Top 10 Albums of 2025: Keith Colligan

My choices for the best(at least 5 tracks that made it to air) of 2025. Very Human Features off-kilter English folk-punk. Honeysuckle compelling sing-along gospel-blues.Renascence warm soul. I’m Nice Now energy charged in your face political punk. Plexus Plexus progressive excursions. Chorophobia bouncy psychedelic dance music. Ancestry soul-tinged dance. Kimitaka frenetic rhythmic sounds.Sogolo glorious afrobeat. Signs Of Life feel good folk with a message.

Honourable Mention: The Beth’s”Straight Line was a Lie”; M.Ross Perkins”What’s the Matter with M. Ross”; Ally Venable”Money and Power’; Angelique Francis”Not Defeated”; Daddy Mack’s Blues Band”Doctor’s Orders”; John Primer”Grown in Mississippi”; Popa Chubby and Friends”I Love Freddie King”; “Antone’s Fifty Years of the Blues”; The Surefire Soul Ensemble”Gemini”; Damon Locks”A List of Demands”; L.A. Witch”Doggod”; YHWH Nailgun”45 Pounds”; Osees “Abomination Revealed at Last”; John Dwyer”Chimetown’; Fred Everything”Love,Care and Kindness Dubs”; Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange”Inspire/Radicalise”; Blank For.ms”After the Town was Flooded”; Ale Hop and Titi Bakorta” Mapambazuko”; Gyedu-Bley Ambolley”Wake Up Afrika”; Margo Price”Hard Headed Woman”