Year-End Lists

Our Culture: The 100 Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Goodness
   feeo
2. Getting Killed
   Geese
3. Caroline 2
   caroline
4. Bleeds
   Wednesday
5. Choke Enough
   Oklou
6. Lux
   Rosalía
7. Golliwog
   Billy Woods
8. DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
   Bad Bunny
9. No One Was Driving the Car
   La Dispute
10. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
11. New Threats from the Soul
    Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
12. Headlights
    Alex G
13. hexed!
    aya
14. Baby
    Dijon
15. It's a Beautiful Place
    Water From Your Eyes
16. Snocaps
    Snocaps
17. Nested in Tangles
    Hannah Frances
18. Blurrr
    Joanne Robertson
19. Glory
    Perfume Genius
20. Big City Life
    Smerz
21. Addison
    Addison Rae
22. Black Star
    Amaarae
23. Dan's Boogie
    Destroyer
24. Waiting Room
    Kathryn Mohr
25. Virgin
    Lorde
26. Iconoclasts
    Anna von Hausswolff
27. Luster
    Maria Somerville
28. The BPM
    Sudan Archives
29. Revengeseekerz
    Jane Remover
30. LOTTO
    They Are Gutting a Body of Water
31. Essex Honey
    Blood Orange
32. Luminescent Creatures
    Ichiko Aoba
33. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg
34. The Passionate Ones
    Nourished By Time
35. Bloodless
    Samia
36. Through The Wall
    Rochelle Jordan
37. Sable, Fable
    Bon Iver
38. You Are The Morning
    jasmine.4.t
39. The Spiritual Sound
    Agriculture
40. Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
    Ethel Cain
41. Private Music
    Deftones
42. Spring Grove
    The Ophelias
43. Tranquilizer
    Oneohtrix Point Never
44. Sinister Grift
    Panda Bear
45. Patience, Moonbeam
    Great Grandpa
46. Bugland
    No Joy
47. Don't Tap the Glass
    Tyler, The Creator
48. Blight
    The Antlers
49. Raspberry Moon
    Hotline TNT
50. Sounds Like...
    Florry
51. Phonetics On and On
    Horsegirl
52. Hornet Disaster
    Weatherday
53. 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living
    Asher White
54. Forever Howlong
    Black Country, New Road
55. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
56. hooke’s law
    KeiyaA
57. come back down
    Total Wife
58. Learning Greek
    Humour
59. Interior Live Oak
    Cass McCombs
60. Tomorrow Comes Crashing
    Smut
61. Planting by the Signs
    S.G. Goodman
62. Iris Silver Mist
    Jenny Hval
63. When I Paint My Masterpiece
    Ada Lea
64. Scratch It
    U.S. Girls
65. I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
    Hayden Pedigo
66. Straight Line Was a Lie
    The Beths
67. Never Enough
    Turnstile
68. Trash Mountain
    Lily Seabird
69. DÍA
    Ela Minus
70. A Jackal's Wedding
    Westerman
71. Losin'
    Colin Miller
72. For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
    Japanese Breakfast
73. 45 Pounds
    YHWH Nailgun
74. Gut
    Baths
75. Die In Love
    Greet Death
76. More
    Pulp
77. Jellywish
    Florist
78. Showbiz!
    Mike
79. Ripped and Torn
    Lifeguard
80. Humanhood
    The Weather Station
81. Rarely Do I Dream
    Youth Lagoon
82. Blue Reminder
    Hand Habits
83. Good Story
    Eliza McLamb
84. Chin up Buttercup
    Austra
85. You're Weird Now
    Guerilla Toss
86. Sincerely
    Kali Uchis
87. Love and Fortune
    Stella Donnelly
88. Big Ugly
    Fust
89. The Life You Save
    Flock of Dimes
90. R Is for Rocket
    Rocket
91. Who Will Look After the Dogs?
    PUP
92. Anything Can Be A Hammer
    Bloodsports
93. Parader
    Keaton Henson
94. Liquorice
    Hatchie
95. Magic Of The Sale
    Teethe
96. Electric Hour
    Sword II
97. Stardust
    Danny Brown
98. Different Talking
    Frankie Cosmos
99. Animaru
    Mei Semones
100. Gaman
     Star 99