Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: Favorite Albums of 2025

Top 10 Albums

• Sudan Archives
  The BPM
• Benefits
  Constant Noise
• Rosalía
  Lux
• Neko Case
  Neon Grey Midnight Green
• YHWH Nailgun
  45 Pounds
• Kali Uchis
  Sincerely
• Soulless & Sadness
  Burning as the First Light
• Tropical Fuck Storm
  Fairyland Codex
• Little Simz
  Lotus
• Fieldwork
  Thereupon

The Next 10

• The Beths
  Straight Line Was a Lie
• Aya
  Hexed!
• FKA twigs
  Eusexua
• FKA twigs
  Eusexua Afterglow
• Geese
  Getting Killed
• The Ex
  If Your Mirror Breaks
• Lorde
  Virgin
• U
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• Circuit Des Yeux
  Halo On The Inside
• Mc Yallah & Debmaster
  Gaudencia
• Billy Woods
  Golliwog

Runners-up

• Abhorrent Expanse
  Enter the Misanthropocene
• Amaarae
  Black Star
• Annahstasia
  Tether
• Julien Baker & Torres
  Send a Prayer My Way
• Patricia Brennan
  Of the Near and Far
• Ethel Cain
  Perverts
• Chicago Underground Duo
  Hyperglyph
• Cios
  Caveman Traditions
• Infinite Coles
  SweetFace Killah
• CRRDR
  Latincore Legend
• McKinley Dixon
  Magic, Alive!
• DJ Haram
  Beside Myself
• Gnäw
  II
• Mary Halvorson
  About Ghosts
• Park Jiha
  All Living Things
• Lucy Liyou
  Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name
• Kilynn Lunsford
  Promiscuous Genes
• Matmos
  Metallic Life Review
• Makaya McCraven
  Off the Record
• Meitei
  Sen'nyū
• Nazar
  Demilitarize
• Hatis Noit
  Aura Reworks
• Nourished by Time
  The Passionate Ones
• Omagoqa
  London Drop 3
• Rosa Ensemble
  Oddments
• Silkmoney
  Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear?
• Snõõper
  Worldwide
• Tems
  Love Is a Kingdom
• Steve Tibbetts
  Close
• Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers
  Clube da Mariposa Mórbida
• Vacuous
  In His Blood
• Water Damage
  Instruments
• Water From Your Eyes
  It's a Beautiful Place
• WEED420
  amor de encava
• Whitechapel
  Hymns in Dissonance