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2025 Music

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2025

01 December 2025

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Iconoclasts
    Anna von Hausswolff
  2. Lux
    Rosalía
  3. Getting Killed
    Geese
  4. Black British Music
    Jim Legxacy
  5. I Love My Computer
    Ninajirachi
  6. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
    Hayley Williams
  7. Glory
    Perfume Genius
  8. Choke Enough
    Oklou
  9. You Are The Morning
    jasmine.4.t
  10. hooke’s law
    KeiyaA
  11. DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
    Bad Bunny
  12. Golliwog
    Billy Woods
  13. Vendrán Suaves Lluvias
    Silvana Estrada
  14. The Passionate Ones
    Nourished By Time
  15. Fancy That
    PinkPantheress
  16. Caroline 2
    caroline
  17. Big City Life
    Smerz
  18. Like a Ribbon
    John Glacier
  19. Pain to Power
    Maruja
  20. Let God Sort Em Out
    Clipse
  21. Constant Noise
    Benefits
  22. Perverts
    Ethel Cain
  23. Cryogeyser
    Cryogeyser
  24. Bleeds
    Wednesday
  25. Repulsor
    Shlohmo
  26. SAYA
    Saya Gray
  27. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
  28. New Threats from the Soul
    Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
  29. Jonatan
    Yung Lean
  30. Planting by the Signs
    S.G. Goodman
  31. Luminescent Creatures
    Ichiko Aoba
  32. Something to Consume
    Die Spitz
  33. Off the Record
    Makaya McCraven
  34. Midnight Sun
    Zara Larsson
  35. Private Music
    Deftones
  36. Lotus
    Little Simz
  37. All Our Knives Are Always Sharp
    Tony Njoku
  38. Viagr Aboys
    Viagra Boys
  39. Bloodless
    Samia
  40. The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
    The Armed
  41. Never Enough
    Turnstile
  42. Iris Silver Mist
    Jenny Hval
  43. no scope
    crushed
  44. Who Let the Dogs Out
    Lambrini Girls
  45. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
  46. A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever
    Kara-Lis Coverdale
  47. Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
    Ethel Cain
  48. U R HERE
    Honesty
  49. West End Girl
    Lily Allen
  50. Addison
    Addison Rae

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