What We Missed In 2025

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The sheer volume and variety of Spanish-language music released every year is breathtaking. Even those of us with our ears to the ground are bound to miss things. So, in this episode we travel back through the year to resurface some of the remarkable albums that somehow didn't make it on the show. Catch Afro-Caribbean jazz, a history-spanning classical strings project, the return of Juana Molina and much, much more.

Artists and albums featured in this episode:

- Alex Cuba, 'Índole'
- Enyel C, 'Nuevo Caribe'
- Berta Rojas, 'La Huella de las Cuerdas'
- Cazzu, 'Latinaje'
- Conrad Herwig, Eddie Palmieri and Luques Curtis, 'Reflections-Facing South'
- Juana Molina, 'DOGA'

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0:18.2	Felix.
0:19.2	Anna.
0:20.2	I miss you. I haven't seen you in a week. It's where are you these days? Oh,
0:24.5	you know, the great city of, of Mexico. That works, right? Yeah. It's always, you know, it's like I get here and then I
0:32.3	hear 5,000 new things that I'm like, wow, it's just, it's the city musically is like evolving every
0:38.7	point five seconds, truly.
0:40.7	Well, tell all my friends that I said hello.
0:42.5	I will.
0:43.4	All your friends.
0:44.4	All of them.
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0:51.5	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:52.6	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:55.0	Let the Chisemay begin. Felix. Obviously, I'm in Mexico, so I have a lot of chisemay. I can't say any of it on the show. So let's just get into music we missed this year. It's impossible to catch everything that comes out. Absolutely. Yeah, and one of the things I do at the end of the year is just like look back like, oh my God, I forgot about this one, forgot about that one. So that's what we're going to do this week. It's actually one of the most thrilling things to me, Felix. Like one of my favorite parts of the year is not going back and remembering all the things I love, but really doing the digging of like, but what are all the things that I didn't... It's like this explosion of all this amazing music
1:29.6	that I just somehow missed or never had time to listen to.
1:32.2	And it's like, oh, wow.
1:33.5	It's like a whole new...
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