Best of 2025

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Check out the albums CJSR volunteers couldn’t get enough of in 2025!!!

Piyush aka DJ Gulzer
Host of From Here We Go Sublime (Tuesdays at 7-8pm)
CJSR Volunteer

Lathe of Heaven | Aurora
Desinteresse | Onschuld
pôt-pot | Warsaw 480KM
Automatic | Is It Now?
Anika | Abyss

Joe Hartfeil
Host of The Organ Grinder  (Wednesdays at 1-2pm)
CJSR Volunteer

Favourite albums with medium – high organic content:

Raven Chacon & Present Music – Chacon | Voiceless Mass
The Deep Dark Woods | The Circle Remains
Ani Glass | Phantasmagoria
Julianna Riolino | Echo in the Dust
Anna von Hausswolff | Iconoclasts

Two ABSOLUTE favourite albums:

Carson McHone | Pentimento
• Lola Kirke | Trailblazer
***Although these weren’t exactly chock full of organ but they had plenty of heart and brains (particularly vital organs!)

Amy Cameron
CJSR Volunteer

Blusher | RACER
• The Happy Fits | Lovesick
• Autoheart | Heartlands
• The Beths | Straight Line Was a Lie 
• The Beaches | No Hard Feelings

Matthew Gooding
CJSR Music Librarian
Host of Catalog Jam (Tuesdays at 12-1pm)
CJSR Volunteer

• Cassia Hardy | In Relation
Cassia is a stunning and unparalleled musician. The songs are inventive and satisfying and you can feel the tension in the performance when you listen. She also really knows how to pair a word and a note. I will still be listening to this album years from now, I know it
Gelli Haha | Switcheroo
Bouncy, energetic, fun, well-produced electronic music
Oneohtrix Point Never | Tranquilizer
Is it as good as his previous albums? Yes! Inventive and immersive synthetic soundscapes. Interesting enough to think about if you want to or you can just let it set you down in a very pleasant place
Geese | Getting Killed
Wackily cool music by a weirdo savant
Alix Ferns | Symphonie publicitaire sous influence
It’s strange! But I think it would go over well at a party. Cool for bobbing to 

Aaliyah Wusu
CJSR Volunteer

FKA twigs | EUSEXUA
• Oklou | choke enough 
• Jane Remover | Revengeseekerz 
• Kelela | In The Blue Light
Lorde | Virgin 

Donald Teplyske
Host of Fervor Coulee’s Rootsicana & Bluegrass (Sundays at 2-4pm)
CJSR Volunteer

• Leanne Lightfoot | Still Knowing
• Maria Dunn | Hardscrabble Hope
• Jubal Lee Young | Squirrels
Everett LaRoi | Morning Stars Mournings Hush
Ron Sexsmith | Hangover Terrace

Karen
CJSR Volunteer

FKA twigs | EUSEXUA
Kaytranada | Ain’t No Damn Way 
• Kilo Kish | Negotiations
Pinkpantheress | Fancy That
• Amaarae | Blackstar 

Scott Mariciak
Host of Events Calendar (Fridays at 4-5pm)
CJSR Volunteer

Alix Ferns | Symphonie publicitaire sous influence 
• Sargent and Comrade | Power Vol 1.
Cassia Hardy | In Relation
Morning Coyote – Morning Coyote EP
The Real Sickies – Under a Plastic Bag

Aidan Johnston-Thomson
CJSR Volunteer

Nine Inch Nails | Tron: Ares Soundtrack

Patrick Nickleson
Co-host of what do we know (Mondays at 3-5pm)
CJSR Volunteer

Cate Le Bon | Michelangelo Dying
Alex Lukashevsky | OOOH!
Alabster De Plume | A Blad because a Blade is Whole
Richard Dawson | End of Middle

Qasim Hirani
Host of Señor Blues (Saturdays at 7-9am)
CJSR Volunteer

• Miss Emily | The Medicine
Sandra Sutter | Shadow Stories
Eleonora Strino | Matilde
• Carolyn Wonderland | Truth Is
Sue Foley | Live At The El Mocambo

Reese Pascual
CJSR Volunteer

Sabrina Carpenter | Man’s Best Friend

Chad Burnet
Host of It Could Be Worse (Mondays at 7-9am)
CJSR Volunteer 

Wednesday | Bleeds
Can’t get enough of this one. ’90s guitars, great lyrics, “i hate it here/i love it here”

Momma | Welcome To My Blue Sky
Yep, I love my ’90s alt rock. Thrilling, dreamy, aching. DJ Alice says “That’s my album.”

• Jimmie Kilpatrick | Jimmie
Jimmie just doesn’t miss. Yeah, there’s crunchy guitars sometimes, but also deceptively plainspoken poetry that cuts right to the heart. Love this man!
Jeff Tweedy | Twilight Override
What a gift! Tweedy has been on a roll for the last few years, between releases with Wilco, solo albums, and writing books(!) but somehow has only gotten sharper.
• The Burning Hell | Ghost Palace
RIYL lots of lyrics. Clever, charming, beautiful stories to delight and break your heart. 

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