Flow State Best of 2025

Here are our 50 favorite albums released in 2025 that we recommended. The list links out to each corresponding post, and the mix (for subscribers) plays a track from each of the first 25 albums in order.

This is our last post of the year. We’ll be back on Monday, 1/5. Have a great new year.

1. James Holden & Wacław Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care of You

2. Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark

3. Walt McClements - On a Painted Ocean

4. Patricia Wolf - Hrafnamynd

5. Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever

6. M. Sage - Tender / Wading

7. Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - Hiraeth

8. Gabriel Brady - day-blind

9. Logic1000 - DJ-Kicks

10. Malibu - Vanities

11. Coatshek - Sound Bath

12. Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer

13. DjRUM - Under Tangled Silence

14. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift Songs

15. Stefan Wesołowski - Song of the Night Mists

16. Hammock - Nevertheless

17. Laurie Torres - Ápres coup

18. ex_libris - ex_libris 001

19. Almost An Island - Almost An Island

20. Francesca Marongiu - Still Forms In Air

21. Hiram - Green Green Earth

22. Golden Brown - Patterner

23. Barker - Stochastic Drift

24. Elijah Fox - Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles

25. Ofir Ganon - Same Air

26. Raven - Gnosis

27. Various Artists - Sounds of Taiwan

28. Park Jiha - All Living Things

29. Various Artists - Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires

30. Wata Igarashi - My Supernova

31. SML - How You Been

32. Kelly Moran - Don’t Trust Mirrors

33. Blue Lake - The Animal

34. cehryl - You Win Some, You Lose A Lot

35. Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time

36. Excellent Birds (aka Annie Gardiner) - Digital Leaves

37. Lindstrøm - Sirius Syntoms

38. Evan Shornstein & Will Epstein - Frog Raag

39. Susana López - Materia Vibrante

40. rRoxymore - Juggling Dualities

41. Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo - Gaiaphilia

42. Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - Désert

43. Rival Consoles - Landscape from Memory

44. Okkyung Lee - Just Like Any Other Day (어느날): Background Music for Your Mundane Activities

45. Area 3 (Khotin) - View

46. Aiko Takahashi - Monologue

47. Vanessa Wagner - Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes

48. Sven Wunder - Daybreak

49. Tristan Perich & James McVinnie - Infinity Gradient

50. Davi Music - The Nectar of Now