Year-End Lists

Stephen Thompson: Top 10 Albums of 2025, as published by NPR’s NPR Music

[see also 2017 • 2011]

1. Lux
   Rosalía
2. Super Pedestrian
   Annie DiRusso
3. Moisturizer
   Wet Leg
4. No Hard Feelings
   The Beaches
5. A Dawning
   Ólafur Arnalds & Talos
6. Like Plasticine
   Gordi
7. Tether
   Annahstasia
8. Precipice
   Indigo De Souza
9. Fatal Optimist
   Madi Diaz
10. Every Dawn's a Mountain
    Tamino

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• Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music