Year-End Lists

Tim Riley: Favorite Albums of 2025, where he also has a list of reissues

Albums and EPs (in rough preferential order)

• The Black Keys
  No Rain, No Flowers
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  IC-02 Bogotá
• AJ Lee & Blue Summit
  City of Glass
• AJ Lee & Blue Summit
  Cover to Cover V1
• The Beths
  Straight Line Was a Lie
• Wrens
  Half of What You See
• Maria Muldaur
  One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey
• Mekons
  Horror
• Sunny Sweeney
  Rhinestone Requiem
• Dean Wareham
  That's the Price of Loving Me
• Buck 65
  Keep Moving
• Lily Allen
  West End Girl
• Haim
  I Quit
• Sabrina Carpenter
  Man's Best Friend
• Hayley Williams
  Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
• Margo Price
  Hard Headed Woman
• Mavis Staples
  Sad and Beautiful World
• Willie Nelson
  Oh What a Beautiful World
• Mad Honey
  I-40 East
• Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts
  Talkin to the Trees
• The Chills
  Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs
• Willie Nelson
  Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle
• Lucy Dacus
  Forever Is a Feeling
• Bruce Springsteen
  Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition
• Bob Mould
  Here We Go Crazy
• Joe Ely
  Love and Freedom
• Alison Krauss & Union Station
  Arcadia
• Molly Tuttle
  So Long Little Miss Sunshine
• Little Simz
  Lotus
• Wet Leg
  Moisturizer
• FKA twigs
  Eusexua
• Neil Young
  Tonight's the Night (1975)

Classical

• Hieyon Choi
  Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
• Akiko Suwanai & Evgeni Bozhanov
  Brahms: The Sonatas for Piano and Violin
• Chris Thile
  Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2
• Guarneri String Quartet
  The Complete RCA Album Collection
• Krystian Zimerman, Maria Nowak, Katarzyna Budnik & Yuya Okamoto
  Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3
• Boston Symphony Orchestra & Andris Nelsons
  Shostakovich: Symphonies, Concertos & Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
• Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque
  Just Biber