[choc e-Claire]

For some news on artists that are relevant to the 2020s: Perverts, the newest project by Ethel Cain, is quite strong - it's an impressive move to make a shift into industrial ambient drone and scare off the Twitter fangirls who liked the pretty piano slowcore on Preacher's Daughter (which I've tried to like, but have found pretty average). Not that there's no "songs" on the new one, but it's definitely not the main focus.
Despite being 90 minutes long, it's been released as an EP (it's intended as something of an experiment), so the only "album" from 2025 I've heard so far is Asian Glow's 11100011. It's a good summary of what shoegaze sounds like to us zoomers, and the first track is pretty great, but I found it a bit hard to connect with some of the more electronic-focused tracks and it's not as good as I remember Cull Ficle being.