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Northern Transmissions: Best Albums of 2025

18 December 2025

Getting Killed - Geese

Northern Transmissions: Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Getting Killed
    Geese
  2. The Passionate Ones
    Nourished By Time
  3. Let God Sort Em Out
    Clipse
  4. Essex Honey
    Blood Orange
  5. It's a Beautiful Place
    Water From Your Eyes
  6. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
    Hayley Williams
  7. Golliwog
    Billy Woods
  8. Never Enough
    Turnstile
  9. Lux
    Rosalía
  10. Bleeds
    Wednesday
  11. Forever Howlong
    Black Country, New Road
  12. Pirouette
    Model/Actriz
  13. Baby
    Dijon
  14. Sable, Fable
    Bon Iver
  15. Euro-Country
    CMAT
  16. Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
    Ethel Cain
  17. 45 Pounds
    YHWH Nailgun
  18. Lonely People with Power
    Deafheaven
  19. Iconoclasts
    Anna von Hausswolff
  20. Get Sunk
    Matt Berninger
  21. Pain to Power
    Maruja
  22. Cowards
    Squid
  23. Dan's Boogie
    Destroyer
  24. From the Pyre
    The Last Dinner Party
  25. No One Was Driving the Car
    La Dispute
  26. Rarely Do I Dream
    Youth Lagoon
  27. Bloodless
    Samia
  28. Lifetime
    Erika de Casier
  29. Private Music
    Deftones
  30. Hunting Season
    Home Is Where
  31. Caroline 2
    caroline
  32. Fatal Optimist
    Madi Diaz
  33. Making Good Time
    Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell
  34. Antidepressants
    Suede
  35. God Does Like Ugly
    JID
  36. Choke Enough
    Oklou
  37. More
    Pulp
  38. Ripped and Torn
    Lifeguard
  39. Possession
    Ty Segall
  40. The BPM
    Sudan Archives
  41. The Clearing
    Wolf Alice
  42. Snocaps
    Snocaps
  43. the world is still here and so are we
    Mclusky
  44. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg
  45. Horror
    Bartees Strange
  46. Stardust
    Danny Brown
  47. New Threats from the Soul
    Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
  48. Double Infinity
    Big Thief
  49. The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
    The Armed
  50. Eusexua
    FKA twigs

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