Favorite Music Videos of 2025: Women’s Edition
Better late than never, we might say. Here is the Favorite Music Videos of 2025: Women’s Edition. It’s always comforting to hear the songs made by women because their wide array of emotions are matched by an equally vast range of vocalizations. This year is filled with buried memories and unknown feelings, accompanied by a great deal of self-discovery, insight, and progress aimed at healing. Can’t wait to see where all these paths lead in the new year and beyond.
KIYO – “I Was Never Young”
Kiyo, the Leipzig, Germany-based sad Synth Wave artist, delivered a deeply cathartic video for “I Was Never Young”, furthering her exploration of buried feelings by combining her unique and soothing voice with a deeply moving and rich tapestry of analog synth sound.
- IOANA IORGU – “Doll House”
The Groningen-based independent music producer, self-taught guitarist and drummer Ioana Iorgu enhances her “unsettling poetic post-punk” with an Official Music Video by Veerle de Vos and Ioana Iorgu herself for “Doll House,” a visceral dive into trauma and scars.
ZOLTAN FREITAG feat. ANOMYS – “Voli all’incontrario“
Simona Minutolo, the Italian vocalist and lyricist, under the Anomys alias, combined her talents with the fellow Türinèis Electro Wave Synth project of Zoltan Freitag for the Lynchian visuals by the duo and Giulia Gaudiano for “Voli all’incontrario / Flights In Reverse,” a poetic exploration of the evanescence of the future and the elusive nature of memory, and the title track of ZF’s 3-song EP.
SHADOWBAN – “Adrania”
Tina Boleti, the multifaceted Greek-born artist from Night in Athens, teamed up with her longtime collaborator, UK producer and sonic alchemist Underthinker, in the intriguingly unpredictable Dark Wave/Witch House/Noise-laced Electronic project Shadowban, to reveal the thought-provoking DIY video for the debut synth-driven single, “Adrania / Inertia”, a song about keeping the mind still.
LAL TUNA – “Television Forever “
Istanbul-born, Bordeaux-based multi-disciplinary artist Lal Tuna dropped a soul-stirring video she made with Hugo Carmouze for “Television Forever”, inspired by Japanese surf rock, gothic country (Americana), doom metal and mainstream pop, also a deeply personal song about sexual assault. A new single, “Don’t Forget Me”, will be released on January 23 via Modulor Music.
DISKOTEKET – “Avlagset ljud och ljus | Distant Sound And Light“
Diskoteket, the Uppsala, Sweden-based veteran New Wave / Post-punk five-piece unit, fronted by Anna-Karin Andersson, returned after a long hiatus, with a transfixing video for “Avlägset ljud och ljus / Distant Sound and Light”, an uplifting and spiritual audiovisual that brings forth visions of transformation.
LAURA SCHEN – “Destination Love”
Laura Schen, the solo Italian Experimental Dark Electronic musician, singer, and producer based in Berlin, Germany, returned, after five years, with a video directed by Robert Hanna, assisted by Karina Alfs, for “Destination Love,”, a deep and visceral ritual to give and receive love, taken from her self-released fifth album, “11 : 11.″
- ALTAI – “On Your Own”
Altai, the up-and-coming musical outlet of Australian multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Tessa Collins, has developed a genre-blurring sound that weaves together Dream Pop, Jangle Pop, Shoegaze, and Alternative Folk. A beautiful, symbolic video by Filipino artist Rommel Joy Valencia for the single “On Your Own”, further brightens the song that was written to turn to when panic and feelings of being overwhelmed beckon, featuring William J Evans on bass, backing vocals, guitar and Nicholas Warren Evans on guitar.
- BLANCHE BIAU – “I Close My Eyes”
Blanche Biau, the Zürich, Switzerland-based Cold Wave/Post Punk solo project brought us an intriguing symbolic video by Aaron Chaudhry for “I Close My Eyes,” bringing forth ideas of transformation through falling and reflection, taken from the album “Heartcore” via Young & Cold Records.
NICO AMARA – “Found Life”
The Basel-based solo Darkwave / Post-Industrial project of the Swiss Experimental composer and multidisciplinary artist Nicole Fior-Greant, under the moniker of Nico Amara, travels to a cold basement where ghosts and shadows dwell in her Official Video, planned and edited by Nico Amara herself and filmed by Zak Greant, for “Found Life”, the lead song on the EP “Constructions”.
CLOUD TANGLE – “Desire Path”
Cloud Tangle, the solo project of the Brisbane, Australia-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Amber Ramsay, slows things down in the DIY video for “Desire Path”, themed around the constant movement of nature and how things always find their path, taken from the fourth studio album “Dreaming Again” via local independent label 4000 Records.
FIONA FIASCO – “Stacy”
Fiona Fiasco, the Zurich-based multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter from the valley of Grisons in the Swiss Alps, guides Lukas Kuprecht (cello, choir), Selma Aerni (choir), and Lucien Badoux (vocals, keys, percussion) into her Romansh folk tradition with the song “Stacy”, from which the playful video by Lukas Kuprecht springs forth, taken from the debut EP “Blue Rider, Blue Faced”, due out on February 27th, 2026.
