Music for festive house parties<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s face it: when everyone\u2019s two improvised cocktails deep, they\u2019ll be hollering for Pink Pony Club, and after two more, they\u2019ll be doing Fairytale of New York in a male-female karaoke face-off. But for the early part of the party, here\u2019s some 2025 pop, dance and rap to keep the mood buoyant.<\/p>\n
Jim Legxacy \u2013 Father
Cardi B \u2013 Principal (ft Janet Jackson)
Dexter in the Newsagent \u2013 I Told Ya
Tate McRae \u2013 Tit for Tat
Addison Rae \u2013 Fame is a Gun
PinkPantheress \u2013 Illegal
Tyla \u2013 Chanel
Jorja Smith \u2013 The Way I Love You
MK \u2013 Dior (ft Chrystal)
Confidence Man \u2013 I Heart You (ft Eliza Rose)
Sammy Virji \u2013 Cops & Robbers (ft Skepta)
Nuovo Testamento \u2013 Picture Perfect
Lady Gaga \u2013 Zombieboy
Leon Thomas \u2013 Just How You Are
Dijon \u2013 Yamaha
Sombr \u2013 12 to 12
M\u00d8 \u2013 Lose Yourself
Avalon Emerson \u2013 Don\u2019t Be Seen With Me
Gelli Haha \u2013 Bounce House
Jessy Lanza \u2013 Slapped By My Life<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Music for festive dinner parties<\/p>\n
Avoid the spiritually vacant music that populates a lot of the \u201cchilled beats\u201d or \u201cdowntempo vibes\u201d playlists you see on streaming services: a dinner party needs a bit more bite and humanity. Spanning hip-hop, alt-pop, indie, R&B, jazz and beyond, here\u2019s a selection of characterful 2025 favourites that won\u2019t dominate, but won\u2019t just melt into the background.<\/p>\n
Oklou \u2013 Take Me By the Hand (ft Bladee)
Banks \u2013 Delulu
John Glacier \u2013 Ocean Steppin\u2019 (ft Sampha)
Olivia Dean \u2013 Man I Need
Durand Jones & the Indications \u2013 Flower Moon
Night Moves \u2013 Hold On to Tonight
Geese \u2013 Husbands
Cass McCombs \u2013 Peace
Jordana \u2013 Like That
Alex G \u2013 Afterlife
Fontaines DC \u2013 It\u2019s Amazing to Be Young
Acopia \u2013 Falter
Erika de Casier \u2013 Delusional
US Girls \u2013 Running Errands (Yesterday)
Saba & No ID \u2013 head.rap (ft Madison McFerrin, Ogi and Jordan Ward)
Yaya Bey \u2013 Spin Cycle
Ady Suleiman \u2013 Never Meant to Hurt You (ft Kofi Stone)
Justin Bieber \u2013 Yukon
Makaya McCraven \u2013 Imafan
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin \u2013 Chahar<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Music for the morning after<\/p>\n
When it\u2019s the morning after, and all you can contemplate is which type of stuffed crust pizza might conceivably reincarnate you, you need to be soothed as you pour tiny pools of ash-filled beer out of almost empty cans. Here\u2019s some of the year\u2019s best dream-pop, acoustic songwriting and more to make everything better.<\/p>\n
Joanne Robertson \u2013 Always Were (ft Oliver Coates)
Mark William Lewis \u2013 Tomorrow is Perfect
Maria Somerville \u2013 Garden
Eiko Ishibashi \u2013 Coma
Cate Le Bon \u2013 Mothers of Riches
Jasmine.4.t \u2013 Elephant
Big Thief \u2013 Grandmother (ft Laraaji)
Venturing \u2013 Believe
Caroline \u2013 Total Euphoria
L\u00e9a Sen \u2013 lvl 1 \u2013 Home Alone
Loyle Carner \u2013 In My Mind
Earl Sweatshirt \u2013 Exhaust
Odeal \u2013 Miami (ft Leon Thomas)
Nourished By Time \u2013 Tossed Away
Nil\u00fcfer Yanya \u2013 Treason
Cass McCombs \u2013 Missionary Bell
Celestial \u2013 Mermaid Boulevard (ft Romance)
Purelink \u2013 Rookie (ft Loraine James)
Steve Hauschildt \u2013 Dividua
Burial \u2013 Comafields<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Music to cook to<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t want anything raising the stress levels in the kitchen, but you don\u2019t want the vibes to be so placid you end up leisurely overcooking everything. Reach for this blend of blissful funk, classic soul, folk-rock and heartfelt balladry from across the years to keep your mood on the lowest simmer.<\/p>\n
Evans Pyramid \u2013 Never Gonna Leave You
Y\u014dsui Inoue \u2013 Pi Po Pa
Foushe\u00e9 \u2013 Still Around
Jeff Parker \u2013 Build a Nest (ft Ruby Parker)
Eddie Chacon \u2013 My Mind is Out of Its Mind
Erykah Badu \u2013 Gone Baby, Don\u2019t Be Long
Syl Johnson \u2013 Concrete Reservation
Lambchop \u2013 What Else Could It Be
Willie Wright \u2013 Nantucket Island
Terry Callier \u2013 Ordinary Joe
Van Morrison \u2013 Natalia
The Sea and Cake \u2013 Too Strong
Laura Allan \u2013 Opening Up to You
Judee Sill \u2013 Jesus Was a Cross Maker
Arthur Russell \u2013 Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart
Laura Nyro and Labelle \u2013 Gonna Take a Miracle
Sachiko Kanenobu \u2013 Anata Kara Toku E (Far Away from You)
Joan Shelley \u2013 The Fading
Sam Dees \u2013 Just Out of Reach
The Supreme Jubileers \u2013 Standing in the Need of Prayer<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Playlists can be transferred to Apple<\/a>, Tidal<\/a> or other services. Taken from the winter food special of the Guardian\u2019s Feast supplement, published on Saturday 22 November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music for festive house parties Let\u2019s face it: when everyone\u2019s two improvised cocktails deep, they\u2019ll be hollering for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-272103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}