Year-End Lists

Our Culture: The 100 Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. feeo
   Goodness
2. Geese
   Getting Killed
3. caroline
   Caroline 2
4. Wednesday
   Bleeds
5. Oklou
   Choke Enough
6. Rosalía
   Lux
7. Billy Woods
   Golliwog
8. Bad Bunny
   DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
9. La Dispute
   No One Was Driving the Car
10. FKA twigs
    Eusexua
11. Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
    New Threats from the Soul
12. Alex G
    Headlights
13. Aya
    Hexed!
14. Dijon
    Baby
15. Water From Your Eyes
    It's a Beautiful Place
16. Snocaps
    Snocaps
17. Hannah Frances
    Nested in Tangles
18. Joanne Robertson
    Blurrr
19. Perfume Genius
    Glory
20. Smerz
    Big City Life
21. Addison Rae
    Addison
22. Amaarae
    Black Star
23. Destroyer
    Dan's Boogie
24. Kathryn Mohr
    Waiting Room
25. Lorde
    Virgin
26. Anna von Hausswolff
    Iconoclasts
27. Maria Somerville
    Luster
28. Sudan Archives
    The BPM
29. Jane Remover
    Revengeseekerz
30. They Are Gutting a Body of Water
    Lotto
31. Blood Orange
    Essex Honey
32. Ichiko Aoba
    Luminescent Creatures
33. Wet Leg
    Moisturizer
34. Nourished by Time
    The Passionate Ones
35. Samia
    Bloodless
36. Rochelle Jordan
    Through The Wall
37. Bon Iver
    Sable, Fable
38. jasmine.4.t
    You Are The Morning
39. Agriculture
    The Spiritual Sound
40. Ethel Cain
    Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
41. Deftones
    Private Music
42. The Ophelias
    Spring Grove
43. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Tranquilizer
44. Panda Bear
    Sinister Grift
45. Great Grandpa
    Patience, Moonbeam
46. No Joy
    Bugland
47. Tyler, The Creator
    Don't Tap the Glass
48. The Antlers
    Blight
49. Hotline TNT
    Raspberry Moon
50. Florry
    Sounds Like...
51. Horsegirl
    Phonetics On and On
52. Weatherday
    Hornet Disaster
53. Asher White
    8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living
54. Black Country, New Road
    Forever Howlong
55. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
56. KeiyaA
    hooke’s law
57. Total Wife
    come back down
58. Humour
    Learning Greek
59. Cass McCombs
    Interior Live Oak
60. Smut
    Tomorrow Comes Crashing
61. S.G. Goodman
    Planting by the Signs
62. Jenny Hval
    Iris Silver Mist
63. Ada Lea
    When I Paint My Masterpiece
64. U.S. Girls
    Scratch It
65. Hayden Pedigo
    I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
66. The Beths
    Straight Line Was a Lie
67. Turnstile
    Never Enough
68. Lily Seabird
    Trash Mountain
69. Ela Minus
    DÍA
70. Westerman
    A Jackal's Wedding
71. Colin Miller
    Losin'
72. Japanese Breakfast
    For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
73. YHWH Nailgun
    45 Pounds
74. Baths
    Gut
75. Greet Death
    Die In Love
76. Pulp
    More
77. Florist
    Jellywish
78. Mike
    Showbiz!
79. Lifeguard
    Ripped and Torn
80. The Weather Station
    Humanhood
81. Youth Lagoon
    Rarely Do I Dream
82. Hand Habits
    Blue Reminder
83. Eliza McLamb
    Good Story
84. Austra
    Chin up Buttercup
85. Guerilla Toss
    You're Weird Now
86. Kali Uchis
    Sincerely
87. Stella Donnelly
    Love and Fortune
88. Fust
    Big Ugly
89. Flock of Dimes
    The Life You Save
90. Rocket
    R Is for Rocket
91. PUP
    Who Will Look After the Dogs?
92. Bloodsports
    Anything Can Be A Hammer
93. Keaton Henson
    Parader
94. Hatchie
    Liquorice
95. Teethe
    Magic Of The Sale
96. Sword II
    Electric Hour
97. Danny Brown
    Stardust
98. Frankie Cosmos
    Different Talking
99. Mei Semones
    Animaru
100. Star 99
     Gaman