Best albums 2025
25 of my favorite albums in 2025, across all genres.
30 of my favorite French albums in 2025, across all genres.
They are not the only ones, but they particularly stood out to me. This isn't a ranking.
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25 albums for 2025​
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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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30 French albums for 2025​
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Atlantis - Anne Paceo
plouf! (Léviathan) - Flavien Berger
choke enough - Oklou
PRETTY DOLLCORPSE - Ptite soeur, neophron, FEMTOGO
Vanities - Malibu
Labyrinthe - Feu! Chatterton
Vertical Life - Astral Bakers
EGO -Treaks
Tabloid - Casablanca Drivers
ok - Daoud
Poèmes pulvérisés - Léonie Pernet
De l’autre côté - Laura Cahen
AT THE PARTY - DRIFT
Faded - The Limiñanas
Living Being IV (Time Reflections) - Vincent Peirani
BLABLABLA - Blasé
Pick Up: Face B (Inédit & Remixes) - Brigitte Fontaine
India - Louis Sclavis
DARE - MEULE
PLДYING / PRДYING - KOMPROMAT
Fourrière - Mossaï Mossaï
B.I.C.H.E. - Biche
A Journey That Never Was - Arthur Satàn
The Age of Ephemerality - BRUIT ≤
WATT - Bertrand Belin
CHÉRIS TON FUTUR ! - Barbara Carlotti
Mirages II - JB Dunckel, Jonathan Fitoussi
BelleJazzClub (Vol. 1) - Adrien Soleiman
III - Last Train
Home Safe - Crayon