Year-End Lists

Josh Terry: The 100 Best Albums of 2025, as posted to his newsletter, "No Expectations"

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

• Mapambazuko
  Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta
• Out To Pasture
  Arbor Labor Union
• Awning
  Awning
• Songs for Sleeping Dogs
  Ben Hackett
• Double Infinity
  Big Thief
• Dog Eared
  Billie Marten
• Easy
  Bleary Eyed
• The Purple Bird
  Bonnie “Prince” Billy
• All The Right Weaknesses
  Brown Horse
• Very Human Features
  The Bug Club
• Dogs
  Cash Langdon
• Euro-Country
  CMAT
• like cartoon
  The Convenience
• Salvation
  Credit Electric
• What I Want Doesn't Want Me Back
  Cusp
• Snakeskin
  cutouts
• It's Summer, I Love You, and I'm Surrounded by Snow
  Dead Gowns
• Blizzard
  Dove Ellis
• Moneyball
  Dutch Interior
• Echolalia
  Echolalia
• Antigone
  Eiko Ishibashi
• Progress Bakery
  Eliza Niemi
• Autofiction
  Far Caspian
• Heavy Lifting
  Fib
• The Life You Save
  Flock of Dimes
• Sounds Like...
  Florry
• Now Would Be a Good Time
  Folk Bitch Trio
• 2
  Foxwarren
• Caveman Wakes Up
  Friendship
• Getting Killed
  Geese
• Switcheroo
  Gelli Haha
• Shooting Star
  Golden Apples
• The Beat Goes On
  Golomb
• Talulah's Tape
  Good Flying Birds
• Dream 3
  Goon
• Chain Yer Dragon
  Goose
• Mad Dogs
  Grace Rogers
• Burnover
  Greg Freeman
• What of Our Nature
  Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
• Blue Reminder
  Hand Habits
• Earthstar Mountain
  Hannah Cohen
• Nested in Tangles
  Hannah Frances
• The Universe Will Take Care of You
  Holden & Zimpel
• Phonetics On and On
  Horsegirl
• Twilight Override
  Jeff Tweedy
• Different Rooms
  Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
• Days Of Heaven
  Junk Drawer
• Cruel Joke
  Ken Pomeroy
• Après coup
  Laurie Torres
• God Made The Highway
  Lawn
• Pilot Light
  Liam Kazar
• Ripped and Torn
  Lifeguard
• Trash Mountain
  Lily Seabird
• Foreground
  Lucky Cloud
• When the Distance is Blue
  Macie Stewart
• Making Room for the Light
  Mae Powell
• Goodbye Long Winter Shadow
  Maia Friedman
• Valerian Tea
  Magic Fig
• Hex Key
  Mamalarky
• bathes and listens
  Maneka
• Magic, Alive!
  McKinley Dixon
• Animaru
  Mei Semones
• Flamingo Tower
  Monde UFO
• noise ( meaning )
  monte booker
• I Let The Wind Push Down On Me
  Moontype
• Let It Win
  Neu Blume
• Bugland
  No Joy
• Of the Highway
  Oldstar
• What Is Success
  Open Head
• Orbital
  Orbital Ensemble
• Warsaw 480km
  pôt-pot
• System
  Prewn
• Pulse
  Qur'an Shaheed
• Affectionately
  Raisa K
• Sol Y Sombra
  Rose City Band
• New Threats from the Soul
  Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
• From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.
  Saba & No I.D.
• Swimming
  Sam Moss
• Open Close
  Sam Prekop
• SAYA
  Saya Gray
• Head In The Sand
  Sean Thompson's Weird Ears
• Soft Heaven
  Seth Beck
• God's Gonna Give You a Million Dollars
  Shallowater
• Shrunken Elvis
  Shrunken Elvis
• Rosalie
  Silver Synthetic
• Clover
  Sleeper's Bell
• How You Been
  SML
• Worldwide
  Snõõper
• Ohio Vision
  Spencer Radcliffe
• Electric Hour
  Sword II
• Horses
  Tobacco City
• Possession
  Ty Segall
• Florilegium
  Uwade
• It's a Beautiful Place
  Water From Your Eyes
• Massive Shoe
  Way Dynamic
• Bleeds
  Wednesday
• Small Talk
  Whitney
• Diamond City
  Will Johnson
• Points of Origin
  Will Stratton
• Evaporating
  Zook