Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2025

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

1. Getting Killed
   Geese
2. The Clearing
   Wolf Alice
3. More
   Pulp
4. Never Enough
   Turnstile
5. Instant Holograms on Metal Film
   Stereolab
6. Headlights
   Alex G
7. Tripla
   Miki Berenyi Trio
8. West End Girl
   Lily Allen
9. Antidepressants
   Suede
10. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg
11. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
12. For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
    Japanese Breakfast
13. Forever Howlong
    Black Country, New Road
14. Constellations for the Lonely
    Doves
15. Straight Line Was a Lie
    The Beths
16. Double Infinity
    Big Thief
17. Phonetics On and On
    Horsegirl
18. Iconoclasts
    Anna von Hausswolff
19. Billboard Heart
    Deep Sea Diver
20. Dan's Boogie
    Destroyer
21. Bleeds
    Wednesday
22. It's a Beautiful Place
    Water From Your Eyes
23. Horror
    Bartees Strange
24. From the Pyre
    The Last Dinner Party
25. Earthstar Mountain
    Hannah Cohen
26. I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
    Hayden Pedigo
27. Utopia
    Gwenno
28. Liquorice
    Hatchie
29. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
    Hayley Williams
30. Who Is the Sky?
    David Byrne
31. COSPLAY
    Sorry
32. Pinball Wanderer
    Andy Bell
33. Altogether Stranger
    Lael Neale
34. International
    Saint Etienne
35. Caroline 2
    caroline
36. Portrait of My Heart
    Spellling
37. Viagr Aboys
    Viagra Boys
38. Twilight Override
    Jeff Tweedy
39. The Life You Save
    Flock of Dimes
40. Cowards
    Squid
41. Welcome to My Blue Sky
    Momma
42. Snocaps
    Snocaps
43. Love and Fortune
    Stella Donnelly
44. Allbarone
    Baxter Dury
45. Goodbye Small Head
    Ezra Furman
46. Essex Honey
    Blood Orange
47. Middle Spoon
    Cheekface
48. Perverts
    Ethel Cain
49. Thee Black Boltz
    Tunde Adebimpe
50. TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Nine Inch Nails
51. Euro-Country
    CMAT
52. Send a Prayer My Way
    Julien Baker & Torres
53. The Spiritual Sound
    Agriculture
54. Tranquilizer
    Oneohtrix Point Never
55. New Threats from the Soul
    Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
56. Everybody Scream
    Florence + The Machine
57. Humanhood
    The Weather Station
58. Night Life
    The Horrors
59. Dance Called Memory
    Nation of Language
60. Sinister Grift
    Panda Bear
61. Glutton for Punishment
    Heartworms
62. Microtonic
    bdrmm
63. The Crux
    Djo
64. The Heat Warps
    Modern Nature
65. If You Asked for a Picture
    Blondshell
66. Neon Grey Midnight Green
    Neko Case
67. Always Been
    Craig Finn
68. Songs for Other People’s Weddings
    Jens Lekman
69. Ready for Heaven
    Deradoorian
70. Michelangelo Dying
    Cate Le Bon
71. I Quit
    Haim
72. Scratch It
    U.S. Girls
73. PE'AHI II
    The Raveonettes
74. A Bridge To Far
    Midlake
75. Lonely People with Power
    Deafheaven
76. The BPM
    Sudan Archives
77. Possession
    Ty Segall
78. It's Only A Love Song
    C. Duncan
79. Bloodless
    Samia
80. Daylight Daylight
    Steve Gunn
81. We Were Just Here
    Just Mustard
82. Is It Now?
    Automatic
83. The Scholars
    Car Seat Headrest
84. Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
    The Mountain Goats
85. Glory
    Perfume Genius
86. Unclouded
    Melody’s Echo Chamber
87. The Bad Fire
    Mogwai
88. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
89. In The Earth Again
    Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
90. Pirouette
    Model/Actriz
91. Private Music
    Deftones
92. Crooked Wing
    These New Puritans
93. The Passionate Ones
    Nourished By Time
94. Moneyball
    Dutch Interior
95. Raspberry Moon
    Hotline TNT
96. Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles
    Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles
97. MAD!
    Sparks
98. Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!
    The Dears
99. Rainy Sunday Afternoon
    The Divine Comedy
100. Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
     Open Mike Eagle

Honorable Mentions

• Some Like It Hot
  Bar Italia
• My Home Is Not In This World
  Natalie Bergman
• Sable, Fable
  Bon Iver
• Lower
  Benjamin Booker
• Precipice
  Indigo De Souza
• Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
  Garbage
• Iris Silver Mist
  Jenny Hval
• Who Let the Dogs Out
  Lambrini Girls
• A Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams
  Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider
• Kablooey
  Meric Long & The Dodos
• SWORN
  The Mary Onettes
• Interior Live Oak
  Cass McCombs
• Dim Probs
  Gruff Rhys
• Deadbeat
  Tame Impala
• Better Dreaming
  Tune-Yards
• Love You All Over Again
  Tunng
• A Jackal's Wedding
  Westerman
• Rarely Do I Dream
  Youth Lagoon