Larry's Faves: 2025 Music
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Music presents a dilemma, both timeless and immediate. I listen to a lot of albums spanning almost 100 years, multiple media, and in varied social settings. But it also has an immediacy: new releases, critical buzz, and the excitement of NOW! A year-end best-of tells a partial listening story, but alas:
2025 Superlatives
Best Album: Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band – New Threats from the Soul Best Single & Video: Elderberry Wine by Wednesday Best Debut: Annie DiRusso – Super Pedestrian Best Comeback: The Lemonheads – Lovechant Best Concert: TIE Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band/Snocaps – Bowery Ballroom, Manhattan Kacey Musgraves – Barclays Center, Brooklyn
Fourteen 2025 releases on heavy rotation, in no particular order:
Snocaps - 'Snocaps' (Anti-): Twins Sisters Powers Reactivate
Jeff Tweedy - 'Twilight Override' (dBpm Records): A box set of new material? Jeff writes a lot of songs
Wednesday - 'Bleeds' (Dead Oceans): I slept on this band before Bleeds, awake now
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band – 'New Threats from the Soul' (Sophomore Lounge): Can't stop listening The Larry’s100 review
Kurt Vile/Luke Roberts - 'Classic Love EP' (Verve): Played almost as much as Ryan Davis The Larry’s100 review
Lemonheads - 'Love Chant' (Fire Records): Cell Phone Blues was almost my song of the year The Larry’s100 review
Kathleen Edwards - 'Billionaire' (Dualtone Records): A full-throated and tuneful platter of rugged individualism
The Bug Club – 'Very Human Features' (Sub Pop): Second great album in 3 years
Rose City Band - 'Sol y Sombra' (Thrill Jockey): Meditations with steel pedal
Annie DiRusso - 'Super Pedestrian' (Summer Soup Songs): Punchy, energetic first record. Her Tiny Desk is a must-watch
Dean Wareham - 'That's the Price of Loving Me' (Carpark Records): Crazy, this is his first solo album
Superchunk - 'Songs in the Key of Yikes' (Merge): On one of the best post-hiatus runs in indie rock history
Neil Young - 'Ocean Side/Country Side' (Neil Young Archives): Never before released, even though you know all the songs. Great to hear them, as it was originally conceived and tracked
Kacey Musgraves - 'Deeper Into The Well' (MCA Nashville): Seven new tracks!
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