Year-End Lists

Carl Wilson: The Best Music of 2025, as published by Slate, in alphabetical order

• Bad Bunny
  DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
• The Beths
  Straight Line Was a Lie
• CMAT
  Euro-Country
• Mary Halvorson
  About Ghosts
• Mekons
  Horror
• Rosalía
  Lux
• Cécile McLorin Salvant
  Oh Snap
• SML
  How You Been
• Wednesday
  Bleeds
• Billy Woods
  Golliwog

… Plus 20 More

• Marshall Allen
  New Dawn
• Neko Case
  Neon Grey Midnight Green
• Tyler Childers
  Snipe Hunter
• Cici Arthur
  Way Through
• Cymande
  Renascence
• Lucy Dacus
  Forever Is a Feeling
• Dijon
  Baby
• Frog Eyes
  The Open Up
• Jonny Greenwood
  One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Rochelle Jordan
  Through The Wall
• Lorde
  Virgin
• Hannah Marcus
  Ten Bones from a Virgin Graveyard
• The Mountain Goats
  Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
• Lisa O'Neill
  The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right
• Kassa Overall
  Cream
• Ken Pomeroy
  Cruel Joke
• Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles
  Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles
• Bruce Springsteen
  Tracks II: The Lost Albums
• Sudan Archives
  The BPM
• Cameron Winter
  Heavy Metal