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Monday, December 15, 2025

Best Of 2025 Year In Review: New Music, Interviews and Live Show Coverage

As the year 2025 comes to a conclusion, the time to reflect on the music reviews composed and compiled on this website is once again upon us. Each month's entries are covered here in chronological order, featuring the best of the best artists who put out compelling new recordings. Significant live shows attended and associated interviews conducted are highlighted here as well. Before we move on to a new year, dig in to the 2025 Best Of DaveCromwellWrites Features.




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The above June review included two more song reviews from Sueno con Belugas album "Ataque con rayos electronicos."    Reviews here added "Love Evolves" and "Flying High" to the previously covered "Velocidad" and "Mil Recuerdos."  Now four wonderful new tracks "Portal," "Sombra," "Colores" and "Trasciende" complete the album.   They continue the ambient spirituality of what came before on this dreamy collection.  The link below will take you there.
 

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Since the release of Sophie Ellis Bextor’s album “Perimenopop” in September, there is now a Christmas remix of the track “Time” re-imagined as “Christmas Time” (so appropriate for this time of year!)   Adding gentle touches of jingles and bells, it also arrived with an emotional official video.  In it we see Sophie and her family through the years in Christmas photos, including images of that one period when Sophie hair was entirely blonde.  The video closes with a home movie of her grandpa leading the family through the Christmas pudding song and conga line tradition. Very British and all so wholesome. 

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