What's Your Top Albums of 2025

[TheIronMaiden]

It is close enough to year end. Let's talk about the best music of the passing year.

I have three albums that stuck out to me, and I would say they were my favorite based on the volume of time I spent listening to them.

I'd love to get some recommendations.

1. Lonely People with Power, Deaf Heaven

Favorite track






2. Getting Killed, Gease

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3. You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us · Andy Boay

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HM to Luminal, Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe

[devo22]

#1 Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea (Fata Morgana, Black Rainbow, A Haven With Two Faces)

#2 Deftones - Private Music (Ecdysis, Infinite Source, Milk of the Madonna)

#3 Novelists - Coda (Coda, All For Nothing, Adam & Eve)

#4 Ghost - Skeletá (Lachryma, Cenotaph, Missilia Amori)

there's more, but those stood out to me.

[Senator Clay Davis]

FYI, it's Lonely People With Power. And that might be my #1, also loved "Magic, Alive!" by McKinley Dixon. Solid year overall, but coming off the stacked 2024 was gonna be hard to compete.

[Slava]

Clipse - Let God Sort'em Out

Honestly, this is truly exceptional, and while it doesn't require validation, it should win a Grammy or more.

[Winsor_Pilates]

The Blaze - Folk (live at Royal Albert Hall)
French electronic duo that I really enjoyed listening to this year.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0nCpV...RrGpgNIpusPmLw

Everything else I listened to was old.

[PepsiFree]

Geese was already mentioned but that’s a great album.

Some that got or are getting a lot of plays for me:
Alex G - Headlights
Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys
Shame - Cutthroat
Water From Your Eyes - It’s A Beautiful Place
Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon

[PsYcNeT]

No particular order

Propagandhi - At Peace - Absolutely resonant album (At Peace)
Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS - Great follow up to Chromakopia (Sugar on my Tongue)
Xenia - Stellarvision - Something clicked here for me (Stellarvision)
Nessa Barrett - AFTERCARE DELUXE - Truly the best written album from this current crop of pop girlies (American Beauty)
Henry Morris - Late Bloomer, Early Death - If Chris Issak had longevity, almost as good as last year's Jawbreaker (So Romantic)
Luvcat - Vicious Delicious - Excellent first album, really excited to see what they do in the future (Matador)

[Swift]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

HM to Luminal, Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe

That whole trilogy released this year Luminal, Lateral and Liminal is excellent. I'm an Eno fan so I'll buy everything he releases and I wasn't initially enamoured with her vocals, but it's really grown on me.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Billy Strings - Highway Prayers. From 2024…. But I didn’t hear it until 2025 and it’s been my favourite album this year so I’m cheating it in.