Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: Favorite Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

Top 10 Albums

• The BPM
  Sudan Archives
• Constant Noise
  Benefits
• Lux
  Rosalía
• Neon Grey Midnight Green
  Neko Case
• 45 Pounds
  YHWH Nailgun
• Sincerely
  Kali Uchis
• Burning as the First Light
  Soulless & Sadness
• Fairyland Codex
  Tropical Fuck Storm
• Lotus
  Little Simz
• Thereupon
  Fieldwork

The Next 10

• Straight Line Was a Lie
  The Beths
• hexed!
  aya
• Eusexua
  FKA twigs
• Eusexua Afterglow
  FKA twigs
• Getting Killed
  Geese
• If Your Mirror Breaks
  The Ex
• Virgin
  Lorde
• ARCHENFIELD
  U
• Halo On The Inside
  Circuit Des Yeux
• Gaudencia
  Mc Yallah & Debmaster
• Golliwog
  Billy Woods

Runners-up

• Enter the Misanthropocene
  Abhorrent Expanse
• Black Star
  Amaarae
• Tether
  Annahstasia
• Send a Prayer My Way
  Julien Baker & Torres
• Of the Near and Far
  Patricia Brennan
• Perverts
  Ethel Cain
• Hyperglyph
  Chicago Underground Duo
• Caveman Traditions
  Cios
• SweetFace Killah
  Infinite Coles
• Latincore Legend
  CRRDR
• Magic, Alive!
  McKinley Dixon
• Beside Myself
  DJ Haram
• II
  Gnaw
• About Ghosts
  Mary Halvorson
• All Living Things
  Park Jiha
• Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name
  Lucy Liyou
• Promiscuous Genes
  Kilynn Lunsford
• Metallic Life Review
  Matmos
• Off the Record
  Makaya McCraven
• Sen'nyū
  Meitei
• Demilitarize
  Nazar
• Aura Reworks
  Hatis Noit
• The Passionate Ones
  Nourished By Time
• London Drop 3
  Omagoqa
• Oddments
  Rosa Ensemble
• Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear?
  Silkmoney
• Worldwide
  Snõõper
• Love Is a Kingdom
  Tems
• Close
  Steve Tibbetts
• Clube da Mariposa Mórbida
  Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers
• In His Blood
  Vacuous
• Instruments
  Water Damage
• It's a Beautiful Place
  Water From Your Eyes
• amor de encava
  WEED420
• Hymns in Dissonance
  Whitechapel