Across 24 minutes, these compositions crawl, stagger, and spark with an urgency that feels both deliberate and unrelenting.
Tag: Best of 2025
Yann Novak :: Continuity (Room40)
Released on Lawrence English’s long-running Room40 label, Continuity is a conceptual and sonic triumph—an ambient album that dares to interrogate the very structures through which we process and interpret the world.
Fragile X :: Curves and Calculus (Bricolage)
A radiant constellation of sparks, pulses, and shifting tempos, where fractured synth strands ripple with melodic arcs and luminous curvature.
Jolanda Moletta and Karen Vogt :: Sea-swallowed Wands (quiet details)
Their approaches, methods, and sound signatures are relatively aligned, revolving around microtonality and meditative spiritual stillness. Such a creative dialogue can only be harmonious, guided by an imaginative force that invites the listener on a mental journey elsewhere.
Pan Thorarensen :: Ljóstillífun (U Know Me)
Expansive and hushed, the landscape breathes through each piece, as Thorarensen captures its elusive essence using custom microphones—drawing out subtle sonic layers interwoven with synth hues and an almost tactile sense of presence.
Day Before Us :: Dim Shores of Eternity (Les Nouvelles Propagandes)
A culmination of everything Day Before Us has cultivated over the past decade, while venturing into even more radiant, immersive terrain. For listeners willing to let go and drift in its pull, Dim Shores of Eternity is one of the most beautiful and haunting releases of the year—a spiritual monument built from silence, sorrow, and sublime sound.
Dalham :: Cobra / And The Sun (Castles in Space)
Fresh from his music being picked up for a Ridley Scott Netflix production, Dalham brings the required noise in Cobra / And The Sun, a twin release from the estimable Castles in Space set to alter states across the planet.
Rafael Anton Irisarri :: A Fragile Geography 10th Anniversary Reissue (Black Knoll Editions)
There is a geography of the soul that Rafael Anton Irisarri mapped out in 2015, a cartography drawn with electrified mists, torn soundscapes, and submerged melancholies. A Fragile Geography, his third release on Room40 (see our 2016 review here), spoke at the time with a dark and hushed voice, the echo of an emotionally fractured era. Now, ten years later, the album returns in a newly curated edition by Black Knoll Editions.
Djrum :: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth)
Under Tangled Silence is a lost album that has been found, a reconstructed work made whole from fragments. Born in pain, the collection is a triumph of Djrum’s musicality and his tireless effort to revive and reimagine what was gone. An immensely absorbing and original work, an accomplishment of desire and dexterity.
Kuma :: It Depends Which Wolf You Feed (Facade Electronics)
A mesmerizing confluence of sound and vision, where gravity meets cosmic dust—a terrestrial transmission in orbit, beautiful and hypnotic.
Roel Funcken & exm :: Flyphel (Science Cult)
Flyphel emerges as a visionary construct—where Roel Funcken and EXM (Jeroen Bax), both seasoned sculptors of audio intricacy, converge to propel alien percussion into elevated dimensions.
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