EP's Of The Year 2025
Postcards From The Underground is back with twenty of the best EPs from 2025, shining a spotlight on the year’s most exciting underground releases. From raw, lo-fi experiments to dreamy, atmospheric soundscapes, these EPs prove that creativity knows no boundaries. Each one tells its own story — a burst of emotion, a bold reinvention, or a secret waiting to be discovered. This list is all about celebrating fearless artists pushing the limits and making music that sticks with you. So dive in, explore, and uncover the hidden gems that made 2025 such a thrilling year for music.
1, Joyeria - Graceful Degradation
Joyeria’s Graceful Degradation is an existential, sharp-edged EP that blends wry humour with experimental textures. Its six tracks wander through fractured modern life with raw charm and offbeat introspection. The release opens a new creative phase, paired with intimate shows, a UK tour, and a companion hardback book.
2, Annie Booth - The Brace
Annie Booth’s The Brace is a quietly powerful return, blending her acoustic warmth with eerie found sounds and atmospheric textures. Charting the emotional arc of a relationship’s end, the EP moves from disorientation to calm resolve, finding solace in nature as Booth emerges with renewed, hushed confidence.
3, Pip blom - Grip
Pip Blom’s Grip is an intimate, self-made EP shaped by a year of emotional upheaval. Crafted with Tender Blom and Darek Mercks at home, it blends raw vulnerability with steady musical confidence. Themes of uncertainty, shifting relationships, and self-love anchor a project that feels both deeply personal and quietly resilient.
4, The WAEVE - Eternal
The WAEVE’s Eternal EP is a propulsive, atmospheric trio of tracks produced by James Ford. From the throbbing electro pulse of the lead single to the brooding title track and the sharp bite of ‘It’s The Hope That Kills You,’ it’s a vivid, transitional work brimming with dark romanticism.
5, Huarinami - Super Soft
Super Soft’ bursts with vivid psychedelic colour, from tangerine guitars and swirling flutes to Pauline’s honeyed, hypnotic vocals. ‘Girl I Know’ shimmers with kaleidoscopic charm, while ‘Work It Out’ drifts into sunlit reverie. Focus track ‘Make A Move’ flips the script with raw punk urgency and irresistible rhythmic bite.
6, Lemondaze - Subtext
Lemondaze’s subtext is a feral, emotionally charged step forward, blending shoegaze haze with post-rock intensity and grunge weight. From the thunderous opener polari to the cathartic swell of Terra, the EP feels both brutal and beautiful — a vivid evolution from a band crystallising their identity with fearless clarity.
7, Pyncher - Every Town Needs A Stranger
Pyncher’s debut EP Every Town Needs A Stranger is a thrilling blend of vintage 60s pop and raw garage rock. Infectious melodies meet rebellious energy across tracks like ‘Back To The Country’, showcasing a band whose live intensity and authentic chemistry mark them as one of the UK’s most exciting new acts.
8, Speedial - Light Of The Late Night
Speedial’s debut EP Light Of The Late Night melds post-rock, shoegaze, and math rock with jazz and noise-rock detours. Serena Garrod and Millie Kirby’s layered vocals float over intricate, dynamic instrumentals. From the introspective An Altar to the haunting Rot, the EP is immersive, precise, and emotionally resonant—a bold, fearless debut.
9, Leilani Patao - Daisy
Leilani Patao’s debut EP daisy is a bold, experimental statement. Layered production masks a raw, aching voice, gradually revealing haunting melodies and sharp, relatable lyrics. Eschewing streaming norms, Leilani rewards patient listeners with emotionally fractured, intimate tracks that mark a fearless, independent arrival in the music world.
10, Wavepool - Crayola
Rouen-based quintet wavepool deliver a compelling debut with Crayola, blending slacker-rock, dream-pop, and shoegaze into a cohesive, immersive sound. Echoing Duster and Homeshake, the EP captures the restlessness of youth seeking freedom and meaning. With its bittersweet melodies and polished textures, Crayola establishes wavepool as a band to watch.
11, Laura groves - Yes
Yes is a cinematic, introspective EP tracing lockdown memories through night-time London streets, moorland roads, and basement dancefloors. Groves blends 80s pop, R&B, electronic textures, and soul fragments with hazy modulation, reverb, and delay, crafting a deconstructed, reassembled pop tapestry that evokes love, memory, and the intimacy of a city in flux.
12, Whitney’s playland - Long Rehersal
Whitney’s Playland’s Long Rehearsal marks a bold evolution from bedroom pop to full-band jangle-pop with ’90s alt-rock textures. Across three tracks, the EP explores alienation, trust, and fleeting reconnection, anchored by Inna Showalter’s emotive vocals. Bittersweet, fuzzy, and introspective, it’s a short but richly rewarding listen.
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13, Yukimi - Yume
Yukimi’s new EP Yume blends jazz, soul, electronic pop, hip hop, and psychedelia into a dreamy, introspective journey. Across four tracks, she explores ambition, longing, and inner struggles with her signature graceful voice. A vibrant, intimate follow-up to her debut For You, Yume inspires listeners to embrace their dreams.
14, Demise Of Love - Demise Of Love
Demise Of Love’s self-titled debut EP fuses industrial dreamscapes, acid house energy, and emotive melodies into something entirely new. Avery, Greenwood, and Working Men’s Club craft unpredictable, intense tracks like ‘Strange Little Consequence’ and ‘Be A Man,’ balancing innovation with raw emotion. A bold, boundary-pushing triumph in modern electronic music.
15, Mercyland - Termites
Mercy Land’s debut EP pulses with darkwave, dreampop, and alternative dance. Laura Jinn and Tatum Gale weave starcrossed romance into mall-goth sarcasm and cinematic longing. Each track gambles on heartbreak and hope, flirting with the edge yet never losing their ever-burning optimism—a haunting, irresistible soundtrack for dreamers on the brink.
16, Punchbag - I’m Not Your Punchbag
PUNCHBAG’s debut EP I’m Not Your Punchbag is a whirlwind of “Aggressive Hopecore,” blending sugar-sweet pop hooks with jagged, leftfield production. Clara and Anders Bach turn emotional turmoil into cathartic anthems, from defiant title tracks to manic, infectious synths. A fearless, exhilarating debut that confronts life’s chaos with joy.
17, Lantana - Kursaal
Three Piece Santa’s debut EP Kursaal fuses gothic-inspired post-punk with melodic basslines, baritone vocals, and punchy drums. Across five tracks, decay in relationships and surroundings meets dark, nostalgic soundscapes. Written by Charlie Paterson after returning to his seaside hometown, the EP reflects austerity’s mark on both people and places.
18, Yuuf - Alma’s Cove
Yuuf’s new EP Alma’s Cove is a serene, meditative journey blending global influences and organic textures. Across five tracks, the band creates a dreamy escape from everyday stress, drawing inspiration from nature, classical guitar, Americana, and Studio Ghibli. The title track’s psychedelic rhythms and lush soundscapes invite full immersion.
19, Liv dawn - Hopeful Wandering
Scottish singer-songwriter Liv Dawn’s Hopeful Wandering EP showcases her most expansive sound yet, blending folk, pop, soft rock, and country influences. Lead single The Mountains Are Calling is an uplifting anthem of self-discovery, pairing rhythmic acoustic guitars and piano with Dawn’s captivating vocals, offering warmth, hope, and heartfelt songwriting.
20,The Family Battenberg - Spider Rock Forever
The Family Battenberg’s debut EP, Spider Rock Forever, is a fuzzy, psych-rock time capsule. With blistering guitars, saturated vocals, and hypnotic drums, tracks like ‘Anteater’ and ‘Gwyllgi’ showcase their signature groove. Lyrically rich, exploring cult mythology and obsession, the South Walian four-piece prove themselves a formidable, imaginative force.
