EPs! My 25 favorites from this year, to be precise! A week after Rosy Overdrive wrapped its Top 100 Albums of 2025, the blog is sharing this smaller, (on average) more obscure, and all-around fun list. There’s a bunch of records in here that deserved way more attention this year than they ended up getting,Continue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2025”
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Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (25-1)
Here we are! Rosy Overdrive’s 25 favorite albums of 2025, revealed today along with albums 50 through 26, and coming a day after albums 51 through 100. By my count, I wrote about 343 albums on the blog this year (not counting a few posts that have yet to be published), so these are reallyContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 100 Albums of 2025 (25-1)”
New Playlist: July 2025
The July 2025 playlist is here, and it’s a great one! It’s full of hit singles, both from albums I’ve written about recently and some from albums I’m looking forwarding to hearing later this year. Julian Cubillos, Gosh Diggity, Beauty, Mal Blum, and Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra have two songs on this playlist.Continue reading “New Playlist: July 2025”
Pressing Concerns: Pacing, ‘PL*NET F*TNESS’
Release date: July 25thRecord label: Asian ManGenre: Indie pop, twee, folk-pop, singer-songwriterFormats: Vinyl, digital The sophomore album from San Jose’s Pacing certainly qualifies as one of the most anticipated records of 2025 in Rosy Overdrive’s small corner of the music world. I would’ve said as much in the immediate aftermath of the project’s first album,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Pacing, ‘PL*NET F*TNESS’”
Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2025 So Far (Part 1 of 2)
Hello there, and welcome to the midway mark of 2025, I suppose (basically, I noticed other websites putting up their mid-year favorites and thought “well, guess I better start getting mine together now!”). Below, you’ll find forty records that RO loved more than anything else so far this year. Of course, there’s a bunch ofContinue reading “Rosy Overdrive’s Top 40 Albums of 2025 So Far (Part 1 of 2)”
Pressing Concerns: Salem 66, Smug Brothers, Career Woman, Lùlù
The Thursday Pressing Concerns is here, and it’s an instant classic! New albums from Smug Brothers, Career Woman, and Lùlù! A career-spanning retrospective compilation from Salem 66! And more! Well, I guess not really “more”, unless you count the also notable section. But, regardless, this is a great edition! Also, we had a Pressing ConcernsContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Salem 66, Smug Brothers, Career Woman, Lùlù”
New Playlist: May 2025
Hey folks! Below we have the May 2025 playlist here for you, featuring a bunch of great new music that’s either recently been featured on the blog or is appearing on the website for the first time. No matter what, everything here is quality and has that “Rosy Overdrive seal of approval”. Labrador, Pacing, Friendship,Continue reading “New Playlist: May 2025”
New Playlist: March 2025
The March 2025 playlist is here! It’s been a very good month for new music from my vantage point, and I’m excited to share a bunch of it with you below. I’d like to borrow a phrase from all the publicists who email me and call this playlist “my most personal one to date” (thatContinue reading “New Playlist: March 2025”
New Playlist: January 2025
Hey there! It’s time for the January 2025 Rosy Overdrive playlist and round-up. There was a lot of good music that came out last month, and this playlist corrals much of it in addition to some songs from albums from 2024 that I missed initially and a few selections from my journey into the yearContinue reading “New Playlist: January 2025”
Pressing Concerns: Pacing, ‘Songs’
Release date: January 7thRecord label: Asian ManGenre: Anti-folk, indie pop, bedroom pop, singer-songwriter, indie folk, tweeFormats: CD, digital Those of you who were following this blog in 2023 may remember Pacing from their album Real poetry is always about plants and birds and trees and the animals and milk and honey breathing in the pinkContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Pacing, ‘Songs’”
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