I didn't get too many releases falling into this category this year, so four already feels like a lot. Of course that doesn't change the objective truth of this little list. This is the one and only truth. Don't take it personal, but whatever you think is the best reissue of the year - you're wrong.
TOP 4 reissues 2025:
- LAIBACH - Laibach40
Ok, seriously now. I was a little bit divided about putting this new Laibach box on top, because their debut album has already been released in several forms, including the "Laibach Revisited" box set. Two of the three accompanying live albums in the box are already known too, while just one recent "We Forge The Future" performance and a DVD documentary are actually new entries into the collection. If this is all new to you however, this CD box (or its vinyl equivalent) is undoubtly a great document of the Slovene legends' early Industrial days forty years ago.
- SENYAWA - Membaladakan Keselamatan (Ballads for the Survivors)Four years after the digital release WV Sorcerer Productions finally gave us a physical release of Senyawa's unplugged album, which proves that even on an acoustic guitar instead of self-built electronic devices the Javanese Experimental Folk/Drone duo is just as comepelling as in its regular form. The vinyl release ist beautiful and not only includes lyrics, but also four previously unreleased bonus tracks. Magical.
- PINK FLOYD - Live at Pompeii MCMLXXIIYes, in case you wondered, why this didn't show up in my TOP 7 of live albums - it's of course a reissue. And even though the two CD version probably is one of the least spectacular formats in which this Steven Wilson remix of this essential Pink Floyd recording (and the film which it scores) has come out, there's no doubt about the importance and continuing influence of this band in their maybe most creatively and temperamentally balanced era.
- Ok, I'm cheating. These are two albums. But not only because of the similar, just mirrored cover artwork the 2015 and 2017 works of this mystical Doom trio feel like connected twin releases. The atmospheric longtracks of slow Experimental Metal drowned in Near Eastern and Dead Can Dance influences are already almost as compelling as later albums - and Heavy Psych Sounds just does beautiful colour vinyl variants, so the only hard decision of this reissue really was, which exact version to choose. Musically Wyatt E. are beyond any doubt a worthwhile addition to any collection anyway.
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