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FAVORITE MINNESOTA EPS OF 2025

January 19, 2026 by Andrew Perrizo in Year End List

2025 was a shitshow, but seems to pale in comparison to how 2026 has started off. ICE is currently occupying the Twin Cities and everything is chaos. I honestly feel guilty for taking time to write about music in this moment. I sincerely hope that this article and the music included in it gives you a chance to rest your mind, come up for air, and refocus on the fight ahead. Here are some of our writers’ favorite EPs of 2025.

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January 19, 2026 /Andrew Perrizo
ep of the year, Careful Gaze, “one day you will let this go”, Slime Monsters from Outer Space, “Battle Songs of the Revolution”, “Fractured Remembrances: Music from the Play”, Dissociate, “Cactus Magnet”, Eldest Daughter, “The Greenway Sessions (Live)”, D.C. Leonhardt, “Deep Sea Diver”, Oceanographer, Gill Weather, “Lamps”, Astronomy Town, “Robot Ghost”, Poison Ivy And The People, “Of the Water”, Conzemius, SLDG, ...Of My Own Design, townsquaremassacre, three songs, bunny blood, Was It Me?, Watercolor, Doll Chaser, Unseam the Rich, Sonic Sea Turtles, EVERYTHING IS CALM, A Sunken Ship Irony, Tangled Smoke, Bathtub Cig, you can smoke if it's hospice, Crush Card, The Plan, Father Melissa, Xxn00bpwnerxX, Fumbler, Orion Riitters, The Desert Ethereal, honeygirl, Chrysalis, Jackson Atkins, Expectation, Mayfly Moon, The Creature, Planer, End, Shrive, Leach, Sophie Hiroko, to the core, Soulkeeper, Join Us In Creating Exellence, Stellala Bea, Playing for Tips EP, sugarcoat, this is all normal, Two Weeks Past Never, Glitterbomb!, Blank Stare, Waking Hours, Zippy Laske
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SONIC SEA TURTLES "BODIES" MUSIC VIDEO

May 22, 2020 by Andrew Perrizo in Video Premiere

We are all experiencing isolation to at least some extent right now; from our friends, our families, and our communities. Sonic Sea Turtles put out a request to their fans to create images of isolation and then took the images and turned them into the music video for “Bodies.”

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May 22, 2020 /Andrew Perrizo
Sonic Sea Turtles, Bodies, rock
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2019 EPs of the Year

December 30, 2019 by Andrew Perrizo in Year End List

So here is the thing, I like a certain type of music, and though my musical taste has greatly expanded over the last year, These are my favorite albums and EPs of 2019. You’ll find albums no one else included on their year end lists, but you’ll also find albums that EVERYONE has already written about. Ask anyone else and they’ll give you a different list. it’s impossible to set my bias aside. It’s also impossible to include everyone on this list, there are a lot of truly amazing albums I feel bad for leaving off these lists. I listened to over two-hundred albums/EPs from 2019 and relistened to all of them again over the last couple months.All that said, here are my favorite albums and EPs of 2019. Tell me why I’m wrong and what I missed in the comments.

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December 30, 2019 /Andrew Perrizo
Space Monkey Mafia, France Camp, The Way Away, Kate Malanphy, Theyself, Perfume, War Prayer, Kate Malanaphy, NATL PARK SRVC, Bad Bad Hats, K.Raydio, Sonic Sea Turtles, Double Grave, Gully Boys, Unturned, Why Not, Lazenlow, Floodwater Angel, Loneliest Ways, Niiice., OKnice, The Von Tramps
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