Year-End Lists

The Alternative: 50 Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Liquid Mike
   Hell Is an Airport
2. Wednesday
   Bleeds
3. Geese
   Getting Killed
4. Pool Kids
   Easier Said Than Done
5. Moving Mountains
   Pruning of the Lower Limbs
6. Greg Freeman
   Burnover
7. Alien Boy
   You Wanna Fade?
8. Ethel Cain
   Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
9. Ninajirachi
   I Love My Computer
10. Hayley Williams
    Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
11. Turnstile
    Never Enough
12. They Are Gutting a Body of Water
    Lotto
13. Petey USA
    The Yips
14. Greet Death
    Die In Love
15. Hotline TNT
    Raspberry Moon
16. The Callous Daoboys
    I Don't Want to See You in Heaven
17. Thrice
    Horizons / West
18. Wet Leg
    Moisturizer
19. Rosalía
    Lux
20. The Beths
    Straight Line Was a Lie
21. Viagra Boys
    Viagr Aboys
22. The Starting Line
    Eternal Youth
23. Anxious
    Bambi
24. Colin Miller
    Losin'
25. Downward
    Downward (LP2)
26. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist
    Mercy
27. Djo
    The Crux
28. Nourished by Time
    The Passionate Ones
29. acloudyskye
    This Won't Be The Last Time
30. Massa Nera
    The Emptiness of All Things
31. Lady Gaga
    Mayhem
32. Pretty Rude
    Ripe
33. Baths
    Gut
34. Big Thief
    Double Infinity
35. Florist
    Jellywish
36. Dijon
    Baby
37. Horsegirl
    Phonetics On and On
38. Mei Semones
    Animaru
39. Water From Your Eyes
    It's a Beautiful Place
40. Los Thuthanaka
    Los Thuthanaka
41. Lorde
    Virgin
42. Hachiku
    The Joys of Being Pure at Heart
43. Jenny Hval
    Iris Silver Mist
44. The Caution Children
    Appropriate Music
45. crushed
    no scope
46. Blue Earth Sound
    Cicero Nights
47. Fust
    Big Ugly
48. Pretty Bitter
    Pleaser
49. Billy Woods
    Golliwog
50. Addison Rae
    Addison