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: Scaler album ‘Endlessly’

Scaler (for­mer­ly Scalp­ing) have part­ly built their rep­u­ta­tion on intense and immer­sive per­for­mances and while noth­ing could have pre­pared me for that first expe­ri­ence of see­ing them live, I’ve con­tin­ued to be blown away by their raw vis­cer­al ener­gy. They man­age to trans­fer that pow­er to their record­ed out­put too. Debut album Void was released in…

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