chris’s picks 2025 part A
Let’s start with some ground rules for this playlist. Are all these tracks from 2025? No. Does this list encapsulate the best tracks of 2025? Definitely not. Are all these tracks on currently shared Chris’s Picks playlists? Not exactly. So what are we doing here? This is simply a collection of songs from the past year or so that I enjoy. Most of these tunes are pretty recent, and some of them are worthy of their own blog posts, but who has the the time for that in this economy.
A couple highlights, though— Ben Keeler feat. Waxahatchee’s “Dollar Store”, Yausa-Exide’s “Spit”, WU LYF’s “A New Life Is Coming”, Horse Jumper of Love’s “The Idiot”, as well as new music from My Morning Jacket, Turnstile, Frog Eyes, and much more.
Here’s the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GoKKf312a45OHRx22t5Dp?si=5pDHvx9XSeKp94gwMp1EJg&pi=hAB2b1FrR3KBw
Tracklist:
Ekko Astral “baethoven”
Viagra Boys “Man Made of Meat”
Ben Kweller feat. Waxahatchee “Dollar Store”
Liquid Mike “Crop Circles”
Fontaines D.C. “It’s Amazing To Be Young”
Panda Bear, Cindy Lee “Defense”
Yuasa-Exide “Spit”
PUP feat. Jeff Rosenstock “Get Dumber”
MJ Lenderman “Dancing In The Club (This Is Lorelei cover)”
WU LYF “A New Life Is Coming”
Greet Death “Country Girl”
Thurston Moore, Laetitia Saider “Sans Limites”
BASIC “Tension Envelope”
Nervous Verbs “Chasing The Strings”
The Hard Quartet “Lies (Something You Can Do)”
The Murder Capital “The Fall”
Superchunk feat. Rosali “Bruised Lung”
Horse Jumper of Love “The Idiot”
Bon Iver feat. Danielle Haim “If Only I Could Wait”
Sharp Pins “I Can’t Stop”
Car Seat Headrest “Gethsemane”
The Reds, Pinks and Purples “The World Doesn’t Need Another Band”
Young Widows “Call Bullshit”
Waxahatchee feat. MJ Lenderman “Right Back To It”
Julien Baker & TORRES “Sugar In The Tank”
My Morning Jacket “Beginning From The End”
Frog Eyes “Television, A Ghost In My Head”
Turnstile “NEVER ENOUGH”
Hotline TNT “Julia’s War”
Youth Lagoon “Speed Freak”
Horsegirl “Switch Over”
Ty Segall “Fantastic Tomb”
