Top 20 electronic music albums of 2025: snake-charming Lila Tirando a Violeta channels her inner Cronenberg

This is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026

Lila Tirando a Violeta: Dream of Snakes (Unguarded)

Here is another electronic music album highlight of 2025. Make sure to read the rest of the series, although it may take you the rest of 2026 to read it all.

Here comes Lila Tirando a Violeta, Hyperdub artist and created of audio-visual treats for people like Primavera and Boiler Room.

We start across the Irish sea. The last time I was in Ireland, I encountered the New York–Dublin Portal, a high street video sculpture where people could wave, jump and generally play with their cross-Atlantic counterparts. When I think of Ireland, I think of this joyful connection.

When producer Lila Tirando moved from the Netherlands to Ireland, she thought of snakes. Not a video sculpture of snakes, but actual proper wriggly tongue-flicking snakes. They kept popping up in her dreams.

For her, though, her recurring snake dreams were comforting. They connected her to her childhood, to her grandparents, and to memories of her native Uruguay. And she is expressing that memory with Dream Of Snakes, a collection of wild, upfront and sometimes venomous industrial techno.

On Heavy Is The Soul, processed vocals attempt hyperpop over a clattering barrel of unruly beats. Eye Slice is a floor-stomper so pounding, you can barely hear the accompanying synths fireworking into fractals. New Flesh sees sci-fi keyboards accompany her whispered recitation of dialogue from David Cronenberg’s film Videodrome. Inventive all the way, and well worthy of my top 20 list.

“I wanted to feel the music coursing through my nervous system, that same adrenaline rush I get when watching a David Cronenberg film,” she said in an interview with Ransom Note. There are no FLIES on her. Geddit? No? Oh suit yerself.

See all of my Best electronic music albums of 2025