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| Size doesn't matter: Best EPs of 2025
For one reason or another, many of us prefer things on the short side and I'm no exception. This is why Ethel Cain's 90-min long perversion is not considered here. | | 1 |  | Sentries
Gem of the West (Disc 2)
Kim Elliot already ruled my playlist this year with the “Gem of the West” album, and this EP of “leftovers” makes the experience even more satisfying. We’ve got noise rock bangers and an epic collab with Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo. What’s not to like here??? | | 2 |  | Amenra
De Toorn
I came too late to the Amenra party, but here I am enjoying every minute of it. While their last album, 2021’s “De Doorn” was far from the heights of any of the Mass releases, the twin EPs from 2025 present the band in a rejuvenated form, with the combination of despair and anger that satisfies the dark side of the soul (once more, thank you thank you thank you). Out of the two EPs, the Flemish-sung “De Toorn” is a tad stronger, and if you still have doubts about the superpowers this band possesses, just peak into the live version of “Heden”: https://youtu.be/pvN8X4XjjYs?si=ICyNqcAkPbpgqT0o | | 3 |  | Amenra
With Fang and Claw
The second Amenra EP from 2025 also rules, needless to say. These two releases altogether add up to almost 40 minutes, which is basically the length of "Mass V". And they are nearly as good. | | 4 |  | Blonde Redhead
The Shadow of the Guest
Although none of these songs are new, the choir versions from 2023’s brilliant “Sit Down for Dinner” are just as good as the originals, and "Before" is surely even better. What’s more, we’ve also got ASMR versions that can tingle your spine just at the right places. The most gorgeous EP of 2025. | | 5 |  | The Body and Dis Fig
Audiotree Live
Another EP with older songs, this time taken from the collab’s “Orchards of a Futile Heaven” LP from 2024, but performed live in Audiotree’s studio. And boy, these versions can haunt you for days, just check:
https://youtu.be/K6zxqcgn6tw?si=COnxpj8VPu25Yftq | | 6 |  | Maruja
Tir na nÓg
An improvisational live EP from the once Sput-darling Maruja, whose first album released later this year was rather divisive, primarily due to Harry Wilkinson’s into-your-face lyrics and vocal delivery. To me it sounded nothing different from their first two EPs and I still love it to bits. However, on “Tir na nÓg” there are no lyrics, just one 22-min. ripper of an instrumental track delivered with such finesse that the weeping sax in the final chapter makes my soul weep each time. For the naysayers. | | 7 |  | Porridge Radio
The Machine Starts To Sing
I was sad to read that the band called it quits after releasing this final EP and the accompanying tour, because Dana Margolin’s magnificently frustrated indie kept me entertaining for years (“I Don’t Want to Dance” being a nice example). To me this EP is stronger than their album from last year, especially driven by the t/t, which has a cool jazzy vibe that I’d be happy to hear expanded on an album proper. Maybe in the next life. | | 8 |  | Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld Sings David Bowie
Blixa Bargeld, the frontman of the legendary, once experimental/noise/industrial, nowadays rather just “mature” Einstürzende Neubauten, presentes four Bowie covers on piano, including the German rendition of „Heroes” and the chilling „Subterraneans”. Nothing revolutionary, just breathtaking as any Bowie cover release should be, but very few accomplish that (if any). | |
gabba
12.15.25 | Haven't seen an EP list from 2025 so far, so here's one, even if it's cheating because 3 contain songs released in earlier years. | RVAHC13
12.15.25 | Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 1 rules | budgie
12.15.25 | WHERE ARE ALL the in verted crosses and corpsepaint | RVAHC13
12.15.25 | Check any other thread on this website | budgie
12.15.25 | 5 is cool really sounds like that von hausswolf dead magick album | Feather
12.15.25 | AFI - All Hollow's EP | RogueNine
12.15.25 | Oh nice, I'll fit right in. | gabba
12.16.25 | Hell yeah @budgie, there’s nice witchery going on in 5. | Demon of the Fall
12.16.25 | 4 is great, of course it is! Love Sit Down for Dinner generally.
it sounds like I may actually enjoy this Maruja EP even if I was one of those people you speak of (who was underwhelmed by their latest) | gabba
12.16.25 | I think you’d like it @Demon, it’s jazz with a punch. |
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