Where has the year gone? 2025 is coming to a close, and that can mean only one thing - the inundation of "Best Of" lists that seem to drop earlier and earlier each year. I still prefer waiting until the year's actually nearing its end, so here's yet another "Top 50 album" late to the game. As always this is by no means an objective lists; all rankings are relatively arbitrary and based purely on personal enjoyment. I was still shifting things around when actively creating this, so take this all with a grain of salt.
In case you're new here (which seems to be the case as of late, despite my lack of activity this year there was a massive uptick in viewership, not sure why) there are no download links included for these because half of them are copyright strikes waiting to happen, though damn near half of them are available in the "2025 in Review..." post if you want to check there. I also included Spotify links at the end to two playlists - one containing every album in its entirety, and the other containing a select song from each if you want a sample of each. The songs picked aren't necessarily my favourite tracks off each album, rather songs I think best represent their respective albums.
Finally, since I think this will be the final post of the year (I can't top Joy Division from last year), I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who continue to check out this blog or drop a kind comment, I do still see all of them. I know I let the blog slip to the wayside way more this year than I had anticipated, and I said this very thing last year, but going into 2026 I hope to be active and vigilante with updates, and already have some plans brewing for January so keep an eye out for that. Thanks again, and please also let me know what your favourites from this year were. I hope you have a fantastic upcoming holiday, and I'll see you in the new year.
Honourable Mentions:
Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam
Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women)
Lord Snow - Have You Heard Of The High Elves
Raein - Forme sommerse
Saturdays At Your Place - These Things Happen
50. Moving Mountains - Pruning Of The Lower Limbs
49. Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun
48. key vs. locket - i felt like a sketch
47. Drain - ...Is Your Friend
46. Scowl - Are We All Angels
45. Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
44. End It - Wrong Side Of Heaven
43. Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love
42. Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services
41. Turnstile - Never Enough
40. Nuvolascura - How This All Ends
39. Boneflower - Reveries
38. The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow
37. Greet Death - Die In Love
36. The Dirty Nil - The Lash
35. Tyler, The Creator - Don't Tap The Glass
34. Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette
33. caroline - caroline 2
32. Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork
31. Arm's Length - There's A Whole World Out There
30. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong
29. Anxious - Bambi
28. Massa Nera - The Emptiness Of All Things
27. Spiritual Cramp - Rude
26. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk
25. First Day Back - Forward
24. Emma Goldman - all you are is we
23. Crippling Alcoholism - Camgirl
22. Home Is Where - Hunting Season
21. Swans - Birthing
20. clipping. - Dead Channel Sky
19. Danny Brown - Stardust
18. PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs?
17. Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
16. Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo - In The Earth Again
15. Wet Leg - moisturizer
14. The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre
13. The Armed - THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED
12. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
11. Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done
10. Backxwash - Only Dust Remains
9. Billy Woods - GOLLIWOG
8. Perfume Genius - Glory
7. Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not To Have a Thought
6. FKA twigs - EUSEXUA
5. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
4. Geese - Getting Killed
3. Wednesday - Bleeds
2. Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
1. La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
Massa Nera's The Emptiness Of All Things is not on streaming but can be heard here
