Before we explore our top full-length albums of the year, let’s take a moment to sporlight some of the excellent short-form works released in 2025. Each year, the number of EPs released continues to grow, and 2025 has brought some great ones. Whether highlighting a new artist or revisiting the sound of a more established one, this simple format can contain much of an act’s best work.
Here is the list of the best EPs of 2025, curated by Kool Rock Radio’s staff and listed in alphabetical order.
KOOL ROCK RADIO ► THE 50 BEST EPS OF 2025 (A to Z)
- A Deeper Heaven – ‘High’ EP (Shore Dive Records) [dream pop/shoegaze/indie]
- Adele Dazeem – ‘Metanoia’ EP (Sonic Cathedral) [post punk/post-rock/shoegaze/indie]
- AIMING – ‘The Legend’ EP (Blackjack Illuminist Records) [post punk/shoegaze/alt/indie rock]
- Automelodi – ‘Cavallo‘ EP (Young&Cold Records) [italodisco/electronic/minimal wave/synthpop]
- Beach Vacation – ‘Let Go‘ EP [indie pop/dream/pop/surf pop]
- Belljars – ‘Belljars’ EP (Hidden Bay Records) [dream pop/indie/post-punk/shoegaze]
- Belly Hatcher – ‘Late Heavy Bombardment‘ EP [electronic/punk/ebm/industrial/synth]
- Big Image – ‘HOME‘ EP [indie dance/baggy/alt]
- Bleach Lab – ‘Close To The Flame‘ EP [indie/dream pop]
- Chalk – ‘Conditions III’ EP (Nice Swan Records) [post-punk/electronic]
- Dog Race – ‘Return The Day‘ EP (Fascination Street Records) [post punk/alt/gothic]
- Dream Bodies – “Circle of Light” EP [post-punk/goth/new wave/darkwave] like chameleons
- Drive Slower – ‘II’ EP [shoegaze/post punk]
- Famous Friend – ‘Blue‘ EP [indie pop/lo – fi]
- Floral Image – “Deeper Down Meadowland” EP (Fuzz Club) [neo-psych/krautrock/indie]–
- Forgotten Wish – ‘Liquid Light Spectrum‘ EP (Shore Dive) [dream pop/electronic/shoegaze]
- FUEDAL – ‘Max Continuous Power’ EP (à La Carte Records) [ebm/post punk/synthwave/industrial]
- Ghost Plains – ‘Fear Patterns‘ EP (BIRTHDIY) [dream pop/indie/dreamgaze]
- Harsh Symmetry – ‘On-Screen Death‘ EP [new wave/post-punk/synthpop]
- L’Objectif – ‘This Band is Forever’ EP (Dance to the Radio) [indie rock]
- Local Suicide – ‘Houdini‘ EP (Iptamenos Discos) [dark disco/electronic/indie dance/italo disco/techno]
- Lowsunday – ‘Low Sunday Ghost Machine: White‘ EP (Projekt Records) [Post-Punk/Alt/Shoegaze/Darkwave/Dream pop]
- Lwna – ‘Crystal Clear’ EP [shoegaze/dream pop/alt]
- motifs – ‘If This House Was Bigger‘ EP (Too Good To Be True) [dream pop/noise pop/post-rock/shoegaze]
- Next Week’s Washing – ‘Empty Pages‘ EP [indie/post punk/britpop]
- NNHMN – ‘Opera of Lust & The Art of Sorrow I‘ EP (K-Dreams) [electronic/dark ambient/experimental/synth]
- Öspiel & Schwefelgelb – “Notion Compound“ EP (n-PLEX) [electronic/techno]
- Overpass – ‘Dependent’ EP (Communion Records) [indie rock]–
- Pale – ‘Nights’ EP (Spirit Goth Records) [dream pop/shoegaze/lo-fi/indie]
- Pentire – ‘Love On TV’ EP [indie pop/indie rock]
- Perimeters – ‘Set the Tripwire‘ EP [post punk/indie pop/electronic]
- Radio Free Alice – ‘Empty Words‘ EP (Double Drummer) [indie rock/post punk/new wave]
- ROLLA – ‘We Owe You Nothing‘ EP (Run On Records) [rock n roll]
- Sex Mask – ‘Body Broker’ EP [post-punk/indie rock/alt]
- She’s green – ‘Chrysalis‘ EP (Photo Finish Records) [indie rock/dream pop/shoegaze/alt]
- She’s In Parties – ‘Are You Dreaming?’ EP (Submarine Cat) [dream pop/shoegaze]
- Shrinestone – ‘Kismet And Blank‘ EP // ‘Zed‘ EP [shoegaze/alt/dream pop/rock]
- Single Lash – ‘Now for the Real World’ EP [post punk/goth/shoegaze]
- Sintex Bortexx – ‘Ask Yourself‘ EP (Samo Records) [EBM/acid/dark wave/electronic/leftfield]
- Social Order – ‘Miss You‘ EP [synth pop/post punk/dark wave]
- Soft Kill – ‘Just A Body’ EP [post punk/darkwave/goth]
- Spell Trouble – ‘Soft Fantasy‘ EP (Irascible Records) [indie/new wave/alt]
- Sunder – “Love, Always” EP (à La Carte Records) [indie pop/dream pop/shoegaze]
- The Emerald Down – ‘Aquarium‘ EP (Saint Marie Records) [dream-pop/shoegaze/indie]
- The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream – “Velvet Distortion” EP (Shore Dive Records) [shoegaze/dream pop/indie/]
- The Mushroom Club – ‘Walk Into the Light‘ EP (P.U.G.) [psychedelic rock/shoegaze/alt]
- The Shallows – ‘Peace In The Pain‘ EP (Shore Dive Records) [dream pop/shoegaze]
- The Youth Play – ‘Someday, Forever’ EP [indie rock/alt]
- Topographies – ‘Brutality of Fact’ EP [post punk]
- Wavepool – ‘Crayola’ EP (Howlin’ Banana/Luik Music) [shoegaze/dream pop/slacker]
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