Chill is in Ascension on The Best Albums of 2025 on Echoes
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. You can hear the top 20 selections on the Echoes program for Monday, December 8 – only 20 because we can’t fit all 30 in – especially when one artist is doing compositions that are 43 and 30 minutes long. But subscribers can hear a stream of all 30 at Echoes Online.
| Best of Echoes 2025 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immersion/Suss | Nanocluster Vol.3 (review) (interview) | Swim |  |
| 2 | Marconi Union | The Fear of Never Landing (review) (interview) | Just Music |  |
| 3 | Azam Ali | Synesthesia (review) (interview) | COP International |  |
| 4 | Carl Weingarten | Song for a Perigee Moon | Multiphase |  |
| 5 | Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo | Transmissions | DiN |  |
| 6 | Marissa Nadler | New Radiations (review) (interview) | Sacred Bones |  |
| 7 | Fractal Sextet | Sky Full of Hope | Rarenoise |  |
| 8 | Steve Roach | Portals and Spirals (interview) | OtherSide |  |
| 9 | Bluetech | Spacehop Chronicles 2 (review) (interview) | Over the Moon |  |
| 10 | David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor | The Precious Dark (review) (interview) | Spotted Peccary |  |
| 11 | aeseaes | Opia (review) (interview) | (self-released) |  |
| 12 | All India Radio | The Unified Field (review) | Spectra |  |
| 13 | Mark Dwane | Aeons | Trondant |  |
| 14 | Mogwai | The Bad Fire | Temporary Residence Limited |  |
| 15 | Anoushka Shankar | Chapter III: We Return to Light (interview) | Leiter |  |
| 16 | Explosions in the Sky | American Primeval | Netflix Music |  |
| 17 | Koan | Nine Worlds | Blue Tunes Chillout |  |
| 18 | Ian Boddy & Harold Grosskopf | Doppelganger (interview) | DiN |  |
| 19 | Aetopus | Iota | Spotted Peccary |  |
| 20 | Ludovico Einaudi | The Summer Portraits (review) | Decca |  |
| 21 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Rendering Time | Spotted Peccary |  |
| 22 | Deepspace | Water Planets (Interview) | Projekt |  |
| 23 | Geoglyph | Otherworldly | Over the Moon Music |  |
| 24 | Rival Consoles | Landscapes from Memory | Erased Tapes |  |
| 25 | Michelle Qureshi | Be in this World | Wayfarer |  |
| 26 | Hollie Kenniff | For Forever | Nettwerk |  |
| 27 | Royal Arctic Institute | Royal Arctic Institute | Rhyme & Reason Records |  |
| 28 | Nicholas Gunn | 30 (review) (interview) | Blue Dot |  |
| 29 | Platform8 | Platform8 | (self-released) |  |
| 30 | Brannan Lane, John Gregorius & Sean O’Bryan Smith | Lost Desert Highway | Wayfarer |  |