31/12/2025
My best albums of 2025.
Doves - Constellations for the Lonely
Darker, brooding comeback for the Cheshire based Indie-Rock survivors
Cymande - Renascence
Perfect record from everyone’s favourite multi-sampled South London soul/funk/Afro collective.
De La Soul - Cabin in the Sky
First album without Trugoy, New York’s original Daisy Age rappers have made a joyful record with loads of old-skool style
Emma Jean Thackeray - Weirdo
Gilles Peterson championed Jazz Funk multi-instrumentalist and artist, who has written, played and produced this entire opus by herself; at times dark, then strange, then witty, it grows and grows. I love it.
And finally my personal favourite
CMAT - Euro Country
Glorious Irish country pop from a soon to be superstar. A triumph.
Music video by CMAT performing EURO-COUNTRY.(P) 2025 CMATBABY under exclusive licence to AWAL Recordings Ltd
