Year-End Lists

The Bitter Southerner: Best Southern Albums of 2025

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

Our Five Obsessions Outside of the South

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