DJ Egg's Eclectic MeggaMusic Best Albums of 2025

Work-in-progress. In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.

Akriza, Mah Ze Tar & Various - Where You Are, Now: Pt. II (Gravitas | Tribal-Fusion; World-Bass; Psychill; Free-NYP)
Alabaster DePlume - A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole (International Anthem | Future Jazz)
Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes (Bandcamp | Neoclassical; Ambient)
Andrew Lahiff - The Slow Collapse of Time (Bandcamp | Berlin School; New Age; Ambient)
Andy Bell - Pinball Wanderer (Sonic Cathedral | Shoegaze)
Anika - Abyss (Sacred Bones | Post-Punk)
Anna B Savage - You & I Are Earth (City Slang | Indie-Folk)
Anoushka Shankar - Chapter III: We Return to Light (Leiter | World Music; Sarathy Korwar Productions)
Arcane Allies - Mount Adhaphera (Echodelick | Prog/Psych-Rock; Kosmische; Ozricky)
Arny Margret - I Miss You, I Do (OLI | Indie-Folk)
Astral Magic - Dance of Destiny (Astral Magic | Space-Rock)
Astropilot - Solar Walk I - III: 15 Years Anniversary Edition (Astropilot Music | Ambient; Space)
Atomic Skunk - Biome (Bandcamp | Space; Psybient; Global-Crossover)
Avalanche Party - Der Traum Uber Alles (Kartel | Alt. Rock; Post-Punk)
AVAWAVES - Heartbeat (OLI)
Badawi - Liberation Sound: Sonic Vibrations for the Next Generation (UPA | World; Tribal)
bdrmm - Microtonic (Rock Action)
Ben Morales Frost & Violeta Vicci - Forest Music (Bandcamp | Chamber; Neoclassical; Piano & violin)
Benjamin Fulwood - The Stars Are Very Far Away From All Of This (Room40 | Avant/Ambi-Neo-Jazz)
Billy Denk - Beneath the Peaceful Sky (Wayfarer | Berlin School; New Age; Ambient)
Black Market Karma - Mellowmaker (Fuzz Club | Psychedelic Rock/Gaze)
Black Swan - From the End of Time (Past Inside The Present | Ambient; Neoclassical; Drone)
Blood Abscission - II (Debemur Morti | Post/Black-Metal)
Blue Lake - Weft (Tonal Union | NeoFolk)
Blue Lily Commission - Decommissioned (BLC | Berlin School; Psy-Prog; Global Dub; Feat. Icarus Peel, Jay Tausig & Steve Dinsdale)
Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy (BMG | Alt/Indie-Rock)
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
Boreal Taiga - The Boreal Taiga Collection: Phase 1, 2001-2010 (Wayfarer | New Age; Electronic; Chillout; Ambient)
Brueder Selke & Midori Hirano - Split Scale (Erased Tapes / Thrill Jockey | Neoclassical; Ambient)
BRUIT ≤ - The Age Of Ephemerality (Pelagic)
bvdub - 13 (Past Inside The Present | Cyberspace; Deep Ambient)
Caleb R.K. Williams - For The Time Spent In The Valleys (Eagle Stone Collective | Neofolk; Americana; Drone; Free-NYP)
Califone - The Villager's Companion (Jealous Butcher | Indie/Folk-Rock)
Canty - Dim Binge (Full Time Hobby | Alt-Pop)
Chris Olley & The Abstraktions - Volume One (Six By Seven | Psychedelic Rock)
Chuck van Zyl - Transience (Synkronos | Berlin School; Ambient; Free-NYP)
Cousin Silas - Harbour Lights: An Emporium Sampler (WeAreAllGhosts | Eclectic; Free-NYP)
Cousin Silas & aka:man - Cousin Silas & aka:man (Silas Emporium | Eclectronic; Ambient; Free-NYP)
Cousin Silas & Kevin Buckland - Waiting For Winter (Silas Emporium | Eclectic; Neoclassical; Ambient; Free-NYP)
Cousin Silas & phonux - Beyond Names (Silas Emporium | Eclectic)
Custard Flux - Enter Xenon (Bandcamp | Psychedelic Rock)
Damon Locks - List of Demands (International Anthem | Jazz-Hop)
Dashmesh - Biomimesis (Wayfarer | World; Ambi-Tribal; Didgeridoo; AOTYC)
Daughter of Swords - Alex (Psychic Hotline | Indie-Pop)
David Allred - The Beautiful World (Erased Tapes | Ethereal; Ambi-Folk)
David Cordero - Los Secretos De La Luz (Archives | Ambient; Beautiful)
David Helpling & Eric "the" Taylor - The Precious Dark (Spotted Peccary | New Age; Ambient)
Dax Riggs - 7 Songs For Spiders (Fat Possum | Grunge; Stoner Rock)
Deepspace - Neon Blue Utopia (Projekt | Ambient)
Destroyer - Dan's Boogie (Merge)
Die Wilde Jagd & Metropole Orkest - Lux Tenera: A Rite To Joy (Bureau B | Neoclassical; Electro; Crossover)
Dino Pacifici & Brannan Lane - Imaginary Horizons (Wayfarer MG | New Age; Ambi-Tribal-Trance)
Dirk Serries - Treasure Of Stars: Streams Of Consciousness (Projekt | Flatline Ambient; Free-NYP)
Disco Volante - Another Taste Of Transient: The Final Chapter (Digital Reprints)
Dodge Meteor - Super True (Swap Meat / Mike Vest Bandcamp | Space Rock)
Dream Theater - Parasomnia (InsideOutMusic | Prog-Metal; Hmmmm)
Dub Syndicate - Out Here On The Perimeter 1989-1996 (On-U Sound)
East Forest - Lovingly: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner, Vol. III (East Forest | New Age; Ambient)
Edensong - Our Road To Dust (The Laser's Edge | Prog Rock)
Elkin Sergey - Connection (Plexus | Psychill)
Envy Of None - Stygian Waves (Kscope | Rock; Alex Lifeson)
Ephilexia - Soul Eater (Bandcamp | Post-Jazz-Rock)
Erik Wøllo - Where the River Widens (Projekt | Ambi-Guitar; New Age; Ambient; Free-NYP)
Eternell - Indrajāla I (LILA लीला | Flatline Ambient; 5+ Hours)
Ethel Cain - Perverts (Daughters of Cain | Doomcore; Ethereal; Dark Ambient; Drone)
Evryn - Rats (Bandcamp | Trip-Hop; IDM; Chillout)
Expedient Self - Speaker EP (Submarine BC | Avant-Indie/Psych; Frippish; Experimental)
Ezra Furman - Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union | Indie-Pop)
FACS - Wish Defense (Trouble In Mind | Post-Punk; Hmmmm)
Faith Eliott - Dryas (Lost Map | Indie-Folk; Ethereal; Eclectic)
Firestations - Many White Horses (Lost Map | Indie; Art-Pop)
Fish Basket - Fish Basket and his second album (Interstellar Smoke / Echodelick | Prog/Psychedelic Rock)
Floral Image - Gone Down Meadowland (Fuzz Club | Neo-psych-pop/art-rock)
Florist - Jellywish (Double Double Whammy | Indie-Folk; Dream-Pop)
Forest Swords - Bolted: Deconstructed (Ninja Tune | Ambient)
Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary) - The Girl With The Needle: Soundtrack (OONA)
Fritz Mayr - Solar Maximum (Bandcamp | Berlin School)
From the Mouth of the Sun - In Wind or Dust (FTMOTS | Ambi-Post-Rock; NeoFolk; Drone; Neoclassical)
Full Moon Scientist - A Triptych In Time (Amusiana | Nu-Breaks; Ambient Dub; Crossover)
Gaahls WYRD - Braiding The Stories (Season of Mist | Nordic Black Metal)
Gleb Kolyadin - Mobula (Kscope | Prog Rock; Neoclassical)
Gnäw - Gnäw II (Centripetal Force | World; Esoteric; Tribal)
Gnod & White Hills - Drop Out III (Thrill Jockey)
Goldmund - Layers of Afternoon (Western Vinyl | Neoclassical; Beautiful; Ambient)
Grails - Miracle Music (Temporary Residence Ltd | Prog-Psychedelia; Neokraut; Marvellous)
Greenleaf - Revolution Rock Deluxe (Blues Funeral | Hard/Psy/Stoner/Desert-Rock)
Halocraft - The Sky Will Remember (Halocraft | Post-Prog/Space-Rock)
Halocraft - To Leave a Single Wolf Alive (Halocraft | Post-Prog/Space-Rock)
Hawkwind - There Is No Space For Us (Cherry Red)
Helen Ganya - Share Your Care (Bella Union | Indie-Pop; Crossover)
Hello Mr. Klaus - The Fairy of the Cyclical Journey (Cyclical Dreams | Berlin School)
Human Pyramids - Thank You (Ricco Label | Post/Symphonic Rock; Plinky; Cinematic)
Hyperspace Odyssey - The Vault of a Thousand Galaxies (Astropilot Music | Psybient; Space; Flatline Ambient)
Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf - Doppelgänger (DiN | Berlin School; Electronic)
Ian Hawgood - Savage Modern Structures (Home Normal)
IKSRE & anthène - Seasons Shifting (Bandcamp | Ambient; Neoclassical; Ethereal)
Jack Hertz - Floating Falling (Aural Films | Ambient; Cinematic)
Jeff Greinke - Late Rain (Projekt | New Age; Ambient-Jazz; Free-NYP)
Joni Void - Every Life Is A Light (Constellation)
Joseph Balson - Ganymede Protocol (Bandcamp | Berlin School; Prog Rock; Cinematic; Space)
June McDoom - June McDoom (Temporary Residence Ltd | Compilation; Indie/Folk-Rock)
Kalya Scintilla - Tales from the Path, Part 1 (Merkaba | World Fusion; Tribal; Psy-bass/glitch/chill)
Kara-Lis Coverdale - From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound | Neoclassical; Ambient; Fourth World)
Karfagen - Omni (Karfagen | Prog Rock)
Ken Martin - Cydonia II (Bandcamp | Berlin School)
Ken Martin - Ursa Major (Bandcamp | Berlin School)
Kestrels - Better Wonder (Darla | Alt-Rock/Pop; Indie; Post-Emo)
Kettel - Dubio (Aquatic Ape | Electronic; IDM; Ambient)
Kid Spatula - Joozy (Third Kind | Electronic; IDM; Trip-Hop; µ-ziq)
Krakenkraft - Suspicious Signals (Cyclical Dreams | Berlin School; Space; Ambient)
Kristof Bathory - Black Hole Expedition (Cryo Chamber | Dark/Sci-Fi-Ambient; Space)
Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop | Space-Folk; Lo-Fi-Dream-Pop; Ethereal)
Landing - Tendrils (Structure vs Chaos | Shoegaze; Dream-Pop; Etherdrone)
Lauge - Collapsed Textures : Tape01 (Ultimae Studio Productions / Bandcamp | Ambient)
Legendary Pink Dots - So Lonely In Heaven (Metropolis)
Litronix - One A Day Keeps The Doctor Away (Invada | Psy-Pop)
Loneward - Gossamer Wings of Illusion (Altus Music | Neoclassical; Cinematic; Ambient)
Lonnie Holley - Tonky (Jagjaguwar | NeoBlues; Pop-Rock; Multi-Crossover)
Ludovico Einaudi - The Summer Portraits (Decca | NeoClassical; Modern-Chamber)
Macroblank - ヒーロー v2: Hero 16-30 (Bandcamp | Vapor-wave/chill; Trip-Hop; Free-NYP)
Mandrake Handshake - Earth-Sized Worlds (Mandrake Handshake | Psy-Pop/Rock; Neo/Indie-Kraut/Jazz; Crossover)
Mansur - Pentatonic Ruins (Denovali | World; Ethno-trip-hop; Doom-Jazz; Ambi-Global)
Maria Somerville - Luster (4AD | Dream-Pop)
Marine Eyes + IKSRE - Nurture (Ambient Mountain House | Dream/Ambi-Pop; Ethereal; Ambient)
Matti Bye - Never Alone (Oona | Soundtrack)
Michelle Qureshi - Be in This World (Wayfarer | New Age)
MIEN - MIIEN (Fuzz Club | Psychedelic Rock; Supergroup)
Milkweed - Remscéla (Broadside Hacks | Neo-Folk)
Mogwai - The Bad Fire (Rock Action | Indie; Post-Rock)
Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian - Noor-e Vojood (Centripetal Force / Cardinal Fuzz | World Music)
MOON X - Rocket To The Moon (Cloud Over Jupiter | Neo-Canterbury/Prog-Rock)
More Eaze & Claire Rousay - No Floor (Thrill Jockey)
Motorpsycho - Motorpsycho (NFGS | Norway; Epic Rock)
Naxatras - V (Bandcamp | Hard/Psych/Prog-Rock)
Nell Smith R.I.P. - Anxious (Bella Union)
NGC 224 - Singularity (Bandcamp | Berlin School; Free-NYP)
Nightsea - My Way (Plexus | Post-Rock; Free-NYP)
Nitro Cosmetic - Nitro Cosmetic (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube | Psychedelic Rock; Oscillation meets Chrome Hoof)
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Special Powers (Believer's Roast)
Oak - The Third Sleep (Karisma | Prog-Rock)
OCEΔNSS - Bioluminicent (Echodelick | Psychedelic Rock; Neokraut; Darkwave; Industrogaze; Motorik; AOTYC)
Olson - Diegesis (LOFS | Ambient; Trks. 6-9)
Painting - Snapshot Of Pure Attention (Lost Map | Alternative; Crossover)
Patricio Fraile - My Eternal Summer OST (FatCat | Soundtrack; Chamber; Neoclassical)
Penelope Trappes - A Requiem (One Little Independent)
Perfume Genius - Glory (Matador)
Perpetual Bike Crash - The Inside of an Airplane Engine (Piano and Coffee | Neoclassical; Neo-Ambi-Jazz/Cinematic)
Phaeleh - Fear of Silence (Phaeleh Music | Neoclassical; Ambient; AOTYC; Free-NYP)
Phonolab - Disturbia (Subsound | Eraldo Bernocchi; Gaudi; Mark Stewart; Bill Laswell & co)
Pieter Kock - The End II (Macadam Mambo | Electronic; Leftfield; Neokraut)
Please Close Your Eyes - Music For Floating (Mortality Tables | Eclectic; Ambi-Cinematic; Hauntology)
Pretty Lightning - Night Wobble (Fuzz Club | Psy/Desert-Blues-Rock)
Pye Corner Audio - Where Things Are Hollow: No Tomorrow (Lapsus | Electronic; Hauntology; Cinematic; Ambient)
Randon Myles - The Fallen Angel (Randon Myles Music | Eclectic; New Age; Chillout; Blues-Rock)
Rebekka Karijord - The Bell Tower (Bella Union)
Reblooming - Bardo Thodol (Plexus | Psybient; New Age; Ambient)
Richard Norris - Oracle Sound Volume 4 (Republic of Music | Dub; Psy-dub/chill; Chillout)
Richard Osborn - Freehand (Tompkins Square | Folk; American Primitive Guitar)
Runar Blesvik - All the Difference (Fluttery | Neoclassical; Neo/Ambi-jazz; Eclectic)
Sai³ - 六度空間 Six-Dimensional Space (Neotantra | Electronic; Cyberwave; Space; Ambient; Free-NYP)
Sam Amidon - Salt River (River Lea | Neo-Folk/Blues)
Saor - Amidst the Ruins (Season of Mist | Prog/Black/Celtic/Folk-Metal; Trks. 1,4,5)
Satomimagae - Taba (RVNG Intl. | Dream-Pop; J-Ethereal)
Sawtooth - Weird Tales (Dave Bessell / Bandcamp | Stoner Rock)
Sendelica - The Complete Mankind (Sendelica | Space/Psychedelic Rock; Epic 51 tracks)
Sex Blender - Naїve Core (Echodelick | Psychedelia; Psy-Rock; Kosmische)
Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar)
Sherpa - Alignment (Bandcamp | Psychedelia; Doom; Space)
Sinemis - Farewell (Injazero)
Single Cell Orchestra - A.M. (Celldom | Electronic; Neoclassical; Ambient)
Skloss - The Pattern Speaks (Fuzz Club | Heavy/Psychedelic/Stoner-Rock; AOTYC)
Skrika - Betrayal of Caerimar (Cryo Chamber | Berlin School; Electronic; Ambient)
Solstice - Clann (Giant Electric Pea | Prog Rock)
Sometime in February - Where Mountains Hide (InsideOutMusic | Prog-Rock/Post-Metal)
Sounds Of New Soma - The Story Of Sam Buckett (Tonzonen | Neokraut; Kosmische; Psychedelic)
Spirits Burning - Behold The Action Man (Noh Poetry | Space Rock; Supergroup)
Spiritual Fields - Inner Temple (Liquid Frog | Psychill; Ambient Dub)
Splitterzelle - Splitterzelle (Fuzz Club | Industrial; Space/Psychedelic Rock; Rave)
Squid - Cowards (Warp | Indie; Hmmmm)
Stephan Thelen - Worlds In Collision (RareNoise | Prog Psy-Fusion; Marvellous!)
Stereocilia - Phases (Echodelick | Psychedelic/Drone/Space/Gaze-Rock)
Steve Hackett - Live Magic At Trading Boundaries (InsideOutMusic)
Steven Wilson - The Overview
Studio - West Coast (Ghostly International)
Sunny War - Armageddon In A Summer Dress (New West | Indie-Blues/Folk/Pop)
SVLBRD - Monochrome (Archives | Flatline Ambient; Drone)
Tabla Beat Science - Akashic Bassmatter: The Final Frontier (In praise & memory of Zakir Hussain) (Bill Laswell Bandcamp)
Tara Nome Doyle - Ekko (FatCat | Indie/Folk/Art-Pop)
Teeth Of Glass - The Witch Of Salamanca (Kosmonauten | Kosmische; Neokraut; Cinematic; Free-NYP)
Telepathy - Transmissions (Pelagic | Post/Prog-Metal)
Thaneco - Cosmic Atlas (SynGate | Berlin School; AOTYC)
The Anchoress - Communion (Last Night From Glasgow | Dream/Art-Folk/Pop)
The Album Leaf - Rotations (Nettwerk | Ambi-Post-Rock; Cinematic)
The Birthday Massacre - Pathways (Metropolis)
The Elven - Solstice (Spinda | Hard/Stoner-Rock)
The John Irvine Band - Here Come The Robots! (Head In The Door | Prog-Jazz-Rock)
The Oscillation - Singularity Zones Vol.7 (Bandcamp | Psybient; Space)
The Residents - Doctor Dark (Cherry Red)
The Trance Dimensionals feat. Nik Turner (RIP) - Space Angels (Black Widow | Space Rock)
The Vacant Lots - Damage Control (Fuzz Club | Post-Punk; Psy/Fuzz-Rock)
The Vernon Spring - Under a Familiar Sun (RVNG Intl | Neoclassical; Avant-Ambi-Jazz; Crossover)
The Weather Station - Humanhood (Fat Possum | Indie-Folk/Prog-Folk-Rock)
Thisquietarmy - Langue Hybride (Consouling Sounds | Post-Doom; Neoclassical; Multi-Crossover)
Throwing Muses - Moonlight Concessions (Fire Records)
T. Gowdy - Trill Scan (Constellation | Prog Electronic)
Tim Hecker - Shards (Kranky | Electronic; Ambient; Eclectic)
Totemtag - Parallel Lives (Bandcamp | Epic Berlin School)
tunng - Love You All Over Again (Full Time Hobby | Neofolk; Folktronica)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - IC-02 Bogotá (Jagjaguwar | Neo-Jazz)
Unusual Cosmic Process - Lifelines (Astropilot Music | Ambient; Psybient; Space)
Various - For LA Vol. 1 & 2 (Nettwerk)
Various - LSD Special Selections Vol.14: Lá Fhéile Bríd v2 (Imbolc St Brigid's Day) (Liquid Sound Design)
Various - Retrospective [2019-2024] (Healing Sound Propagandist | Ambient)
Various - Seven Stages Of Grief 1 & 2 (Neotantra | Ambient)
Various - Trip to South Africa {Select tracks only} (Weedian | Doom-Metal; Punk; Psy/Stoner/Desert-Rock; Free-NYP)
Velocidad Crucero - Natura (Cyclical Dream | Prog Berlin School)
Walt McClements - On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl | Neoclassical; Accordion; Neo-Jazz)
Wardruna - Birna (Maksa Kota | Tribal; Nordic; Neofolk; AOTYC)
Warmth - Revenant (Archives | Flatline Ambient)
Water Damage - Instruments (12XU | Psychedelic/Drone Rock)
White Hills - The Observer, Observing, The Observed (White Hills Music | Psychedelic/Desert/Drone-Rock)
William Spivey - Dissolve (Aural Films | Eclectronic; Ambient; Cinematic)
Wyatt E. - Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu Part 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Yann Tiersen - The Liquid Hour | Rathlin from a Distance (Mute)
Yawning Balch - Volume Three (Heavy Psych Sounds | Psych/Desert-Rock; Neokraut)
Yttriphie - An Extremely Slow Motion Explosion (Projekt | Ambient; Free-NYP)
Zangoma - Faka Mulilo (Svart | Zamrock)
Zement - Passagen (CrazySane | Neokraut)