Here are 20 of our favourite EPs from 2025. We’ve packed the list with newer artists we think you’re going to love, whether they’re already on your radar or yet to be discovered.

EPs are easy to overlook, but they’re often where you find the real gold: the early experiments, the breakthrough ideas, the bands on the edge of their debut album and about to take off. In this list we’ve tried to spotlight the artists we genuinely think are going places, with a focus on independent voices rather than the same predictable picks everyone defaults to. Our number one choice is a band we’re certain people will be talking about this time next year, so don’t sleep on them.

At least half of the artists here have been featured in our Start Listening To Q&As, so if you want to dive deeper, you can read more about them and explore their music on the site.

Without further ado, here are our favourite EPs of 2025, and the ones we think you’re going to love.

20) Flooding - Object 1

On *Object 1*, Flooding fold pop instincts into their usual mix of slowcore and noise rock with the same raw confessional energy, letting Rose Brown’s vocals sit front and centre admidst guitars flickering between restraint and collapse. Tracks like ‘depictions of the female body’ show the band at their most direct, navigating desire, self-doubt and emotional volatility with a clarity that hits harder than distortion ever could. *Object 1* is a tight and quietly ambitious step forward from a group who thrive on the line between softness and rupture.

19) WOOM - To Slow You

On *To Slow You*, WOOM shape their vocal-driven sound into something more focused, adventurous and emotionally present, using harmony as the core engine of each song. The EP moves with a calm intensity, pairing clear and uncluttered production with lyrics that sit close to the surface. ‘Welts’ in particular shows how well the group handle pressure and space, letting small details do the emotional work. *To Slow You* is a confident, quietly bold release that underlines WOOM’s ability to make stripped-back ideas feel full and focused.

18) drainfly - bracken of her bones

drainfly push their sound into something sharper and more emotionally direct on their latest EP, rooted in the realities of leaving home, building community and figuring out who you are in a city that never stops moving. The EP carries traces of their rural past and their London present, mixing rough edges with a quiet intensity. The production cuts close to the bone, shaped by odd details, handmade decisions and the band’s human instinct. It is a thoughtful, dead-honest collection that shows drainfly growing into their voice without losing the imperfections that make it feel alive.

17) Clutter - Clutter Loves You

Stockholm’s Clutter bottle the chaos, thrill and confusion of early adulthood into six tracks that sit somewhere between grunge bite and wide-eyed indie urgency. Distorted guitar, hazy vocals and restless lyrical spirals drive the EP but it is the band’s raw chemistry that gives it its spark, always teetering on the edge yet somehow holding steady. It is a striking debut that spotlights Clutter as a band brimming with possibility.

16) Zo Lief - Hypnosis

On *Hypnosis*, Zo Lief refine their mix of airy indie pop and subtle cinematic nostalgia, creating a warm world of enchantment. The UK and Netherlands duo channel the sweetness and clarity of bands like Tennis while weaving in a sharper, more restless energy that gives the EP its pull. These songs balance whimsy with melancholy, bright hooks with deeper emotional undercurrents, underscored by rich, atmospheric production that vividly focuses their sound. *Hypnosis* is a charming, carefully crafted step forward that shows just how gracefully Zo Lief can expand their universe without losing that intimate glow.

15) Molbo - MOL-BOT

Molbo’s *MOL-BOT* is a quick, chaotic blast of an EP, with no track stretching past the two-minute mark and every second packed with jagged energy. It taps into a punky, slightly psychedelic grit that recalls early Thee Oh Sees: all sharp turns and feral momentum. The whole thing feels unhinged in the best way, a hyperactive sprint that never stops to catch its breath. It is also the shortest EP on this list, and easily one of the most fun.

14) ugly ozo - stargirl

On *stargirl*, ugly ozo turns blunt confession into sharp, melodic indie rock that feels like reading someone’s diary. Jessica Baker channels anxiety and a biting sarcastic fury into songs that move between grungy tension and raw pop instinct, each track another page ripped straight from the most uncomfortable corners of her experience. The influence of The Breeders and Wolf Alice is there, but the voice is unmistakably her own, bristling with overshared honesty in a mess of self-reflection.

13) Dog Race - Return the Day

Pulling their gothic alt-pop deeper into shadow and tension, *Return The Day* sees Dog Race pairing emotional freefall with a frankly cinematic sense of unease. The EP pushes their mix of operatic vocals, serrated electronics and post-punk pressure into sharper, stranger shapes, capturing moments when colour drains from life and every instinct feels slightly off-centre. ‘Return The Day (Colours)’ sets the tone with its breathless pace and anxious churn, and the rest of the tracklist follows that feeling into new frontiers of dread and longing.

12) Sex Week - Upper Mezzanine

On *Upper Mezzanine*, Sex Week push their woozy, smudgy dream-grunge into sharper, darker focus, trading the fleeting shadows of their debut for something more guttural and direct. The duo’s instinct for off-kilter hooks remains intact but the edges are heavier, the moods more claustrophobic, the emotional stakes unmistakably higher. Tracks like ‘Lone Wolf’ fold communication breakdowns and relationship tension into their warped pop sensibility, while the EP as a whole leans into a balance of menace and tenderness.

11) she's green - Chrysalis

*Chrysalis* finds she’s green drifting deeper into the soft, scenic world that defines their sound, using the Midwest’s quiet landscapes as a backdrop for songs about change, closeness and the strange, unhurried work of growing up. Textural and unforced, the EP leans into the band’s instinctive style, where guitar lines spark melodies and lyrics surface like passing images. Recorded partly with Slow Pulp’s Henry Stoehr, these tracks evoke a gentle transformation shaped by long tours, shifting relationships and the push to define themselves. It’s a warm, contemplative step forward that shows just how much beauty they can draw from stillness.

10) Skydaddy - Anchor Chains, Plane Motors & Train Whistles

On *Anchor Chains, Plane Motors & Train Whistles*, Skydaddy leans into more adventurous version of his chamber-folk world, pairing childlike optimism with stark, often painful reflections. The EP threads flutes, soft guitars and playful pop touches through songs that grapple with identity and purpose and the weight of personal history, all delivered with Rachid Fakhre’s disarming mix of humour and heft. It’s a tender step forward, showing Skydaddy sharpening his voice while letting the music drift somewhere between wistful daydream and existential confession.

9) Grandmas House - Anything For You

On *I’d Do Anything For You*, Grandmas House turn grief into a gripping five-track surge of noise and vulnerability, balancing serrated punk force with moments of bruised, gothic softness. From the volatile release of ‘Screw It Up’ to the sacrificial tenderness of ‘Slaughterhouse’ and the aching plea of ‘Haunt Me’, the EP captures a band channelling turmoil into clarity, shaped by their rise through Bristol’s scene and an unshakeable bond strengthened by hardship. It’s a cathartic, tightly wound collection that treats loss not as silence but as the defiantly loud and messy truth.

8) SILVERWINGKILLER - TRIAD FUNDED

A debut like a warning siren, *TRIAD FUNDED* cements SILVERWINGKILLER as one of the most volatile new forces in UK electronic music. The Manchester duo fuse industrial bite, breakneck beats and multilingual vocals into something feral and cathartic, closer in spirit to a basement punk show than any club lineage. Across five tracks, they twist sci-fi paranoia, personal fury and warped cultural references into a sound that feels wired, unfiltered and impossible to file under one genre.

7) Rats-Tails - Public Domain

A debut that feels fully formed from the first note, *Public Domain* pulls Rats-Tails’ ‘dream rock’ vision into vivid focus. The London five-piece move between shoegaze bloom, dream-pop fog and folk mysticism with a confidence that makes the EP feel bigger than its scale, each track tracing a different emotional fault line. Clarinet outbursts, fretless bass swoons and widescreen guitar work give the songs a strange, cinematic pull, while Courtney McMahon’s vocals drift through the mix like a signal just slightly out of reach. It’s a lush, searching collection that shows how far the band have already travelled and hints at how much stranger and more expansive their world could become.

6) Pleisured - I’m Not Pleisured

Pleisured’s debut EP *I’m Not Pleisured* is a sharp, chaotic thrill ride that captures the band’s flair. Across four tight tracks, the London outfit crash through noise-punk riffs, clipped rhythms and hooky refrains with a well-rehearsed precision that translates into pure adrenaline. Highlights like ‘ROT’ and ‘Beat Down Blues’ showcase their knack for simple parts played with conviction, while closer ‘RIDE’ offers a rare breather before erupting into psychedelia, its clearer structure giving the EP’s heaviest moments more impact.

5) Lola Wild - Lost Signal

Lola Wild’s new EP feels like a transmission from another era, half-lost in static and glowing with its own luxurious mood. *Lost Signal* leans into the retro glamour she’s been circling since her debut, but the songwriting here is sharper, stranger, and more emotionally direct. Co-produced with Jim Wallis, the five tracks drift between 60s melodrama, dream-pop haze and the kind of atmospheric 80s pulse that suits her crooning vocal style so well. It’s an EP full of flickering images and missed connection.

4) Jane Remover - ♡

A small but luminous add-on to an already massive year, ♡ gathers loose threads from the *Revengeseekerz* era and turns them into something tender, dizzy and immediate. The EP folds two new tracks into a set of fan favourites, polishing early sketches, extending ideas, and giving them the emotional charge that runs through all of Jane’s best work. It moves between sugary nostalgia, late-night euphoria and that half-lost feeling her music bottles so well. Short, impulsive and strangely intimate.

3) The Orchestra (For Now) - Plan 75

On *Plan 75*, The Orchestra (For Now) prove why they are one of the most exciting bands to come out of London this year. The seven-piece move with a kind of controlled chaos that feels entirely their own, folding confessional rock, odd structural decisions and a real sense of ambition into something that never tips into self-indulgence. Tracks like ‘Escape From New York’ carry a surprising emotional weight, while closer ‘Wake Robin’ stretches out into an eight-minute opus that shows just the heights their songwriting can reach when they let the songs breathe. It is a genuinely striking debut statement, the sort of release that makes you feel like you’re catching a band right before everyone else wakes up to them.

2) Water From Your Eyes - It’s Beautiful

A wonderfully sideways companion to *It’s a Beautiful Place*, this new EP pulls three album standouts apart and rebuilds them into stranger, sharper shapes. Nate Amos’ reworks feel like alternate timelines for the tracks, shifting their gravity and emotional weight while keeping Rachel Brown’s vocals at the centre. ‘Born 2’ and ‘Nights in Armor’ snap back toward their earliest forms, while an expanded, sped-up ‘Playing Classics’ is something we definitely needed. It’s a small release that showcases their music’s many angles and how effortlessly the duo bend their own universe into something freshly hypnotic.

1) Silver Gore - Dogs In Heaven

Silver Gore’s Dogs In Heaven is a dazzling debut that cements the duo as one of the most exciting new forces in left-field pop. Ava Gore and Ethan P. Flynn move instinctively between punchy hooks, blissed-out synthpop and glitchy, free-form experimentation, each track captured in the heat of its emotion rather than polished into something safer. From the title track’s widescreen surge to the feather-light intensity of 25 Metres, the EP weaves vulnerability, volatility and sudden bursts of joy into something that feels alive in real time. It’s a rare opening statement that takes big swings and lands every one.