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Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2025

10 January 2026

Iconoclasts - Anna von Hausswolff

Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Iconoclasts
    Anna von Hausswolff
  2. Lux
    Rosalía
  3. Getting Killed
    Geese
  4. Bleeds
    Wednesday
  5. Instant Holograms on Metal Film
    Stereolab
  6. Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
    Ethel Cain
  7. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
    Hayley Williams
  8. Who Is the Sky?
    David Byrne
  9. Euro-Country
    CMAT
  10. Antigone
    Eiko Ishibashi
  11. A Trick of the Light
    Eli Winter
  12. Tranquilizer
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  13. Double Infinity
    Big Thief
  14. Weirdo
    Emma-Jean Thackray
  15. New Threats from the Soul
    Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
  16. Sable, Fable
    Bon Iver
  17. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
  18. Let God Sort Em Out
    Clipse
  19. Golliwog
    Billy Woods
  20. Michelangelo Dying
    Cate Le Bon

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