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2025 Music Discovery Award!!!

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bevok said:
I enjoyed the album this song was featured on, nice melodic pop with a retro flavour.
The Favors (collaboration of Ashe and FINNEAS) - The Little Mess You Made
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The Favors' song reminded me a bit of "Paradise by the dashboard light", where MeatLoaf and EllenFoley perform together.
 
24yo here with interest in underground music so I could see my takes being unpopular possibly, but here are two emerging artists from 2025 that have made waves in the underground and have provided some of my favorite music of the past year!

"Here I am" by The Hello:

"Easter Pink" by FakeMink:
 
Equivocation about live versions aside, that's @Noricha's song, so I'd better post another. Yeule's Evangelic Girl is a Gun was one of my favourite new albums from last year. I didn't like the title track video so much, and YouTube thinks the more elaborate work for What3vr is too dark for y'all without a sign-in, so this short one for Skullcrusher will suffice. It has a nice brooding bass line and a more upbeat shoegaze-y second half:

 
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Ho-ho-ho, I bring BAROQUE to the house!!!
It's Ensemble Klingekunst with Flute and Harpsichord Concertos by a rather obscure Austrian composer Joseph Umstatt, contemporary of J.S. Bach sons.

Someone said that Baroque symphonies are rather easy to perform, because they kinda carry you along, you just start and then snowball through, without any major deviations from the rhythm. Now, I ain't a musician and I cannot confirm that, but it sounds exactly as in why I love Baroque music: it presents a couple of musical ideas, or themes, and develop them until the topic is exhausted (in the context of a concrete piece, of course). Classical (read, Classicist, post-Baroque) music, to my taste, is overloaded with these small little ideas, or emblemas-musemas, which often makes music either incomprehensible, or too light to concentrate on specific emotion, or as they said it in 18th centuries, specific affect. This is all subjective of course, nevertheless, this late Baroque period, practically collapsing into the new, transitional Galant era, has its own magic, and this magic just doesen't let me go. This is just the second Ensemble Klingekunst's record, and its truly one of those ensembles which either produce a long and brilliant discography, or remain a one-two-hit wonder.
 
lots of great tracks, thanks!

I love guitars and here is one track i discovered this year:
 
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Hello everyone, I am going back to my previous post which unfortunately may not have been understood and this is due to my low level of English. I simply mentioned the fact that I prefer unretouched music with these imperfections. I mentioned well that there were many songs of very high quality, but unfortunately drowned in the digital stream. It’s a wild choice. I will tell each one their own. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t see any Laura Nyro today, or Burt Bacharach for example. Such sophistication in writing is no longer found for me nowadays.
 
WilliamfromParis said:
Hello everyone, I am going back to my previous post which unfortunately may not have been understood and this is due to my low level of English. I simply mentioned the fact that I prefer unretouched music with these imperfections. I mentioned well that there were many songs of very high quality, but unfortunately drowned in the digital stream. It’s a wild choice. I will tell each one their own. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t see any Laura Nyro today, or Burt Bacharach for example. Such sophistication in writing is no longer found for me nowadays.
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Just for you: (Don't forget to set to HD, mine came up 480p).
 
Some modern Jazzy slightly downtempo African Highlife from the coast of Ghana. If you like this first song the rest, mostly instrumental, is all good. My favorite late night listening for 2025.

 
Jimi Floyd said:
Maybe I’m just being slow, but I don’t see how full concerts from 15 years ago really fit in a thread our kind host dedicated to individual tracks released in 2025.
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The gentleman said he liked Burt Bacharach and I responded. Someone else might read his post and like Burt Bacharach also. There are threads here on a single speaker or AVR that go on for thousands of posts. It's a discussion forum.
 
Artsfols said:
The gentleman said he liked Burt Bacharach and I responded. Someone else might read his post and like Burt Bacharach also. There are threads here on a single speaker or AVR that go on for thousands of posts. It's a discussion forum.
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Got it. So the 2025 in the title is just a suggestion. It's a discussion forum! In that case, look out for my dessert recipes I will post in those AVR threads. When the mods come for me, I’ll just tell them I’m following the 'Burt Bacharach Precedent' you just established. Thanks for the green light to turn this place into a mess.
 
Jimi Floyd said:
look out for my dessert recipes I will post in those AVR threads.
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Just an attempt to steer the conversation back:
I must say that the 21st Century 'musical smorgasbord' that we have at our disposal has truly changed the way we used to forage and consume music.
[Please don't ask who 'we' is.;)]
 
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