Best of 2025
There's a little bit of everything on our 2025 list. Old favourites, wild new sounds... Here are my thirteen and a half favourite albums of the year in no particular order.
Dijon – Baby
2025's musical MVP. Made this album and a lot of song with other people.
Effie – pullup to busan 4 morE hypEr summEr it’s gonna be a f****n moviE
A thirteen minute BLAST-O-RAMA that is maybe more brat than brat.
Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer
What a wild ambient ride from Daniel Lopatin who also scored Marty Supreme.
Armand Hammer – Mercy
E L U C I D and billy woods are the best doing it.
billy woods – Golliwog
Not an easy listen, but a dense and brilliant all-timer from billy woods.
billy woods and August Fanon – GOWILLOG
A remix / reimagining of Golliwog that is also excellent.
Gabe 'Nandez & Preservation – Sortilège
Backwwoodz Studioz put these two artists together to make a great album.
Geese – Getting Killed
Is this what happens when kids born in the 2000s are raised on Radiohead and The Strokes?
Annahstasia – Tether
I previously fan-boyed about Annahstasia here.
Hayden Pedigo – I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away
I luckily saw Hayden at the WISE Hall, great show. Solo guitar.
james K – Friend
Sounds like it is simultaneously 20 years in the past and 20 years in the future.
Yumiko Morioka & Takashi Kokubo – Gaiaphilia
The most serene listen of 2025.
Destroyer – Dan's Boogie
My first listen was while wandering around Kyoto at night. I highly recommend that experience.
Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE
Another amazing album from Justin Vernon that he says is the last from Bon Iver.
Go listen! Buy music! Boycott Sp•tify! Have a great 2026!
SP
