Annual Music Review

Annual Music Review – 2025 – Popular Music

Artist	Song Title	Album	Year	Link	Note
Jerskin Fendrix	Beth's Farm	Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire	2025	YouTube Audio	Windmill Scene product now getting regular work with Yorgos Lanthimos.
Moving Mountains	Ghosts	Pruning of the Lower Limbs	2025	YouTube Audio	More than ten years since their last album.
Sea Lemon	Blue Moon	Diving For A Prize	2025	YouTube Audio	Debut album.
Ólafur Arnalds, Talos	A Dawning	A Dawning	2025	YouTube Audio	Collaborative effort between two established artists. Finished by Arnalds after the tragic death of Talos.
Oklou	blade bird	choke enough	2025	YouTube Audio	Long-awaited debut album.
Sam Amidon	Friends and Neighbors	Salt River	2025	YouTube Audio	Amidon's work blends old standards, with recomposition and original works in a way unique to him.
RADWIMPS	Meidai	Anew	2025	YouTube Audio
Jake Minch	Changed Things	George	2025	YouTube Audio	Debut album. Lyrically strong, a necessary condition for successful singer-songwriters.

Artist	Title	Genre	Year	Link	Note
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir	ARCHORA	Orchestra: 2+afl.0.2+bcl.2+cbn / 4.0.1+btbn.1+btba / 3perc / [org] / str	2022	YouTube Audio	A composer who delivers consistently on large-scale works.
John Moran	The Little Retarded Boy (from the opera: Everyday, Newt Berman)	Opera	1993	YouTube Audio	The most original and distinctive living composer.
Dušan Bogdanović	Village Music	Guitar	2014	YouTube Audio	The greatest living composer for guitar.
Caroline Shaw	To the Hands	Voices and strings	2016	YouTube Audio	Shaw is strongest writing for chamber ensembles.
Wolfgang Mitterer	Beethoven: 9in1	Orchestra and electronics	2018	YouTube Audio	An ambitious project made possible by generous collaborators, the Haydn Orchestra.
Max Vinetz	Wax Catalogue	String quartet	2023	YouTube Audio	A younger composer showing great potential.
Catherine Lamb	Parallaxis Forma	Chamber ensemble: voice, fl, b. cl, a. sax, glasses/bowls, e. guit, vln, cello	2014	YouTube Audio	Continuing the rich tradition of a previous generation that includes James Tenney and Ben Johnston, among others.
Thomas Adès	Forgotten Dances: No. 5, Carillon de Ville (for Hector Berlioz)	Guitar	2023	YouTube Audio	A composer with a reputation for pushing the technical limits of his performers: no exception here.