Noisewire Favorite Albums of 2025
Collective picks from the Noisewire staff for our favorite albums and EPs released in 2025.
Qual - "Love Zone"
Released: November 28, 2025
Love Zone sharpens Qual’s vision into something stark, propulsive, and uncomfortably immersive. The album leans heavily in places to the colder, more atmospheric sensibilities first explored on Sable, while still delivering moments of abrasive, confrontational force, all sculpted through raw hardware production. Throughout the album, there is a fixation on technological saturation and chemical comfort that paints an uneasy portrait of modern dependence.
Dancing Plague - "Domain"
Released: September 5, 2025
Domain represents a darker, more confrontational phase for Dancing Plague, propelled by harder EBM beats and basslines that maintain a constant, simmering tension. The album carries a pronounced sense of anger and emotional unraveling, examining fractured identity and withdrawal with unwavering focus. It’s a demanding listen without being abrasive, pairing shadowed beauty with the uneasy realization of an inner self slipping out of alignment.
S Y Z Y G Y X - "Sinner"
Released: August 1, 2025
Sinner marks a renewed alignment for S Y Z Y G Y X, where sound and motion pull together with quiet inevitability. Punchy rhythms, ghosted vocals, and spectral synths create a space where joy, grief, and release coexist, each step tracing a cycle of becoming and undoing. The album is less an escape than a surrender to rhythm as ritual, spinning hurt and healing into the same luminous orbit.
Meldamor - "True Sacrifice"
Released: September 9, 2025
True Sacrifice charges forward on raw, punk-driven songwriting reinforced by synths that strike with deliberate force. The rhythms hit like a massed advance, electronics gleaming and severe, while powerful vocals loom overhead with a commanding, almost mythic presence. True Sacrifice is both visceral and singular, unpolished, relentless, and carried by a sense of momentum that feels both ancient and immediate.
Dlina Volny - "In Between"
Released: August 8, 2025
In Between feels like a compelling evolution for the Belarusian trio Dlina Volny, deepening their blend of darkwave, post-punk, and synth-driven noir into something richer and more immersive. The album balances brooding atmospheres and spectral vocals with melodic contrasts that keep its shadowy world from feeling too monolithic, moving fluidly between icy introspection and dance-ready rhythms.
Rhys Fulber - "Memory Impulse Autonomy"
Released: September 5, 2025
Memory Impulse Autonomy finds Rhys Fulber weaving his decades-long mastery of electronic music into a cohesive solo statement that feels both retrospective and forward-looking. The album moves between driving, industrial-infused techno and more melodic, exploratory passages, incorporating guest vocals and textural variation without losing its core momentum. With nods to his early influences and unmistakable rhythmic force, it’s an expansive electronic journey that balances raw energy with thoughtful design.
Years of Denial - "Love Cuts"
Released: September 5, 2025
Love Cuts sees Years of Denial condensing their distinct electronic identity into a set of tracks that are as club-ready as they are thematically bold. Built around propulsive, motorized beats and punchy EBM-leaning basslines, the EP moves from driving, techno-tinged rhythms to acid-tinged grooves that pull bodies onto the dancefloor with urgency and momentum. Throughout, commanding vocals and polished synth work keep the energy taut and forward-leaning, delivering dystopian pulse and euphoric release in equal measure.
Filmmaker - "Bloodbound"
Released: February 14, 2025
Bloodbound places Filmmaker firmly in dark, confrontational territory, driven by stark rhythms, abrasive textures, and a persistent sense of tension. The album leans into discomfort rather than release, using repetition and pressure to create an atmosphere that feels ritualistic and deliberately unsettling. Bloodbound unfolds as a dense field of dark ambience and layered, psychedelic horror, where unease accumulates slowly and refuses to fully dissipate.
MVTANT - "Ultra Gash Inferno"
Released: October 16, 2025
Ultra Gash Inferno expands MVTANT’s stark, dystopian pulse into a wider club conversation, inviting multiple reinterpretations of its core rhythmic language. The remixes build outward from the project’s established foundation, revealing how flexible and resilient the sound becomes when filtered through different hands and perspectives. Ultra Gash Inferno plays as a tight, forward-moving, and purpose-built release offering sonic variety without losing the project's core identity.
Haunt Me - "Watch You Bleed"
Released: February 14, 2025
Watch You Bleed unfolds within a brooding darkwave and post-punk framework, built from shadowed synths and nocturnal tones. The album centers on dark romantic themes, pairing strong melodies with solid songwriting that keeps the songs immediate and engaging.
Noisewire Favorite Singles of 2025
Our favorite singles and standout tracks released in 2025.
Jo Kazan, JG Outsider
Ride of the Bat (JG Outsider Remix)
Released: July 12, 2025
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Marcel Dettmann, Severed Heads
We Have Come To Bless the House
Released: June 27, 2025
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