Year-End Lists

Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025, posted with links to good writing, a list of favorite EPs, and a short essay about Brian Wilson

1. KeiyaA
   hooke’s law
2. Agriculture
   The Spiritual Sound
3. Backxwash
   Only Dust Remains
4. anaiis
   Devotion & the Black Divine
5. Little Simz
   Lotus
6. Billy Woods
   Golliwog
7. Yves Jarvis
   All Cylinders
8. Maiya Blaney
   A Room With A Door That Closes
9. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals
   A City Drowned in God's Black Tears
10. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
    Mercy
11. Dijon
    Baby
12. Sudan Archives
    The BPM
13. Divide and Dissolve
    Insatiable
14. Rochelle Jordan
    Through The Wall
15. Yasmin Nur
    Slaughter
16. Amaarae
    Black Star
17. McKinley Dixon
    Magic, Alive!
18. Sorry Girls
    Dreamwalker
19. Annahstasia
    Tether
20. PremRock
    Did You Enjoy Your Time Here…?
20. ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd
    Saisir Le Feu
20. ShrapKnel & Ohbliv
    Armature
20. ShrapKnel & Raphy
    Lincoln Continental Breakfast
21. Kathryn Mohr
    Waiting Room
22. Mamalarky
    Hex Key
23. Fines Double
    Espejismo
24. Water From Your Eyes
    It's a Beautiful Place
25. Rosalía
    Lux
26. Qur'an Shaheed
    Pulse
27. Blood Orange
    Essex Honey
28. No Joy
    Bugland
29. Gushes
    Delicious Collision
30. nabeel
    ghayoom
31. Pretty Bitter
    Pleaser
32. The Aces
    Gold Star Baby
33. Turnstile
    Never Enough
34. Mereba
    The Breeze Grew a Fire
35. Pinkshift
    Earthkeeper
36. Joviale
    Mount Crystal
37. Wednesday
    Bleeds
38. Elujay
    A Constant Charade
39. Say She She
    Cut & Rewind
40. Slikback
    Attrition
41. nurse joy
    can I say something...?
42. Lucy Liyou
    Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name
43. Everything Is Recorded
    Temporary
44. Greet Death
    Die In Love
45. End It
    Wrong Side Of Heaven
46. Erika de Casier
    Lifetime
47. Hannah Jadagu
    Describe
48. whereisfox
    the day after...
49. Horsegirl
    Phonetics On and On
50. African-American Sound Recordings
    Hits of Ash
50. African-American Sound Recordings
    Runway Cremations
51. Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas
    Totality
52. Lucy Dacus
    Forever Is a Feeling
53. Artificial Go
    Musical Chairs
54. Halima
    SWEET TOOTH
55. Khamari
    To Dry a Tear
56. Blankenberge
    Decisions
57. Pigeon Pit
    Leash Aggression
58. Open Mike Eagle
    Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
59. Bore
    Feral
60. Camp Trash
    Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
61. Blood Root
    Turn
62. Mike Shabb
    Fight the Power!
63. Maura Weaver
    Strange Devotion
64. Jane Remover
    Revengeseekerz
65. See The Lieutenant
    WhatsReallyGood.
66. Nxdia
    I Promise No One's Watching
67. Lyra Pramuk
    Hymnal
68. Hayley Williams
    Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
69. Avenade
    Try Searching for a Lover
70. duendita
    A Strong Desire to Survive
71. Tunde Adebimpe
    Thee Black Boltz
72. Lucrecia Dalt
    A Danger to Ourselves
73. Superstar Crush
    Way Too Much
74. Ghais Guevara
    Goyard Ibn Said
75. Wave Generators
    Run Away With A Wild And A Rare One
76. Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
    In The Earth Again
77. Sherelle
    WITH A VENGEANCE
78. Madison McFerrin
    Scorpio
79. Gloin
    All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
80. Great Grandpa
    Patience, Moonbeam
81. Annie and the Caldwells
    Can't Lose My (Soul)
82. Spellling
    Portrait of My Heart
83. Hammydown
    Former You
84. Lambrini Girls
    Who Let the Dogs Out
85. Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary
    Wiretaps for Oral
86. Just Mustard
    We Were Just Here
87. Cécile McLorin Salvant
    Oh Snap
89. Plastic Girl in Closet
    High Heart
90. Flora Hibberd
    Swirl
91. Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez
    Sortilège
92. Good Flying Birds
    Talulah's Tape
93. Jenevieve
    CRYSALIS
94. Empty Heaven
    Swear
95. Ovrkast.
    While The Iron Is Hot
96. With Hidden Noise
    Mayday
97. Told Not To Worry
    Hands In The Air!
98. Ho99o9
    Tomorrow We Escape
99. Lily Allen
    West End Girl
100. Upchuck
     I'm Nice Now
101. Wet Kiss
     Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse
102. Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams
     Trainspotting
103. Joy Guidry
     Five Prayers
104. CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP
     Become Nothing
105. Platonic Sex
     Face To The Flywire
106. Avery Friedman
     New Thing
107. Jeremiah Cymerman
     UNTITLED
108. Goya Gumbani
     Warlord of the Weejuns
109. YHWH Nailgun
     45 Pounds
110. First Day Back
     Forward
111. Planning For Burial
     It's Closeness, It's Easy
112. Deafheaven
     Lonely People with Power
113. Makin' Out
     Living in a Glass House
114. Cymande
     Renascence
115. Daughter of Swords
     Alex