So much new music is released over the course of a year and because it is a constant struggle to push the super high quality music that has little to no marketing budget it makes perfect sense to do a best of 2025 thus far this year episode. With another one on the way pronto.

As a listener across almost all of the genres I can say that 2025 has been super fruitful, a landslide of new music that I hope continues. The year end lists tend to be lopsided in favor of releases from the second half of the year so mid year episodes fulfill an important mission: great shit gets released all year round. In this case a special shout out to the Ale Hop record released around the end of January, the Agender punk record, and the Raul Monsalve Latin Afrobeat record, all going on the best of 2025 list, hell all six of the records with excerpts in this episode may make my year end list.

Great episode, thanks for listening!

Excerpts from this episode:

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: La Danza del Pajarito

Ben LaMar Gay: the glorification of small victories

Civilistajavel!: XIII

Agender: Logo

Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos: Como el Sol

Los Piranas: El aguazo de Javier Felipe

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