Year-End Lists

Josh Terry: The 100 Best Albums of 2025, as posted to his newsletter, "No Expectations"

• Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta
  Mapambazuko
• Arbor Labor Union
  Out To Pasture
• Awning
  Awning
• Ben Hackett
  Songs for Sleeping Dogs
• Big Thief
  Double Infinity
• Billie Marten
  Dog Eared
• Bleary Eyed
  Easy
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  The Purple Bird
• Brown Horse
  All The Right Weaknesses
• The Bug Club
  Very Human Features
• Cash Langdon
  Dogs
• CMAT
  Euro-Country
• The Convenience
  like cartoon
• Credit Electric
  Salvation
• Cusp
  What I Want Doesn't Want Me Back
• cutouts
  Snakeskin
• Dead Gowns
  It's Summer, I Love You, and I'm Surrounded by Snow
• Dove Ellis
  Blizzard
• Dutch Interior
  Moneyball
• Echolalia
  Echolalia
• Eiko Ishibashi
  Antigone
• Eliza Niemi
  Progress Bakery
• Far Caspian
  Autofiction
• Fib
  Heavy Lifting
• Flock of Dimes
  The Life You Save
• Florry
  Sounds Like...
• Folk Bitch Trio
  Now Would Be a Good Time
• Foxwarren
  2
• Friendship
  Caveman Wakes Up
• Geese
  Getting Killed
• Gelli Haha
  Switcheroo
• Golden Apples
  Shooting Star
• Golomb
  The Beat Goes On
• Good Flying Birds
  Talulah's Tape
• Goon
  Dream 3
• Goose
  Chain Yer Dragon
• Grace Rogers
  Mad Dogs
• Greg Freeman
  Burnover
• Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
  What of Our Nature
• Hand Habits
  Blue Reminder
• Hannah Cohen
  Earthstar Mountain
• Hannah Frances
  Nested in Tangles
• Holden & Zimpel
  The Universe Will Take Care of You
• Horsegirl
  Phonetics On and On
• Jeff Tweedy
  Twilight Override
• Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
  Different Rooms
• Junk Drawer
  Days Of Heaven
• Ken Pomeroy
  Cruel Joke
• Laurie Torres
  Après coup
• Lawn
  God Made The Highway
• Liam Kazar
  Pilot Light
• Lifeguard
  Ripped and Torn
• Lily Seabird
  Trash Mountain
• Lucky Cloud
  Foreground
• Macie Stewart
  When the Distance is Blue
• Mae Powell
  Making Room for the Light
• Maia Friedman
  Goodbye Long Winter Shadow
• Magic Fig
  Valerian Tea
• Mamalarky
  Hex Key
• Maneka
  bathes and listens
• McKinley Dixon
  Magic, Alive!
• Mei Semones
  Animaru
• Monde UFO
  Flamingo Tower
• monte booker
  noise ( meaning )
• Moontype
  I Let The Wind Push Down On Me
• Neu Blume
  Let It Win
• No Joy
  Bugland
• Oldstar
  Of the Highway
• Open Head
  What Is Success
• Orbital Ensemble
  Orbital
• pôt-pot
  Warsaw 480km
• Prewn
  System
• Qur'an Shaheed
  Pulse
• Raisa K
  Affectionately
• Rose City Band
  Sol Y Sombra
• Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
  New Threats from the Soul
• Saba & No I.D.
  From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.
• Sam Moss
  Swimming
• Sam Prekop
  Open Close
• Saya Gray
  SAYA
• Sean Thompson's Weird Ears
  Head In The Sand
• Seth Beck
  Soft Heaven
• Shallowater
  God's Gonna Give You a Million Dollars
• Shrunken Elvis
  Shrunken Elvis
• Silver Synthetic
  Rosalie
• Sleeper's Bell
  Clover
• SML
  How You Been
• Snõõper
  Worldwide
• Spencer Radcliffe
  Ohio Vision
• Sword II
  Electric Hour
• Tobacco City
  Horses
• Ty Segall
  Possession
• Uwade
  Florilegium
• Water From Your Eyes
  It's a Beautiful Place
• Way Dynamic
  Massive Shoe
• Wednesday
  Bleeds
• Whitney
  Small Talk
• Will Johnson
  Diamond City
• Will Stratton
  Points of Origin
• Zook
  Evaporating