I Don't Hear A Single 10 Best EPs Of 2025

 

The final list before I go for a lie down. We celebrate our 10 favourite EPs Of 2025. Let normal service begin!

 

1  Hexham Heads - Hexham Heads      IDHAS Review

2  Secret Molecules - The Strawberry Sun      IDHAS Review

3   Elena Rogers - Always Trying      IDHAS Review

4   Janus 4-14 - Ghosts From Your Past      IDHAS Review

5   Skittish - Ugly Makes Pretty       IDHAS Review

6  Borderlines - Repair Kit      IDHAS Review

7   Rocket Rules - immediately and without hesitation    IDHAS Review

8   Slow Motion Film - Eastman / Untitled # 1     IDHAS Review

9   Fara San - Fara San     IDHAS Review

10  Spencer Pope - Dang       IDHAS Review

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Hexham Heads - Hexham Heads EP

 

We don't discover everything ourselves, our peers also help. Dennis from the excellent Add To Want List made me aware of this. It sounds so Stiff Records that I was amazed that the quartet come from Melbourne. This debut EP is the absolute dog's bollocks.

Van Walker's vocal is very very early Costello, but the whole sound reminds me of the glory days of UK New Wave. It feels like 1978 again. I mention Stiff, but the arrangements and production are much bigger. The arrangements in particular are magnificent.

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The hooks are plentiful. Big riffs, ace solos and killer choruses, the 4 tracks just left me wanting more and more. Even the slowed down, Music is completely engaging. There is a fine jangle to Say It Again with its catch all chorus. 

My personal favourite is Can't Live Without You, it has everything that you could want in a Guitar Pop song. But, Let Me Go is a close second. It reminds me of great times when music mattered much more to people than something in the background. If this EP were longer, it would be a contender for Album of the Year. It really is that great!

You can listen to and buy the EP here. It is available on 7 Inch Vinyl and as a download.

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