My 40 favourite releases of 2025

Here are my favourite 40 releases of the past year. I found it quite difficult to decide what should make the final few slots, so I have also made a playlist of songs from albums that didn't quite make the cut, or weren't part of a release that could make it on the main list. That playlist may be added to this page or linked to at some point.

Animaru by Mei Semones

Bambi by Anxious

Bleeds by Wednesday

Blush Response by Acopia

Can't Stop by Fat, Evil Children

Cowards by Squid

Cutthroat by shame

Demilitarize by Nazar

Essex Honey by Blood Orange

For Melancholy Bruenettes (& sad women) by Japanese Breakfast

Forward by First Day Back

Friend by james K

Getting Killed by Geese

Ghost Palace by The Burning Hell

Gleaming Cursed by water margin

How You Been by SML

I Heard That Noise by quickly, quickly

I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi

Juggling Dualities by rRoxymore

Love Is a Dog from Hell by forty winks

Out From Underneath by Prism Shores

Paradise Now by Obongjayar

Parts Work by Parts Work

Patience, Moonbeam by Great Grandpa

Pinnacle Hill by Comfort Object

Planet Popstar by Wishy

Raspberry Moon by Hotline TNT

Romance by Shanti Celeste

Singapore Dreaming by Subsonic Eye

Small Talk by Whitney

Stochastic Drift by Barker

Straight Line Was A Lie by The Beths

Switcheroo by Gelli Haha

Tremor by Daniel Avery

Trying Not to Have a Thought by Algernon Cadwallader

Twilight Override by Jeff Tweedy

WE WERE JUST HERE by Just Mustard

Whatever The Weather II by Whatever The Weather

You Wanna Fade? by Alien Boy

45 Pounds by YHWH Nailgun