If I had to pick ten, these are the ones (plus ten more). Vote for your faves on KEXP. ❤️
Top albums of 2025
(in no particular order)
- Barry Can’t Swim – Loner
- Rio Kosta – Unicorn
- Loaded Honey – Love Made Trees
- Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
- Arc De Soleil – Lumin Rain
- Joe Armon-Jones – All the Quiet (Part I)
- Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
- Deep Sea Diver – Billboard Heart
- Fat Ray & Black Milk – Food From the Gods
- Saba & No ID – The Private Collection of Saba and No ID
Ten more (aka honorable mentions)
- Dam Swindle – Open
- HORSEBATH – Another Farewell
- Maribou State – Hallucinating Love
- My Morning Jacket – is
- The Circling Sun – Orbits
- Footshooter – The Oasis
- Greg Foat, Jihad Darwish – Opening Time
- Blu & August Fanon – Forty
- De La Soul – Cabin In The Sky
- JID – God Does Like Ugly
My top 10 albums from past years are available for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
Check out the KEXP DJs’ top albums for more of what I’ll be mining over the next few weeks, too. You can find all of my favorite albums from the year (90+) in my monthly favorite album posts.
Comments welcome!