After the success of The Trash Gentlemen List Vol 1, we are back with more music to share! With 2025 wrapping up, we thought it would be appropriate to share some of our top picks for the year. You’d think that this would be a straightforward process, yet mere moments into our song sharing session; we found ourselves making changes to the list. These changes were mostly in the form of additions, seeing as this playlist is 20 tracks long. Some tracks were just too good to pass up, and even then, we still had to shortlist to its current form. The whole process was more difficult than expected, but it was nothing that your trusty playlist curators couldn’t handle. We hope you maybe find a new favourite you missed this year or maybe you see some of the same things from your list and you can think “Fuck yeah, I know I have good taste because the Trash Gentlemen stamped this one.”

Father
Jim Legxacy – black british music

Since focusing on more UK-based music, Jim Legxacy has also been popping up more than once. This genre-bending artist dropped black british music and the reception has been great. “Father,” one of the singles for the album, stands out as a front runner. With an afrobeat feel in the beat, Legxacy comes through with some strong verse timing, while keeping the verse contents quite basic. When it comes to music you can groove to, the UK’s Jim Legxacy is smart addition to any playlist. It was also great to see that he sold-out his small North American tour. Hopefully we’ll see a larger tour come our way next year?