The Best of Echoes 2025 So Far - The Top 35
The Best of Albums of 2025 So Far – The Echoes Top 35
Every year at the mid-point we like to take a moment and reflect back on the deluge of new music we’ve played on the show. And this year has been a good one so far in that any of the top 10 albums could’ve been number one. But we make the tough decisions here and you’ll hear the results of the Best Albums of 2025 – The Echoes Top 35. It’s 35 releases, to celebrate 35 years of incredible music on Echoes. I includes new artists, veteran performers and one artist who is a true icon. Even he couldn’t make the top 10.
| Artist | Album | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immersion/SUSS | Nanocluster Vol.3 | Swim |
| 2 | Marconi Union | Fear of Never Landing | Just Music |
| 3 | Carl Weingarten | Songs for a Perigee Moon | Multiphase Records |
| 4 | Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo | Transmissions | DiN |
| 5 | Fractal Sextet | Sky Full of Hope | RareNoiseRecords |
| 6 | David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor | The Precious Dark | Spotted Peccary |
| 7 | Aeseaes | Opia | Aeseaes |
| 8 | Klangwelt | Second Nature | Spheric Music |
| 9 | Oklou | Choke Enough | True Panther Records |
| 10 | Mogwai | The Bad Fire | Temporary Residence Ltd |
| 11 | Explosions In The Sky | American Primeval (OST) | Netflix Music |
| 12 | Anoushka Shankar | Chapter III: We Return to Light | LEITER |
| 13 | Koan | Nine Worlds | Blue Tunes Chillout |
| 14 | Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe | Luminal-Lateral | Deutsche Grammophon |
| 15 | Ravi Kulur & Barry Phillips | Breath and Bow | Koustic Music |
| 16 | Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf | Doppelgänger (DiN91) | DiN |
| 17 | AeTopus | iota | Spotted Peccary |
| 18 | Dino Pacifici & Brannan Lane | Imaginary Horizons | Wayfarer |
| 19 | Platform8 | Platform8 | Platform8 |
| 20 | Michelle Qureshi | Be In This World | Wayfarer |
| 21 | Milk & Bone/Ruth Radelet/Nat Walker/Adam Miller | The Lost Records: Bloom and Rage | Kid Katana Records |
| 22 | George Wallace | Beyond Live | George Wallace |
| 23 | Erik Wøllo | Where the River Widens | Projekt |
| 24 | 9 Theory and Torii Wolf | Soft Realms | Gravitas |
| 25 | The Royal Arctic Institute | The Royal Arctic Institute | Rhyme & Reason |
| 26 | Olafur Arnalds & Loreen | Sages | Wise Music Creative |
| 27 | Colin Rayment | Penumbra | SynGate |
| 28 | Kelly Lee Owens | Dreamstate | DH2 |
| 29 | Hollie Kenniff | For Forever | Nettwerk |
| 30 | AVAWAVES | Heartbeat | One Little Independent |
| 31 | Ancient Future | Purple Nirvana | Ancient Future |
| 32 | Ryan Farish | Under the Stars | Rytone |
| 33 | Dieter Spears | The Signal | Wayfarer |
| 34 | Harbors | When We Are Free | Nettwerk |
| 35 | Quiet Resonance | Downshift | 960447 Records DK |