The 8th Best Album of 2025
Moving right along in our march toward the finish line we have another artist I'd never listened to prior to 2025, Samia. Her album Bloodless lands at #8.
I remember seeing the song title 'Bovine Excision' and was expecting some weird metal thing, but instead I just got a perfectly lovely alt-country singer/songwriter jam that I played on repeat for a few weeks. And then the follow-up single 'Lizard' dropped, and I loved that even more, and I knew this album would be priority listening when it dropped.
This album feels like a continuation of the things that made me fall in love with Tegan and Sara as a teenager, if a little more folksy/country-ish at times. Stripped down indie-folk girls singing over acoustic guitar about love and loss and life? Sign me the fuck up every single time dude.
I do think the lyrics here are a bit up and down, but man I just keep coming back to this album for the warmth and vocals and vibes and I can't deny how much I love it. Fkn great, gimme 13 more.