Continuing the year-end routine. This time a quick rundown of my favorite EPs of 2025. Again numbers but pretty arbitrary. Entirely subjective too. I think a few would have been long enough to be considered as albums too, but I think I’ve seen them mostly referred as an EP. So they are here. It’s less crowded here anyway. Apologies if someone thinks they are on the wrong list. What really matters is that they are great. I hope I didn’t forget something important. I went through the old blog posts and searched stuff that I marked as an EP. But there was at least a couple that I hadn’t marked as an EP and those almost flew under my radar when compiling this. There might be more. But yeah, these often get overlooked a bit, but they shouldn’t. There were some really wonderful ones this year. A handful of these were on heavy rotation all year long.
There’s again Tidal, YouTube and Spotify list, if you want an easy way to listen to these.
FAVORITE EPS OF 2025
| 20. |  | Whitney's Playland - Long Rehearsal (Dandy Boy Records / Meritorio Records) |
| 19. |  | Swimming Bell - Somnia (Perpetual Doom) |
| 18. |  | Spencer Kilpatrick & The Sand Gators - Adelman |
| 17. |  | Wil Cope - King of Nothin' (Spooky Poncho) |
| 16. |  | Zach Thompson - Algebra Parable (Breakfast Records) |
| 15. |  | Ryan Necci & The Buffalo Gospel - The Letting Go Part 1 |
| 14. |  | Kim Ware & The Good Graces - Grand Epiphanies (Fort Lowell Records) |
| 13. |  | Greazy Alice - Just Another One (Loose Music) |
| 12. |  | Daudi Matsiko - Dead Bird Dream (Real Good / Daudi Matsiko) |
| 11. |  | Beche - Like Dancers (Beche Forever) |
| 10. |  | Bobby Tenderloin Universe - A Fistful of Metal (Country Moon Records) |
| 9. |  | Katie Mae & The Lubrication - Object Impermanence (Soggy Anvil Records) |
| 8. |  | The Innocence Mission - The Raindrop Cars (Therese Records) |
| 7. |  | Anja Churchill - Children of the North (Open Sound) |
| 6. |  | Logan Farmer - Butchers (Western Vinyl) |
| 5. |  | Julie Arsenault & Aaron Comeau - How I Found You (Son Canciones) |
| 4. |  | Coltt Winter Lepley - Coltt Winter Lepley (Keystone Artist Connect) |
| 3. |  | 54 Ultra - First Songs |
| 2. |  | Thomas Dollbaum - Drive All Night (Dear Life Records) |
| 1. |  | Alex Amen - The Zorthian Tapes (Country Worm Studios) |
The Zorthian Tapes by Alex Amen is the EP of the year. Beautiful songs and seventies west coast type of sounds. Absolutely loved it. One of my favorite releases this year even if I include albums.