Thursday, December 25, 2025

It Starts With a Birthstone 200 Albums For 2025

 

                     
                    1. Lido Pimienta - La Belleza
                    
                     2Juana Molina - DOGA
                   
                    3 Rosalia -LUX.

                   4 Horsegirl - Phonetics On & On 
                   
                   5 Ethel Cain - Willloughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You - & Pervert
                  
                   6 Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures

                  7 Richard Dawson -  End of the Middle  
                 
                 8 Stereolab -  Instant Holograms on Metal Film
                 
                  9 FKA Twigs EUSEXUA 
                 
                10 Big Thief -  Double Infinity
               
                11 Baxter Dury - Albarone
               
                12 Snocaps - Snocaps

                13 Parastatic - Concrete Reborn

               14 Dean Wareham - The Price of Loving Me

               15 Slow Motion Cowboys - Wolf of St Elmo

              16 Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars

               17 Alan Sparhawk - Trampled With Turtles

              18. Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Bittersweet Bitter
             
             19 Sharon Van Etten    & The Attachment Theory - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
               
              20  The Loft - Everything Changes - Everything Stays the same

              21 Wednesday - Bleeds

             22. Alex G - Headlights

               23 Park Jiha - All Living Things

              24 Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
              
              25 Belair Lip Bombs - Again

              26, Lavender Flu - Tracing The Sand By the People

              27. Daily Toll - A Profound Non-Event

              28 Imaginary Family - Builders, Believers 
           
            29 Japanese Breakfast  - For Melancholy Brunettes         

            30 Geese - Getting Killed

           31 Joan Shelley - Real Warmth

           32 Lorde - Man Of The Year

          33 Emma Pollock's Begging The Night To Take Hold

         34 Westmoreland -  I Got The Feeling In Bakersfield 

         35 Adrian Crowley - Measure of Time

         36 Hand Habits - Blue Reminder

         37 Blackxwash - Only Dust Remains

        38 Case Oats - Last Missouri Exit

       39 Bon Iver p

      40 OK Cool - Chit Chat
      
       41 Emma- Jean Thackray - 

      42 Index For Working Music -  Which Direction Goes The Beam

      43 Benjamin Booker - LOWER

      44 Gwenno - Utopia

     45 Golomb - The Beat Goes On

     46 Racing Mount Pleasant. - Racing Mount Pleasant

     47 US Girls -  Scratch It

    48 Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - Hiraeth

   49  Sueno Purpura -Souvenir

   50 Edwyn Collins -  Every Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation

    51 Madison Cunningham - Ace

   52 Attawalpa - Experience

  53 Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak

 54 Lucy Gooch - Desert Window

 55 Hectorine - Arrow Of Love

  56 HORSEBATH - Another Farewell

57 Foot Ox - A Lighthouse With Silver Dog Eyes

 58 Natalia Lafourcade - Cancionera

   59 WITCH - SOGOLO

   60 Water From Your Eyes - It's a Beautiful Place

 61 Herbal Tea 0 Hear As The Mirror Echoes

62 Carson McHone - Pentimento

 63 Model / Actriz - Pirouette

64 Bright Eyes - Kids Table

 65 Sagittaire - Coventry Suite Pt 1 is Collision Music

 66 Caroline - Caroline 2

 67 Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Overdrive

68 Tuung - Love You All Over Again 

69 Lonnie Holley - Tonkie

70 Lone Striker - Lone Striker

 71 Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales

 72 Katsy Pline - Incandecsent Fire

73 Teethe -  The Magic of the Sale

 74 Dining Dead - Is This a House?

 75 Modern Nature - Heat Warps

 76 Half Man Half Biscuit - All Asimov And No Fresh Air

77 Laele Neale - Altogether Stranger

78 David Sylvian - Vermillion Hours
 
79 Radio Anorak - Remember

80 Guided By Voices - Universe Room

 81 The Telephone Numbers - Scarecriw 

82 People Mover - Cane Trash

83 Melin Melyn - Mill On The Hill

 84 Matt Berry - Heard Noises

 85 Peel Dream Magazine - Taurus.

 86 Sam Fender - People Watching

 87 Squid -  Cowards

88 Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Overdrive 

89 Black Lips - Season Of The Peach

 90 Destroyer - Dan's Boogie 

91 Robert Forster - Strawberries

 92 Foxwarren - 2

93 Pomes Penyeach - Pomes Penyeach

 94  Water From Your Eyes - It's a Beautiful Place

 95 Frog - 1.000 Variations on Song
 
 96 Billy Nomates - Mary & the Hyenas

97 Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats From The Soul

98 Laminate - kiss unltd

 99 Shame - Cutthroat

100 Pulp - More

101 Florry - Sounds Like...

102 Bicep -  TAKKUUK

103 Bonnie Prince Billy - The Purple Bird

104 Yazz Ahmed.- Paradise in the Hold

105 Immersion - WTF

106. Editrix - Big E

107,Family Selection Box - Modern Gardening

108 Rats On Rafts - Deep Below

109 Valerie June - Owls, Omens & Oracles

110 Paco Cathcart -Down On Them

 111 Ian Hawgood - .Savage Modern Structures

112 Laufey - A Matter Of Time

113 Arny Marget - I miss You I Do

114 Brown Dog -  I Thought I Was Gonna Dance 

115 Gold Dust - In The Shade of the Living Light  

116 Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam

117 Steven R. Smith - Triecade.

118 Cloakroom -  Last Leg of the Table

119 Neal Morgan - PAW

120 Bridget Hayden & The Apparations - Cold Blows The Lane

121 Denison Witmer - Anything At All.

122 Men I Trust - Equus Asinus

123 Glyders -  Maria's Hunt

124 C.Duncan - It's Only a Love Song

125 Dutch Interior

 126 The Weather Station - Humanhood 

127 Laughing Chimes - Whispers in The Speech Machine 

128. Bridget Mae Power - Songs For You

129 Tunde Adebimpe - Three Black Boltz

130 Free Range - Lost & Found

 131 The Bug Club -   Very Human Features 

132.Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon

133, Peaceful Faces

134 Jonathan Richman - Only Frozen Sky Anyway 

135 Fruit Trees - An Opening

136 Lake Ruth - Hawking Radiation

137 Black Country, New Road -Forever Howling

138 Wet Leg - Moisturizer

 139 Andy Bell -  Pinball Wanderer. 

140 Luke Haines and Peter Buck - Going Down The River To Blow My Mind

141 Greantea Peng- TELL D'EM IT'S SUNNY

142 pencil - Bohemian Clutter

143 Salty Greyhound - Alligators 

144 Hudson Freeman - Hudson Freeman is a Folk Artist

 145 Durand Jones & The Indications - Flowers

146 Sharp Pins - Radio DDR

147 Ubiquitous Meh ! - Oddville

148 Autocamper

149 Divorce -  Drive To Goldenhammer

 150 lots of hands

151 Folk Bitch Trio - Now Would Be a Good Time

152  Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Past Is a Garden I Never Feed

 153 Matt Berninger - Get Sunk

154 Rip Van Winkle - Blasphemy

155 Wife Patrol - NOPLACE

156 Watchhouse - Rituals

157 Wishbone Zoe - Blue Distances

158 Chris Stamey - Anything Is Possible

159 Gina Birch - Trouble

160 Vinyl Williams. - Portasymphony

161 Fieldress - It's a Lot

 162 Preoccupations - Ill At Ease

163 Petite Amie - Hay Vaces

164 Suzanne Vega - Flying With Angels

165 The Nightingales - The Awful Truth

166 Jimmie Kilpatrick - Jimmie

167 Domino Kirke - The Most Familiar Star

 168 There's a Tuesday - Blush

169 Jeanines

170 Avery Friedman - New Thing

  171 Biche -- B.I.C.H.E

 172 Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking

 173 Sunflower Bean - Mortal Primetime

 174 quickly. quickly -  I Heard a Noise

 175 Bedridden - Moths Strapped To Each Other's Backs

176 Frankie Cosmos - Different Talking

177 Tugboat Captain -  Dog Tale

 178 Moscow Puzzles - Vast Spaces of the Interior

179 Cumulus - We've Got It All

 180 Pigeon Pit - crazy arms

 181 Death & Vanilla - Whistle I'll Come To You,

182 Loyle Carner - Hopefully

 183 Eliza Niemi - Progress Bakery

184 Jeffrey Lewis - The Even More Free Wheelin Jeffrey Lewis

185 Dead Gowns - It's Summer

 186 Sun Kil Moon - All The Artists

  187 Fib - Heavy Lifting

 188 Lifeguard - Ripped & Torn

189 Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain

 190 Beirut - A Study Of Losses

  191 The Altons - Heartache in Room 14

  192 Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto

 193 Rose City Band - Son Y Sombra

194 Caamp - Copper Changes Colour

 195 Chris Eckman - The Land We Know The Best

 196 Ball Park Music - Love Life

 197 MIEN - MIENN

 198 Nadia Reid - Enter Now Brightness

199 Gumshoes - Bugs Forever

200 Samantha Crain - Gumshoe

3 comments:

  1. Great work, Bruce! I have been trying to put my own list together and a cursory glance at yours has made me spot some obvious absences. How did I forget Horsegirl?! Anyway, here's a playlist that I will need to add more to now .. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/14zOTr4ZfBRuzkB1RS3kJp?si=yd6iMfyJQJ-hgRuSB640Sg&pi=5qkwJ4DHQq2HU

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  2. Although, I don't think you've got Uniflora on there, which you introduced me to, and which would be near the top of my list!

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  3. Oh that's wonderful Darren. Many thanks! My list is by no means definitive. I'll start on yours.

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