Best Albums of 2025

30. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Gift Songs

 

Key Tracks:  "Gift Song I"

29. Heartworms

Glutton For Punishment

 

Key Tracks:  "Just To Ask A Dance", "Warplane", "Celebrate"

28. caronine

caroline 2

 

Key Tracks:  "Total Euphoria", "Tell me I never knew that", "U R UR ONLY ACHING"

27. These New Puritans

Crooked Wing

 

Key Tracks:  "Industrial Love Song", "I'm Already Here", "The Old World"

26. Ichiko Aoba

Luminescent Creatures

 

Key Tracks:  "COLOTATURA", "Luciferine"

25. Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke

Tall Tales

 

Key Tracks:  "A Faker In a Faker's World", "This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice", "The Men Who Dance in Stag's Head"

24. Black Country, New Road

Forever Howlong

 

Key Tracks:  "Besties", "The Big Spin", "Mary"

23. Saba and No ID

From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID

 

Key Tracks:  "Every Painting Has a Price", "How to Impress God", "a FEW songs"

22. Joanne Robertson

Blurrr

 

Key Tracks:  "Exit Vendor", "Always Were", "Gown"

21. DJ Koze

Music Can Hear Us

 

Key Tracks:  "Wie schon du bist", "What About Us", " Umaoi"

20. BC Camplight

A Sober Conversation

 

Key Tracks:  "Where You Taking My Baby?", "Bubbles In The Gasoline", "Drunk Talk"

19. Billy Woods

GOLLIWOG

 

Key Tracks:  "Corinthians", "A Dolla Full Pins", "Dislocated"

18. CMAT

EURO-COUNTRY

 

Key Tracks:  "EURO-COUNTRY", "The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station", "Tree Six Foive"

17. Bon Iver

SABLE, fABLE

 

Key Tracks:  "Everything is Peaceful Love", "I'll Be There"

16. Dijan

Baby

 

Key Tracks:  "Baby!", "Yamaha", "Rewind"

15. Cameron Winter

Heavy Metal

 

Key Tracks:  "Nausicaa (Love Will Be Revealed)", "Love Takes Miles", "Drinking Age"

14. Pulp

More

 

Key Tracks:  "Spike Island", "Background Noise", "Partial Eclipse"

13. Perfume Genius

Glory

 

Key Tracks:  "It's a Mirror", "No Front Teeth", "Dion"

12. Japanese Breakfast

For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)

 

Key Tracks:  "Honey Water", "Picture Window", "Men in Bars"

11. Alex G

Headlights

 

Key Tracks:  "Afterlife", "Spinning", "Headlights"

10. Wednesday

Bleeds

 

Key Tracks:  "Townies", "Phish Pepsi", "Pick Up That Knife"

9. The Last Dinner Party

From the Pyre

 

Key Tracks:  "Rifle", "I Hold Your Anger"

8. FKA Twigs

Eusexua

 

Key Tracks:  "Wanderlust", "Childlike Things", "Room of Fools"

7. Panda Bear

Sinister Grift

 

Key Tracks:  "Anywhere but Here", "Ends Meet", "Elegy for Noah Lou"

6. Little Simz

Lotus

 

Key Tracks:  "Free", "Blood", "Blue"

5. Turnstile

NEVER ENOUGH

 

Key Tracks:  "I CARE", "SEEIN' STARS", "TIME IS HAPPENING"

4. Noutished by Time

The Passionate Ones

 

Key Tracks:  "Max Potential", "Tossed Away", "When The War Is Over"

3. Oklou

choke enough

 

Key Tracks:  "endless", "thank you for recording", "obvious"

2. Rosalia

LUX

 

Key Tracks:  "Divinize", "La Perla", "Sauvignon Blanc"

1. Geese

Getting Killed

 

Key Tracks:  "Cobra", "Husbands", "Au Pays du Cocaine"