Music Mk.gee Probably Hears in His Dreams
We're listening to everything, all the time. Here are five older albums that were new to us in 2025—and made our years.
Welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we discuss a handful of new records catching our attention. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s happening now. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer.
We're not always listening to brand-new tunes: This week we have five great older albums from that were new to us in 2025, including a woozy sophistipop joint from a British songwriter and guitarist, a classic hip-hop record from a pair of Brooklyn bruisers, and a drum’n’bass DJ set taped to cassette at a rave in ’93. Let’s gooo!
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