Music in December 2025

Written By Andrew Bell

  • Mairearad Green & Rachel Newton’s album Anna Bhàn is a haunting tribute to their great-great grandmother of that name and her role in the resistance to the Highland Clearances.

  • Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers’ album of last year, GLORY, is a loose buzzsaw of sound.

  • sleepazoid is a newcomer landing with a bang (complimentary).

  • Taxes turns around a specific moment when the song becomes instantaneously epic and grandiose, which many songs try to do, but this is well done.

  • Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed) rolls along gently.

  • Out of Touch is a wonderful example of the synth-heavy ‘80s sound that was so easy to dismiss as silly for so many years, and yet is still undeniably great listening all these decades later.

  • Ratboys’ 2025 single What’s Right? Is perfect stormy road-trip music.

  • People, I’ve been sad is hard to describe, but it goes down smooth and carries you with it.

Andrew Bell
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