Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Foxwarren
   2
2. Anna von Hausswolff
   Iconoclasts
3. Sunflower Bean
   Mortal Primetime
4. Constant Follower
   The Smile You Send Out Returns To You
5. Greet Death
   Die In Love
6. Clipse
   Let God Sort Em Out
7. Lifeguard
   Ripped and Torn
8. Greg Freeman
   Burnover
9. Sharp Pins
   Radio DDR
10. Youth Lagoon
    Rarely Do I Dream
11. Viagra Boys
    Viagr Aboys
12. Wednesday
    Bleeds
13. The Belair Lip Bombs
    Again
14. Hayden Pedigo
    I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
15. Benjamin Booker
    Lower
16. Will Stratton
    Points of Origin
17. Earl Sweatshirt
    Live Laugh Love
18. Hilary Woods
    Night CRIÚ
19. CMAT
    Euro-Country
20. Little Simz
    Lotus
21. These New Puritans
    Crooked Wing
22. Hannah Frances
    Nested in Tangles
23. Rocket
    R Is for Rocket
24. The Murder Capital
    Blindness
25. Divorce
    Drive to Goldenhammer
26. La Dispute
    No One Was Driving the Car
27. Saba & No I.D.
    From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.
28. Nels Cline
    Consentrik Quartet
29. Mobb Deep
    Infinite
30. The Besnard Lakes
    The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
31. The Telephone Numbers
    Scarecrow II
32. Stella Donnelly
    Love and Fortune
33. Nourished by Time
    The Passionate Ones
34. Alex G
    Headlights
35. The Beths
    Straight Line Was a Lie
36. Lucrecia Dalt
    A Danger to Ourselves
37. Yves Jarvis
    All Cylinders
38. Baths
    Gut
39. Anna B Savage
    You & i are Earth
40. FACS
    Wish Defense
41. Hotline TNT
    Raspberry Moon
42. Ela Minus
    DÍA
43. Billy Woods
    Golliwog
44. Algernon Cadwallader
    Trying Not to Have a Thought
45. Lucy Gooch
    Desert Window
46. Cloakroom
    Last Leg of the Human Table
47. Heartworms
    Glutton for Punishment
48. Ghais Guevara
    Goyard Ibn Said
49. Courting
    Lust for Life, Or: 'How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story'
50. Car Seat Headrest
    The Scholars