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Drowned in Sound's 25 Favourite Albums of 2025: 25-11 It's albums of the year o'clock! The best? Maybe. Our favourites? Definitely. Words by Sean Adams & Emma Wilkes.

The countdown begins

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Albums of the Year: Emma Wilkes & Sean Adams Pick Their Standouts Podcast Episode · Drowned in Sound · 08/12/2025 · 50m

You can hear @emmabwilkes.bsky.social and I discussing the tracks of the year on our podcast here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

+1 for Darkside

You know Spotify is run by shitheads because I'm willing to bet somewhere in that company they let this happen on purpose just for the bantz, just for a news item where they'd try and look a bit edgy, but I mean they just come off as the least inspiring bunch of cunts you could possibly imagine.

We’re going to be making a lot more of our editorial subscriber only on @drownedinsound.org next year

People are getting the media they don’t pay for at the moment and the people paying are billionaires… 🤦

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Thanks, we’re already looking into it - are you on phone or desktop?

DM’d you

It’s such a special record isn’t it? I only put it a bit lower as I thought it might be but much for some people

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It’s very odd as it’s working to me but someone else had the same issue

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Drowned in Sound's 25 Favourite Albums of 2025: 25-11 It's albums of the year o'clock! The best? Maybe. Our favourites? Definitely. Words by Sean Adams & Emma Wilkes.

The countdown begins

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Its the most wonderful time of the year. Any guesses what's on our list?

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It’s very out of character for one of the few BBC journalists who still seems to hold people to account

The claims are only surfacing now because we have more ability to surface clips than in 2013 when legacy media and chronological feeds meant clips like this didn’t spread very far and Farage seemed like an EU obsessed crank

After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.

Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I mean, I looked to see if they posted the clip on here (they didn’t) and he was on last week and 12 days before

And was on Question Time and Laura K in recent weeks bsky.app/profile/bbcn...

BBC Newsnight on Instagram: "“The least tolerant... and least kind people” - Victoria Derbyshire challenges Piers Morgan on his definition of ‘woke’. #Newsnight" 4,434 likes, 1,104 comments - newsnightbbc on December 6, 2025: "“The least tolerant... and least kind people” - Victoria Derbyshire challenges Piers Morgan on his definition of ‘woke’. #Newsnight".

Even @vicderbyshire.bsky.social failed and I’ve not seen a BBC Verify fact check

The disproportionate amount of airtime he gets, despite being found by a court to have done phone hacking is baffling

Does any media voice from the left get 10% of the media airtime? www.instagram.com/reel/DR6uTuh...

He also went on Newsnight and blamed the woke intolerant left for killing Charlie Kirk, despite no evidence to back that up (lots of reporting suggesting he was a groyper)

Then started waffling about trans and protecting women, despite his biggest videos being Tate and out of court settler Ronaldo

This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?

Who would you love to hear on the @drownedinsound.org podcast next year? Any topics you’d like me to tackle?

Had quite a similar chat with Kelly Lee Owens last week so definitely a topic I’m keen to discuss further

Oooooh that sounds like it could be perfect - will email in the week. We have some times at Shure’s studios in Bank/London in case that might work

Who would you love to hear on the @drownedinsound.org podcast next year? Any topics you’d like me to tackle?

How To Support The Music You're Obsessed With Find out how you can support the music you love

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How To Support The Music You're Obsessed With Find out how you can support the music you love

I don’t know who needs to hear this but please repost www.drownedinsound.org/how-to-suppo...

The ONE ALBUM from 2025 more people need to hear I love this thread every year, to precede listageddon It’s very simple, you pick a record that you think people may have missed or forgotten and share a brief description. Given there are 120,000 son...

There’s this? community.drownedinsound.com/t/the-one-al...

New Spotify Wrapped Feature Shows How Much of Your Money Went to Funding AI Warfare Technology Spotify released its popular annual year-end “Wrapped” feature which gives users a snapshot of their music and podcast listening trends along with a new feature that shows how much of their money went...

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your regular reminder that spotify sucks shit and doesn't pay artists for shit and is not your only option for convenient streaming

With all of the “wrapped” posts I’m seeing today, it’s a good time to put this out there again.

Deleting Spotify is literally a tiny thing. Everyone has the ability to do it and it could make such a big difference. It’s just a case of if you want to or not.

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