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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Rocket Rules - immediately and without hesitation EP (Bandcamp Name Your Price)

 

The follow up EP to their self titled debut EP from last year finds the Melbourne duo in wonderful form. A short by sweet three songs that reveal the splendour of what they do, Rocket Rules are an example of an act that is crying for a full length release.

The sugar sweet vocal is the voice of an angel, a vocal that you would expect to feature on the Subjangle label, ideally suited to Dream Pop and all things 80s, but instrumentally, there is far far more. These ditties are soundscapes.

They mix shoe gaze with something that comes across as a far less angst ridden and more Poptastic Garbage. add up all the chances is pure 80s Gold Pop to an almost gentle Psych arrangement. the weight, bursts out of the blocks with the even gentler vocal meeting a Great Wall of sound.

It is the mix of the soft and the hard that makes this EP. Chalk and Cheese maybe, but both complement each other wonderfully. By the time draynor village ends with its slower, more restrained backing and an ace instrumental break, you are convinced that these two have a future as bright as the stars.

You can listen to and buy the EP here. It is at "Name Your Price", so what have you got to lose?

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