FKA Twigs’ latest album, EUSEXUA, includes “Perfect Stranger,” one of the songs we can’t stop playing this week.

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We kick off the new year with a look at some of the albums we’re most excited about for 2025, and the songs from them that we’re obsessed with. This includes the transfixing sounds of Anna B Savage, moody club beats from FKA Twigs, ’80s-influenced rock and pop from Sharon Van Etten and more.

NPR Music’s Hazel Cills joins host Robin Hilton.

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Featured artists and songs:

1. Ela Minus: “Broken,” from DIA
2. Anna B Savage: “Lighthouse,” from You & i are Earth
3. Horsegirl: “2468,” from Phonetics On and On
4. Miya Folick: “This Time Around,” from Erotica Veronica
5. FKA Twigs: “Perfect Stranger,” from EUSEXUA
6. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory: “Afterlife,” from S/T