Favourite albums of 2025

This year has pro­duced a boun­ty of rich­es of incred­i­ble vari­ety and wild imag­i­na­tion, com­menc­ing in Jan­u­ary with a top­i­cal­ly suit­able release by Brid­get Hay­den called Cold Blows the Wind, before mov­ing on to the sun­ny sounds of Divorce (if that does­n’t sound too odd). And there’s a bit of a Bru­tal­ist theme going on…

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Review: Seattle band Great Grandpa new album Patience, Moonbeam

Five-piece Seat­tle band Great Grand­pa may not be a house­hold name in the UK but hope­ful­ly their next album out 28th March called Patience, Moon­beam, on Run For Cov­er records, will help rem­e­dy that. Great Grand­pa are a reward­ing band to lis­ten to. That’s part­ly down to Alex Men­ne’s warm, coun­try-lean­ing vocals that ani­mate the…

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