Thanks to all who cast their votes in 2SER-FM's "Static" listeners' poll of the Favourite Albums of 2025.

The results were encouraging, interesting and groundbreaking, and all will be revealed in the nail-biting countdown of the Top Ten on tonight's "Static" program (Thursday 11th December from 8pm).

First up, we'll be rolling out more some our Favourite Albums of 2025, before we count down from 10 to 1 who you thought made the best records of the past 12 months ... this is the "Static" program not to miss. PLAYLIST
THE TUBS "Freak Mode"
[From Cotton Crown] (Trouble In Mind)

SWEET NOBODY "Revenge"
[From Driving Off To Nowhere] (www.sweet-nobody.bandcamp.com)

THE BESNARD LAKES "In Hollywood"
[From The Besnard Lakes Are The Ghost Nation] (Full Time Hobby)

BRIDGE DOG "Standard Issue"
[From Auto Fictions] (Omiya)

RIVAL CONSOLES "Drum Song"
[From Landscape From Memory] (Erased Tapes)

WAY DYNAMIC "In Review"
[From Massive Shoe] (Spoilsport)

PALE BLUE EYES "Pieces Of You"
[From New Place] (Broadcast)

JAPANESE BREAKFAST "Orlando In Love"
[From For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)] (Dead Oceans)

DELIVERY "Like A Million Bucks"
[From Force Majeure] (Heavenly/[PIAS])

PANDA BEAR "Praise"
[From Sinister Grift] (Domino)

WET LEG "Liquidize"
[From moisturizer] (Domino)

STEVE BOURK "Ready To Burn"
[From Passing Through] (Silhouette)

SOULWAX "Run Free"
[From All Systems Are Lying] (DEEWEE/Because Music)

BLOOD ORANGE featuring CAROLINE POLACHEK "The Train (King's Cross)"
[From Essex Honey] (RCA)

TURNSTILE "LIGHT DESIGN"
[From NEVER ENOUGH] (Roadrunner)

CAR SEAT HEADREST "True/False Lover"
[From The Scholars] (Matador/Remote Control)
- This was Mick's Favourite Album of 2025 -

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"Static" Listeners' Top Ten of 2025 was then as follows ...

10. FLOODLIGHTS "Cloud Away"
[From Underneath] ([PIAS])

9. MARLON WILLIAMS "Kei Te Mārama"
[From Te Whare Tīwekaweka] (Secretly)

8. MARIA SOMERVILLE "Stonefly"
[From Luster] (4AD/Remote Control)

7. dust "Just Like Ice"
[From Sky Is Falling] (Virgin)

6. WATER FROM YOUR EYES "Nights In Armor"
[From It's A Beautiful Place] (Matador/Remote Control)

5. SHARON VAN ETTEN and THE ATTACHMENT THEORY "I Can't Imagine (Why You Feel This Way)"
[From Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory] (Jagjaguwar)

4. CASS McCOMBS "Miss Mabee"
[From Interior Live Oak] (Domino)

3. WEDNESDAY "Townies"
[From Bleeds] (Dead Oceans)

2. BIG THIEF "Words"
[From Double Infinity] (4AD/Remote Control)

1. GEESE "Taxes"
[From Getting Killed] (Partisan/Play It Again Sam)
- This was Berko's Favourite Album of 2025 -