Catching Up Week: Great Albums We Missed in 2025 So Far
There’s so much new music being released in 2025 that we sometimes can’t help but throw up our hands at the futility of trying to cover even a fraction of it. But whenever possible, we try to take the opportunity to revisit music we missed (and maybe you missed too) in months past. Sometimes we cast a wide net, sometimes we try to funnel it into a single genre, but either way, we try to make good on those great releases that slipped under our radar.
This week, and very likely again sometime in the future, we’re doing one better: We’re celebrating Catching Up Week. All week, we’re running full-length reviews of outstanding albums from 2025 that we didn’t get around to reviewing the first time. We didn’t set many rules for what we’d write about this week, just that we’d be covering albums that didn’t get reviewed in their day, week or month of release, but outside of that, it’s a diverse selection of records that all warrant some close listening. (Even the 17-minute noise rock record.)
It’s worth noting that this isn’t technically the first time we’ve done something like this. Back in the early days of Treble, we ran a recurring feature called “Perversity,” its name inspired by one of Jack Black’s lines in High Fidelity: “You don’t have it? That is perverse! Don’t tell anybody you don’t own fucking Blonde on Blonde.” A lot’s changed since then, but hey, a good idea is a good idea.
This week, we’re offering up just under a dozen reviews that we didn’t get around to publishing earlier this year for no particularly good reason. Punk, prog, noise rock, ambient, metal, folk, hip-hop—a little bit of everything. And all of them will be linked here as they’re published. So let’s get caught up, shall we?
