Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025

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