Year-End Lists

PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2025

1. Rosalía
   Lux
2. Bad Bunny
   DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
3. PinkPantheress
   Fancy That
4. Geese
   Getting Killed
5. Wednesday
   Bleeds
6. Barry Can't Swim
   Loner
7. Billy Woods
   Golliwog
8. FKA twigs
   Eusexua
9. Wet Leg
   Moisturizer
10. Hayley Williams
    Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
11. yeule
    Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
12. Curtis Harding
    Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt
13. Mourning [A] BLKstar
    Flowers For The Living
14. Mavis Staples
    Sad and Beautiful World
15. Deftones
    Private Music
16. Neko Case
    Neon Grey Midnight Green
17. Annie and the Caldwells
    Can't Lose My (Soul)
18. Addison Rae
    Addison
19. Clipse
    Let God Sort Em Out
20. Laufey
    A Matter of Time
21. Self Esteem
    A Complicated Woman
22. S.G. Goodman
    Planting by the Signs
23. Benjamin Booker
    Lower
24. Mulatu Astatke
    Mulatu Plays Mulatu
25. CMAT
    Euro-Country
26. Sudan Archives
    The BPM
27. Patterson Hood
    Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
28. Ora The Molecule
    Dance Therapy
29. Heartworms
    Glutton for Punishment
30. Baxter Dury
    Allbarone
31. Florence + The Machine
    Everybody Scream
32. Pulp
    More
33. Lady Gaga
    Mayhem
34. Blood Orange
    Essex Honey
35. Jeff Tweedy
    Twilight Override
36. Greet Death
    Die In Love
37. Richard Dawson
    End of the Middle
38. Little Simz
    Lotus
39. Mary Halvorson
    About Ghosts
40. Clara Mann
    Rift
41. Courting
    Lust for Life, Or: 'How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story'
42. Kronos Quartet & Mary Kouyoumdjian
    Witness
43. Viagra Boys
    Viagr Aboys
44. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
45. Molly Tuttle
    So Long Little Miss Sunshine
46. Jade
    That's Showbiz Baby
47. Sports Team
    Boys These Days
48. Ethel Cain
    Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
49. Deafheaven
    Lonely People with Power
50. Valerie June
    Owls, Omens, and Oracles
51. Mdou Moctar
    Tears of Injustice
52. TOKiMONSTA
    Eternal Reverie
53. Moonrisers
    Harsh & Exciting
54. The Beths
    Straight Line Was a Lie
55. Flora Hibberd
    Swirl
56. Milo J
    La vida era más corta
57. Sabrina Carpenter
    Man's Best Friend
58. The Waterboys
    Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
59. Florence Adooni
    A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity)
60. Turnstile
    Never Enough
61. Lily Allen
    West End Girl
62. Loyle Carner
    Hopefully!
63. Momma
    Welcome to My Blue Sky
64. Suede
    Antidepressants
65. Nation of Language
    Dance Called Memory
66. The Ophelias
    Spring Grove
67. Nate Parrish
    Make Me a Mountain
68. Galactic and Irma Thomas
    Audience With the Queen
69. Perfume Genius
    Glory
70. Water From Your Eyes
    It's a Beautiful Place
71. SASAMI
    Blood on the Silver Screen
72. Whatever The Weather
    Whatever The Weather II
73. Jesse Welles
    Middle
74. McKinley Dixon
    Magic, Alive!
75. The Devil Makes Three
    Spirits
76. Swans
    Birthing
77. Sami Galbi
    Ylh Byebye
78. Fieldwork
    Thereupon
79. Hedvig Mollestad Trio
    Bees In The Bonnet
80. Bartees Strange
    Horror