Best of Echoes 2025 - the Complete Stream.
The Best Albums of 2025 on Echoes. It’s a list unlike any other, which you should probably realize if you listen to Echoes. We just experience a different world here in the Echoesphere. It has been a beautifully tumultuous year for great music and we’ve compiled our list of 30 favorite albums from the Echoesphere. These are records that made us smile or made us think. We only got to hear the top 20 selections on the Echoes radio program for Monday, December 8 – only 20 because we can’t fit all 30 in our two-hour timeslot – especially when one artist is doing compositions that are 43 and 30 minutes long. But subscribers can hear a stream of all 30 right here.
| Echoes Best Albums of 2025 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time | Rank | Artist | Track | Album | Label |
| 0:00:00 | 30 | Brannan Lane, John Gregorius & Sean O’Bryan Smith | Lost Desert Highway | Lost Desert Highway | Wayfarer |
| 0:03:56 | 29 | Platform8 | My Way | Platform8 | (self-released) |
| 0:10:03 | 28 | Nicholas Gunn | Miss You (Acoustic) feat. Alina Renae) | 30 (review) (interview) | Blue Dot |
| 0:13:37 | 27 | Royal Arctic Institute | Mas y Menos | Royal Arctic Institute | Rhyme & Reason Records |
| 0:17:31 | 26 | Hollie Kenniff | What Carries Us | For Forever | Nettwerk |
| 0:21:18 | 25 | Michelle Qureshi | Embracing Shadows | Be in this World | Wayfarer |
| 0:24:58 | 24 | Rival Consoles | In a Trance | Landscapes from Memory | Erased Tapes |
| 0:29:04 | 23 | Geoglyph | Resonant Structure | Otherworldly | Over the Moon Music |
| 0:35:52 | 22 | Deepspace | Geometric Polytidal ᛗ Fluctuations | Water Planets (Interview) | Projekt |
| 0:40:40 | 21 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Sunlight and Starlight | Rendering Time | Spotted Peccary |
| 0:45:09 | 20 | Ludovico Einaudi | In Memory of a Dream | The Summer Portraits (review) | Decca |
| 0:50:08 | 19 | Aetopus | Accent | Iota | Spotted Peccary |
| 0:54:27 | 18 | Ian Boddy & Harold Grosskopf | Livewire | Doppelganger (interview) | DiN |
| 1:00:05 | 17 | Koan | A Hat Full of Sky | Nine Worlds | Blue Tunes Chillout |
| 1:07:22 | 16 | Explosions in the Sky | Hard Road | American Primeval | Netflix Music |
| 1:12:03 | 15 | Anoushka Shankar | Amrita | Chapter III: We Return to Light (interview) | Leiter |
| 1:16:55 | 14 | Mogwai | Pale Vegan Hip Pain | The Bad Fire | Temporary Residence Limited |
| 1:21:15 | 13 | Mark Dwane | Aeon 5 | Aeons | Trondant |
| 1:26:13 | 12 | All India Radio | Crystallinity | The Unified Field (review) | Spectra |
| 1:29:33 | 11 | aeseaes | White Noise | Opia (review) (interview) | (self-released) |
| 1:33:01 | 10 | David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor | The Precious Dark | The Precious Dark (review) (interview) | Spotted Peccary |
| 1:42:03 | 9 | Bluetech | Amorphous Crystals of Cassiopeia | Spacehop Chronicles 2 (review) (interview) | Over the Moon |
| 1:47:33 | 8 | Steve Roach | The Far Place | Portals and Spirals (interview) | OtherSide |
| 1:58:14 | 7 | Fractal Sextet | Flight of the Phoenix | Sky Full of Hope | Rarenoise |
| 2:06:35 | 6 | Marissa Nadler | Weightless Above the Water | New Radiations (review) (interview) | Sacred Bones |
| 2:09:56 | 5 | Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo | Transmissions | DiN | |
| 2:17:21 | 4 | Carl Weingarten | Rise of the Perigree Moon | Song for a Perigee Moon | Multiphase |
| 2:21:39 | 3 | Azam Ali | To Pieces | Synesthesia (review) (interview) | COP International |
| 2:25:54 | 2 | Marconi Union | Crystalline | The Fear of Never Landing (review) (interview) | Just Music |
| 2:31:50 | 1 | Immersion/Suss | State of Motion | Nanocluster Vol.3 (review) (interview) | Swim |