31 albums and 6 EPs/singles of 2025, listed alphabetically

Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound (avant-garde black metal)

A Carnatic Quartet – Sound of ACQ, Volume 1 (Carnatic)

Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet (modern jazz guitar)

Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence (technical death metal)

Dave Douglas – Alloy (contemporary jazz – trumpet trio + rhythm section)

Drainolith – Macbeth (avant-garage)

Roddy Ellias and Matt Warnock – St. Mary’s Sunrise (improvised jazz guitar duos and solos)

Mahan Esfahani/J. S. Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1 (harpsichord in historical temperament)

Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (modern jazz – guitar-led ensemble)

Klaus Lang/Wolfgang Kogert/Wiener Symphoniker/Peter Rundel – tonendes licht. (contemporary classical organ concerto)

Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt – FRKWAYS, Vol. 18: Extended Field (minimalism)

Liza Lim – String Creatures (avant-garde string composition)

Marc-Étienne Leclerc – La guitare dans toutes ses couleurs (classical guitar)

Joseph Marchand – Treize miniatures (indie/folk/classical guitar intersection)

Messa – The Spin (hard rock/doom metal)

The New Eves – The New Eve Is Rising (art-punk)

Jason Noble and Steve Cowan – One Foot in the Past (Newfoundland field recordings and classical guitar)

Orcutt Shelley Miller – Orcutt Shelley Miller (instrumental noise-rock)

Paal Nilssen-Love Circus with The Ex Guitars – Turn Thy Loose (free jazz)

Plosivs – Yell at Cloud (indie/math-rock)

Propagandhi – At Peace (punk/hard rock)

Jeremias Schwarzer – New Recorder Concertos (contemporary classical)

Noura Mint Seymali – Yenbett (Mauritanian psych)

Ches Smith – Clone Row (modern guitar-led jazz)

Swimming – Old (Midwest emo/math rock from the East Coast)

Totorro – Sofa So Good (instrumental math rock)

André Villeneuve/Steve Cowan – Viscontian Pieces (contemporary classical guitar)

Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Lifeblood (post-classical cello/looper)

Steven Wilson – The Overview (contemporary progressive/space-rock)

Billy Woods – GOLLIWOG (alternative hip-hop)

Ella Zirina – Boundless Blue, Sunset Hue (modern jazz guitar)

EPs and Singles:

Maddie Ashman – i hate goodbyes (acoustic version) (art-folk)

Maddie Ashman – otherworld

DellaXOZ – UnHinged (emo-pop with tapping)

Ben Diamond – Terra Nova (contemporary folk-influenced classical guitar)

Emma Harner – Taking My Side (Live from Meg’s House) (math-folk)

Mark Kleinhaut – Have You Seen Miss Jones? (solo jazz guitar)