I’ve talked before about how utterly arbitrary my annual playlists are — it’s music that I’ve discovered this year and become obsessed with for some period of time, except when it’s music that I’ve known for awhile and become obsessed with all over again, except with it’s neither of those things and just something that I wanted to add to the playlist — and, with this latest batch of 50 songs (another arbitrary thing! Why do I share the lists here in batches of 50? I have no idea; I did it once and it stuck), I broke another of my self-imposed rules for reasons that basically boil down to remembering that it doesn’t have to be that dish: namely, I added a second song by the same artist to the same list. In my defense, “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” by Raye is a great song, and I apologize for nothing.
Anyway, here’s the latest update from my 2025 playlist. (The playlist itself is here, and the previous three installments of the list on this site are here, here, and here.) May you find something new on here that you love, too.
