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2025 Music

The Alternative: 50 Best Albums of 2025

18 December 2025

Hell Is an Airport - Liquid Mike

The Alternative: 50 Best Albums of 2025

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

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

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