FORT LOWELL RECORDS: Top 25 Albums of the Year by Music Defined

[Repost from Music Defined; by Josh Terzino, December 22, 2025]

#12 - Kicking Bird 11 Short Fictions

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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