Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025

1. Aya
   Hexed!
2. Billy Woods
   Golliwog
3. Los Thuthanaka
   Los Thuthanaka
4. The Necks
   Disquiet
5. DJ Haram
   Beside Myself
6. Eiko Ishibashi
   Antigone
7. Oklou
   Choke Enough
8. Vanessa Rossetto
   Pictures Of The Warm South
9. Stereolab
   Instant Holograms on Metal Film
10. Tortoise
    Touch
11. caroline
    Caroline 2
12. Smerz
    Big City Life
13. Richard Dawson
    End of the Middle
14. Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
    Ghosted III
15. feeo
    Goodness
16. Abhorrent Expanse
    Enter the Misanthropocene
17. Rafael Toral
    Traveling Light
18. Melvin Gibbs
    Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2
19. Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show
    Elemental View
20. Masma Dream World
    Please Come to Me
21. Cerys Hafana
    Angel
22. Damon Locks
    List of Demands
23. Natural Information Society
    Perseverance Flow
24. Backxwash
    Only Dust Remains
25. Blawan
    SickElixir
26. Everything Is Psychedelic
    The Beautiful Malaise
27. Ambrose Akinmusire
    honey from a winter stone
28. Black Eyes
    Hostile Design
29. Slikback
    Attrition
30. Alpha Maid
    Is this a queue
31. Cosey Fanni Tutti
    2t2
32. Lucy Railton
    Blue Veil
33. Valentina Magaletti & YPY
    Kansai Bruises
34. Crystabel Efemena Riley
    Live at Ormside
35. [Ahmed]
    [Sama'a] (Audition)
36. Cosmic Ear
    TRACES
37. Joanne Robertson
    Blurrr
38. Kali Malone + Drew McDowall
    Magnetism
39. Lea Bertucci
    The Oracle
40. Mary Halvorson
    About Ghosts
41. Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith
    Angel Falls
42. Panda Bear
    Sinister Grift
43. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force
    Khadim
44. Ben LaMar Gay
    Yowzers
45. Hedvig Mollestad Trio
    Bees In The Bonnet
46. Nadah El Shazly
    Laini Tani
47. Charles Hayward & Dälek
    HAYWARDxDÄLEK
48. Anna Högberg Attack
    Ensamseglaren
49. Michael Hurley
    Broken Homes and Gardens
50. Nina Garcia
    Bye Bye Bird