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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Green Man 2025 photo gallery and mini review

We gath­ered once again at Glanusk Park in the beau­ti­ful moun­tains of the Bre­con Bea­cons for Green Man – one of our favourite fes­ti­vals of the year. Here’s a lit­tle roundup of our high­lights. Thurs­day opened with a mini line­up that includ­ed W H Lung, mak­ing their sec­ond appear­ance at Green Man. It was a…

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Panda Bear new track release Virginia Tech

Some­thing that press­es all our but­tons is Pan­da Bear’s new track Vir­ginia Tech, pre­vi­ous­ly only released on the B‑side of the 7‑inch of Sin­is­ter Grift’s lead sin­gle Defense. It’s a rich slab of psy­che­del­ic throw­back gor­geouse­ness fea­tur­ing Pan­da Bear’s dis­tinct­ly lay­ered vocals, a mes­meris­ing drum line and even a euphor­ic sitar-like wig-out at the end. It’s…

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