getting this giant poster home in 40mph winds was awesome

I sign my approval to some of the Big Ones, but if I have anything unique to contribute here, I’ve listened to every ECM release this year, as well as a lot of ambient, jazz, and country. There’s a solo lute album here, also 3 paragraphs about the latest Katamari soundtrack

I may slap some more on this before the year is up, but for now, this is my top 75 albums from between the... 534 2025 albums I have at least one play on

I finished Shadow Ticket earlier this week but needed to get the pomegranate juice for the grenadine

I think this is a one-off theme for this TV show, but she does have an album out next year and has been playing a song from it at concerts ❤️

and cover of the year, naturally

(Akiko Yano playing a melodica solo on a cover of Happy End - Aiaigasa)

same, the main melody of the opening track but a big ol grin on my face

Yoko Ogawa - The Memory Police
Lord Dunsany - In the Land of Time & Other Fantasy Tales
Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Jack Vance - The Dying Earth
Sayaka Murata - Earthlings
Mervyn Peake - Boy in Darkness
Jorges Luis Borges - A Universal History of Infamy
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White