The Best Albums of 2025

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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their favorite albums of 2025. They’ll also hear selections from their production staff.

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Best Albums of 2025

In a year that was anything but boring, great music helped all of us to make it through. Jim and Greg share their favorite albums (aka the best albums of 2025) of the year this week- many of them made by women who are not happy with how things are going.

Jim:

  1. Horsegirl, “Phonetics On and On”
  2. Wednesday, “Bleeds”
  3. Sprints, “All That Is Over”
  4. Wet Leg, “Moisturizer”
  5. Viagra Boys, “Viagr Aboys”
  6. Aesop Rock, “Black Hole Superette”
  7. Lambrini Girls, “Who Let the Dogs Out”
  8. The Hives, “The Hives Forever, Forever the Hives”
  9. Mclusky, “The World Is Still Here and So Are We”
  10. Julien Baker & Torres, “Send A Prayer My Way”
  11. Pulp, “More”
  12. Saba and No I.D., “From the Private Collection of…”
  13. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, “Death Hilarious”
  14. Shamir, “Ten”
  15. Sharon Van Etten, “Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory”
  16. Throwing Muses, “Moonlight Concessions”
  17. Margo Price, “Hard Headed Woman”
  18. Sex Scenes, “Everything Makes Me Sick”
  19. Tunde Adebimpe, “Thee Black Boltz”
  20. Jeff Tweedy, “Twilight Override”
  21. Stereolab, “Instant Holograms on Metal Film”
  22. Lucy Dacus, “Forever Is a Feeling”
  23. Perfume Genius, “Glory”
  24. Beach Bunny, “Tunnel Vision”
  25. Bartees Strange, "Horror"

Greg:

  1. Horsegirl, “Phonetics On and On”
  2. Wednesday, “Bleeds”
  3. FKA twigs, “Eusexua”
  4. Rosalia, “Lux”
  5. Aesop Rock, “Black Hole Superette” and “I Heard it’s a Mess There Too”
  6. Sprints, “All That Is Over”
  7. Trupa Trupa, “Mourners”
  8. Billy Woods, “Golliwog”
  9. Gwenifer Raymond, “Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark”
  10. Saba and No I.D., “From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.”
  11. Wet Leg, “Moisturizer”
  12. Jetstream Pony, “Bowerbirds and Blue Things”
  13. Tunde Adebimpe, “Thee Black Boltz”
  14. Mekons, “Horror”
  15. Snocaps, “Snocaps”
  16. Stereolab, “Instant Holograms on Metal Film”
  17. Frankie and the Witch Fingers, “Trash Classic”
  18. Sudan Archives, “The BPM”
  19. Lambrini Girls, “Who Let the Dogs Out”
  20. Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory, “Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory”
  21. Sharp Pins, “Radio DDR”
  22. Jeff Tweedy, “Twilight Override”
  23. Tune-Yards, “Better Dreaming”
  24. Margo Price, “Hard Headed Woman”
  25. Bob Mould, “Here We Go Crazy”

Production Staff:

  • Alex: Sabrina Carpenter, "Man’s Best Friend"
  • Max: Maruja, "Pain to Power"
  • Andrew: Poor Creature, "All Smiles Tonight"

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