So here we are again, the end of the year, looking back at the almighty heights scaled by the most intrepid few. Here’s the first half of 2025’s Best Albums of the Year, an absolute showcase of fearless invention and remarkable beauty that demands and deserves your full, undivided attention.
Canada
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i didn’t realise how much i’d missed listening to Chiyoko Szlavnics‘ music until i pressed play on Memory Spaces, the latest album of her music. It’s been far too long, and while my interest in music exploring alternative tunings has waned considerably as it’s become slowly and stupidly reconfigured into …
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While the Sacrum Profanum festival’s name hints at its beginnings, mixing sacred and secular music of the 18th and 19th centuries, today’s iteration bears no resemblance. Notions of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ – absurdly outdated and meaningless concepts both – are absent, and the entirety of the festival programme focuses on …
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