Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2025

1. Geese
   Getting Killed
2. Wolf Alice
   The Clearing
3. Pulp
   More
4. Turnstile
   Never Enough
5. Stereolab
   Instant Holograms on Metal Film
6. Alex G
   Headlights
7. Miki Berenyi Trio
   Tripla
8. Lily Allen
   West End Girl
9. Suede
   Antidepressants
10. Wet Leg
    Moisturizer
11. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
12. Japanese Breakfast
    For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
13. Black Country, New Road
    Forever Howlong
14. Doves
    Constellations for the Lonely
15. The Beths
    Straight Line Was a Lie
16. Big Thief
    Double Infinity
17. Horsegirl
    Phonetics On and On
18. Anna von Hausswolff
    Iconoclasts
19. Deep Sea Diver
    Billboard Heart
20. Destroyer
    Dan's Boogie
21. Wednesday
    Bleeds
22. Water From Your Eyes
    It's a Beautiful Place
23. Bartees Strange
    Horror
24. The Last Dinner Party
    From the Pyre
25. Hannah Cohen
    Earthstar Mountain
26. Hayden Pedigo
    I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
27. Gwenno
    Utopia
28. Hatchie
    Liquorice
29. Hayley Williams
    Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
30. David Byrne
    Who Is the Sky?
31. Sorry
    COSPLAY
32. Andy Bell
    Pinball Wanderer
33. Lael Neale
    Altogether Stranger
34. Saint Etienne
    International
35. caroline
    Caroline 2
36. Spellling
    Portrait of My Heart
37. Viagra Boys
    Viagr Aboys
38. Jeff Tweedy
    Twilight Override
39. Flock of Dimes
    The Life You Save
40. Squid
    Cowards
41. Momma
    Welcome to My Blue Sky
42. Snocaps
    Snocaps
43. Stella Donnelly
    Love and Fortune
44. Baxter Dury
    Allbarone
45. Ezra Furman
    Goodbye Small Head
46. Blood Orange
    Essex Honey
47. Cheekface
    Middle Spoon
48. Ethel Cain
    Perverts
49. Tunde Adebimpe
    Thee Black Boltz
50. Nine Inch Nails
    TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
51. CMAT
    Euro-Country
52. Julien Baker & Torres
    Send a Prayer My Way
53. Agriculture
    The Spiritual Sound
54. Oneohtrix Point Never
    Tranquilizer
55. Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
    New Threats from the Soul
56. Florence + The Machine
    Everybody Scream
57. The Weather Station
    Humanhood
58. The Horrors
    Night Life
59. Nation of Language
    Dance Called Memory
60. Panda Bear
    Sinister Grift
61. Heartworms
    Glutton for Punishment
62. bdrmm
    Microtonic
63. Djo
    The Crux
64. Modern Nature
    The Heat Warps
65. Blondshell
    If You Asked for a Picture
66. Neko Case
    Neon Grey Midnight Green
67. Craig Finn
    Always Been
68. Jens Lekman
    Songs for Other People’s Weddings
69. Deradoorian
    Ready for Heaven
70. Cate Le Bon
    Michelangelo Dying
71. Haim
    I Quit
72. U.S. Girls
    Scratch It
73. The Raveonettes
    PE'AHI II
74. Midlake
    A Bridge To Far
75. Deafheaven
    Lonely People with Power
76. Sudan Archives
    The BPM
77. Ty Segall
    Possession
78. C. Duncan
    It's Only A Love Song
79. Samia
    Bloodless
80. Steve Gunn
    Daylight Daylight
81. Just Mustard
    We Were Just Here
82. Automatic
    Is It Now?
83. Car Seat Headrest
    The Scholars
84. The Mountain Goats
    Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
85. Perfume Genius
    Glory
86. Melody’s Echo Chamber
    Unclouded
87. Mogwai
    The Bad Fire
88. FKA twigs
    Eusexua
89. Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
    In The Earth Again
90. Model/Actriz
    Pirouette
91. Deftones
    Private Music
92. These New Puritans
    Crooked Wing
93. Nourished by Time
    The Passionate Ones
94. Dutch Interior
    Moneyball
95. Hotline TNT
    Raspberry Moon
96. Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles
    Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles
97. Sparks
    MAD!
98. The Dears
    Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!
99. The Divine Comedy
    Rainy Sunday Afternoon
100. Open Mike Eagle
     Neighborhood Gods Unlimited

Honorable Mentions

• Bar Italia
  Some Like It Hot
• Natalie Bergman
  My Home Is Not In This World
• Bon Iver
  Sable, Fable
• Benjamin Booker
  Lower
• Indigo De Souza
  Precipice
• Garbage
  Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
• Jenny Hval
  Iris Silver Mist
• Lambrini Girls
  Who Let the Dogs Out
• Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider
  A Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
• Meric Long & The Dodos
  Kablooey
• The Mary Onettes
  SWORN
• Cass McCombs
  Interior Live Oak
• Gruff Rhys
  Dim Probs
• Tame Impala
  Deadbeat
• Tune-Yards
  Better Dreaming
• Tunng
  Love You All Over Again
• Westerman
  A Jackal's Wedding
• Youth Lagoon
  Rarely Do I Dream