The Mapped Eye: 2025 Indie Favorites (part 1) (clear contours)

“The only true voyage of discovery would be to behold the universe through the eyes of another.”
― Marcel Proust

This first mix of 2025 favorites maps out a field of indie pop, art pop, and folk-leaning tracks that foreground melody, lyricism, and songcraft. Music of beauty and immediacy, grounded in emotion.

This is first in a series of 10 mixes of 2025 favorites. The selections reflect a personal, exploratory approach to discovery and curation, with artists and tracks that tend to fall outside typical “best of” lists.

The mix is timestamped and the tracklist is in the first comment.