Ryan’s Favorite Music of 2025
The sounds that struck me most this year, including subversive slowcore, deranged future-pop, apocalyptic techno, and more.
The sounds that struck me most this year, including subversive slowcore, deranged future-pop, apocalyptic techno, and more.
After more than 160 releases, the project’s founder talks about its legacy, why it’s ending, and what’s next.
Including TikTok mashups and epic albums, ambient jazz and sugar-rush pop, beloved stalwarts and geniuses you’ve never heard of
The iconoclastic writer and ambient saxophonist talk about all the little miracles that went into their remarkable piece “Under the Shadow of Another Moon.”
Consider this an introduction to our taste, both individually as veteran music journalists and together as Hearing Things.