{"id":40895,"date":"2025-12-23T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=40895"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:45:47","slug":"best-of-2025-according-to-bbe-brownswood-z-and-the-tru-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/23\/best-of-2025-according-to-bbe-brownswood-z-and-the-tru-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"BEST OF 2025, according to BBE, BROWNSWOOD, Z and the TRU THOUGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"40900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BBE-2025-298x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BBE-2025-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BBE-2025-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BBE-2025.png 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"228\" data-id=\"40901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Brownswood-2025.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40901\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"40903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tru-Thoughts-2025-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tru-Thoughts-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tru-Thoughts-2025-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tru-Thoughts-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tru-Thoughts-2025.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" data-id=\"40902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Z-Records-2025-300x298.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Z-Records-2025-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Z-Records-2025-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Z-Records-2025.png 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All around. Everyone feels called upon. Lists and verdicts. Opinions and viewpoints. It feels as if, toward the end of the year, everyone crowds in front of a mobile camera and microphone to force their self-appointed Best of 2025 lists upon our senses\u2014unsolicited. We don\u2019t need that, because we\u2019ve already made our choices anyway, quickly adding the wonderful <strong>\u201cDays Like These\u201d<\/strong> album by <strong>JOSHUAH BRIAN CAMPBELL<\/strong>, before taking a look back at this year\u2019s releases from four of our favorite British labels. So here and now: the year soon drawing to a close, described through the music of <strong>BROWNSWOOD, BBE, TRU THOUGHTS, and Z RECORDS<\/strong>. That always works.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rundum. Mann\/Frau f\u00fchlt sich berufen. Listen und Urteile. Meinungen und Ansichten. Gef\u00fchlt dr\u00e4ngt sich zum Abschluss jeder vor Mobil-Kamera und Mikrofon, um uns ungefragt ihre selbsterkorene Bestenliste 2025 auf die Sinne zu geben. Brauchen wir nicht, denn wir haben ohnehin schon unsere Auswahl getroffen, f\u00fcgen schleunigst noch das tolle &#8222;Days Like These&#8220; Album vom JOSHUAH BRIAN CAMPBELL hinzu, um dann die diesj\u00e4hrigen Angebote von 4 unserer britischen Label-Favoriten Revue passieren zu lassen. Also, hier und jetzt, das bald ablaufende Jahr, beschrieben mittels der Musiken von BROWNSWOOD, BBE, TRU THOUGHTS und den Z RECORDS. Das geht immer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: BBE Staff Selections 2025\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2Pm5JIgsE90kY0LI5iHU87?si=bxQvWpLJTD2ZJcBskZZ3Ng&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Brownswood Best of 2025\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/357dDmHrBVR10LsXzyAgQV?si=7503909e63794c81&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Dave Lee&amp;apos;s 2025 Essentials\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/74mrujE7nSCOH7PeqaJ49K?si=t4evuqp5R0qMtQHGEcxyqw&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3503512028\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/tru-thoughts.bandcamp.com\/album\/tru-thoughts-2025\">Tru Thoughts 2025 by Tru Thoughts<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All around. Everyone feels called upon. Lists and verdicts. Opinions and viewpoints. It feels as if, toward the end of the year, everyone crowds in front of a mobile camera and microphone to force their self-appointed Best of 2025 lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/23\/best-of-2025-according-to-bbe-brownswood-z-and-the-tru-thoughts\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,7,5],"tags":[51,40,14,152,27,22,28,13,38],"class_list":["post-40895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-calm-collected","category-grooves-beatz","category-reviews","category-shortcuts","tag-horns","tag-indie","tag-jazz","tag-nu-beats","tag-nu-school","tag-old-school","tag-sonic-soul","tag-soul","tag-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40895"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40906,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895\/revisions\/40906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}