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The Best Albums of 2025

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Reviews of 2025 albums | Best of last year | Best albums of all time | Back to music
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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
Best of Rock
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    (Partial list: i still have 100s of rock albums to review)
    8/10
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    7.5/10
  2. ...
    7/10
  3. Ethel Cain : Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (Daughters of Cain)
EP:

    7/10
  1. ...
Songs
  1. in progress
  3. Alpha Maid: 2 Numbers
  4. Bitchin Bajas: Skylarking
  6. Dijon Duenas: Higher
  7. FKA Twigs: Eusexua
  9. Sudan Archives: A Computer Love
  10. FKA Twigs: Lost All My Friends
  11. Billy Woods: A Doll Fulla Pins
Extended tracks
  1. ...
  2. Ethel Cain: Tempest
  3. Roger Miller: Curiousity On Mars
  4. Mnortham: Almost Nothing at the Mossy Stump
  5. Fucked Up: Looking For Heaven And Not Finding It
  6. Water Damage: Reel 28
  7. Squid: Well Met
 		Jazz
    7.5
  1. ...
    7
  2. Pat Thomas: The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti)
  4. Sasha Berliner: Fantome (Outside in Music)
  5. Sunsuke Fujieda Group: Fukushima (Superfly)
  6. Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard
  7. Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  8. Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season
  9. Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey from a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  10. Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time
    6.5
  11. Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  12. Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt Records)
  13. Brad Mehldau: Ride into the Sun (Nonesuch)
  14. Art Hirahara: Peace Unknown (Posi-tone)
  15. James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  16. Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM)
  17. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  18. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM)
  19. Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories)
  20. Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (Changu)
  21. Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph
  22. Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  23. Dayna Stephens: Hopium (Contagious)
  24. Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (Greenleaf)
  25. Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (Artwork)
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