Favorite 2025 Songs in Indie - Songs 1-10

 

      Here are the 33 favorite songs from the 2025 posts of Indie Obsessive. The list reflects the blog's focus - Indie artists on the rise. Indie Obsessive has a bias towards bands that deserve more attention than they are currently receiving. Therefore, this is a list of “favorite” songs. If we ranked the “best” songs of 2025, there would be some changes (but there certainly would be overlaps).

     Indie Obsessive uses the same ranking algorithm each year:

     It’s an adaptation of an arbitrage pricing approach developed in 1973 by Fisher Black and Myron Scholes. The good news is that the complex portion is multiplied by “0, so the complex portion is completely irrelevant to the outcome and should be ignored.

     Consequently, the ranking of a particular song is based on that song’s value of “P,” where P is personal “preference.” Pretty simple – if we like a song slightly more than another song, it ranks higher. If there is a flaw in the process, it’s that the “P” value for a song is dependent upon our mood at the time, so the order of songs is likely to change from one day to the next. But while the order may change, the songs remain on the list, so you probably don’t care.

1.  “Ain't Quite Right” by Still Blank (from the post of July 22 – CLICK HERE)

      2.  “Chinese Restaurant” by Radio Free Alice (from the post of October 29 - CLICK HERE)

     3.  “mark/james” by Quiet Houses (from the post of August 22 – CLICK HERE)

     4. “I Only Feel Love When It's Missing” by Small Forward 

      5. “Burn Me” by Jonah Kagen and Sam Barber (from the post of September 9 – CLICK HERE)

     6. “HUNTER (the cacophony)” by Paris Paloma (from the post of November 5 – CLICK HERE)

     7. “Can't Do Without You” by Pink Turns Blue (from the post of February 28 – CLICK HERE)

     8. Nothing on me by White Lies

     9. “Cotton Mouth” by fanclubwallet (from the post of July 24 – CLICK HERE)

     10. “Say Goodbye, Tell No One” by Kathleen Edwards (from the post of July 14 – CLICK HERE)

Songs 11 through 20 – CLICK HERE
Songs 21 through 33 – CLICK HERE

     The full list is available on Spotify: