SYLVIA SHALE’S BEST OF 2025
10. Felicity J Lord – FJL [STROOM]
Asylum pop charts
no meds today kitten-pups
top 40 lead water hits
file under: what the absolute fuck
9. Time Is Away – Lake [self-released mixtape]
A lake in the Alps
cowbells in the valley dew
sleepy folk, mist, glow
file under: mixtape series collage
8. Babyfloating – Babysmoking
[CDr self-release]
Alaska splooge
grunge tuber Düsseldorf for
PJ Harvey pelt
file under: slow sexy German grunge
7. U.e. (Ulla) – Other Girl [28912]
Ta ambient jazz
bedroom purple quaalude glow
Grouper like a mouse
file under: ambient bedroom pillow wetter
6. Hugo Randulv – Drunkna l Ljus
[Discreet Music]
‘Drown in Light’ blue chap
a cello sings in flooded fields
thin feedback for night
file under: Scandi drone fizzlers
5. Alpha Maid – Is this a queue [AD 93]
This heat in London
south of the river guitar
24 track loop
file under: CURL Collective post-punk
4. Dania – Listless [Somewhere Press]
Jean Cocteau’s opium
Cocteau Gemini Twins' bag
606 biscuits
file under: Oz shoegaze
3. Robert Lax – Living in the Present [TAL]
Ok lapping poet
the birds, the sea, your voice
aleep soundly alone
file under: Modernist poetry & environmental recordings
2. A Happy Return – Hamewith [Spillage Fete]
Clyde Valley ferrics
hauntingly haunted houses
distorted choirs
file under: London to Glasgow lo-fi family tape loop lobs n’ lobsters
1. emer – Fog [Short Span]
Powder plump hillocks
snowmelt valley dew drippers
dial in side-chain
file under:: art techno dub, shoegaze vox
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… No. 11-27 will be posted in due coarse-groovers …