It’s time to reflect on the year in music! This month, we’ll be highlighting Jam of Today’s favourite albums of 2025. Working our way up to the #1 album, which will be revealed on the 31st of December, we’ll go one by one past this year’s favourites. Today, our #26: ‘Fun’s Over‘ by KEG.

They are easily one of my most played bands of the last 2,5 years and many of their singles have nestled themselves as favourites into the Jam of Today household. Yet, when KEG dropped their first official full-length, I was met with an album that required a few listens to make it resonate as well as their previous works did.

I wonder if perhaps, it’s all intentional. I mean, this album’s title is ‘Fun’s Over’ after all. The fact that I didn’t indeed immediately take a massive liking to this record could’ve been in the cards all along. Seriousness seems to be a bit more present this time, especially compared to their songs about Michael Phelps or posh kids having ridiculous lunches. The album’s lengthy opener ‘Photo Day’ starts off a tad bit gloomy before picking up the pace eventually. Though, it leaves me wondering: will this gloomy start be a harbinger to a murky shade hanging over the rest of this album?

Whereas I got to know KEG as a unique addition to the art scene, it seems they are slowly shifting to becoming a bit of a balancing act between Yard Act and Squid. Especially interludes ‘Father Charles’, ‘Mr and Mrs Raleigh’, and ‘Bobby’ hold a strong ‘Where’s My Utopia?’-feel, whereas this album’s first highlight ‘Strangers’ sounds like it could’ve been featured on ‘Bright Green Field’. In between, we find a bit more of a staple KEG song in ‘I’d Fly Tip For You’, though yet again this song seems to be missing its punch a little. Throughout the rest of ‘Fun’s Over’, I find myself juggling with the sentiment as described in this paragraph, although I must stay critical about my own expectations as well.

Tempering my sanguine expectations a bit, I notice this album does grow to become a solid one. Fact is, KEG managed to solidly execute making a type of music I haven’t heard a great deal of over the last few years. Their big line-up consisting of 7 band members mixed with an intensely creative style of songwriting enable KEG to turn ‘Fun’s Over’ into a straight up good album. Take ‘St Michael’ and ‘Kayaking’, which carry KEG to new highs while former Jams ‘Giving Up Fishing’ and ‘Sate The Worm’ have a weird sense of nostalgia hanging over them already. Also, I can’t help but briefly mentioning the chaotic ‘Ferryman’ too, which heads a totally different direction than anything I’ve written about here today. I think, once I’ve adjusted to this slightly more serious tone of voice, KEG’s debut album isn’t so gloomy as I was scared for right at the start and I reckon I will be able to enjoy ‘Fun’s Over’ more and more over the next few years to come. I just got to get off the silly train and transfer onto KEG’s renewed sound.