Best Of 2025 - Community Picks

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One might think that all we care about is recommending new music to our customers - but the truth is that most of our favorites come from recommendations from YOU, our amazing customers! Music brings us all together, both in the store and in our community, and we always want to talk about the music we love. Join in on our Customer Picks Best of 2025 list - send us an email to get your picks added to our list!

Ken Venet 

Amy Phung

1. Anxious - Bambi 
2. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky 
3. Turnstile - Never Enough
4. Ben Quad - Wisher  
5. Flycatcher - Wrench 

Mig

1. Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer
2. Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal
3. smerz - Big city life
4. Wednesday - Bleeds
5. Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz

Aaron Pires

1. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
2. Little Simz - Lotus
3. Dijon - Baby
4. JID - God Does Love Ugly 
5. Westside Gunn - Heels Have Eyes

1. Darkside - Nothing (not prolific, always perfect)
2. Enemy - Fiend (piano trio from Europe)
3. Aesop Rock - Black Hole / Mess There Too (prolific, depth without end)
4. MANSLAUGHTER 777 - God's World (percussionists make loud dance)
5. Eric Scott Reed - Out Late (or any Smoke Sessions Records release)

Thomas Jacob Jr

5. Yungblud - Idols (Capitol Records)
4. Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Gemini (Colemine Records)
3. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis Part III: The Father of Make Believe (Evil Ink Records)
2. Lust for Youth + Croatian Amor - All Worlds (Sacred Bones Records)
1. Between the Buried and Me - The Blue Nowhere (InsideOut Music)

K. Eric

1. FACS - Wish Defense
2. Just Mustard - We Were Just Here
3. Loscil - Lake Fire
4. Tim Hecker - Shards
5. Mogwai - The Bad Fire
And tons of great reissues!

Spencer Shanks 

5. Geese - Getting Killed
4. Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes and Sad Women
3. YHWH Nailgun - 45 Pounds
2. Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt - Lucre
1. Wednesday - Bleeds

Mark Watkins 

Nala Sinephro - The Smashing Machine Original Soundtrack
Blood Orange - Essex Honey
Jefre Cantu-Ledesema - Gift Songs
KeiyaA - hooke's law
Steve Hauschildt - Aeropsia

Nate Johnson

1. GaGa - MAYHEM

2. Rosalía - LUX

3. FKA twigs - EUSEXUA

4. Laufey - Matter of Time
5. Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves