TOP 10 LOCAL RELEASES OF 2025

Mean World Staff’s Top 10 Local Releases of 2025

Jason’s Top 10 Local Releases:

Albums/EPs:

1. Relate. - Have I Ever Done Anything?

2. Capture This - Tangled

3. Thrillrot - Thrillrot

4. THURSTON - LOSS

5. Voidatlas - Descending

Singles:

1. Adolla - Birds

2. Tunnel Jumper - Snake Around A Scepter

3. Koy Pond - I Know a Ghost

4. Creek - Unbalanced

5. Lina Corrales - Event Horizon

Jake’s Top 10 Local Releases:

Albums/EPs:

1. Nicki Walters - mouthful of roses

2. VALKIN - SEIRINA

3. look at fiona. - look at fiona.

4. The Cody Sisters - Mother Tongue

5. Bison Bone - Lean

Singles:

1. Marfa - American Lonely

2. Dollpile - Fake Flowers

3. Lauren Frihauf - Expectations

4. VALKIN - DUNGEON

5. Joel Ansett - Hush

Hunter’s Top 10 Local Releases:

Albums/EPs:

1. Broken Record - Routine

2. Nicki Walters - mouthful of roses

3. The Velveteers - A Million Knives

4. moonpool - Nothing Sacred

5. look at fiona. - look at fiona.

Singles:

1. Flesh Tape - Ripoff

2. Deth Rali - The Architect

3. Dollpile - Fake Flowers

4. Creek - See Through

5. Pax Simile - King of Hearts

Sam’s Top 10 Local Releases:

Albums/EPs:

1. The Velveteers - A Million Knives

2. Barbara - SO THIS IS LIVING

3. Mystee - forget me not

4. Blackberry Crush - My Own Backyard

5. juney - Puffin

Singles:

1. Tomato Soup - Lesbian Thespian

2. Headslug - Millenium

3. Dollpile - Fake Flowers

4. Andy Tran - Said to Me

5. Dream of Time - Keys