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 #5: ‘Learning Greek‘ by Humour.

Remaining steadily under the radar, Scottish post-punk band Humour released their debut album this year. ‘Learning Greek’ is filled with the most standout post-punk of 2025 and especially in a year where there’s a great decline in bands within this genre sprouting as far as the eye can see, it’s surprising no one has picked up on Humour yet.

Taking the successes of bands like Gurriers, Yard Act, Fat Dog, and shame, it’s interesting to see Humour hasn’t quite broken through yet. Of course, the post-punk revival has died down a bit and the genre surely isn’t as popular as it has been over recent years but still, Humour is equally as unique as the four examples given at the start of this paragraph. Whereas all make music in the same realm, they clearly have their own unique features and in Humour’s case, it’s their unpolished, rusty sound that makes this captivating and compelling debut such a brilliant one.

For starters, there’s Andreas Christodoulidis, whose peculiar singing style could be described as yowling or perhaps even grinding. He screams out the highest of noises but scratching the surface, there’s something oddly tender about his vocals, too. It’s one of Humour’s main selling points, though it’s worth mentioning these vocals go amazingly on the blend of music consisting of both screeching and dreamy guitars. Humour plays around with two complete opposites of the musical spectrum and on ‘Learning Greek’, it feels like they’ve already come close to perfecting it.

The three opening tunes of this album –  ‘Neighbours’, ‘Memorial’, and ‘Plagiarist’ – have been favourites of mine ever since they’ve been released and by ways of interlude ‘Learning Greek’ have been split apart from the other 7 songs containing some absolute must-listens for the post-punk fan, too. ‘I Knew We’d Talk About It One Day’ and ‘In the Paddies’ are prime examples of songs you would straight up recommend to any of your alternative friends getting into this genre and I could easily see a small to middle sized venue go crazy for these tunes. If you haven’t listened to Humour’s debut yet, let this be your wake-up call. Perhaps, if they had released this album 2 years ago, Humour would’ve blown up just as much as all the other acts have done. Though I’m sure, if they continue on this track, they will still do so in the years to come.