Year-End Lists

Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2025

1. Oneohtrix Point Never
   Tranquilizer
2. Geese
   Getting Killed
3. Little Simz
   Lotus
4. Billy Woods
   Golliwog
5. Tops
   Bury the Key
6. Wednesday
   Bleeds
7. Tennis
   Face Down in the Garden
8. Candelabro
   Deseo, Carne y Voluntad
9. Nourished by Time
   The Passionate Ones
10. Cass McCombs
    Interior Live Oak
11. Cameron Winter
    Heavy Metal
12. Pulp
    More
13. The Last Dinner Party
    From the Pyre
14. Swans
    Birthing
15. Earl Sweatshirt
    Live Laugh Love
16. Suede
    Antidepressants
17. Los Thuthanaka
    Los Thuthanaka
18. McKinley Dixon
    Magic, Alive!
19. Big Thief
    Double Infinity
20. Dijon
    Baby
21. Ichiko Aoba
    Luminescent Creatures
22. clipping.
    Dead Channel Sky
23. Panda Bear
    Sinister Grift
24. Le Concorde
    Second Mansions
25. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
    Alfredo 2
26. Ethel Cain
    Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
27. Joey Valence & Brae
    Hyperyouth
28. Waves Crashing
    Effection
29. Carl Hauck
    Death Farm
30. Destroyer
    Dan's Boogie
31. Quadeca
    Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
32. Von Masse
    COIL
33. Dave
    The Boy Who Played the Harp
34. Great Horned Owl
    Longyear
35. Stereolab
    Instant Holograms on Metal Film
36. Perfume Genius
    Glory
37. Caleb L'Etoile
    PS
38. Japanese Breakfast
    For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
39. FKA twigs
    Eusexua
40. Oklou
    Choke Enough
41. Y is Nature
    Evasion
42. Post Death Soundtrack
    In All My Nightmares I Am Alone
43. Silk Daisys
    Silk Daisys
44. Cate Le Bon
    Michelangelo Dying
45. Michael Sanders
    Fuzzer
46. Jeff Jakobs
    Lorem Ipsum
47. Big Pleasant
    Songs from Big Pleasant
48. Hotline TNT
    Raspberry Moon
49. Echomatica
    Echomatica
50. Richard Dawson
    End of the Middle