Top 10 Albums of 2025

pjl44
pjl44 Posts: 10,813
edited November 2025 in Other Music
Hey let's get this rolling. There isn't a ton coming out in December unless you're waiting to see where the new Zac Brown Band will slot in. (Although I may update once the new Boy & Bear is out.)

Anyway, let's see em. Here's mine.

Goose - Chain Yer Dragon
Steven Wilson - The Overview
Goose - Everything Must Go
Deftones - Private Music
My Morning Jacket - is
The Antlers - Blight
Blood Vulture - Die Close
Cory Hanson - I Love People
The Mars Volta - Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio
Pelican - Flickering Resonance


Just missed:
Snocaps - Snocaps
Big Wreck - The Rest of the Story
Geese - Getting Killed
The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton - AVTT/PTTN
Craig Finn - Always Been
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  • rw160510
    rw160510 Posts: 1,105
    It’s always fun to see what people have been listening too. In no particular order:

    Chat Pile/Hayden Pedigo- In the earth again
    Anna von Hausswolff- ICONOCLASTS
    Wet Leg- moisturizer
    Deftones- private music
    Florence and the Machine- Everybody Scream
    Kathryn Joseph- WE WERE MADE PREY
    Heartworms- Glutton for Punishment
    Rude Films- Rude Films
    Other Lives- V
    Sunn O)))-  Eternity Pillars (it’s an ep, nevertheless it’s in the list)
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,750
    edited November 2025

    1. Wednesday - Bleeds
    2. Turnstile - Never Enough
    3. FKA Twigs - Eusexua
    4. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
    5. Pulp - More
    6. Snocaps - s/t
    7. Burial - Comafields/Imaginary Festival EP
    8. Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
    9. PinkPantheress - Fancy That
    10. Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,118
    edited November 2025
    Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Bolts
    The Men - Buyer Beware
    Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
    Oldstar - Of The Highway
    Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
    Greet Death - Die In Love
    Viagra Boys - viagr aboys
    Carseat Headrest - The Scholars
    Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override
    Bartees Strange - Horror

    Albums in bold would be top 5.

    Bonus hot take: Arcade Fire's album was enjoyable, 4 outta 5 stars.

    Post edited by mookeywrench on
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,672
    mookeywrench said:
    Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Bolts
    The Men - Buyer Beware
    Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
    Oldstar - Of The Highway
    Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
    Greet Death - Die In Love
    Viagra Boys - viagr aboys
    Carseat Headrest - The Scholars
    Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override
    Bartees Strange - Horror

    Albums in bold would be top 5.

    Bonus hot take: Arcade Fire's album was enjoyable, 4 outta 5 stars.

    Arcade is definitely a hot take. It was a chore to listen to for me. Maybe I have to give it another chance. 
  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,813
    mookeywrench said:
    Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Bolts
    The Men - Buyer Beware
    Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
    Oldstar - Of The Highway
    Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
    Greet Death - Die In Love
    Viagra Boys - viagr aboys
    Carseat Headrest - The Scholars
    Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override
    Bartees Strange - Horror

    Albums in bold would be top 5.

    Bonus hot take: Arcade Fire's album was enjoyable, 4 outta 5 stars.

    If I had gone to 20 I think Bartees would have snuck on there. Both his albums and live, while still good, are kinda moving in the wrong direction for me.
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,140
    Fust and MMJ are really the only 2 I've loved.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • DE4173
    DE4173 Posts: 3,373
    👀
    1993: 11/22 Little Rock
    1996; 9/28 New York
    1997: 11/14 Oakland, 11/15 Oakland
    1998: 7/5 Dallas, 7/7 Albuquerque, 7/8 Phoenix, 7/10 San Diego, 7/11 Las Vegas
    2000: 10/17 Dallas
    2003: 4/3 OKC
    2012: 11/17 Tulsa(EV), 11/18 Tulsa(EV)
    2013: 11/16 OKC
    2014: 10/8 Tulsa
    2022: 9/20 OKC
    2023: 9/13 Ft Worth, 9/15 Ft Worth
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,118
    I guess that's a wrap then...only about 45 good albums this year.
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,914
    edited December 2025
    It's been a quiet year for new music. I've just about managed to scrape together a list of 10.

    Drink The Sea - Drink The Sea I & II

    Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy

    Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

    Neil Young - Talkin To The Trees

    Neil Young - ORS 6

    Jim Bob - Automatic

    Jim Bob - Stick

    Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers

    Counting Crows - Butter Miracle: The Complete Sweets

    Stereophonics - Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait
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    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • Of The Aggie
    Of The Aggie The ATX Posts: 1,576
    As the years go by I buying fewer and fewer new releases. I only bought three this year.

    Mogwai - The Bad Fire
    Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear
    Bush - I Beat Loneliness
  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,704
    New releases are littered with reissues these days. It's downright absurd bands are doing 10 year anniversary reissues.
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,672
    I can’t even get to five albums from this year 

    Deftones- private music
    MMJ- Is
    Clipse- Let God Sort ‘Em Out 
  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,183
    edited December 2025
    Definitely a quieter year for releases. Best year for concerts I’ve had since the pandemic though. 

    Ribbon Skirt - Bite Down
    Ribbon Skirt - Pensacola ep
    Benjamin Booker - Lower
    Ladrones - Combustion
    Jihad & Luke Sick - Miclotronic Commandos
    Milc & Spinitch - Run For The Arts
    Hudson Freeman - Is A Folk Singer
    Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz
    Neil Young - Coastal soundtrack
    Headstones - Burn All The Ships
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  • BH76306
    BH76306 Posts: 114

    Billboard Heart - Deep Sea Diver

    Welcome to My Blue Sky - Momma

    Never Enough - Turnstile

    Michigander - Michigander

    Lux - Rosalía

    Straight Line Was a Lie - The Beths

    moisturizer - Wet Leg

    I quit - HAIM

    Deftones- private music

    Snocaps


  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 44,226
    I didn't really listen to too many albums this year (I preferred listening to songs), but did enjoy these albums.


    Wet Leg- Moisturizer
    My Morning Jacket- Is
    Tame Imapala- Deadbeat
    Franz Ferdinand- The Human Fear
    Tunde Adebimpe- Three Black Boltz

    Probably would have liked if I listened to the albums (liked the songs I heard off the albums):

    Garbage
    Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
    Momma
    Lambrini Girls
    The Hives
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • encore_app_official
    encore_app_official New York Posts: 16
    Both Goose & Geese appear to have had big albums this year :smile:
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,914
    goldrush said:
    It's been a quiet year for new music. I've just about managed to scrape together a list of 10.

    Drink The Sea - Drink The Sea I & II

    Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy

    Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

    Neil Young - Talkin To The Trees

    Neil Young - ORS 6

    Jim Bob - Automatic

    Jim Bob - Stick

    Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers

    Counting Crows - Butter Miracle: The Complete Sweets

    Stereophonics - Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait
    Dammit, I can't believe I forgot Masters of Reality!?!
    Updated Top Ten:

    Drink The Sea - Drink The Sea I & II

    Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy

    Masters of Reality - The Archer

    Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

    Neil Young - Talkin To The Trees

    Neil Young - ORS 6

    Jim Bob - Automatic

    Jim Bob - Stick

    Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers

    John Butler - Prism
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • modernmonkey
    modernmonkey Posts: 197
    Sharon Van Etten and the attachment theory
    My morning Jacket - Is
    Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
    Ty Segall - Possession
    Shame - Cutthroat
    Wet Leg - Moisturizer 
    Dead Pioneers - Post American
    Jason Isbell- Foxes in the snow
    Jehnny Beth - You,Heartbreaker,You
    Richard Ashcroft - Lovin You
    1996:Cork 2000:Dublin 2006:Dublin,Barcelona,Madrid 2007:London,Dusseldorf,Nijmegen
    2009:Manchester,London 2010:Dublin,Belfast,London,Berlin 2012: Manchester 1 +2,Stockholm,copenhagen 2013: New York ,Philadelphia
    2014: Milan, Leeds, Milton Keynes 2018: London 1, Lisbon 2022: London 1+ 2, Krakow 2023: Austin 1 + 2
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,735
    I don't know if I listened to 10 new albums.
    • Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture
    • Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart
    • HAIM: I Quit
    • MMJ: Is
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • jjflash
    jjflash Posts: 5,059
    In no particular order...

    My Morning Jacket -- Is
    Clipse -- Let God Sort 'Em Out
    Tyler Childers -- Snipe Hunter
    Panda Bear -- Sinister Grift
    Bon Iver -- Sable, Fable
    Jeff Tweedy -- Twilight Override
    De La Soul -- Cabin in the Sky
    Leroi Conroy -- A Tiger's Tale
    Goose -- Everything Must Go
    Robert Plant -- Saving Grace

    The two I most enjoyed were Snipe Hunter followed by Sable, Fable.

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