FORT LOWELL RECORDS: 20 Best Albums of 2025 by Here Comes the Flood

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

20 Best Albums of 2025 by Here Comes the Flood

[Repost by Here Comes the Flood; by Hans Werksman, December 31, 2025]

#4 Blase Somewhere Out There

Wilmington, NC based multi-instrumentalist Blase plays the kind of dreampop that is able to transport listeners to an alternate reality where things are quite beautiful and, as an added bonus, age is not a number, but has come to a standstill. His Somewhere Out There album flows gently and might be mistaken for a long lost record from the golden age of psychedelic pop, when echo and reverb smoothed over the rough edges of real life.

RELEASES

	SEAN THOMAS GERARD Stay In Your Light New Album FLR090 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	TERCEL Tercel Five New Songs FLR089 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	BBGAIL & WESTON SMITH if you let it New Single FLR088 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE AND THE GOOD GRACES Grand Epiphanies New EP FLR087 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	BLASE Somewhere Out There Sophomore Album FLR086 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE AND THE GOOD GRACES "Wish I Would've Missed You" New Single FLR085 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	JPW & DAD WEED Amassed Like a Rat King Duet Album FLR084 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KICKING BIRD 11 Short Fictions Sophomore Album FLR083 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW & DAD WEED Two Against Nurture Duet EP FLR082 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	RED DWARF STAR "Ex-Patriot" New Single FLR081 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	MINDSONE Stages New Double Album FLR080 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW Raw Action On Route New EP FLR079 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	SHELBY SMOAK "Dancing" New Single FLR078 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	TERCEL "Holiday" Second Single FLR077 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	AL FOUL Come Back a Dog Final Album FLR076 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. IV ft.Fuzz Jaxx & CoolOutSessions Tercel FLR075 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	RED DWARF STAR "Lady Aurora Borealis" Debut Single FLR074 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	TERCEL "Tiny Towns" Debut Single FLR073 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	FOREST FALLOWS Palisades Sophomore Album FLR072 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	NAÏM AMOR Stories New Album FLR071 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	BLAB SCHOOL Blab School Debut Album FLR070 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	FEMALE GAZE Tender Futures Debut Album FLR069 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	DOGGY DAYCARE "acid walk" Second Full Band Release FLR068 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	COMMON THREAD Fountain 30th Anniversary Vinyl Edition FLR067 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. III ft.Sheme of Gold cydaddy FLR066 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	JON RAUHOUSE & BLAINE LONG One Day Will Never Come Back FLR065 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	SUMMER SET Summer Set First Official Release FLR064 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	SODA SUN "The Ghost Plant at Blood Run" New Song FLR063 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD "Let It Ride" New Song FLR062 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	LA CERCA "Gimme Some Myrrh" New Rock Song FLR061 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	DOGGY DAYCARE "(forgetting) sarah marshall" Debut Full Band Release FLR060 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	JAMES SARDONE Colors Debut Release FLR059 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW "Halfway to Eloy" Live at The Dirty Drummer FLR058 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	BRIAN LOPEZ Tidal New Album FLR057 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	MINDSONE / RIZZYBEATS The Time Space Continuum Redux New Album FLR056 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KICKING BIRD Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Debut Album FLR055 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	DESARIO Eclipse Single FLR054 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	INFINITIKISS Ambient Music New Album FLR053 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. II ft.: Haji P. Color Temperature FLR052 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE Homely Solo Album FLR051 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS Imitation Life Debut Album FLR050 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	AUDIO EXPLORATIONS ActionReaction 20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Sophomore Album FLR049 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE AND THE GOOD GRACES Ready Full Length Album FLR048 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW Something Happening / Always Happening Debut Album FLR047 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS II New EP FLR046 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Going Somewhere Single FLR045 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	KITIMOTO Vintage Smell Debut Album FLR044 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	DESARIO Signal and Noise Forth Studio Album FLR043 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. I ft.: MindsOne & DJ Iron James Sardone FLR042 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS Are You There All Alone Single FLR041 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	CITIFIED Lie Like a Painter Third Album FLR040 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS Lauds Debut EP FLR039 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	LUZ DE VIDA II A Compilation to Benefit Homicide Survivors FLR038 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	NEON BELLY Neon Belly Debut EP FLR037 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	THE GOOD GRACES capital R (not Ready) Single FLR036 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Blue 20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Debut Album FLR035 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	SODA SUN Stay Here Debut Album FLR034 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	SEAN THOMAS GERARD Finally Found a Paradise Sophomore Album FLR033 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	BREC Patience... or Whatever Debut Single FLR032 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	LA CERCA A Nice Sweet Getaway Ambient Album FLR031 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	GROW A Compilation in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter FLR030 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	HONEYBRANDY Not in Our City (Remixed) Compilation of Various Remixes FLR029 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Mantra Single FLR028 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD How Your Eyes Affect Me (The New World Brewery Version) Single FLR027 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Louder Than You Can Hear Fourth Album 2004 Devil In The Woods FLR026 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD I Wish We Were Still Friends (The Albright Version) Single FLR025 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD The Rest Will Follow (The Freestyle Version) Single FLR024 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD The Carolinas Sixth Album FLR023 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA Hawn Sophmore Album FLR022 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA I Heart Jet Noise Single FLR021 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA Baracus Single FLR020 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	BAND & THE BEAT Sweet as Honey Single FLR019 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA Ded Mel 25 Single FLR018 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	BAND & THE BEAT Straight and Narrow Single FLR017 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	BAND & THE BEAT 21 Debut Single FLR016 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	HEY MANDIBLE The Arse Debut Full Length Album FLR015 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	NAÏM AMOR Hear the Walls Full Length Album FLR014 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA moyamoya Debut Full Length Album FLR013 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	THE GOOD GRACES Close to the Sun Full Length Album FLR012 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	LA CERCA Sunrise for Everyone Full Length Album FLR011 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	FAIRWEATHERFRIEND "You and I" b/w "Fairweather Friend" FLR010 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	SAINT MAYBE Things As They Are Debut Full Length Album FLR009 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	ANDREW COLLBERG "Dirty Wind" b/w "Back On The Shore" FLR008 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE

LUZ DE VIDA
A Compilation to Benefit the Victims of the Tucson Tragedy

FLR007 | 12inch

PURCHASE HERE

	HOWE GELB 'Sno Angel + Melted Wires "Spiral" b/w "Cordoba in Slow Motion" FLR006 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	DEATH KIT "Devadasi" b/w "I Can Make You Love Me" [remix by ...music video?] FLR005 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	DEAD WESTERN PLAINS "Alta" b/w "Gift Horse In The Mouth" FLR004 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	WET & RECKLESS "New Guy" TRACY SHEDD Tear It Up" FLR003 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	...MUSIC VIDEO? "I'm Afraid Of Everything" b/w "feelgooddesperation" FLR002 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	YOUNG MOTHERS "Come On, The Cross" b/w "Good Swords" FLR001 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE

	SEAN THOMAS GERARD Stay In Your Light New Album FLR090 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	TERCEL Tercel Five New Songs FLR089 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	BBGAIL & WESTON SMITH if you let it New Single FLR088 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE AND THE GOOD GRACES Grand Epiphanies New EP FLR087 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	BLASE Somewhere Out There Sophomore Album FLR086 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE AND THE GOOD GRACES "Wish I Would've Missed You" New Single FLR085 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	JPW & DAD WEED Amassed Like a Rat King Duet Album FLR084 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KICKING BIRD 11 Short Fictions Sophomore Album FLR083 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW & DAD WEED Two Against Nurture Duet EP FLR082 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	RED DWARF STAR "Ex-Patriot" New Single FLR081 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	MINDSONE Stages New Double Album FLR080 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW Raw Action On Route New EP FLR079 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	SHELBY SMOAK "Dancing" New Single FLR078 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	TERCEL "Holiday" Second Single FLR077 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	AL FOUL Come Back a Dog Final Album FLR076 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. IV ft.Fuzz Jaxx & CoolOutSessions Tercel FLR075 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	RED DWARF STAR "Lady Aurora Borealis" Debut Single FLR074 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	TERCEL "Tiny Towns" Debut Single FLR073 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	FOREST FALLOWS Palisades Sophomore Album FLR072 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	NAÏM AMOR Stories New Album FLR071 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	BLAB SCHOOL Blab School Debut Album FLR070 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	FEMALE GAZE Tender Futures Debut Album FLR069 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	DOGGY DAYCARE "acid walk" Second Full Band Release FLR068 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	COMMON THREAD Fountain 30th Anniversary Vinyl Edition FLR067 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. III ft.Sheme of Gold cydaddy FLR066 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	JON RAUHOUSE & BLAINE LONG One Day Will Never Come Back FLR065 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	SUMMER SET Summer Set First Official Release FLR064 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	SODA SUN "The Ghost Plant at Blood Run" New Song FLR063 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD "Let It Ride" New Song FLR062 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	LA CERCA "Gimme Some Myrrh" New Rock Song FLR061 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	DOGGY DAYCARE "(forgetting) sarah marshall" Debut Full Band Release FLR060 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	JAMES SARDONE Colors Debut Release FLR059 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW "Halfway to Eloy" Live at The Dirty Drummer FLR058 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	BRIAN LOPEZ Tidal New Album FLR057 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	MINDSONE / RIZZYBEATS The Time Space Continuum Redux New Album FLR056 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KICKING BIRD Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Debut Album FLR055 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	DESARIO Eclipse Single FLR054 \| Digital Single PURCHASE HERE
	INFINITIKISS Ambient Music New Album FLR053 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. II ft.: Haji P. Color Temperature FLR052 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE Homely Solo Album FLR051 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS Imitation Life Debut Album FLR050 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	AUDIO EXPLORATIONS ActionReaction 20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Sophomore Album FLR049 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	KIM WARE AND THE GOOD GRACES Ready Full Length Album FLR048 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	JPW Something Happening / Always Happening Debut Album FLR047 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS II New EP FLR046 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Going Somewhere Single FLR045 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	KITIMOTO Vintage Smell Debut Album FLR044 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	DESARIO Signal and Noise Forth Studio Album FLR043 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. I ft.: MindsOne & DJ Iron James Sardone FLR042 \| 12inch EP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS Are You There All Alone Single FLR041 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	CITIFIED Lie Like a Painter Third Album FLR040 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	LAUDS Lauds Debut EP FLR039 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	LUZ DE VIDA II A Compilation to Benefit Homicide Survivors FLR038 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	NEON BELLY Neon Belly Debut EP FLR037 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	THE GOOD GRACES capital R (not Ready) Single FLR036 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Blue 20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Debut Album FLR035 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	SODA SUN Stay Here Debut Album FLR034 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	SEAN THOMAS GERARD Finally Found a Paradise Sophomore Album FLR033 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	BREC Patience... or Whatever Debut Single FLR032 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	LA CERCA A Nice Sweet Getaway Ambient Album FLR031 \| 12inch LP PURCHASE HERE
	GROW A Compilation in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter FLR030 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	HONEYBRANDY Not in Our City (Remixed) Compilation of Various Remixes FLR029 \| Digital EP PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Mantra Single FLR028 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD How Your Eyes Affect Me (The New World Brewery Version) Single FLR027 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD Louder Than You Can Hear Fourth Album 2004 Devil In The Woods FLR026 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD I Wish We Were Still Friends (The Albright Version) Single FLR025 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD The Rest Will Follow (The Freestyle Version) Single FLR024 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	TRACY SHEDD The Carolinas Sixth Album FLR023 \| Digital LP PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA Hawn Sophmore Album FLR022 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA I Heart Jet Noise Single FLR021 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA Baracus Single FLR020 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	BAND & THE BEAT Sweet as Honey Single FLR019 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA Ded Mel 25 Single FLR018 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	BAND & THE BEAT Straight and Narrow Single FLR017 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	BAND & THE BEAT 21 Debut Single FLR016 \| Digital 45 PURCHASE HERE
	HEY MANDIBLE The Arse Debut Full Length Album FLR015 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	NAÏM AMOR Hear the Walls Full Length Album FLR014 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	MOYAMOYA moyamoya Debut Full Length Album FLR013 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	THE GOOD GRACES Close to the Sun Full Length Album FLR012 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	LA CERCA Sunrise for Everyone Full Length Album FLR011 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	FAIRWEATHERFRIEND "You and I" b/w "Fairweather Friend" FLR010 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	SAINT MAYBE Things As They Are Debut Full Length Album FLR009 \| 12inch PURCHASE HERE
	ANDREW COLLBERG "Dirty Wind" b/w "Back On The Shore" FLR008 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE

	HOWE GELB 'Sno Angel + Melted Wires "Spiral" b/w "Cordoba in Slow Motion" FLR006 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	DEATH KIT "Devadasi" b/w "I Can Make You Love Me" [remix by ...music video?] FLR005 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	DEAD WESTERN PLAINS "Alta" b/w "Gift Horse In The Mouth" FLR004 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	WET & RECKLESS "New Guy" TRACY SHEDD Tear It Up" FLR003 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	...MUSIC VIDEO? "I'm Afraid Of Everything" b/w "feelgooddesperation" FLR002 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE
	YOUNG MOTHERS "Come On, The Cross" b/w "Good Swords" FLR001 \| 7inch PURCHASE HERE

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