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Nialler9: Niall Byrne: The 50 Best Albums of 2025

10 December 2025

Niall Byrne: The 50 Best Albums of 2025, as published by Nialler9

  1. Lux
    Rosalía
  2. Euro-Country
    CMAT
  3. Never Enough
    Turnstile
  4. Choke Enough
    Oklou
  5. Let God Sort Em Out
    Clipse
  6. Getting Killed
    Geese
  7. Golliwog
    Billy Woods
  8. Hopefully!
    Loyle Carner
  9. LOTTO
    They Are Gutting a Body of Water
  10. Lotus
    Little Simz
  11. Instant Holograms on Metal Film
    Stereolab
  12. Phonetics On and On
    Horsegirl
  13. Friend
    james K
  14. For Those I Love
    For Those I Love
  15. Switcheroo
    Gelli Haha
  16. Showbiz!
    Mike
  17. I Love My Computer
    Ninajirachi
  18. Big City Life
    Smerz
  19. Tonky
    Lonnie Holley
  20. West End Girl
    Lily Allen
  21. Is It Now?
    Automatic
  22. BLACK'!ANTIQUE
    Pink Siifu
  23. City of Clowns
    Marie Davidson
  24. Luster
    Maria Somerville
  25. Sunwise
    Brìghde Chaimbeul
  26. Lifetime
    Erika de Casier
  27. HAGEN
    Titanic
  28. I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
    Hayden Pedigo
  29. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
  30. SickElixir
    Blawan
  31. Snocaps
    Snocaps
  32. SAD
    Ikonika
  33. Rarely Do I Dream
    Youth Lagoon
  34. Live Laugh Love
    Earl Sweatshirt
  35. Alex
    Daughter of Swords
  36. Antichamber
    Puma Blue
  37. LEVELS
    Léa Sen
  38. Don't Tap the Glass
    Tyler, The Creator
  39. Sable, Fable
    Bon Iver
  40. You & i are Earth
    Anna B Savage
  41. It's a Beautiful Place
    Water From Your Eyes
  42. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg
  43. A Jackal's Wedding
    Westerman
  44. 10
    Sault
  45. Love Is Colder Than Death
    Romance
  46. Star
    2hollis
  47. A Complicated Woman
    Self Esteem
  48. Like a Ribbon
    John Glacier
  49. God Does Like Ugly
    JID
  50. Affectionately
    Raisa K

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