2024, US; electronic, synthpop)71

    In the Woods… – Otra (2025, Norway; avant-garde metal)72

    Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun (2014, Finland; melodic death metal)73

    Jade Bird – Who Wants to Talk About Love (2025, UK; folk rock, singer-songwriter)74

    JER – Death of the Heart (2025, US; ska punk)75

    Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (1972, UK; prog rock)76

    Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (2024, UK; heavy metal)77

    Just Mustard – We Were Just Here (2025, Ireland; post-punk, noise, shoegaze, trip hop)78

    Kaku P-Model – unZIP (2025, Japan; experimental, electronic)79

    Kieran Hebden and William Tyler – 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s (2025, UK; electronic)80

    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013, Australia; psychedelic pop)81

    Kostnatění – Přílišnost (2025, US; avant-garde black metal)82

    Küenring – In Search of Paradise (2025, Austria; heavy metal/hard rock)83

    L.A. Salami (artist, in general) (UK; folk, post-modern blues, acoustic, rock)84

    Labyrinthus Stellarum – Rift in Reality (2025, Ukraine; atmospheric/cosmic black metal)85

    Lorien Testard – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) (2025, France; soundtrack)86

    Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (2025, US; death metal/deathcore)87

    Lucy Dacus – Forever is a Feeling (2025, US; indie rock, folk-pop, singer-songwriter)88

    Maeror Tri – Multiple Personality Disorder (1993, Germany; ambient, noise, drone)89

    Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Khadim (2025, Germany/Senegal; mbalax, experimental, dub techno)90

    Marshall Allen – New Dawn (2025, US; avant-garde jazz)91

    Max Cooper – On Being (2025, UK; electronic, ambient, avant-garde)92

    Messa – The Spin (2025, Italy; doom metal)93

    Michel Legrand – The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection (2005, France; soundtrack, compilation)94

    MIKE – Showbiz! (2025, US; hip-hop/rap)95

    Miynt – Rain Money Dogs (2025, Sweden; indie/bedroom rock)96

    Modern English – Mesh & Lace (1981, UK; post-punk)97

    Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky (2025, US; alt/indie rock)98

    more eaze & claire rousay – no floor (2025, US; experimental, ambient, avant-pop, sound collage)99

    Moron Police – Pachinko (2025, Norway; concept album)100

    Morris Kolontyrsky – Origination (2025, US; ambient, drone, experimental)101

    Nærværet – Når Man Ser Inn I En Annens Hjerte (2024, Sweden/Norway; experimental, field recording, tape manipulation/loops)102

    Nailed to Obscurity – Generation of The Void (2025, Germany; melodic/prog death/doom metal)103

    Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks / Apartment House – G O M B E R T (2025, Flanders/UK; contemporary classical)104

    Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman – Lady of the Lake (2023, US; folk)105

    Nout – Live Album (2024, France; alternative, punk, rock, jazz, noise)106

    Olga Anna Markowska – Iskra (2025, Poland; modern classical, ambient)107

    Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis (1995, UK; heavy metal)108

    Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – That Wasn’t a Dream (2025, Wales/US; experimental jazz)109

    Point Mort – Le Point de Non-retour (2025, France; blackened crust postcore)110

    Plague of Carcosa – In The Dreamless Deep (2025, US; doomnoise, experimental metal)111

    Population II – Maintenant Jamais (2025, Canada; art/prog/psychedelic rock)112

    Primal Scream – XTRMNTR (2000, Scotland; experimental electro-rock)113

    Priscilla Block – Things You Didn’t See (2025, US; country, singer-songwriter)114

    Psychonaut – World Maker (2025, Belgium; post-metal)115

    Queens of the Stone Age – Alive in the Catacombs (2025, US; rock)116

    Radiopuhelimet – Kosminen Tiedottomuus (2020, Finland; alt rock)117

    Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes – Reverie (2025, Canada; modern classical)118

    Rivers of Nihil – s/t (2025, US; death/prog metal)119

    Rogue Jones – Dos Bebés (2023, Wales; folk, indie pop)120

    Shayfer James – Summoning (2025, US; noir-pop, dark cabaret)121

    Shedfromthebody – Whisper and Wane (2025, Finland; doomgaze, [post-]metal)122

    Shepherds of Cassini – In Thrall to Heresy (2025, New Zealand; prog metal)123

    Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (2025, Mexico; singer-songwriter)124

    Silvana Estrada (with Charlie Hunter) – Lo Sagrado (2017, Mexico/US; singer-songwriter)125

    Širom – In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper (2025, Slovenia; instrumental avant-garde imaginary folk)126

    SKC & The Poem – s/t (2025, Belgium; alt/folk rock)127

    SKLOSS – The Pattern Speaks (2025, US/Scotland; space gaze, post-metal)128

    Soulwax – All Systems Are Lying (2025, Belgium; electronic alt rock)129

    Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea (2025, Canada; metalcore)130

    State Azure – The Light That Remains (2025, UK; electronica, ambient, downtempo)131

    Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-5 (2024, UK/France; avant-pop)132

    Steve Tibbetts – Close (2025, US; jazz fusion)133

    Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers (2025, US; hardcore)134

    Suede – Antidepressants (2025, UK; post-punk, gothic rock)135

    Summer Walker – Finally Over It (2025, US; R&B, singer-songwriter)136

    Susan Bear – Algorithmic Mood Music (2024, Scotland; electronic, alt-pop)137

    Swansea Sound – Twentieth Century (2023, Wales; indie pop)138

    TDJ (artist, in general) (Canada; electronic)139

    Terveet Kädet – Lapin Helvetti (2015, Finland; hardcore punk)140

    Tool – Lateralus (2001, US; prog rock/metal, art rock)141

    The Bug Club – “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales” (2025, Wales; indie rock)142

    The New Eves – The New Eve Is Rising (2025, UK; avant-garde/art rock)143

    Trio del Mango – Cómelo (2025, US/Puerto Rico; experimental, noise)144

    Turnstile – Never Enough (2025, US; alt rock)145

    UNIVERSITY – McCartney, It’ll Be OK (2025, UK; punk, noise rock)146

    Water Damage – Instruments (2025, US; experimental psych/drone-rock)147

    Weakened Friends – Feels Like Hell (2025, US; indie rock)148

    Weirs – Diamond Grove (2025, US; trad folk, experimental noise)149

    Wet Leg – moisturizer (2025, UK; indie rock)150

    White Lies – Five V2 (2019, UK; post-punk)151

    X-Cetra – Summer 2000 (Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition) (2025, US; sleepover core, dance-pop)152

    Yara Asmar – everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (2025, Lebanon; modern classical/ambient)153

    Yugen Blakrok – Anima Mysterium (2019, South Africa; hip-hop)154

    Yws Gwynedd – Codi/ \Cysgu (2014, Wales; indie rock)155

    Footnote Number. Fediverse username(s): Comments

    1. poisonous ↩︎
    2. buffyleigh: My emotional support album of the year. I’ve been a fan of AFI since 2000 but haven’t liked an album since 2006. The second I heard the first single “Behind The Clock”, my expectations for this album skyrocketed, and they were absolutely exceeded. It sounds nothing like anything they’ve ever done, and yet it feels like this was the album they’ve always been moving towards. Song of the year goes to the entirety of side A, and Davey Havok’s unexpectedly different sound on this album is my overall favourite vocal performance of year. ↩︎
    3. Braininabowl ↩︎
    4. umrk: top album requested by my kids in the car this year ↩︎
    5. brh ↩︎
    6. RolloTreadway: The most gloriously unhinged album I’ve heard this year. Twists together ideas from everywhere without the slightest consideration of whether doing so might be normal or accepted. The kind of album where a classic French chanson or some deep filthy funk just appears out of nowhere and then is never referred to again. It shouldn’t work but it absolutely does. ↩︎
    7. gavin57: That last one is an all-timer. It’s astonishing. ↩︎
    8. platenworm ↩︎
    9. rachelcholst ↩︎
    10. 3rik: This has been a year for nighttime music and music for trying to sleep. ↩︎
    11. swampgas: definitely my most played this year. A sludgy, deathdoom concept album about greed and gluttony and corruption thats riffy and groovy af. These are driving rhythms that chug hard! ↩︎
    12. MichaelMcWilliams: The one album that tops my list this year also appears in the 1001 Other Albums list. Band website offering free download of the album: https://au4.ca ↩︎
    13. brh ↩︎
    14. poisonous ↩︎
    15. jake4480 ↩︎
    16. mbr ↩︎
    17. riff: Most “Wait why did i never listen to this band before ?” of the year. ↩︎
    18. keefeglise ↩︎
    19. eamonn ↩︎
    20. _slotek_ ↩︎
    21. onuryasar: My kind of, very balanced Indie Pop: just the right amount of Indie but not too much and just the right amount of Pop but not too much 🙂 ↩︎
    22. icastico ↩︎
    23. santialone ↩︎
    24. eamonn ↩︎
    25. burnitdown || MetalheadDana ↩︎
    26. cloudtripper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_e5kKzlFqU&list=RD8_e5kKzlFqU&start_radio=1 ↩︎
    27. nevar23 ↩︎
    28. debonaire: Recency bias is pushing me to three Silvana Estrada albums. I love her voice, I love the music, I love her with Charlie Hunter. ↩︎
    29. otherdog ↩︎
    30. fistfulofdave: Aussie punk in the vein of The Saints and Radio Birdman. ↩︎
    31. rothko ↩︎
    32. Chigaze: what happens when four guys to go a cottage in Ontario, find a flow state, and record an album over a few days. I got to see them play the album through at the Winspear in Edmonton and it’s way up there on my concert experience list. ↩︎
    33. evilchili: The Italian singer and composer’s debut is a hypnotic journey of loops, bloops, and dramatic and impassioned vocalizations. ↩︎
    34. nellie_m ↩︎
    35. fistfulofdave: Blues metal? Shoegaze blues? I don’t know or care, I like it. ↩︎
    36. tym || niels ↩︎
    37. jake4480 ↩︎
    38. santialone ↩︎
    39. Kingu ↩︎
    40. tym || demon6 ↩︎
    41. otherdog ↩︎
    42. MetalheadDana: I listened to this album when it first came out in 2021 but for some reason it didn’t click with me. But apparently 2021 Dana had horrible taste in music, because in early 2025 I randomly tried Dodsrit – Mortal Coil again and fell in love and have been obsessed with it all year, it’s the perfect blend of crust punk and black metal and I love it. ↩︎
    43. TG_Esq ↩︎
    44. rustynail ↩︎
    45. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    46. Chigaze: nails it just as a solid Dropkick’s album but goes farther with songs made for the times. “Who’ll Stand With Us” and “School Days Over” are amazing workers songs while “Chesterfields and Aftershave” takes me back to my own grandfather. ↩︎
    47. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
    48. Braininabowl ↩︎
    49. riff: Most listened this year. ↩︎
    50. Mark52 ↩︎
    51. Moss ↩︎
    52. e (eva) ↩︎
    53. steveroyle: Leaving out Never Enough by Turnstile as I’m sure that’ll get plenty of votes. ↩︎
    54. fistfulofdave: Angular, noise rock, neo-post punk. Unsettling, laid-back, yet aggressive. And yes it was the last album Steve Albini recorded. ↩︎
    55. MetalheadDana || demon6 ↩︎
    56. soundclamp: Runner-ups – https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/muzak-for-the-encouragement-of-unproductivity; https://myheartaninvertedflame.bandcamp.com/album/my-heart-an-inverted-flame-apparitions-split; https://timbarnes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-words-1 ↩︎
    57. buffyleigh: I’ve known of Fever Ray since first seeing the TV show Vikings, but I for some reason didn’t check them out further until this year, when their s/t album came up for a blog post. I was floored. As it happens, their kinda sorta live album was set to come out soon after my first listen of the s/t, so I got caught up on the full Karin Dreijer discography, got super duper obsessed with their spectacular ARTE concert (which is essentially the same versions performed on the new album), and proceeded to be immensely inspired – nay, awakened – by this artist. ↩︎
    58. Kingu ↩︎
    59. onuryasar: I’ve first discovered the song Apocalypse by Cigarettes After Sex (I know, late comer), which brought me to Greg Gonzalez’s Wikipedia page, that says “Gonzalez was heavily inspired by French singer Françoise Hardy and her album La question”. I remember this album being mentioned in my Fedi timeline recently, so I gave it a spin and it turned on and on for the remainder of the year. [Editor’s note: Also see the 1001 OA spotlight on this album from earlier this year!] ↩︎
    60. rachelcholst ↩︎
    61. mynameistillian ↩︎
    62. burnitdown ↩︎
    63. demon6 ↩︎
    64. donutage: I was a bit skeptical of this, and sure, in a 52-song project there’s some unevenness, but between the sheer audacity of the attempt & the frequent successes it scores, definitely one of the more remarkable records of the year. ↩︎
    65. Tak ↩︎
    66. e (eva) ↩︎
    67. Lizahadiz ↩︎
    68. mbr ↩︎
    69. brh ↩︎
    70. umrk: my fav album released in 2025 ↩︎
    71. superflippy ↩︎
    72. raisedfist ↩︎
    73. gavin57 ↩︎
    74. Mark52: Jade Bird has been by far my most listened to album this year. ↩︎
    75. poisonous ↩︎
    76. derthomas: I kept coming back to this album because it just fits every mood. It’s peak Jethro Tull if you ask me, it’s perfect in any way. Also the Steven Wilson Remaster sounds incredible. ↩︎
    77. burnitdown ↩︎
    78. jebeyer: a longer list is here – https://www.buymusic.club/list/whistlingkitty-some-of-my-favorite-2025-releases ↩︎
    79. thesinkingbelle: honorable mentions – Scare – In The End, Was It Worth It; Creatvre – Toujours Humain
; Guck – Gucked Up
; AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN; Saor – Amidst the Ruins
; Jessica93 – 666 tours de periph’
; Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services; 
LS Dunes – Violet; 
Aesop Rock – I Heard It’s A Mess There Too
; Fishbone – Stockholm Syndrome
; Dead Pioneers – Po$t American
; Ethereal Wound – Defile | Demise; 
Sci Fi Industries – Initial States ↩︎
    80. soundclamp ↩︎
    81. cloudtripper ↩︎
    82. rustynail ↩︎
    83. derthomas: My AOTY from a very underground Heavy Metal band from Austria. ↩︎
    84. platenworm ↩︎
    85. raisedfist ↩︎
    86. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
    87. t4s: Honorable mentions – The Halo Effect, Machine Head, Heaven Shall Burn, Spiritbox, Jinjer, Allegaeon ↩︎
    88. rachelcholst ↩︎
    89. 3rik ↩︎
    90. Wintergr33n: Percussion-driven music from Senegal on a self-released album: https://ra.co/news/82509. ↩︎
    91. platenworm: 5 things that ruled my world musically this year:
      – The Analog Africa Label
      – The Artist L.A. Salami
      – The knowledge that you can have too much music
      – The knowledge that you can make your solo debut album when you are 100 years old……Hail Hail Marshall Allen 
      – And that everybody loved Ozzy ↩︎
    92. nellie_m: The music project that somehow touched me most deeply was the result of two years of work by Max Cooper. „Powerful works of art have traditionally sprung from some source deep within an artist and, if they strike the right tone, resonate with an audience to leave a lasting mark. But what if that equation were reversed: what if an artist were to draw their inspiration from deep within their audience, and use that to reflect those ideas, emotions, hopes, fears, pains and aspirations back to us?…“ ↩︎
    93. niels || TG_Esq || sentynel || otherdog || umrk ↩︎
    94. eamonn ↩︎
    95. jake4480 ↩︎
    96. steveroyle ↩︎
    97. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    98. BramMeehan ↩︎
    99. avi_miller: All three fall into the more ambient realm, and they all are absolutely phenomenal. I love music that is based more around textures and creating a mood than creating a melody, and this year had some really good ones. ↩︎
    100. niels ↩︎
    101. TG_Esq ↩︎
    102. 3rik ↩︎
    103. raisedfist ↩︎
    104. keefeglise: Compositions by Nicholas Gombert and James Weeks. Performed by Apartment House. Flanders/UK. Contemporary Classical (Debatable! Gombert died in 1560.) ↩︎
    105. evilchili: Two hipster kids from Brooklyn play 100 year old Appalachian folk tunes and make them come alive. Honest, reverential, and true. ↩︎
    106. riff: “Instantly burned in my brain” this year (well, it was actually their KEXP session from april that blew my mind, but since i have to submit an album, it’ll do nicely 🙂 ). ↩︎
    107. avi_miller ↩︎
    108. derthomas: I discovered this album this year on a metal journey (yeah, late to the party) and I loved it. It’s my favourite Ozzy album. ↩︎
    109. _slotek_ ↩︎
    110. mbr ↩︎
    111. tym: Oh and not a brand new release, but the remaster and new tracks for the 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Takk…’ by Sigur Rós are pretty great. That and ( ) are still what I listen to the most, this year and apparently every year. ↩︎
    112. Kingu ↩︎
    113. epu: I had all but forgotten party drug enthusiasm tracks like ‘higher than the sun’ from 1991, and it turns out they made so many albums since I last tuned in. This one really resonates with my reaction to USpol this year. It rekindled my love for this band; I bought Evil Heat import on CD, my first physical purchase since last year. ↩︎
    114. Mark52 ↩︎
    115. sentynel ↩︎
    116. Braininabowl ↩︎
    117. jiiruu ↩︎
    118. avi_miller ↩︎
    119. jiiruu || t4s || gavin57 ↩︎
    120. Steffi ↩︎
    121. superflippy ↩︎
    122. rustynail: most played ↩︎
    123. sentynel ↩︎
    124. debonaire ↩︎
    125. debonaire ↩︎
    126. TwoClownsEating: I discovered this band in 2025. Absolutely incredible, I’ve bought their entire catalogue and had the privilege to see them live a few months ago. Unbelievably good musicians. Magical music. ↩︎
    127. jomel: 2025 was a great year for Belgian music. Stef Kamil Carlens, co-founder of dEUS has released a gem with his new band The Poem. I have seen SKC twice this year, once in a solo gig, and the second time (in less then 2 weeks) for the “worst Case scenario” rewind from (and so with) dEUS, those two concerts were fabulous, and at the time, I wasn’t expecting this release.
      Bonus Albums: The live album from Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City; Arvo Pârt – Credo (released Alpha Classics label) which includes his “hits”
 – Credo
, Fratres
, Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten (my favourite one)
 https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/arvo-part-credo; 2025 Bryan Ferry release, with Amelia Barrat as female lead singer/speaker. Some of his material came from the 70’s and were updated, it’s a timeless album, and elegant as always https://soundcloud.com/bryanferry/sets/loose-talk-4 ↩︎
    128. jebeyer ↩︎
    129. jomel: (AKA 2manydj’s) Yep, those guys will make you dance, and rock, I guess they’ve listened to Kraftwerk & Front242. ↩︎
    130. Tak ↩︎
    131. nellie_m ↩︎
    132. cloudtripper ↩︎
    133. _slotek_ ↩︎
    134. t4s ↩︎
    135. Lizahadiz ↩︎
    136. slamma ↩︎
    137. e (eva): algorithmic mood music was my fav last year! but i’m still listening to it and i didn’t submit anything then. ↩︎
    138. Steffi ↩︎
    139. BramMeehan: I’ve listened to so much TDJ, though no one release in particular. ↩︎
    140. jiiruu ↩︎
    141. buffyleigh: There’s so many other albums I’d love to list here for exposure, but it feels more honest to list this masterpiece, my first obsession of the year, courtesy of catching their amazing set at the big Black Sabbath/Ozzy send-off concert. I mean, I even titled my AOTY list “Forty Six & 2”, since that was the first song Tool played there and got my attention. Said list is here. ↩︎
    142. epu: Ok, this one’s kind of a cheat, it’s an EP.
      2024, my friend turned me on to Bug Club for its lo-fi production aesthetic, humor and infectious fun/dark undertones. Marriage from 2023 album ‘Rare Birds: Hour of Song’ was the hook.
      You can get this band straight into your heart and mind with this EP. And it takes me back to that one time I did go to Wales. ↩︎
    143. jomel: This newcomer British female band has written the ultimate feminist anthem as opening track. || RolloTreadway: I don’t tend to be very much of a rock person, so for a big brash rock record to have such an impact on me must say something. It’s noisy and it’s loud and it has guitars and drums and punkiness. And, er, flutes. Harmonicas. Cellos. Weird interpretations of bible stories. All chaos and absurdity and celebration and being absolutely done with the patriarchy and above all else fun. So much fun. ↩︎
    144. soundclamp ↩︎
    145. santialone ↩︎
    146. steveroyle ↩︎
    147. jebeyer ↩︎
    148. donutage: far & away my number 1; an angry & desperate neo-grunge banger. Sonia Sturino is a force of nature. ↩︎
    149. RolloTreadway: In parts weird and experimental, in others traditional. Here there’s strange droney noise, and then there’s some light, old-fashioned fiddle playing. Electronic distortion, a choir recorded live outdoors singing a simple hymn. It’s an astonishingly creative and unique folk record. ↩︎
    150. donutage: not as jaw-dropping as their debut (my runaway 2022 fave), but with a lot of the same qualities. It’s dancy, smart, & sexy, without ever once being submissive. || slamma ↩︎
    151. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    152. slamma ↩︎
    153. keefeglise ↩︎
    154. evilchili: Afro-futurist South African Hip-Hop Mysticism. Blakrok instantly became my favourite female MC. ↩︎
    155. Steffi ↩︎

    #AOTY #AOTY2025 #CastleRat #Deafheaven #DieSpitz #Faetooth #ListenToThis #Messa #music #musicDiscovery #RiversOfNihil #TheNewEves #WetLeg

  3. Albums the Fediverse Loved in 2025

    And here we have it: a list of 151 albums (plus a few artists/labels in general) that kept 64 of us going in 2025, nearly 75% of those 2025 releases and the rest earlier gems! Given our collective eclectic tastes, voting/ranking was not attempted, but bolded titles and post tags indicate albums that were submitted by multiple Fedizens. Genre tags are included as tasting notes (apologies if I got any wrong), each title is linked to its Bandcamp/Songlink when possible, and footnotes list who submitted each album along with extra comments they included (warning: comments may include MOAR ALBUMS). So, click and listen away – perhaps you’ll find a new-to-you album that gets you through 2026!

    Thanks so much to the Fedizens who joined in, it’s so nice to see familiar faces from the 1001 Other Albums project as well as some new ones! And, as always, it’s lovely to get a glimpse of how diverse our tastes in music are, and to see people trying something new solely based on a random Fedi recommendation. The Fedi music community truly is a bright spot, and I personally am immensely grateful for it. 🙏🏻

    Band – Title (year released, place of origin; genre)footnote

    Action/Adventure – Ever After (2025, US; pop-punk)1

    AFI – Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (2025, US; post-punk, gothic rock)2

    Against Me! – White Crosses (2010, US; punk rock)3

    Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs (2024, US; punk rock)4

    Am I in Trouble? – Spectrum (2025, US; avant-garde black metal)5

    Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet and the Madman (2025, US/Morocco; Moroccan gnawa, gospel, jazz)6

    An Abstract Illusion – Woe (2022, Sweden; atmospheric black/death/prog metal)7

    Analog Africa (label, in general) (1960s-80s, Africa; reissues)8

    Anna Tivel – Animal Poem (2025, US; indie folk)9

    Archon Satani – The Righteous Way to Completion (1997, Sweden; death ambient/black industrial)10

    Ashbreather – La Grande Bouffe (2025, Canada; progressive sludge/death metal)11

    Au4 – …And Down Goes The Sky (2013, Canada; prog rock)12

    aya – hexed! (2025, UK; electronic, noise)13

    Bad Cop/Bad Cop – Lighten Up (2025, US; punk rock)14

    Baghed – Smear Campaign (2025, US; punk rock)15

    Bank Myna – Eimuria (2025, France; post-rock/metal, doom gaze, slow core)16

    Belle and Sebastian – Push Barman to Open Old Wounds (2005, Scotland; indie pop)17

    Benedicte Maurseth – Mirra (2025, Norway; folk, jazz)18

    Bill Frisell – Harmony (2019, US; folk-jazz)19

    Black Flower – Kinetic (2025, Belgium; Ethio-jazz, Afrobeat, dub)20

    Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE (2025, US; indie folk/pop)21

    Brittany Davis – Black Thunder (2025, US; cosmic jazz, r&b/soul, singer-songwriter)22

    CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso – Papota (2025, Argentina; experimental trap, hip-hop, EDM, jazz, Latin pop)23

    Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet – Orange (2019, US; classical, ambient, folk)24

    Castle Rat – The Bestiary (2025, US; fantasy heavy metal)25

    Causa Sui – Pewt’r Sessions 1 (2011, Denmark; psych/stoner rock)26

    Celeste – Woman of Faces (2025, UK; neo-soul, jazz, singer-songwriter)27

    Charlie Hunter, Carter McLean featuring Silvana Estrada – s/t (2018, US/Mexico; jazz)28

    Circuit des Yeux – Halo on the Inside (2025, US; singer-songwriter, experimental)29

    Civic – Chrome Dipped (2025, Australia; punk)30

    clipping – Dead Channel Sky (2025, US; hip-hop)31

    Dan Mangan – Natural Light (2025, Canada; indie rock/folk)32

    Daniela Pas – Spira (2023, Italy; singer-songwriter, electronic, experimental)33

    Data Rebel – Single Cell (2025, UK; electronic, IDM, ambient)34

    Dax Riggs – 7 Songs for Spiders (2025, US; blues metal/shoegaze blues)35

    Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power (2025, US; blackgaze, metal)36

    Degraved – Spectral Realm of Ruin (2025, US; death metal)37

    Delobos – Cabal (2025, Spain; post-alt rock, post-rock, psychedelia)38

    Devil ANTHEM. – Profound Rebuild (2025, Japan; J-pop)39

    Die Spitz – Something to Consume (2025, US; punk, alt rock)40

    Divide and Dissolve – Insatiable (2025, Australia; doom, drone, neo classical)41

    Dödsrit – Mortal Coil (2021, Sweden; atmospheric/melodic black metal, blackened crust)42

    Dool – The Shape of Fluidity (2024, Netherlands; rock, alternative)43

    downy – 8th Album/Untitled (2025, Japan; math rock/post-rock)44

    Drab Majesty – Completely Careless (2012-2015) (2016, US; darkwave, shoegaze, dream pop)45

    Dropkick Murphy – For The People (2025, US; Celtic punk)46

    Eikichi Yazawa – I believe (2025, Japan; rock)47

    El Pino & The Volunteers – The Long-lost Art of Becoming Invisible (2009, Netherlands; alt country/folk)48

    Elli De Mon – Raìse (2025, Italy; blues, dialect, garage, psychedelic)49

    Eric Church – Evangeline vs. The Machine (2025, US; country)50

    Ethmebb – Allo Babar et les Caramboleurs (2025, France; progressive melodic blackened death power metal)51

    Ex-Vöid – In Love Again (2025, UK; indie pop/rock)52

    EYES – Spinner(2025, Denmark; hardcore, noise rock)53

    FACS – Wish Defense (2025, US; noise rock, neo-post-punk)54

    Faetooth – Labrynthine (2025, US; fairy doom/stoner metal)55

    False Aralia (label) – ALL the new 12-inch singles (2025, US; abstract electronic)56

    Fever Ray – The Year of the Radical Romantics (2025, Sweden; experimental, electronic, pop)57

    FOKALITE – Fokas, Lite & Four Shooting Riddles (2025, Japan; J-pop)58

    Françoise Hardy – La question (1971, France; French pop, Brazilian saudade/bossa nova)59

    Fust – Big Ugly (2025, US; rock)60

    Geese – Getting Killed (2025, US; art/experimental rock)61

    Gnome – King (2022, Belgium; stoner/prog/hard rock)62

    Habak – Mil orquídeas en medio del desierto (2025, Mexico; melodic crust)63

    Hallelujah the Hills – DECK (2025, US; indie rock)64

    HANABIE – Bucchigiri Tokyo (2024, Japan; metalcore)65

    Hatchie – Liquorice (2025, Australia; indie/dream pop)66

    Hole – Live Through This (1994, US; alt rock)67

    IAN – Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing! (2025, UK; experimental, post-rock/metal)68

    Igorrr – Amen (2025, France; experimental/avant-garde metal)69

    Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar (2025, US; experimental metal)70

    In the Womb of the Universe – Searching for Sunrise (2024, US; electronic, synthpop)71

    In the Woods… – Otra (2025, Norway; avant-garde metal)72

    Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun (2014, Finland; melodic death metal)73

    Jade Bird – Who Wants to Talk About Love (2025, UK; folk rock, singer-songwriter)74

    JER – Death of the Heart (2025, US; ska punk)75

    Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (1972, UK; prog rock)76

    Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (2024, UK; heavy metal)77

    Just Mustard – We Were Just Here (2025, Ireland; post-punk, noise, shoegaze, trip hop)78

    Kaku P-Model – unZIP (2025, Japan; experimental, electronic)79

    Kieran Hebden and William Tyler – 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s (2025, UK; electronic)80

    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013, Australia; psychedelic pop)81

    Kostnatění – Přílišnost (2025, US; avant-garde black metal)82

    Küenring – In Search of Paradise (2025, Austria; heavy metal/hard rock)83

    L.A. Salami (artist, in general) (UK; folk, post-modern blues, acoustic, rock)84

    Labyrinthus Stellarum – Rift in Reality (2025, Ukraine; atmospheric/cosmic black metal)85

    Lorien Testard – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack) (2025, France; soundtrack)86

    Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (2025, US; death metal/deathcore)87

    Lucy Dacus – Forever is a Feeling (2025, US; indie rock, folk-pop, singer-songwriter)88

    Maeror Tri – Multiple Personality Disorder (1993, Germany; ambient, noise, drone)89

    Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Khadim (2025, Germany/Senegal; mbalax, experimental, dub techno)90

    Marshall Allen – New Dawn (2025, US; avant-garde jazz)91

    Max Cooper – On Being (2025, UK; electronic, ambient, avant-garde)92

    Messa – The Spin (2025, Italy; doom metal)93

    Michel Legrand – The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection (2005, France; soundtrack, compilation)94

    MIKE – Showbiz! (2025, US; hip-hop/rap)95

    Miynt – Rain Money Dogs (2025, Sweden; indie/bedroom rock)96

    Modern English – Mesh & Lace (1981, UK; post-punk)97

    Momma – Welcome to My Blue Sky (2025, US; alt/indie rock)98

    more eaze & claire rousay – no floor (2025, US; experimental, ambient, avant-pop, sound collage)99

    Moron Police – Pachinko (2025, Norway; concept album)100

    Morris Kolontyrsky – Origination (2025, US; ambient, drone, experimental)101

    Nærværet – Når Man Ser Inn I En Annens Hjerte (2024, Sweden/Norway; experimental, field recording, tape manipulation/loops)102

    Nailed to Obscurity – Generation of The Void (2025, Germany; melodic/prog death/doom metal)103

    Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks / Apartment House – G O M B E R T (2025, Flanders/UK; contemporary classical)104

    Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman – Lady of the Lake (2023, US; folk)105

    Nout – Live Album (2024, France; alternative, punk, rock, jazz, noise)106

    Olga Anna Markowska – Iskra (2025, Poland; modern classical, ambient)107

    Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis (1995, UK; heavy metal)108

    Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – That Wasn’t a Dream (2025, Wales/US; experimental jazz)109

    Point Mort – Le Point de Non-retour (2025, France; blackened crust postcore)110

    Plague of Carcosa – In The Dreamless Deep (2025, US; doomnoise, experimental metal)111

    Population II – Maintenant Jamais (2025, Canada; art/prog/psychedelic rock)112

    Primal Scream – XTRMNTR (2000, Scotland; experimental electro-rock)113

    Priscilla Block – Things You Didn’t See (2025, US; country, singer-songwriter)114

    Psychonaut – World Maker (2025, Belgium; post-metal)115

    Queens of the Stone Age – Alive in the Catacombs (2025, US; rock)116

    Radiopuhelimet – Kosminen Tiedottomuus (2020, Finland; alt rock)117

    Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes – Reverie (2025, Canada; modern classical)118

    Rivers of Nihil – s/t (2025, US; death/prog metal)119

    Rogue Jones – Dos Bebés (2023, Wales; folk, indie pop)120

    Shayfer James – Summoning (2025, US; noir-pop, dark cabaret)121

    Shedfromthebody – Whisper and Wane (2025, Finland; doomgaze, [post-]metal)122

    Shepherds of Cassini – In Thrall to Heresy (2025, New Zealand; prog metal)123

    Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (2025, Mexico; singer-songwriter)124

    Silvana Estrada (with Charlie Hunter) – Lo Sagrado (2017, Mexico/US; singer-songwriter)125

    Širom – In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper (2025, Slovenia; instrumental avant-garde imaginary folk)126

    SKC & The Poem – s/t (2025, Belgium; alt/folk rock)127

    SKLOSS – The Pattern Speaks (2025, US/Scotland; space gaze, post-metal)128

    Soulwax – All Systems Are Lying (2025, Belgium; electronic alt rock)129

    Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea (2025, Canada; metalcore)130

    State Azure – The Light That Remains (2025, UK; electronica, ambient, downtempo)131

    Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-5 (2024, UK/France; avant-pop)132

    Steve Tibbetts – Close (2025, US; jazz fusion)133

    Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers (2025, US; hardcore)134

    Suede – Antidepressants (2025, UK; post-punk, gothic rock)135

    Summer Walker – Finally Over It (2025, US; R&B, singer-songwriter)136

    Susan Bear – Algorithmic Mood Music (2024, Scotland; electronic, alt-pop)137

    Swansea Sound – Twentieth Century (2023, Wales; indie pop)138

    TDJ (artist, in general) (Canada; electronic)139

    Terveet Kädet – Lapin Helvetti (2015, Finland; hardcore punk)140

    Tool – Lateralus (2001, US; prog rock/metal, art rock)141

    The Bug Club – “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales” (2025, Wales; indie rock)142

    The New Eves – The New Eve Is Rising (2025, UK; avant-garde/art rock)143

    Trio del Mango – Cómelo (2025, US/Puerto Rico; experimental, noise)144

    Turnstile – Never Enough (2025, US; alt rock)145

    UNIVERSITY – McCartney, It’ll Be OK (2025, UK; punk, noise rock)146

    Water Damage – Instruments (2025, US; experimental psych/drone-rock)147

    Weakened Friends – Feels Like Hell (2025, US; indie rock)148

    Weirs – Diamond Grove (2025, US; trad folk, experimental noise)149

    Wet Leg – moisturizer (2025, UK; indie rock)150

    White Lies – Five V2 (2019, UK; post-punk)151

    X-Cetra – Summer 2000 (Y2K 25th Anniversary Edition) (2025, US; sleepover core, dance-pop)152

    Yara Asmar – everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (2025, Lebanon; modern classical/ambient)153

    Yugen Blakrok – Anima Mysterium (2019, South Africa; hip-hop)154

    Yws Gwynedd – Codi/ \Cysgu (2014, Wales; indie rock)155

    Footnote Number. Fediverse username(s): Comments

    1. poisonous ↩︎
    2. buffyleigh: My emotional support album of the year. I’ve been a fan of AFI since 2000 but haven’t liked an album since 2006. The second I heard the first single “Behind The Clock”, my expectations for this album skyrocketed, and they were absolutely exceeded. It sounds nothing like anything they’ve ever done, and yet it feels like this was the album they’ve always been moving towards. Song of the year goes to the entirety of side A, and Davey Havok’s unexpectedly different sound on this album is my overall favourite vocal performance of year. ↩︎
    3. Braininabowl ↩︎
    4. umrk: top album requested by my kids in the car this year ↩︎
    5. brh ↩︎
    6. RolloTreadway: The most gloriously unhinged album I’ve heard this year. Twists together ideas from everywhere without the slightest consideration of whether doing so might be normal or accepted. The kind of album where a classic French chanson or some deep filthy funk just appears out of nowhere and then is never referred to again. It shouldn’t work but it absolutely does. ↩︎
    7. gavin57: That last one is an all-timer. It’s astonishing. ↩︎
    8. platenworm ↩︎
    9. rachelcholst ↩︎
    10. 3rik: This has been a year for nighttime music and music for trying to sleep. ↩︎
    11. swampgas: definitely my most played this year. A sludgy, deathdoom concept album about greed and gluttony and corruption thats riffy and groovy af. These are driving rhythms that chug hard! ↩︎
    12. MichaelMcWilliams: The one album that tops my list this year also appears in the 1001 Other Albums list. Band website offering free download of the album: https://au4.ca ↩︎
    13. brh ↩︎
    14. poisonous ↩︎
    15. jake4480 ↩︎
    16. mbr ↩︎
    17. riff: Most “Wait why did i never listen to this band before ?” of the year. ↩︎
    18. keefeglise ↩︎
    19. eamonn ↩︎
    20. _slotek_ ↩︎
    21. onuryasar: My kind of, very balanced Indie Pop: just the right amount of Indie but not too much and just the right amount of Pop but not too much :) ↩︎
    22. icastico ↩︎
    23. santialone ↩︎
    24. eamonn ↩︎
    25. burnitdown || MetalheadDana ↩︎
    26. cloudtripper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_e5kKzlFqU&list=RD8_e5kKzlFqU&start_radio=1 ↩︎
    27. nevar23 ↩︎
    28. debonaire: Recency bias is pushing me to three Silvana Estrada albums. I love her voice, I love the music, I love her with Charlie Hunter. ↩︎
    29. otherdog ↩︎
    30. fistfulofdave: Aussie punk in the vein of The Saints and Radio Birdman. ↩︎
    31. rothko ↩︎
    32. Chigaze: what happens when four guys to go a cottage in Ontario, find a flow state, and record an album over a few days. I got to see them play the album through at the Winspear in Edmonton and it’s way up there on my concert experience list. ↩︎
    33. evilchili: The Italian singer and composer’s debut is a hypnotic journey of loops, bloops, and dramatic and impassioned vocalizations. ↩︎
    34. nellie_m ↩︎
    35. fistfulofdave: Blues metal? Shoegaze blues? I don’t know or care, I like it. ↩︎
    36. tym || niels ↩︎
    37. jake4480 ↩︎
    38. santialone ↩︎
    39. Kingu ↩︎
    40. tym || demon6 ↩︎
    41. otherdog ↩︎
    42. MetalheadDana: I listened to this album when it first came out in 2021 but for some reason it didn’t click with me. But apparently 2021 Dana had horrible taste in music, because in early 2025 I randomly tried Dodsrit – Mortal Coil again and fell in love and have been obsessed with it all year, it’s the perfect blend of crust punk and black metal and I love it. ↩︎
    43. TG_Esq ↩︎
    44. rustynail ↩︎
    45. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    46. Chigaze: nails it just as a solid Dropkick’s album but goes farther with songs made for the times. “Who’ll Stand With Us” and “School Days Over” are amazing workers songs while “Chesterfields and Aftershave” takes me back to my own grandfather. ↩︎
    47. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
    48. Braininabowl ↩︎
    49. riff: Most listened this year. ↩︎
    50. Mark52 ↩︎
    51. Moss ↩︎
    52. e (eva) ↩︎
    53. steveroyle: Leaving out Never Enough by Turnstile as I’m sure that’ll get plenty of votes. ↩︎
    54. fistfulofdave: Angular, noise rock, neo-post punk. Unsettling, laid-back, yet aggressive. And yes it was the last album Steve Albini recorded. ↩︎
    55. MetalheadDana || demon6 ↩︎
    56. soundclamp: Runner-ups – https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/muzak-for-the-encouragement-of-unproductivity; https://myheartaninvertedflame.bandcamp.com/album/my-heart-an-inverted-flame-apparitions-split; https://timbarnes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-words-1 ↩︎
    57. buffyleigh: I’ve known of Fever Ray since first seeing the TV show Vikings, but I for some reason didn’t check them out further until this year, when their s/t album came up for a blog post. I was floored. As it happens, their kinda sorta live album was set to come out soon after my first listen of the s/t, so I got caught up on the full Karin Dreijer discography, got super duper obsessed with their spectacular ARTE concert (which is essentially the same versions performed on the new album), and proceeded to be immensely inspired – nay, awakened – by this artist. ↩︎
    58. Kingu ↩︎
    59. onuryasar: I’ve first discovered the song Apocalypse by Cigarettes After Sex (I know, late comer), which brought me to Greg Gonzalez’s Wikipedia page, that says “Gonzalez was heavily inspired by French singer Françoise Hardy and her album La question”. I remember this album being mentioned in my Fedi timeline recently, so I gave it a spin and it turned on and on for the remainder of the year. [Editor’s note: Also see the 1001 OA spotlight on this album from earlier this year!] ↩︎
    60. rachelcholst ↩︎
    61. mynameistillian ↩︎
    62. burnitdown ↩︎
    63. demon6 ↩︎
    64. donutage: I was a bit skeptical of this, and sure, in a 52-song project there’s some unevenness, but between the sheer audacity of the attempt & the frequent successes it scores, definitely one of the more remarkable records of the year. ↩︎
    65. Tak ↩︎
    66. e (eva) ↩︎
    67. Lizahadiz ↩︎
    68. mbr ↩︎
    69. brh ↩︎
    70. umrk: my fav album released in 2025 ↩︎
    71. superflippy ↩︎
    72. raisedfist ↩︎
    73. gavin57 ↩︎
    74. Mark52: Jade Bird has been by far my most listened to album this year. ↩︎
    75. poisonous ↩︎
    76. derthomas: I kept coming back to this album because it just fits every mood. It’s peak Jethro Tull if you ask me, it’s perfect in any way. Also the Steven Wilson Remaster sounds incredible. ↩︎
    77. burnitdown ↩︎
    78. jebeyer: a longer list is here – https://www.buymusic.club/list/whistlingkitty-some-of-my-favorite-2025-releases ↩︎
    79. thesinkingbelle: honorable mentions – Scare – In The End, Was It Worth It; Creatvre – Toujours Humain
; Guck – Gucked Up
; AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN; Saor – Amidst the Ruins
; Jessica93 – 666 tours de periph’
; Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services; 
LS Dunes – Violet; 
Aesop Rock – I Heard It’s A Mess There Too
; Fishbone – Stockholm Syndrome
; Dead Pioneers – Po$t American
; Ethereal Wound – Defile | Demise; 
Sci Fi Industries – Initial States ↩︎
    80. soundclamp ↩︎
    81. cloudtripper ↩︎
    82. rustynail ↩︎
    83. derthomas: My AOTY from a very underground Heavy Metal band from Austria. ↩︎
    84. platenworm ↩︎
    85. raisedfist ↩︎
    86. thesinkingbelle ↩︎
    87. t4s: Honorable mentions – The Halo Effect, Machine Head, Heaven Shall Burn, Spiritbox, Jinjer, Allegaeon ↩︎
    88. rachelcholst ↩︎
    89. 3rik ↩︎
    90. Wintergr33n: Percussion-driven music from Senegal on a self-released album: https://ra.co/news/82509. ↩︎
    91. platenworm: 5 things that ruled my world musically this year:
      – The Analog Africa Label
      – The Artist L.A. Salami
      – The knowledge that you can have too much music
      – The knowledge that you can make your solo debut album when you are 100 years old……Hail Hail Marshall Allen 
      – And that everybody loved Ozzy ↩︎
    92. nellie_m: The music project that somehow touched me most deeply was the result of two years of work by Max Cooper. „Powerful works of art have traditionally sprung from some source deep within an artist and, if they strike the right tone, resonate with an audience to leave a lasting mark. But what if that equation were reversed: what if an artist were to draw their inspiration from deep within their audience, and use that to reflect those ideas, emotions, hopes, fears, pains and aspirations back to us?…“ ↩︎
    93. niels || TG_Esq || sentynel || otherdog || umrk ↩︎
    94. eamonn ↩︎
    95. jake4480 ↩︎
    96. steveroyle ↩︎
    97. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    98. BramMeehan ↩︎
    99. avi_miller: All three fall into the more ambient realm, and they all are absolutely phenomenal. I love music that is based more around textures and creating a mood than creating a melody, and this year had some really good ones. ↩︎
    100. niels ↩︎
    101. TG_Esq ↩︎
    102. 3rik ↩︎
    103. raisedfist ↩︎
    104. keefeglise: Compositions by Nicholas Gombert and James Weeks. Performed by Apartment House. Flanders/UK. Contemporary Classical (Debatable! Gombert died in 1560.) ↩︎
    105. evilchili: Two hipster kids from Brooklyn play 100 year old Appalachian folk tunes and make them come alive. Honest, reverential, and true. ↩︎
    106. riff: “Instantly burned in my brain” this year (well, it was actually their KEXP session from april that blew my mind, but since i have to submit an album, it’ll do nicely :) ). ↩︎
    107. avi_miller ↩︎
    108. derthomas: I discovered this album this year on a metal journey (yeah, late to the party) and I loved it. It’s my favourite Ozzy album. ↩︎
    109. _slotek_ ↩︎
    110. mbr ↩︎
    111. tym: Oh and not a brand new release, but the remaster and new tracks for the 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Takk…’ by Sigur Rós are pretty great. That and ( ) are still what I listen to the most, this year and apparently every year. ↩︎
    112. Kingu ↩︎
    113. epu: I had all but forgotten party drug enthusiasm tracks like ‘higher than the sun’ from 1991, and it turns out they made so many albums since I last tuned in. This one really resonates with my reaction to USpol this year. It rekindled my love for this band; I bought Evil Heat import on CD, my first physical purchase since last year. ↩︎
    114. Mark52 ↩︎
    115. sentynel ↩︎
    116. Braininabowl ↩︎
    117. jiiruu ↩︎
    118. avi_miller ↩︎
    119. jiiruu || t4s || gavin57 ↩︎
    120. Steffi ↩︎
    121. superflippy ↩︎
    122. rustynail: most played ↩︎
    123. sentynel ↩︎
    124. debonaire ↩︎
    125. debonaire ↩︎
    126. TwoClownsEating: I discovered this band in 2025. Absolutely incredible, I’ve bought their entire catalogue and had the privilege to see them live a few months ago. Unbelievably good musicians. Magical music. ↩︎
    127. jomel: 2025 was a great year for Belgian music. Stef Kamil Carlens, co-founder of dEUS has released a gem with his new band The Poem. I have seen SKC twice this year, once in a solo gig, and the second time (in less then 2 weeks) for the “worst Case scenario” rewind from (and so with) dEUS, those two concerts were fabulous, and at the time, I wasn’t expecting this release.
      Bonus Albums: The live album from Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City; Arvo Pârt – Credo (released Alpha Classics label) which includes his “hits”
 – Credo
, Fratres
, Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten (my favourite one)
 https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/arvo-part-credo; 2025 Bryan Ferry release, with Amelia Barrat as female lead singer/speaker. Some of his material came from the 70’s and were updated, it’s a timeless album, and elegant as always https://soundcloud.com/bryanferry/sets/loose-talk-4 ↩︎
    128. jebeyer ↩︎
    129. jomel: (AKA 2manydj’s) Yep, those guys will make you dance, and rock, I guess they’ve listened to Kraftwerk & Front242. ↩︎
    130. Tak ↩︎
    131. nellie_m ↩︎
    132. cloudtripper ↩︎
    133. _slotek_ ↩︎
    134. t4s ↩︎
    135. Lizahadiz ↩︎
    136. slamma ↩︎
    137. e (eva): algorithmic mood music was my fav last year! but i’m still listening to it and i didn’t submit anything then. ↩︎
    138. Steffi ↩︎
    139. BramMeehan: I’ve listened to so much TDJ, though no one release in particular. ↩︎
    140. jiiruu ↩︎
    141. buffyleigh: There’s so many other albums I’d love to list here for exposure, but it feels more honest to list this masterpiece, my first obsession of the year, courtesy of catching their amazing set at the big Black Sabbath/Ozzy send-off concert. I mean, I even titled my AOTY list “Forty Six & 2”, since that was the first song Tool played there and got my attention. Said list is here. ↩︎
    142. epu: Ok, this one’s kind of a cheat, it’s an EP.
      2024, my friend turned me on to Bug Club for its lo-fi production aesthetic, humor and infectious fun/dark undertones. Marriage from 2023 album ‘Rare Birds: Hour of Song’ was the hook.
      You can get this band straight into your heart and mind with this EP. And it takes me back to that one time I did go to Wales. ↩︎
    143. jomel: This newcomer British female band has written the ultimate feminist anthem as opening track. || RolloTreadway: I don’t tend to be very much of a rock person, so for a big brash rock record to have such an impact on me must say something. It’s noisy and it’s loud and it has guitars and drums and punkiness. And, er, flutes. Harmonicas. Cellos. Weird interpretations of bible stories. All chaos and absurdity and celebration and being absolutely done with the patriarchy and above all else fun. So much fun. ↩︎
    144. soundclamp ↩︎
    145. santialone ↩︎
    146. steveroyle ↩︎
    147. jebeyer ↩︎
    148. donutage: far & away my number 1; an angry & desperate neo-grunge banger. Sonia Sturino is a force of nature. ↩︎
    149. RolloTreadway: In parts weird and experimental, in others traditional. Here there’s strange droney noise, and then there’s some light, old-fashioned fiddle playing. Electronic distortion, a choir recorded live outdoors singing a simple hymn. It’s an astonishingly creative and unique folk record. ↩︎
    150. donutage: not as jaw-dropping as their debut (my runaway 2022 fave), but with a lot of the same qualities. It’s dancy, smart, & sexy, without ever once being submissive. || slamma ↩︎
    151. alicemcalicepants ↩︎
    152. slamma ↩︎
    153. keefeglise ↩︎
    154. evilchili: Afro-futurist South African Hip-Hop Mysticism. Blakrok instantly became my favourite female MC. ↩︎
    155. Steffi ↩︎

    #AOTY #AOTY2025 #CastleRat #Deafheaven #DieSpitz #Faetooth #ListenToThis #Messa #music #musicDiscovery #RiversOfNihil #TheNewEves #WetLeg

  4. @FotoVorschlag: #FotoVorschlag #Metall: Die demontierte, alte #Eisenbahnbrücke der #Hochrheinbahn über die #Wutach (kurz nach dem Abzweig der Sauschwänzlebahn am Bhf. #Lauchringen: openstreetmap.org/way/37704893) nach dem Austausch gegen eine moderne Bogenbrücke.

    Die alte #Brücke war zwar IIRC #denkmalgeschützt, aber der Bahnbetrieb ging wohl (auch im Hinblick auf die Elektrifizierung) vor.

    Mehr Bilder von der alten ausgebauten und der neuen Brücke unter chaos.social/@xtaran/113142747

    #Hochrhein #Altmetall

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    The Brandon "LOSER" Lang Tracker Thread - January 01st 2024

    Lang had a 150 Dime winner on the Baltimore Ravens to close out 2023.
    He lost 1,901.25 Dimes on the year. That translates to a $10 player who followed all of his plays in 2023 losing $19,012.50.

    LOSER LANG 11 YEAR RECORD TRACKER
    1/01/2013 up to NOW!!!

    NEGATIVE 10,754.75 DIMES

    LANG $10 BETTOR DOWN $107,547.5 (PLUS $1,995 Yearly Fee For Picks x11 = -$129,492.5)

    -Lang Past 11 Years-
    2023: NEGATIVE 1,901.25 DIMES
    2022: NEGATIVE 1,586.5 DIMES
    2021: NEGATIVE 1,524.5 DIMES
    2020: POSITIVE* 402.5 DIMES (*NOT A FULL YEAR DUE TO COVID)
    2019: NEGATIVE 761.75 DIMES
    2018: NEGATIVE 738 DIMES
    2017: NEGATIVE 499.5 DIMES
    2016: NEGATIVE 2,941.5 DIMES
    2015: NEGATIVE 181 DIMES
    2014: NEGATIVE 113.75 DIMES
    2013: NEGATIVE 929 DIMES

    9/01/2007 to 4/16/2010: NEGATIVE** 3,245.7 DIMES (**AS DOCUMENTED BY AL DEMARCO) (NOT INCLUDED IN ABOVE RECORD)

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  6. Stop Gambling Our Future for Meat Deforestation

    Renowned animal rights ethicist philosopher Peter Singer asserts that our dietary choices, particularly our consumption of meat and dairy, are jeopardising the Earth’s future. These industries contribute significantly to environmental degradation, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions, intensifying the impacts of climate change. By indulging in hamburgers and other meat-based products, we are not only compromising our health but also the wellbeing of our planet. For a more sustainable and compassionate future, consider boycotting meat and dairy. Choose to be vegan for the animals and to save our planet #Boycottmeat be #vegan #Boycott4Wildlife

    https://youtu.be/ge4S2oHF5oY

    Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.

    Peter Singer, Princeton University

    I wasn’t aware of climate change until the 1980s — hardly anyone was — and even when we recognised the dire threat that burning fossil fuels posed, it took time for the role of animal production in warming the planet to be understood.

    Today, though, the fact that eating plants will reduce your greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most important and influential reasons for cutting down on animal products and, for those willing to go all the way, becoming vegan.

    A few years ago, eating locally — eating only food produced within a defined radius of your home — became the thing for environmentally conscious people to do, to such an extent that “locavore” became the Oxford English Dictionary’s “word of the year” for 2007.

    If you enjoy getting to know and support your local farmers, of course, eating locally makes sense. But if your aim is, as many local eaters said, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you would do much better by thinking about what you are eating, rather than where it comes from. That’s because transport makes up only a tiny share of the greenhouse gas emissions from the production and distribution of food.

    With beef, for example, transport is only 0.5% of total emissions. So if you eat local beef you will still be responsible for 99.5% of the greenhouse gas emissions your food would have caused if you had eaten beef transported a long distance. On the other hand, if you choose peas you will be responsible for only about 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions from producing a similar quantity of local beef.

    And although beef is the worst food for emitting greenhouse gases, a broader study of the carbon footprints of food across the European Union showed that meat, dairy and eggs accounted for 83% of emissions, and transport for only 6%.

    More generally, plant foods typically have far lower greenhouse gas emissions than any animal foods, whether we are comparing equivalent quantities of calories or of protein. Beef, for example, emits 192 times as much carbon dioxide equivalent per gram of protein as nuts, and while these are at the extremes of the protein foods, eggs, the animal food with the lowest emissions per gram of protein, still has, per gram of protein, more than twice the emissions of tofu.

    Animal foods do even more poorly when compared with plant foods in terms of calories produced. Beef emits 520 times as much per calorie as nuts, and eggs, again the best-performing animal product, emit five times as much per calorie as potatoes.

    Favourable as these figures are to plant foods, they leave out something that tilts the balance even more strongly against animal foods in the effort to avoid catastrophic climate change: the “carbon opportunity cost” of the vast area of land used for grazing animals and the smaller, but still very large, area used to grow crops that are then fed — wastefully, as we have seen — to confined animals.

    Because we use this land for animals we eat, it cannot be used to restore native ecosystems, including forests, which would safely remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. One study has found that a shift to plant-based eating would free up so much land for this purpose that seizing the opportunity would give us a 66% probability of achieving something that most observers believe we have missed our chance of achieving: limiting warming to 1.5℃.

    Another study has suggested that a rapid phaseout of animal agriculture would enable us to stabilise greenhouse gases for the next 30 years and offset more than two-thirds of all carbon dioxide emissions this century. According to the authors of this study:

    The magnitude and rapidity of these potential effects should place the reduction or elimination of animal agriculture at the forefront of strategies for averting disastrous climate change.

    Climate change is undoubtedly the biggest environmental issue facing us today, but it is not the only one. If we look at environmental issues more broadly, we find further reasons for preferring a plant-based diet.

    Fires in the Amazon and linked to cattle ranching. Andre Penner/AP Photo

    The clearing and burning of the Amazon rainforest means not only the release of carbon from the trees and other vegetation into the atmosphere, but also the likely extinction of many plant and animal species that are still unrecorded.

    This destruction is driven largely by the prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat, which makes it more profitable to clear the forest than to preserve it for the indigenous people living there, establish an ecotourism industry, protect the area’s biodiversity, or keep the carbon locked up in the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers.

    Joseph Poore, of the University of Oxford, led a study that consolidated a huge amount of environmental data on 38,700 farms and 1,600 food processors in 119 countries and covered 40 different food products. Poore summarised the upshot of all this research thus:

    A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car, as these only cut greenhouse gas emissions.

    Poore doesn’t see “sustainable” animal agriculture as the solution:

    Really it is animal products that are responsible for so much of this. Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy.

    Those who claim to care about the wellbeing of human beings and the preservation of our climate and our environment should become vegans for those reasons alone.

    Doing so would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution, save water and energy, free vast tracts of land for reforestation, and eliminate the most significant incentive for clearing the Amazon and other forests.

    This is an edited extract from Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer (Penguin Random House).

    Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University

    This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

    Originally published by The Conversation June 15, 2023 and republished here under the Creative Commons Licence, read original.

    ENDS

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    Gursky’s Spectral Tarsier Tarsius spectrumgurskyae

    Gursky’s spectral tarsiers AKA Wusing of North Sulawesi are vulnerable due to palm oil and timber deforestation. Take action for them and boycott palm oil!

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    Forest Protection Equals Climate Protection

    Forests offer climate protection and safeguard indigenous peoples, endangered animals and rare plants. Deforestation is a major threat. Boycott palm oil!

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    Beautiful and Doomed: Saving Bangladesh’s Langurs From Extinction

    Critically endangered Phayre’s langurs and endangered capped langurs of Bangladesh, are interbreeding raising concerns about their survival, take action!

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    Western Parotia Parotia sefilata

    Western Parotias AKA Arfak Parotias are stunning bird-of-paradise of West Papua known for their mesmerising dances. Palm oil and mining ecocide are threats

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    Jaguars vs Cows: JBS Fuelling Biodiversity Collapse in Brazil’s Forests

    Global Witness report finds JBS, the world’s largest meat company, is directly linked to deforestation in the Amazon and Pantanal putting jaguars at risk

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    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

    - Benjamin Franklin

  8. Kundgebung zum 18. März an der JVA in Dresden (Mitschnitt)

    Am 18. März 2024 gab es eine Kundgebung an der JVA in Dresden.
    Maja sitzt dort seit Ende letzten Jahres in U-Haft, als Beschuldigte im Budapest Verfahren.
    Zum Tag für politische Gefangene gab es den ersten Teil der Kundgebung als Livestream im Freien Radio in Dresden – Coloradio (98,4 & 99,3 MHz).
    Hier könnt ihr die gesamte Kundgebung etwas geschnitten nachhören.

    a-dresden.org/2024/03/18/kundg

    #Maja #NoExtradition #Budapest #Dresden #18März

  9. RE: eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116577

    The first one is a nothing burger. I do not want "just" another cover art. I want a passport issued by the European Union. I'm sick of this "nationalism" and every member state doing their own thing instead of trying to work together.

    I want a European Union Passport, aka one that is similar to the United States Passport. They're a collection of individual states and so are we...

    #eupol

  10. @[email protected] sorry, nachdem ich auch gerade ueber #Ideologie und #Idealismus nachdenke. Fuer mich ein paar Tags als Referenz.

    Unterschied
    #Demokratie und #Sozialdemokratie im Kontext von #Tafeln und #Ehrenamt getragen nicht ueber #staatliche #Institutionen, sondern ueber ein #gesellschaftliches #Idealbild einer #Gesellschaft von #Privatpersonen, mit der #Konsequenz, dass eine #Grundversorgung nicht mehr gewaehrleistet waere, wenn diese #Legetimierung des Staates nicht mehr existieren wuerde.

    #staatstragendes private #Organisation als #Sozialsystem ohne #Gewaehrleistung und #Anspruch



    @[email protected]

  11. @[email protected] sorry, nachdem ich auch gerade ueber #Ideologie und #Idealismus nachdenke. Fuer mich ein paar Tags als Referenz.

    Unterschied
    #Demokratie und #Sozialdemokratie im Kontext von #Tafeln und #Ehrenamt getragen nicht ueber #staatliche #Institutionen, sondern ueber ein #gesellschaftliches #Idealbild einer #Gesellschaft von #Privatpersonen, mit der #Konsequenz, dass eine #Grundversorgung nicht mehr gewaehrleistet waere, wenn diese #Legetimierung des Staates nicht mehr existieren wuerde.

    #staatstragendes private #Organisation als #Sozialsystem ohne #Gewaehrleistung und #Anspruch



    @[email protected]

  12. @[email protected] sorry, nachdem ich auch gerade ueber #Ideologie und #Idealismus nachdenke. Fuer mich ein paar Tags als Referenz.

    Unterschied
    #Demokratie und #Sozialdemokratie im Kontext von #Tafeln und #Ehrenamt getragen nicht ueber #staatliche #Institutionen, sondern ueber ein #gesellschaftliches #Idealbild einer #Gesellschaft von #Privatpersonen, mit der #Konsequenz, dass eine #Grundversorgung nicht mehr gewaehrleistet waere, wenn diese #Legetimierung des Staates nicht mehr existieren wuerde.

    #staatstragendes private #Organisation als #Sozialsystem ohne #Gewaehrleistung und #Anspruch



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  13. @[email protected] sorry, nachdem ich auch gerade ueber #Ideologie und #Idealismus nachdenke. Fuer mich ein paar Tags als Referenz.

    Unterschied
    #Demokratie und #Sozialdemokratie im Kontext von #Tafeln und #Ehrenamt getragen nicht ueber #staatliche #Institutionen, sondern ueber ein #gesellschaftliches #Idealbild einer #Gesellschaft von #Privatpersonen, mit der #Konsequenz, dass eine #Grundversorgung nicht mehr gewaehrleistet waere, wenn diese #Legetimierung des Staates nicht mehr existieren wuerde.

    #staatstragendes private #Organisation als #Sozialsystem ohne #Gewaehrleistung und #Anspruch



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  14. Das habe ich gar nicht mitbekommen. Wenn die ÖPNV-App bei der Ticketkontrolle einen Fehler hat ist ggf. ein erhöhtes Beförderungsentgelt fällig. Zumindest die S-Bahn Berlin sieht den Fehler beim Fahrgast, der es aber doch geschafft hat dies abzuwehren. #handyticket heise.de/ratgeber/Schwarzfahrt