Collection: Albums of the Year 2025

The 40 best albums of our 40th year in business!

1. EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY - weirdo

2. TURNSTILE - never enough

3. CHARLEY CROCKETT - a dollar a day

4. AYA - hexed!

5. MOSES YOOFEE TRIO - myt

6. WEDNESDAY - bleeds

7. ADRIAN SHERWOOD - the collapse of everything

8. GREENTEA PENG - tell dem it’s sunny

9. CIRCUIT DES YEUX - halo on the inside

10. TORTOISE - touch

11. LEROI CONROY - a tiger’s tale

12. SPRINTS - all that is over

13. HOLLIE COOK - shy girl

14. STEREOLAB - instant holograms on metal film

15. INSECURE MEN - a man for all seasons

16. LITTLE BARRIE & MALCOLM CATTO - electric war

17. GEESE - getting killed

18. THE SORCERERS - other worlds & habitats

19. BAXTER DURY - allbarone

20. THESE NEW PURITANS - crooked wing

21. BILLIE MARTEN - dog eared

22. DERYA YILDRIM & GRUP SIMSEK - yarin yoksa

23. JIMI TENOR - july blue skies

24. DEFTONES - private music

25. EL MICHELS AFFAIR - 24hr sports

26. ROBERT PLANT - saving grace

27.OKONSKI - entrance music

28. THE MARS VOLTA - lucro sucio: los ojos del vacio 

29. McKINLEY DIXON - magic, alive!

30. RIANNE DOWNEY - the consequence of love

31. MODERN NATURE - heat warps

32. WOLF ALICE - the clearing

33. THE HORRORS - night life

34. BROOKE COMBE - dancing at the edge of the world

35. PANIC SHACK - panic shack

36. NEWDAD - altar

37. PULP - more

38. SURPRISE CHEF - superb

39. BIFFY CLYRO - futique

40. DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS - flowers