Main Poop Analysis 2025
POOP 39 is here. That means we once again find ourselves huddling together under the digital streetlamp, sharing the music that somehow managed to penetrate the shower of shit around us…
POOP 39 is here. That means we once again find ourselves huddling together under the digital streetlamp, sharing the music that somehow managed to penetrate the shower of shit around us…
Sad Dad Rock, Folk, and New Age Pretentiousness — Patrick Watson // Beirut // Disinblud (Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith) // Cleo Reed // Wednesday // Haley Henderickx/Max Garcia Conover // Stereolab // Asher White // Olafur Arnolds // Wet Leg //
Japanese Breakfast // Car Seat Headrest // Viagra Boys // Big Thief // Addison Rae // Panchiko // Dave // Blood Orange // Panda Bear // Geese
BEST OF WHAT I HEARD THIS YEAR – Young Fathers // Stephen Wilson Jr. // Snocaps // Sarah Shook & the Disarmers // The Beths // Ty Segall // Paco Cathcart // Way Dynamic // Mouthful // Sugar // Bon Iver
Eric Fine — Geese // Jeff Tweedy // Water From Your Eyes // Cameron Winter // Jay Som // They are Gutting a Body of Water // Alex G // Wet Leg // Stereolab // Panda Bear
Andrew Stewart Poop 2025 — Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band // Water From Your Eyes // Florry // The Convenience // Tobacco City // Hotline TNT // Dean Johnson // Geese // Case Oats // Semi Trucks //
Betty and the Baby Boomers // Levanta // Michael Hurley // Cole Quest & the City Pickers // Little Annie // Mark Stewart // GAUDI // Dropkick Murphys // Songs from the County Hell
Here I am still doing this. Despite being cancelled by a bunch of hectoring scolds in the Hudson Valley. All because I had dared to call bullshit on a narcissistic influencer here in the Hudson Valley. I am still here. Been here longer than I was in my hometown of Jersey City but I am still from there. I am not here for anyone’s judgements of me. Seriously before you point your crooked little fingers at me? Take a look at yourself and your performative outrage and pat yourselves on the back for your rage pile on and congratulate yourself as you burned a witch at the stake. Good for you. But I did enjoy seeing Olivia Rodrigo perform with David Byrne and Robert Smith. I didn’t have Sabrina Carpenter on my bingo card as being part of the resistance. I welcome her. Maybe the Who finally played their last show. But they said that 43 years ago. (Saw them with the Clash at Shea Stadium) But here’s to them riding off in the sunset. — Ethel Cain, Steven Wilson, Lily Allen, Tyler the Creator, Wet Leg, Gwenifer Raymond, Rosalia, Sabrina Carpenter, Yola
Quite the year; it kinda drained me of all my pith, among other things. I just noticed that many of my picks rely more on atmosphere, noise, and repetition more than clever or poetic lyrics. A few sound like noises coming from the next room. Not gonna comment much. — Edvard Graham Lewis // Praed Orchestra! // The Bug Club // Kitchen Cynics // Margery Dew // Grey Malkin // Morwan // Optic Sink // Wreckless Eric // Milkweed // Kunnatic // Mamuthones
Don Cohen = PooP 2025 Favorites: Bonnie Prince Billy // James McMurtry // Jason Isbell // Jeff Tweedy // Jesse Welles // Ron Sexsmith // S.G. Goodman // Sharon Van Etten // The Third Mind
I sit. I puff. I listen. I rock. I type. – Poop 2025 – Water Damage // YHWH Nailgun // Rachel Kitchlew // Tortoise // Sessa // Juana Molina // Adrian Sherwood // Jeff Tweedy // Neko Case // Steve Gunn
Joan Shelley // Stereolab // Derya Yildirim // Geckos // Rachel Kitchlew // Geir Sundstol // Snorri Halgrimsson // Curtis Harding // Adrian Sherwood // Project Gemini + Wendy Martinez,
What a strange year (and then some). The LPs (I buy mostly vinyl- download a few) I purchased were fewer than ever in number and some might not have “made the grade” in years past. – Mavis Staples // Wet Leg // Taj Mahal/Keb Mo’ // Jeff Tweedy // Tedeschi Trucks Band w/ Leon Russell //
Racing Mount Pleasant // Way Dynamic // Geese // Wet Leg // Nourished by Time // Esther Rose // Water From Your Eyes // Greg Freeman // Ty Segall // Prewn
If you’re ever interested in chatting about the things you loved this year – I certainly missed a bunch of stuff – and/or hearing my thoughts on the lists below, give me a shout. I’m happy to celebrate that which brings us joy. — Crippling Alcoholism // Deadguy // Billy Woods // Deftones // Earl Sweatshirt // Ethel Cain // Manslaughter 777 // Tyler Childers // Charles Hayward/Dälek // Bonnie Prince Billie,
Duncan Clark – Poop 2025 – Dropkick Murphys // Wet Leg // His Lordship // The Tubs // Jason Isbell // St. Paul & The Broken Bones // Robert Plant with Suzi Dian // Manran // Viagra Boys // Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill
Gemini 3 prompt: Create a 2025 best of list in the style of rock critic Anne Powers / Will Hermes / Robert Christgau / Albert Camus using the following music albums in this order … Underworld // CMAT // Rosalia // Mdou Moctar // Nourished by Time // Lilly Allen // Florence + The Machine // HAIM // Little Simz // Black Country New Road // Neko Case // Obongjayar
My POOP DISC-CLAIMER (disc-lamer?): I struggled to find great records this year and kinda feel that in the end I included a lot of very good records. Such was 2025. As usual, many of the titles that made the cut, each in their own way, are throwbacks to past singers, earlier songwriters or lost songbooks. To badly paraphrase an old song, I sit and watch as years go by . . . and wound up listening mostly to the familiar and the time-tested. Buy New or Used via Amazon Rent via iTunes [?] 1 – MARTY STUART…
M.Nerney : POOP 2025 It’s a bitter pill to swallow that we have to go through this fuckery all over again. But somehow, incredibly, it’s even worse now than the first time around. What the actual fuck? How did we get so stupid? Thankfully, as always, there are still good people out there, doing good work, who keep us tethered, including the artists, musicians, and writers, who continue to create and inspire. Sit Down I Think I Love You Buy New or Used via Amazon Rent via iTunes [?] 1. Big Special – National Average: I’m not a…
After missing the deadline for the past couple of years, if you’re reading this, I must’ve gotten my poop to the Marks on time. Here goes (in no particular order): Cate Le Bon – Michelangelo Dying // Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin – Ghosted III // Jazz Dispensary presents Dream a Dream with Studio G: Cratedigger’s Archive 1970-2009 // Mozart Estate – Tower Block in a Jam Jar // Throbbing Gristle – Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin New Year’s Eve 2005 // Lucio Capece FS5 – From Scratch New Discantus Quintet // Sorry For Laughing – Rain Flowers // Yonni – The Speed of Dark // Sõon – Actions Made Audible // Matar – Archeoacoustics //