IMPORTANT: Please don’t forget to submit your ballot for your favourite LPs of 2025!

Please do so [here].

Ballots close on (or after, but not before) December 4th at 23:59 EST!

The form is in 3 parts, with the last section being optional:

• Part 1: your username (or what it would be if you could create an account here);
• Part 2: your top 10 LPs of 2025 (so no EPs, Live Albums, Compilations, singles that are somehow in the database, etc.). Please note that a ballot needs at least 10 entries;
• Part 3: this section is optional. However, if you can sneak in anywhere between 11-25 LPs in total across the two sections, have at it!

Additionally, please continue to hype up your favourite records so far this year in the comments, in threads, in lists, or wherever else your collective hearts desire on the site.

Below is a very short list of new releases (a healthy chunk being live albums) for December 5th, 2025. Feel free to jam the playlist below, request reviews from staff and contributors, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and remember: it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times…?

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– List of Releases: December 5th, 2025 –

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Alison Wonderland – Ghost World
Genre: Trap [EDM] / Future Bass
Label: EMI

Anna of the North – Girl in a Bottle
Genre: Alt-Pop / Bedroom Pop
Label: [PIAS]

Black Rain – Obliteration Bliss
Genre: Industrial Techno / Dark Ambient
Label: Room40

Blood Red Throne – Siltskin
Genre: Death Metal / Groove Metal
Label: Soulseller

Daniel Knox – Mercado 48
Genre: Chamber Pop / Baroque Pop
Label: H.P. Johnson Presents

Death Obvious – Death Obvious
Genre: Blackened Death Metal / Avant-Garde Metal
Label: Transcending Obscurity

Despite Exile – Where Hope Goes to Die
Genre: Deathcore / Technical Death Metal
Label: Blood Blast Distribution

The Dirty Nil – Live at the Dine Alone Store [Live Album]
Genre: Garage Punk / Power Pop
Label: Dine Alone

Dove Ellis – Blizzard
Genre: Indie Folk / Chamber Pop
Label: Black Butter / AMF

Enthroned – Ashspawn
Genre: Dissonant Black Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Fucked Up – Grass Can Move Stones Part 1: Year of the Goat
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Rock Opera
Label: Tankcrimes

Hollow Peak – Obsidian Cult
Genre: Alternative Metal / Gothic Metal
Label: Massacre

Kronos Quartet – Forgive Us For
Genre: Chamber Music / Modern Classical
Label: Phenotypic Recordings

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unclouded
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Psychedelic Pop
Label: Fat Possum / Domino

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Live God [Live Album]
Genre: Art Rock / Baroque Pop
Label: [PIAS]

Olivia Rodrigo – Live from Glastonbury (A BBC Recording) [Live Album]
Genre: Alt-Pop / Indie Rock
Label: Geffen

Protomartyr – Pin Eyes Under the Alder [Live Album]
Genre: Art Punk / Noise Rock
Label: [independent] – purchase [here]

Retail Drugs – Factory Reset
Genre: Noise Pop / Slacker Rock
Label: Fire Talk / Angel Tapes

Roddy Ricch – The Navy Album
Genre: Trap / Alternative R&B
Label: Atlantic / Bird Vision Entertainment

Scorpions – Coming Home [Live]
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Label: Universal / Vertigo Berlin

TEED – Always With Me
Genre: Synthpop / Euro House
Label: Nice Age

TesseracT & Choir Noir – Radar [Live Album]
Genre: Progressive Metal / Djent
Label: Kscope

Tom Smith – There is Nothing in the Dark That Isn’t There in the Light
Genre: Contemporary Folk / Heartland Rock
Label: [PIAS]

Upon a Burning Body – Blood of the Bull
Genre: Metalcore / Groove Metal
Label: [independent]

Zac Brown Band – Love & Fear
Genre: Contemporary Country / Country Pop
Label: Master of None

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