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Nite Songs Top 75 Albums of 2025 - Part 2 (60-51)

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  Well, we're underway now so let's keep this thing moving! Welcome to Part 2 of the Nite Songs end of year rundown... *** 60. SELF-ESTEEM - "A Complicated Woman" Rebecca Lucy Taylor's third solo album continues the rich vein of form of its predecessors. Angry and defiant on the one hand but sated with tunes ready to drag you to the dancefloor on the other, the likes of Mother , I Do And I Don't Care  and 69  brim with a mischievous sense of playfulness and a serious message in equal measure. *** 59.     THE VAPORS - "Wasp In A Jar" Yup, the  Turning Japanese  lot. I didn't have huge expectations for this but fair play to the Vapors, it's not often you'll come across bands from their era who are not only still going strong but putting material out that's arguably better than the stuff from their commercial heyday.  Wasp In A Jar  takes the classic power-pop formula and puts a 21st century sheen on it to good effect and mark this out a...