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Best Reissues & Archival Releases of 2025

As if the creaking bones and ever-growing collection of aches, pains, and health issues weren’t a big enough sign of […]

After completing the write-ups for each of these annual best of lists, there tends to be theme for the year

Chime Oblivion – Chime Oblivion (Death God)Timeless postpunk jams from a timeless cast of characters with histories in groups that run

A Perfect WorldColumbia/Red Decibel, 1995Spartan, 2025 reissue Despite my begrudging acceptance of Record Store Day actually being Record Store Days,

Dig Out The SwitchSkin Graft, 2025 When Skin Graft gave the Killmen’s landmark Face of Collapse album a deluxe remastered

Of How Hits 12XU, 2024 Not exactly sure how Voice Imitator’s debut album escaped my attention, as it was released

Burning Cold LP Prank, 2000 I was on a Kylesa kick the other day, excited about hearing that the band

With the vinyl boom still inexplicably chugging along, 2024 blessed noiseniks with an obscene amount of essential reissues on wax.

Talking to my kids and the youths, it’s interesting to hear how in some contexts the concept of an album

So yeah, 2024 was a weird ass year. I’m still scratching my balding head wondering WTF?!? but I’m also feeling

Action OrnamentsRunt, 1996 This San Diego group active since the early 1990s has littered the used bins of record stores

Human Hand Animal BandGold Standard Laboratories, 2004 This criminally unknown “experimental rock band” from Austin released this aural curiosity on