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 (with some additions as additional discoveries are made):

Favorite Songs from 2025 Posts – Songs 11-20

 

     This is the second set of ten Indie songs of 2025. We acknowledge the fact that it is difficult to rank the tracks. If the process were repeated sometime next month, some shuffling would certainly occur. The bias is towards bands and artists who are not receiving the attention they desire.
 

Songs 1 through 10 – CLICK HERE
Songs 21 through 33 – CLICK HERE

     11. “Love Is A Dog From Hell” by The Amazons  (from the post of February 20 – CLICK HERE)

 
    12. “Goodnight” by Florence Road

     13. “I Don’t Wanna Regret” by G Flip

     14. “Talks A Lot” by Balancing Act (from the post of September 20 – CLICK HERE) 

     15. “Worldview” by Fragile Animals (from the post of May 27 – CLICK HERE)

     16. “Lucy Takes A Picture” by Youth Lagoon

    17. “Half Light of Morning” by TEN FÉ

     18. “Pervert The Source” by Drangsal

     19. "All In Who You Know" by Smokey Brights (from the post of July 1 – CLICK HERE)

     20. “Private” by The Neighbourhood (from the post of November 7 – CLICK HERE)

     The full list is available on Spotify:

Favorite Songs from 2025 Posts – Songs 21-33

 

      This is the third/final set of favorite Indie songs of 2025. We acknowledge the fact that it is difficult to rank the tracks. If the process were repeated sometime next month, some shuffling would certainly occur. The bias is towards bands and artists who are not receiving the attention they desire.   

Songs 1 through 10 – CLICK HERE
Songs 11 through 20 – CLICK HERE

     21. “Love You Still” by Holy Holy

     22. “Maybe it Takes Time” by The South Hill Experiment (from the post of October 1 – CLICK HERE)

      23. “Stay Awake” by The Mammoths (from the post of August 11- CLICK HERE)

     24. “Who Laughs Last” (feat. Kristen Stewart) by Lord Huron (from the post of July 28 – CLICK HERE)

     25. “Breathe Strong Little Fighter” by Into The Afterimage (from the post of November 22 – CLICK HERE)

     26. “All Of Us” by Sam Roberts Band (from the post of March 31 – CLICK HERE)

     27. “blue jean” by Hazlett (from the post of September 30 - CLICK HERE)

     28. “The Breaks” by Balancing Act (from the post of October 20 – CLICK HERE)

     29. “If Not Now, It’s Soon” by Self Esteem (from the post of November 17 – CLICK HERE)

     30. “Campr” by Broke Royals (from the post of December 9 – CLICK HERE)

     31. “Driving Classics, Playing Cars by Water From Your Eyes (from the post of December 11 – CLICK HERE)

     32. “Nostalgia Burns” by Siiga (from the post of December 28 – CLICK HERE)

     33. “After the Setting Sun” by The Head And The Heart

     The full list is available on Spotify: