Favorites from 2025

Back at it! Here are my favorite albums, movies, and television shows from 2025:

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💿 Albums

1. El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports
2. Sven Wunder - Daybreak
3. Balu Brigada - Portal
4. The Circling Sun - Orbits
5. Racing Mount Pleasant - Racing Mount Pleasant

Honorable Mention: Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture, Wednesday - Bleeds, GoGo Penguin - Necessary Fictions, Theo Croker - Dream Manifest, Matt Wilde - Find a Way, sombr - I Barely Know Her, Jack Shields & The Mojave Rush - Cherry Pick the Past

Music was especially weird and hard to figure out this year. A lot of albums I really liked didn’t stick with me over time, so these are the ones that really held up after multiple listens.

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🍿 Movies

1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. Black Bag
4. 28 Years Later
5. Marty Supreme

Honorable Mention: Weapons, Bugonia, Warfare

Good year for movies! I didn’t see as many as I would have liked, but there were a lot of great ones in the mix. As of this writing, I still haven’t seen No Other Choice, which I’m excited to check out.

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📺 Television

1. Star Wars: Andor S2
2. The Pitt S1
3. The Rehearsal S1
4. Adolescence
5. Task S1

Honorable Mention: The Studio S1, Dept Q S1

Television had an insane top end this year. There were so many good shows. And then kind of a drop-off (at least for what I saw). A quick turnaround for follow-up seasons would be much appreciated (The Pitt already picking up where it left off with S2!).