Best albums 2025

25 albums for 2025​

Listen to the playlist on Spotify

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Getting Killed - Geese

Genre-defying masterpiece that blends restless experimentation, raw emotion, and reckless creativity.

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Love You All Over Again - Tunng

A warm, mysterious return to Tunng’s signature ‘folktronica’, blending rustic folk, electronic textures, and poetic lyricism to create an album that feels both nostalgic and subtly innovative.

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Tranquilizer - Oneohtrix Point Never

Hypnotic, sample-driven odyssey, restless, kaleidoscopic, and deeply immersive.

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Bleeds - Wednesday

A raw, cathartic masterpiece, blending country-tinged shoegaze, explosive noise, and Karly Hartzman’s razor-sharp storytelling.

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OFF THE RECORD - Makaya McCraven

Dazzling, genre-blurring collage. Groove-driven fusion of jazz, hip-hop, and electronic textures, celebrating spontaneity and collective creativity with infectious energy.

 

Weirdo - Emma-Jean Thackray

Funk-infused tapestry of jazz, soul, and raw emotional honesty.

 

choke enough - Oklou

Shimmering debut LP that fuses dreamy synth-pop, hyperpop and ethereal art-pop, rooted in both nostalgia and futuristic soundscapes.

 

Self Titled - Kae Tempest

Raw, powerful and intimate record: a bold journey through identity and transition, blending sharp-tongued spoken-word and hip-hop with orchestral and electronic soundscapes.

 

Eli Keszler - Eli Keszler

Haunting, cinematic journey blending virtuosic avant-jazz percussion, noirish jazz, abstract electronic textures and whispered vocals.

 

Let God Sort Em Out - Clipse

A powerful hip‑hop album marking the duo’s long‑awaited return. Grounded in introspective lyricism, sharp chemistry between Pusha T and No Malice, and bold Pharrell Williams‑produced beats.

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Anamnesis - Asta Hiroki & Tristan de Liège

Blend of jazz-inspired textures, ambient electronica and subtle beats. An introspective sonic journey where delicate atmospheres and experimental grooves meet.

 

That Wasn’t a Dream - Pino Palladino & Blake Mills

Spacious, jazz-inflected instrumentals drift between groove, ambience and experimental textures. 

 

Twilight Override - Jeff Tweedy

A deeply personal odyssey mixing folk, rock, roots and experimental textures.

 

PRETTY DOLLCORPSE - Ptite Soeur, neophron, FEMTOGO

Raw, uncompromising trip into shock-rap and visceral emotion. Dark, glitchy beats meet brutal honesty. Themes of trauma, identity and rage unfold in haunting, unforgettable tracks that demand your full attention. In French.

 

Baby - Dijon

 Warm, intimate and understated record that blends indie folk, soft R&B, bedroom-pop and experimental textures into an abrasive yet tender soundscape.

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Under Tangled Silence - DjRUM

Richly textured electronic album that fuses ambient, jazz, classical piano and club-inspired rhythms. Fluid, immersive and surprisingly organic in its blend of live instrumentation and electronic sound design.

 

Big city life - Smerz

A masterclass in minimalist yet maximalist electronic. Deconstructed R&B harmonies, dry, deadpan vocals, and jerky, hypnotic rhythms that nod to trip-hop and avant-garde pop pop production.

 

Never Exhale - DITZ

A fierce, breathlessly intense post-punk and noise-rock album that channels raw energy, abrasive riffs and claustrophobic tension into a powerful, unrelenting listening experience rooted in dynamic grit and dark urgency.

 

Glory - Perfume Genius

A richly emotional and introspective indie-pop/alternative album that blends vulnerable lyricism, nuanced arrangements and a band-driven sound.

 

SAYA - Saya Gray

A rich and inventive alt-pop and indie folk album, whose songs blend folk, jazz-infused production, experimental textures, and incisive songwriting. 

 

Rhythm Immortal - Carrier

A masterclass in tactile, three-dimensional sound design, where Carrier strips electronic music down to its raw, skeletal essence.

 

Songs and Bodies - Piotr Kurek

A hypnotic, impressionistic blend of post-rock and experimental indie textures, jazzy rhythms, drifting guitar meditations and surreal voices.

 

Friend - james K

An immersive dream-pop and electronic album that blends hazy ambience, ethereal vocals and subtle trip-hop, shoegaze and IDM influences. 

 

Nothing - DARKSIDE

A richly textured, genre-blurring electronic and experimental album that channels raw energy, hypnotic grooves and improvisational interplayhaunting.

 

It’s a Beautiful Place - Water From Your Eyes

An indie pop/alternative album that blends eclectic guitar‑driven rock, experimental textures and existential lyricism. Raw yet polished, experimental yet hook-laden, and unapologetically human in its embrace of both chaos and beauty.

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