Welcome to Deluxe number twenty nine, a 2025 musical almanac.
Compiled by the team here at Drift Records, this issue chronologically covers all the long-playing releases that did that little bit extra for us this year. Albums that have been on heavy rotation on the shop stereo and doing brisk business over the counter too.
Read it in full below. We include copies free in all 12" sized mail order. You can pay to have one shipped to you on it's own, here.
Our 2025 Record of the Year is Horsegirl’s magnificent Phonetics On And On. We have an exclusive limited edition pressing all of our own to celebrate! Shop and browse all of our 2025 Records of the Year, here.
Records of the Year 2025 in full;
A
Marshall Allen – New Dawn
Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
Ata Kak – Batakari
B
The Belair Lip Bombs – Again
Big Thief – Double Infinity
Black Country, New Road – Forever Howlong
Black Eyes – Hostile Design
Lavinia Blackwall – The Making
Blue Lake – The Animal
Brown Spirits – Cosmic Seeds
C
BC Camplight – A Sober Conversation
Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars
caroline – caroline 2
Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo – In the Earth Again
The Circling Sun – Orbits
Circuit des Yeux – Halo On The Inside
clipping. – Dead Channel Sky
Confucius MC & Bastien Keb – Songs For Lost Travellers
Kara-Lis Coverdale – Changes in Air
D
Darkside – Nothing
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band – New Threats From the Soul
Richard Dawson – End Of The Middle
Delivery – Force Majeure
Alabaster DePlume – A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole
Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & s t a r g a z e – Song Of The Earth
McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive!
Baxter Dury – Allbarone
F
FKA twigs – EUSEXUA
Fly Anakin – (The) Forever Dream
Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time
France – Destino Scifosi
G
Ganavya – Nilam
John Glacier – Like A Ribbon
Geese – Getting Killed
Getdown Services – Your Medal's In The Post / Primordial Slot Machine
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – Alfredo 2
Glyders – Forever
Golomb – The Beat Goes On
Steve Gunn – Daylight Daylight
Gwenno – Utopia
H
Kieran Hebden and William Tyler – 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
Holden & Zimpel – The Universe Will Take Care Of You
Hotline TNT – Raspberry Moon
J
Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Durand Jones & The Indications – Flowers
Kathryn Joseph – WE WERE MADE PREY.
Just Mustard – WE WERE JUST HERE
K
KEG – Fun’s Over
L
Cate Le Bon – Michelangelo Dying
Leroi Conroy – A Tiger's Tale
Lifeguard – Ripped and Torn
lilo – Blood Ties
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto – Electric War
Little Simz – Lotus
Los Pirañas – Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Corporal
M
M(h)aol – Something Soft
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall – Magnetism
Clara Mann – Rift
Walt McClements – On a Painted Ocean
Melin Melyn – Mill On The Hill
Miso Extra – Earcandy
The New Eves – The New Eve Is Rising
N
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
NYX – NYX
O
Daniel O’Sullivan – Eros
Okonski – Entrance Music
Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer
OSEES – Abomination Revealed At Last
Kassa Overall – CREAM
P
Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
Hayden Pedigo – I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Death Hilarious
Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight
Pulp – More
Q
Quinie – Forefowk, Mind Me
R
Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
RESAVOIR & MATT GOLD – HORIZON
Gruff Rhys – Dim Probs
Rose City Band – Sol Y Sombra
S
SANAM – Sametou Sawtan
Say She She – Cut & Rewind
Search Results – Go Mutant
Ty Segall – Possession
Sharp Pins – Radio DDR
Shrunken Elvis – Shrunken Elvis
The Sick Man Of Europe – The Sick Man Of Europe
SML – How You Been
Alan Sparhawk – With Trampled by Turtles
Sorry – COSPLAY
Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Studio Electrophonique – Studio Electrophonique
Sven Wunder – Daybreak
T
Laurie Torres – Après Coup
The Tubs – Cotton Crown
William Tyler – Time Indefinite
U
UNIVERSITY – McCartney, It’ll Be OK
V
Viagra Boys – viagr aboys
W
Water From Your Eyes – It’s A Beautiful Place
Wednesday – Bleeds
Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather II
Billy Woods – GOLLIWOG