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2025 Music

Drowned in Sound: 25 Favourite Albums of 2025

10 December 2025

Drowned in Sound: 25 Favourite Albums of 2025

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
    Hayley Williams
  2. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
  3. I Don't Want to See You in Heaven
    The Callous Daoboys
  4. Glutton for Punishment
    Heartworms
  5. Who Let the Dogs Out
    Lambrini Girls
  6. Pirouette
    Model/Actriz
  7. Under Tangled Silence
    Djrum
  8. We Were Made Prey
    Kathryn Joseph
  9. Lux
    Rosalía
  10. Perverts
    Ethel Cain
  11. Nothing
    Darkside
  12. West End Girl
    Lily Allen
  13. Parasites & Butterflies
    Nova Twins
  14. Lotus
    Little Simz
  15. Idlewild
    Idlewild
  16. Ripe
    Postcards
  17. Lonely People with Power
    Deafheaven
  18. Iconoclasts
    Anna von Hausswolff
  19. Phonetics On and On
    Horsegirl
  20. Are We All Angels
    Scowl
  21. GLO (Girl Life Online)
    Stealing Sheep
  22. The BPM
    Sudan Archives
  23. Addison
    Addison Rae
  24. Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles
    Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles
  25. Private Music
    Deftones

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