Echoes Best Albums of 2025
We look back at 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 was 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 artists are 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>>
| Echoes Program 2552D – 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 |