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Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2025

10 January 2026

Tranquilizer - Oneohtrix Point Never

Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2011]

  1. Tranquilizer
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  2. Getting Killed
    Geese
  3. Lotus
    Little Simz
  4. Golliwog
    Billy Woods
  5. Bury the Key
    Tops
  6. Bleeds
    Wednesday
  7. Face Down in the Garden
    Tennis
  8. Deseo, Carne y Voluntad
    Candelabro
  9. The Passionate Ones
    Nourished By Time
  10. Interior Live Oak
    Cass McCombs
  11. Heavy Metal
    Cameron Winter
  12. More
    Pulp
  13. From the Pyre
    The Last Dinner Party
  14. Birthing
    Swans
  15. Live Laugh Love
    Earl Sweatshirt
  16. Antidepressants
    Suede
  17. Los Thuthanaka
    Los Thuthanaka
  18. Magic, Alive!
    McKinley Dixon
  19. Double Infinity
    Big Thief
  20. Baby
    Dijon
  21. Luminescent Creatures
    Ichiko Aoba
  22. Dead Channel Sky
    clipping.
  23. Sinister Grift
    Panda Bear
  24. Second Mansions
    Le Concorde
  25. Alfredo 2
    Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  26. Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
    Ethel Cain
  27. Hyperyouth
    Joey Valence & Brae
  28. Effection
    Waves Crashing
  29. Death Farm
    Carl Hauck
  30. Dan's Boogie
    Destroyer
  31. Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
    Quadeca
  32. COIL
    Von Masse
  33. The Boy Who Played the Harp
    Dave
  34. Longyear
    Great Horned Owl
  35. Instant Holograms on Metal Film
    Stereolab
  36. Glory
    Perfume Genius
  37. PS
    Caleb L'Etoile
  38. For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
    Japanese Breakfast
  39. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
  40. Choke Enough
    Oklou
  41. Evasion
    Y is Nature
  42. In All My Nightmares I Am Alone
    Post Death Soundtrack
  43. Silk Daisys
    Silk Daisys
  44. Michelangelo Dying
    Cate Le Bon
  45. Fuzzer
    Michael Sanders
  46. Lorem Ipsum
    Jeff Jakobs
  47. Songs from Big Pleasant
    Big Pleasant
  48. Raspberry Moon
    Hotline TNT
  49. Echomatica
    Echomatica
  50. End of the Middle
    Richard Dawson

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