A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Dec. 15–21, 2025.

Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi (Original Soundtrack Album) (Antilles; 1983)

Goose – Goosemas: Show Upon Time, Amica Mutual Pavilion, Providence, RI, Dec. 13, 2025 (self-released; 2025)

Porcupine Tree – Warszawa (Transmission; 2004)

Dizgo – Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI, Dec. 11, 2025 (self-released; 2025)

paris_monster – Opalesce (self-released; 2024)

more eaze – sentence structure in the country (Thrill Jockey; due March 20, 2026)

Erik Hall – Solo Three (Western Vinyl; due Jan. 23, 2025)

Adjuster66 – “Metal Flower” (Across the Horizon subscriber exclusive; 2025)

Grey Mcmurray – “Before I Knew You Were Here” (Across the Horizon subscriber exclusive; 2025)

Clarice Jensen – “Love Song” (Across the Horizon subscriber exclusive; 2025)

Kreator – Satanic Anarchy (Nuclear Blast; 2025)

Demon Sluice – Dancers Beneath Shores of Fire (Negative Wingspan; 2025)

Glorious Depravity – Death Never Sleeps (Transcending Obscurity; 2025)

Testament – Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast; 2025)

Timothy McCormick – mine but for its sublimation (Another Timbre; 2025)

Peter Maxwell Davies – Strathclyde Concerto No. 4; Clarinet Quintet – Dmitri Ashkenazy, Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen/Joseph Trafton, Brodsky Quartet (paladino music; 2025)

Oromet – The Sinking Isle (Transylvanian Recordings; 2025)

Hannah Kendall – shouting forever into the receiver (NMC Recordings; 2025)

▸ shouting forever into the receiver – Ensemble Modern/Vimbayi Kaziboni; Tuxedo: Diving Bell 2 – Anne Denholm-Blair; when flesh is pressed against the dark – Loadbang; Tuxedo: Crown; Sun King – Jonathan Morton; Where is the chariot of fire? – The Hallé/Jonathan Bloxham; Tuxedo: Hot Summer No Water – Louise McMonagle; Even sweetness can catch the throat – Wavefield Ensemble

Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Exile – Thomas Kaufmann, Camerata Bern/Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Alpha; 2025)

▸ Anonymous/Jonathan Keren – Kugikly; Alfred Schnittke/Martin Merker – Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1; Anonymous – Cucuşor cu pană sură; Andrzej Panufnik – Concerto for Violin and Strings; Franz Schubert/Patricia Kopatchinskaja – 5 Minuets and 6 Trios for String Quartet (D. 89: No. 3); Ivan Wyschnegradsky – String Quartet No. 2 (Op. 18); Eugène Ysaÿe – Exil!

Gong – Pulsing Signals (Kscope; 2022)

Hawkwind – Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Cherry Red; 2024)

Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning – Deluxe Edition (Kscope; 2011)

The Dream Syndicate – Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY, Dec. 11, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

The Pineapple Thief – What We Have Sown (Cyclops/Kscope; 2007/2018)

Gerald Clayton Quartet – The Jazz Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 20, 2025, second set (Jazz Gallery ticketed webcast; 2025)

Bill Frisell – Four (Blue Note; 2024)

IQ – CK Wiatrak, Zabrze, Poland, Oct. 3, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Korn – Korn (Epic; 1994)

Sepultura – Roots (Roadrunner; 1996/2017)

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Title key: Hawkwind, “Assault and Battery”