Year-End Lists

PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2025

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