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2025 Music Discovery Award!!!

Artsfols said:
I am curious what you think of this non-competitive selection of 2025 music that I posted. To be specific, which is your favourite track, given that you like at least one of them. It should not take long if you do a "gong" on the ones that you immediately dislike.
The reason I am asking is that I attend live performance at festivals and clubs and believe there's a lot of great music out there. But people have trouble finding it. So I'm curious what you think.

It does not look like it, but this link takes you to my post.
www.audiosciencereview.com

2025 Music Discovery Award!!!

Ya'll know this is supposed to be for new music released in 2025?
www.audiosciencereview.com www.audiosciencereview.com
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Out of those 7 you posted I liked Ophelia from Taylor Swift the most, I don't have any of her tracks though in my collection. (I tend to hear something I like then buy the CD & then RIP it to my PC and phone, I do use Amazon Music streaming sometimes rarely though.)
Artsfols said:
I was actually trying to introduce interesting and varied content fitting the envelope of the thread. I feel compelled to do that, because so much great music is being missed here, and in general, these days. Indie-folk encompasses country, bluegrass, Americana, choral, some jazz and rock, blues, gospel, roots, world, singer-songwriter, big band, and a great variety of music, with active performers today. I am not seeing much of any of this here, so I'm trying to make the tent a bit bigger.
The post you link was aroused out of genuine curiousity at the poster's comment, and linked back to a post I had made, not to my blog. I think the point that there is much great music still being made in this day and age is an important one to make, especially from the perspective of the artists making it.
However, I have yielded to the temptation to link back to my blog, so I'll take on board your criticism.
I just wanted you to know that's not the purpose of my posts.
I just love the music, and do a lot of digging and grunt-work in order to present it to people who often are disaffected with what is pushed at them through the normal channels.
I also post reasonably often here on the audio equipment side of things, so it's not like I'm here just to promote my blog.

I have removed any links to my blog. I'm more interested in contributing to the thread, not in self-promotion. (If I missed any, let me know).
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I'm not involved in the discussion you're having with some other folks re your post I'm quoting here, but I gave you a Like for that post, but not because you removed links to your blog.
 
Love King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and Phantom Island was a return to form for me.

Favourite track is this one!

Aerodynamic.


Some great suggestions from everyone! Love discovering new music from dedicated listeners! Oh, and Happy New Year to you all!

-Lewis
 
Artsfols said:
I feel compelled to do that, because so much great music is being missed here, and in general, these days.
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The universe of music is vast and what is considered to be good is highly subjective. Did you really expect any list to be comprehensive?
 
xray said:
The universe of music is vast and what is considered to be good is highly subjective. Did you really expect any list to be comprehensive?
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That's right. The Hives for me, for example, awaken wonderful live rock feelings and memories in me. :D They have their own style that they stick to. Song from 2025:
 
xray said:
The universe of music is vast and what is considered to be good is highly subjective. Did you really expect any list to be comprehensive?
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Well no I don't expect it to be comprehensive, and that's why I would like to help present a broader view. Audiophiles do tend to have eclectic taste, which is cool. And most of them are male, which narrows the channel a little more.
I do try and take subjectivity out of the process of picking our list. Originally I developed the year end list on my own, but I use a panel now, to make it a little less subjective. I had seven people score each of 80 songs to come up with a final 40. And each panelist also picked their two favourites. With one exception, there was no overlap on the favourites, i.e. thirteen different songs were picked as favourites. So yes, music is highly subjective and that's great. For the most part, I like seeing what people like.

Here is who we have on our list of only 40 songs this year. And all had new videos and mostly, new albums, this year 2025. (The discovery list, with 750 videos, has even more artists.) Most of these artists have a decent size following. Some fill stadiums, and a few are still trying to fill rooms. I am curious how many of these you know.
Allison Russell, Bastille, Julian Lage, Nathaniel Rateliff, Gregory Alan Isakov, Faouzia, Molly Tuttle, Stormzy, Sombr, Katie Pruitt, Lennie Gallant, Kate Rusby, Watchhouse, Of Monsters and Men, Trousdale, Finneas, Noah Kahan, Madison Cunningham, The Staves, Taylor Swift, Aurora, Melt, The Swell Season, Tiny Habits, Lucy Dacus, Hozier, Bronwyn Keith, Mavis Staples, Mumford & Sons, Hozier, Lizzy McAlpine, Tom Odell, Jacob Collier & The Staves, Billie Eilish, Lyyra, mxmtoon, Hayley Reardon, Nation of Language, Freya Ridings, One Voice, Daisy the Great, Cat Burns, Rose Betts, I’m With Her
 
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dumbsuck said:
Nice one, love the sax in it. Btw, are the drums supposed to be mixed like that? The toms are way too loud, all I hear is "dunk" "donk" :D
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Ya know, I never really noticed that until you mentioned it, lol. The drums in that band are usually very aggressive, so I would say yes, that's how they wanted it. DONK!!
 
 
I've been loving the vibe of this song
 
amirm said:
For me the one stand out is this original track by the pianist and youtuber, Emilio Piano featuring delightful, talented, young singer, Lucie:
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The following song by Lucie was written and produced exclusively for a two-part documentary on France in 2025 (Magical France). I can understand the effort involved because I think France is indeed a magical country:

 
rolfrander said:
Spanish duo Alexabril, formed by Abril Saurí and Alex Duato.

I found them on TikTok. They don't have many tracks on Youtube, but I think this is representative:

They are on spotify:
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Got a bit of an early Pat Metheny vibe to it.
 
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