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2025 Music Discovery Award!!!

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So many beautiful clips,

I was a bit surprised : the Maison performance on YouTube clip to me seems much better than the one on Qobuz (at least for me). On the Qobuz .. Lucie's voice is just drowned by the orchestra/piano, while on the youtube - it is properly balanced.
 
It's an old stereotype that audiophiles tend to have narrow and obtuse musical taste. Heavy on the classical and the "attractive, obscure female vocalists". In other words, there are people that would rank musicality first and engineering/tone second, and there are those that rank engineering and tone above musicality. When I look at the list so far, the majority are tending to validate the stereotype. I'm in the musicality first bucket but I enjoy any music where people put passion into it for the right reasons (i.e. not for money & fame). Being a collector as well, what I've found is that the majority of great songs in a given year don't get discovered until years later. Either ahead of their time or difficult mainstream access. Looking forward to listening to the songs suggested here. None of them were on my radar previously so my judgement so far is "book by the cover".
 
dav0043 said:
It's an old stereotype that audiophiles tend to have narrow and obtuse musical taste. Heavy on the classical and the "attractive, obscure female vocalists".
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None which has been posted.
dav0043 said:
I'm in the musicality first bucket but I enjoy any music where people put passion into it for the right reasons (i.e. not for money & fame).
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Yet you offered none other than a lecture. Move on before I do it for you. :(
 
Enough of the plinky plunky audiophile stuff :) Get a load of these two Aussie bands. My top finds for 2025 !

Frenzee (Melbourne via Greece with some serious traditional musical heritage from Crete - you may not believe that when you see this song but look them up, it’s true)


The Maggie Pills: Melbourne via Venezuela

 
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What can I say, I'm a metal head through and through. This album did it for me in 2025, love every note, as well as their catalog.
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Never thought a saxophone could make it into even harder/technical territory, superb!

My personal discovery in 2025 is Dreamwake: perfect fusion of metalcore and synthwave

If you like saxophone maybe give also these a listen:
Shrezzers - Noodles (progressive metal)
Lazerclub - Sarah (synthwave influenced by 80s music)
Syntheticsax - Won't let u go (synth/trance/house?)
 
As usual many 2025 discoveries for me have years of release all over.

Looking at the few entries in this thread I already feel many are "too loud" for my casual listening and it's not about SPL ;)
So let me promote something contemplative/minimal (and from european scene at the same time):

Thomas Azier - Pelechian 2

[spotify] : Thomas Azier is a Dutch singer, composer and producer who started off making electronic pop music and later turned to more experimental forms of music and found his own language.
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Song above is in fact a stripped down/more intimate version of "Pelechian" :
 

My favourite of 2025. Alice Sara Ott with the Nocturnes of John Field.
 
How did I miss this in previous years? Thanks, Amir, you made my New Year's Day, exploring all these artists, many of which I hadn't heard of.

In keeping with the French connection, let me propose Pomme, a very accomplished artist who has reclaimed the heritage of the French chanson while building something new of her own:
 
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