Here is The Crooked Road current Top Ten. We also include two debut albums from young artists as ‘ones to watch’.

Mike Ganley’s Crooked Road

Top Ten 2025

Broadcast – 1st January 2026


Part 1

Lunan – Oddy Locks (Own Label) One to watch for 2026

Alison Kruass & Union Station – Arcadia (Down The Road Records)

Mary Coughlan – Repeat Rewind (Strange Brew Records)

Amble - Reverie (Warner Records Ireland)

Ninebarrow – The Hour of The Blackbird (Winding Track Records)

Martyn Joseph – Troubled Horses (Pipe Records)

Part 2

Clementine Lovell - Westbound (Own Label) One to watch for 2026

Tim Grimm – Bones of Trees (Cavalier Recordings)

Rachael McShane & The Cartographers - Uncharted (Own Label)

Reg Meuross – Fire and Dust (Hatsongs Records)

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage – The Strangers Share (Stargrazing Records)


Crooked Road Album of the Year for 2025

Flook - Sanju (Flatfish Records)


(Both parts of The Top Ten will be available on our Mixcloud site  here in early January)


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