Weekend, Dec 13-14, 2025 – Best Albums of 2025

Echoes Best Albums of 2025

We unveil 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. These are records that made us smile or made us think.

On this Echoes broadcast, you’ll only hear the top 20 because we can’t fit all 30 in, especially when one artist is doing compositions that are 43 and 30 minutes long. But we’ll have a stream of the complete 30 at Echoes Online.

You can see the complete list here>>

Weekend of December 13-14, 2025

Echoes Program 25-49A – Best Albums of Echoes 2025
Start Time	Rank	Artist	Track	Album	Label
		First Half Hour
0:01:00	20	Ludovico Einaudi	In Memory of a Dream	The Summer Portraits	Decca
0:06:00	19	Aetopus	Accent	Iota	Spotted Peccary
0:10:19	18	Ian Boddy & Harold Grosskopf	Livewire	Doppelganger	DiN
0:15:57	17	Koan	A Hat Full of Sky	Nine Worlds	Blue Tunes Chillout
0:23:14	16	Explosions in the Sky	Hard Road	American Primeval	Netflix Music
		Second Half Hour
0:30:00	15	Anoushka Shankar	Amrita	Chapter III: We Return to Light	Leiter
0:34:53	14	Mogwai	Pale Vegan Hip Pain	The Bad Fire	Temporary Residence Limited
0:39:13	13	Mark Dwane	Aeon 5	Aeons	Trondant
0:44:11	12	All India Radio	Crystallinity	The Unified Field	Spectra
0:47:34		break
0:49:35	11	aeseaes	White Noise	Opia	(self-released)
0:53:03	10	David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor	The Precious Dark	The Precious Dark	Spotted Peccary
		Third Half Hour
1:01:00	9	Bluetech	Amorphous Crystals of Cassiopeia	Spacehop Chronicles 2	Over the Moon
1:06:00	8	Steve Roach	The Far Place	Portals and Spirals	OtherSide
1:16:40	7	Fractal Sextet	Flight of the Phoenix	Sky Full of Hope	Rarenoise
1:25:00	6	Marissa Nadler	Weightless Above the Water	New Radiations	Sacred Bones
		Fourth Half Hour
1:30:00	5	Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo	Apogee	Transmissions	DiN
1:36:12	4	Carl Weingarten	Rise of the Perigree Moon	Song for a Perigee Moon	Multiphase
1:40:30	3	Azam Ali	To Pieces	Synesthesia	COP International
1:44:42	2	Marconi Union	Crystalline	The Fear of Never Landing	Just Music
1:48:57		break
1:51:57	1	Immersion/Suss	State of Motion	Nanocluster Vol.3	Swim

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Music from the artist formerly known as Talitha Rise and Rise. Now she’s using her real name, Jo Beth Young. The music is still as magical on her release, Broken Spells. We’ll hear that and the ambient group, Fields of Few, on Echoes with John Diliberto from PRX.

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