Posted: by The Alt Editing Staff
List season again, baby! Our 50 favorite albums of 2025 run the gamut: trip-hop to indie folk, emo-pop to alt-country, shoegaze to math rock. Thanks for sticking with The Alternative for another year, in the age of AI and pay-for-play and click-chasing. You could be reading anybody’s year-end list right now, but you’re reading ours.
As ever, if you like what we do, we really cannot do it without you. If you’d like to show your support, you can subscribe to our Patreon or snag a t-shirt on our Bandcamp! Even if you can’t, I’d would like to stress how much it means that you’re willing to come to us when you need new tunes. If this list is any indication, I don’t think we’ll let you down.
Keep on scrollin’ to see our 50 favorite albums of 2025!
50. Addison Rae – Addison
49. billy woods – GOLLIWOG
48. Pretty Bitter – Pleaser
47. Fust – Big Ugly
46. Blue Earth Sound – Cicero Nights
45. crushed – no scope
44. The Caution Children – Appropriate Music
43. Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist
42. Hachiku – The Joys of Being Pure at Heart
41. Lorde – Virgin
40. Los Thuthanaka – Los Thuthanaka
39. Water from Your Eyes – It’s a Beautiful Place
38. Mei Semones – Animaru
37. Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On
36. Dijon – Baby
35. Florist – Jellywish
34. Big Thief – Double Infinity
33. Baths – Gut
32. Pretty Rude – Ripe
31. Lady Gaga – Mayhem
30. Massa Nera – The Emptiness of All Things
29. acloudyskye – This Won’t Be the Last Time
28. Nourished by Time – The Passionate Ones
27. Djo – The Crux
26. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist – Mercy
25–11 and 10–1 + Awards!
