Year-End Lists

mxdwn: Top 40 Best Albums Of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023]

1. Hayley Williams
   Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
2. Health
   Conflict DLC
3. Lily Allen
   West End Girl
4. Turnstile
   Never Enough
5. AVTT/PTTN
   AVTT/PTTN
6. FKA twigs
   Eusexua
7. Deafheaven
   Lonely People with Power
8. Wednesday
   Bleeds
9. Wet Leg
   Moisturizer
10. I’m With Her
    Wild and Clear and Blue
11. Sofi Tukker
    butter
12. Ghost
    Skeletá
13. Tyler, The Creator
    Don't Tap the Glass
14. Deftones
    Private Music
15. Babymetal
    Metal Forth
16. Nine Inch Nails
    TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
17. Serj Tankian
    Covers, Collaborations & Collages
18. Scowl
    Are We All Angels
19. Soulwax
    All Systems Are Lying
20. Anna von Hausswolff
    Iconoclasts
21. Neko Case
    Neon Grey Midnight Green
22. Biohazard
    Divided We Fall
23. Alison Goldfrapp
    Flux
24. Florence + The Machine
    Everybody Scream
25. Ulver
    Neverland
26. Clipse
    Let God Sort Em Out
27. Of Monsters and Men
    All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade
28. Dying Wish
    Flesh Stays Together
29. Demi Lovato
    It's Not That Deep
30. Spiritbox
    Tsunami Sea
31. Little Simz
    Lotus
32. Marissa Nadler
    New Radiations
33. Black Moth Super Rainbow
    Soft New Magic Dream
34. Yukimi
    For You
35. Pulp
    More
36. Faithless
    Champion Sound
37. Blood Orange
    Essex Honey
38. Lorde
    Virgin
39. Perturbator
    Age of Aquarius
40. The Hellacopters
    Overdriver