Earlier than I dig into this, a few bits of housekeeping. Firstly, apologies to Nick Hasted, who we inadvertently omitted to credit score for final month’s Nick Cave cowl story. Secondly, a fast heads as much as all print subscribers that this situation comes with a second CD – the newest instalment in our ongoing Chosen Works collection, this one celebrating Cassandra Jenkins. You might need observed Cassandra’s current album My Gentle, My Destroyer in our Albums Of The Yr and we’re delighted to have been capable of additional assist her work on this fairly particular, 5-track CD. Should you’ve come to Cassandra’s music belatedly, this can be a nice technique to meet up with a few of her earlier recordings.
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There’s rather a lot occurring inside our January 2025 situation, in fact – together with our Kate Bush cowl story, Alastair McKay’s hilarious double-header with The Damned’s chief mischief makers, Captain Wise and Rat Scabies, Nick Hasted’s definitive dive into James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown and Neil Spencer’s peerless adieu to Quincy Jones. However for us, the large piece of labor this month is our annual evaluate of the 12 months to return. A masterful job by Sam Richards and Tom Pinnock right here, it’s just about mapped out the important thing albums of 2025 – from Patterson Hood to Alabaster DePlume, Lucinda Williams to Fashionable Nature. Myself and each my predecessors have usually been accused of blathering on about ‘classic years’ for music, however trying forward it genuinely seems like there’s loads of new music to be excited by.
