Some Things I Loved This Year
Cool Sites for Real Music Discovery
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In 2025 I fell in love with the techno producer Polygonia's Dream Horizons album: wide-ranging, intensely spatial electronic music that drifts in and out of consciousnessness like a dream. I read two novels that reaffirmed the importance of humor, lightheartedness, and sincerity in the pursuit of one's values: Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi's Mirages of the
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Greetings from Read Max HQ, and welcome to our weekly roundup column. This week’s is the year-end READ MAX AWARDS EDITION , featuring previous selections from the Read Max Roundups given important year-end awards like:
- Best book I read all year
- Best alternate histories I read this year whose counterfactuals turn on the Columbian Exchange
- Best looming
Best Books, Movies, and Music of the year
In no particular order, these are ten albums released this year that I enjoyed. Are they the best? I dunno. Who cares? I don’t want to argue or invite discussion about that sort of thing. I do, however, want to introduce people to music they might not otherwise hear.