Year-End Lists

NPR: Best Albums of 2025, taking one top album from team member

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Super Pedestrian
  Annie DiRusso
• 9:30 PM
  Queralt Lahoz
• About Ghosts
  Mary Halvorson
• RHODA
  Kal Banx
• The Passionate Ones
  Nourished By Time
• Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
  Gwenifer Raymond
• Bleeds
  Wednesday
• Uh Oh
  Patrick Watson
• In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness
  Clarice Jensen
• The Boy Who Played the Harp
  Dave
• Son of Spergy
  Daniel Caesar
• Lux
  Rosalía

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• 10 Favorite New Albums of 2025 Hazel Cills
• Top 10 Albums of 2025 Ann Powers · NPR · NPR Music
• Top 10 Albums of 2025 Nate Chinen · NPR · NPR Music
• Top 10 Albums of 2025 Robin Hilton · NPR · NPR Music
• Top 10 Albums of 2025 Sheldon Pearce · NPR · NPR Music
• Top 10 Albums of 2025 Stephen Thompson · NPR · NPR Music