The Probing Eye: 2025 Indie Favorites (part 2) (following the grain)

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Part two of my “indie” favorites leans into songs that absorb the listener through groove, texture, and atmosphere. Compared to part one, the selections here probe the psychedelic and the sensorial, evolving sounds pioneered by artists like MBV, Broadcast, and Stereolab.

This is second 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.