A year in 400 snacks, served without cutlery
If music discovery were an Olympic sport, this playlist would be the athlete who shows up in mismatched shorts, casually somersaults through the qualifiers, and still walks off with gold. We’re talking over 400 tracks — yes, four hundred — all dropped in the past twelve months, all carefully extracted from the great streaming swamp like nuggets of pure auditory gold.
Think of it as the ultimate tasting menu: bite-sized bangers, delicate oddities, heart-throttle anthems, and the occasional “what the hell is this and why do I love it?” moment. It’s the kind of playlist that makes your Release Radar look like it needs a long nap and a stern pep talk.
Hand-picked? Absolutely. Curated? Obsessively.
But mostly, it’s a love letter to the idea that somewhere, somehow, someone is putting out something brilliant every single day — and that your ears deserve all of it.
So hit play, hydrate, stretch a little (trust us), and dive in.
With BEST NEW MUSIC • 2025, you’re not just catching up on the year — you’re devouring it.
