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2025 Music

KCRW: Best Albums of 2025

05 December 2025

KCRW: Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2018]

  1. Is It Now?
    Automatic
  2. Lotus
    Little Simz
  3. Deadbeat
    Tame Impala
  4. Lux
    Rosalía
  5. Dance Called Memory
    Nation of Language
  6. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg
  7. Switcheroo
    Gelli Haha
  8. Scorpio
    Madison McFerrin
  9. All Systems Are Lying
    Soulwax
  10. SAYA
    Saya Gray
  11. Sinister Grift
    Panda Bear
  12. Getting Killed
    Geese
  13. 22:22
    Polo & Pan
  14. Instant Holograms on Metal Film
    Stereolab
  15. Earthstar Mountain
    Hannah Cohen
  16. Vendrán Suaves Lluvias
    Silvana Estrada
  17. Cut & Rewind
    Say She She
  18. Moments
    Cut Copy
  19. Paradise Now
    Obongjayar
  20. For You
    Yukimi
  21. Transformation Time
    Bardo
  22. Ridin'
    Cuco
  23. Nothing
    Darkside
  24. Another Place
    Pachyman
  25. Gadabout Season
    Brandee Younger
  26. Phonetics On and On
    Horsegirl
  27. Boleros Psicodélicos
    Adrian Quesada
  28. 24 Hr Sports
    El Michels Affair
  29. Luminal
    Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno
  30. Phantom Island
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

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