Some Upcoming Releases to Get Excited About in 2025
During a slow early January, I'm getting ramped up for the year ahead with my own spin on the album release calendar.
I wish I could say that with a new year comes a refreshed verve for scouring new music for you. Alas, my need to work through the holidays has left me squarely stuck in the “new music sucks” slump of the music discovery emotional timeline I shared with you before signing off last year.
New Music is Dead; Long Live New Music
Hello friends! This will be my last newsletter of 2024. Thanks for letting me take some time off. Keep scrolling for the last record giveaway of the year and a hefty interview I did with Patrick Hicks that will hopefully keep you entertained until 2025.
Thankfully (well, for me anyway), the first few weeks of January are shaping up to be pretty slow for exciting new releases. That means we have a little breathing room to take stock of what the rest of 2025 has in store for us.
Below, I’ll go through a few of the albums I’m most looking forward to hearing this year… plus a few I’m somewhat suspicious about.
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What 2025 record releases are you most excited about?
Part One: The Old Guard
You know them, you love them, do you really want more of them?
Maybe nostalgia guides my listening habits to this set of albums a bit more than actual interest. That doesn’t mean they won’t be an…
