Year-End Lists

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

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

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