Albums Of The Year 2025

Here's our top 80 albums of the year! Full info on each can be found after the grid.

1 Pulp 'More' 
2 Finn Wolfhard 'Happy Birthday'
3 Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist 'Alfredo 2'
4 Daniel Blumberg 'The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'
5 Ichiko Aoba 'Luminescent Creatures'
6 Moses Yoofee Trio 'MYT'
7 Poor Creature 'All Smiles Tonight'
8 Joanne Robertson 'Blurrr'
9 Prostitute 'Attempted Martyr'
10 The Bug vs Ghost Dubs 'Implosion'
11 WATER FROM YOUR EYES 'It’s A Beautiful Place'
12 Armand Hammer & The Alchemist 'Mercy'
13 billy woods 'GOLLIWOG'
14 Big Thief 'Double Infinity'
15 Richard Dawson 'End Of The Middle'
16 Wednesday 'Bleeds'
17 Lifeguard 'Ripped and Torn'
18 Wet Leg 'moisturizer'
19 Chime Oblivion 'Chime Oblivion'
20 Earl Sweatshirt 'Live Laugh Love'
21 Geese 'Getting Killed'
22 Nine Inch Nails 'Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'
23 Young Fathers '28 Years Later (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'
24 Djo 'The Crux'
25 Ethel Cain 'Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You'
26 Oklou 'Choke Enough'
27 They Are Gutting a Body of Water 'LOTTO'
28 Die Spitz 'Something to Consume'
29 Upchuck 'I’m Nice Now'
30 Tortoise 'Touch'
31 caroline 'caroline 2'
32 Stereolab 'Instant Holograms On Metal Film'
33 Black Country, New Road 'Forever Howlong'
34 Maruja 'Pain to Power'
35 Turnstile 'Never Enough'
36 Alan Sparhawk 'With Trampled by Turtles'
37 Alex G 'Headlights' 
38 Larry June, 2 Chainz and The Alchemist 'Life Is Beautiful'
39 Studio Electrophonique ‘Studio Electrophonique'
40 Benefits 'Constant Noise'
41 OSEES 'Abomination Revealed At Last'
42 Jehnny Beth 'You Heartbreaker, You'
43 Florist 'Jellywish'
44 Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions 'Cold Blows The Rain'
45 Adrian Sherwood 'The Collapse Of Everything'
46 Pale Blue Eyes 'New Place'
47 Anna von Hausswolff 'ICONOCLASTS'
48 Sir Richard Bishop 'Hillbilly Ragas'
49 Clipse 'Let God Sort 'Em Out'
50 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 'Queer (Original Score)'
51 Momma 'Welcome To My Blue Sky'
52 Sunn O))) 'Eternity's Pillars'
53 Wu-Tang and Mathematics 'Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman: Wu-Tang, The Saga Continues Collection'
54 Jim Ghedi 'Wasteland'
55 Eli Keszler 'Eli Keszler'
56 McKinley Dixon 'Magic, Alive!'
57 Hotline TNT 'Raspberry Moon'
58 Snooper 'Worldwide'
59 Akira Yamaoka 'Silent Hill 2 (Original Soundtrack)'
60 Agriculture 'The Spiritual Sound'
61 Greg Freeman 'Burnover'
62 Burial 'Comafields / Imaginary Festival'
63 Hollie Cook 'Shy Girl'
64 Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo 'In the Earth Again'
65 Sandwell District 'End Beginnings'
66 Mark William Lewis 'mark william lewis'
67 Oneohtrix Point Never 'Tranquilizer'
68 Cindy Lee 'Diamond Jubilee'
69 Doves 'Constellations For The Lonely'
70 Kendrick Lamar 'GNX'
71 Antony Szmierek 'Service Station At The End Of The Universe'
72 FKA twigs 'EUSEXUA'
73 Mogwai 'The Bad Fire'
74 AFI  'Silver Bleeds the Black Sun...'
75 Jonny Greenwood 'One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)'
76 Eddie Chacon 'Lay Low'
77 Mulatu Astatke 'Mulatu Plays Mulatu'
78 Alabaster DePlume 'A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole'
79 The Budos Band 'VII'
80 Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band 'New Threats From the Soul'