⚡️🎵MY TOP TEN TRACKS OF 2025 🎵⚡️

For what it’s worth (probably not a lot)…

⚡️🎵MY TOP TEN TRACKS OF 2025 🎵⚡️

1. Long Island City Here I Come – GEESE

On the one hand it’s a maddening racket from an over hyped band lead by a nepo baby but on the other (if you give yourself to it) it’s unsteady tempo and cacophonous edging make for a thrillingly tangible rollercoaster of a song that feels wonderfully alive in this age of digital music with its rigid beats and pitch correction.

2. Words – BIG THIEF

Another fuzzy, buzzy melodic gem from Big Thief.

3. Flood – LITTLE SIMZ (featuring Obongjayar, Moonchild Sanelly)

A toss up between this one and Thief from Little Simz this year but Flood just edges forward with dark rhythmic and Simz assertive rhymes.

4. Satanized – GHOST

Papa and the nameless ghouls continued to answer the accusations that aren’t ’proper metal’ by pushing even further into Scandinavian pristinely produced POP rock instead with the Skeleta album. Santanized was its calling card – big, crunchy, a Headbangers Ball friendly howling guitar solo but with some light folk touches and a melodic flavour that pushes more towards ABBA than SABBA(TH)

5. It’s Amazing To Be Young – FONTAINES DC

Not quotes as magically wistful as last years Fontaines track ‘Favourite’ but still hits the mark with its jangly nod to The Smiths and The Lotus Eaters.

6. Mum Does The Washing – JOSHUA IDEHEN

Funny and insightful spoken word piece over a sample and a beat that takes the concept of a mum doing the washing and runs it through various ideologies.

7. Aftermath (Edit) – DOMINIC FIKE

Bringing the beach bum slacker mentality to the Gen Z kids, the Fikester returns with 1x weary yet irreverent verse, 1x great chorus and 1x sandblasted guitar solo and then it just ends because who needs long songs when the kids will only spend a minute and a half max watching a TikTok video before swiping.

8. Back of My Hand – THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS

Possibly the catchiest song of the year for me. Slight Belly meets Frente vibes like The Beths and all that. It plays in my head a lot.

9. The Man Comes Around – PULP

Unexpected Johnny Cash cover from Jarvis and the gang. It’s nicely rhythmic and builds quite splendidly. Lots of fun, Jarvis hasn’t sounded this pleasingly arch in decades.

10 – Ad Astra – ASH & GRAHAM COXON

Tim Wheeler doing what he does best (charmingly playful pop punk about space travel and such like) with the added bonus of a guitar solo duel rock out between him and Blur’s Graham Coxon.