Year-End Lists

The Bitter Southerner: Best Southern Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

1. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
   Hayley Williams
2. Cruel Joke
   Ken Pomeroy
3. Let God Sort Em Out
   Clipse
4. Baby
   Dijon
5. God Does Like Ugly
   JID
6. Planting by the Signs
   S.G. Goodman
7. Bleeds
   Wednesday
8. gutta child
   Gabriel Jacoby
9. Fatal Optimist
   Madi Diaz
10. Snipe Hunter
    Tyler Childers
11. Black Star
    Amaarae
12. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
13. Foxes in the Snow
    Jason Isbell
14. The Animal
    Blue Lake
15. Hearts Sold Separately
    Mariah the Scientist
16. Rituals
    Watchhouse
17. 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
    Kieran Hebden + William Tyler
18. Never Enough
    Turnstile
19. Why Not More?
    Coco Jones
20. Democracy Forward
    various artists

Our Five Obsessions Outside of the South

• Sable, Fable
  Bon Iver
• Moisturizer
  Wet Leg
• Returning to Myself
  Brandi Carlile
• Essex Honey
  Blood Orange
• Getting Killed
  Geese