2025 has been a year of quality over quantity and that can only be a good thing. Year on year it seems as though there are more albums being released to the point I'm drowning in new music. So it's refreshing to get to mid November and only have 43 albums in my list. Another noticeable thing from this year is the number of female fronted bands, or all female bands for that matter.

There have been excellent albums from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Wet Leg, Water From Your Eyes, Wombo, The New Eves, Mhaol and Horsegirl to name a few. Including my album of the year from Rún. The Irish band's self titled debut album on Rocket Recordings is dark and witchy, sometimes folky, sometimes heavy but it's Tara Baoth Mooney's vocals that set it apart from anything else. I've already seen a few end of year lists posted online and I can't believe this album isn't even on them.

Away from the female fronted bands there have been not one but two excellent albums from Smote. Possibly the heaviest albums of the year, after seeing them live I can appreciate the sheer power a little more. Ty Segall returned with his best album in a while and Squid showed why they're the best band from the so called Windmill scene. 

Here's my favourite albums from 2025. Check out the playlist at the bottom of the page, then go and buy your favourite on vinyl or CD and support the artists.

1. Rún - Rún
2. Squid - Cowards
3. Smote - Clyppan
4. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Corporal
5. Ty Segall - Possession
6. Water From Your Eyes - It's a Beautiful Place
7. Mhaol - Something Soft
8. Smote - Songs From The Free House
9. Golomb - The Beat Goes On
10. Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - Tall Tales
11. Bar Italia - Some Like It Hot
12. Wet Leg - moisturizer
13. Wombo - Danger in Fives
14. Caroline - Caroline 2
15. Geese - Getting Killed
16. Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying
17. The Utopia Strong - Doperider
18. Horsegirl - Phonetics On And On
19. Prewn - System
20. Bruise Blood - We Run Through The World Like An Open Razor
21. bdrmm - Microtonic
22. Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal
23. Mcluskey - the world is still here and so are we
24. Artificial Go - Musical Chairs
25. Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film
26. Activity - A Thousand Years In Another Way
27. These New Puritans - Crooked Wing
28. Matmos - Metallic Life Review
29. Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
30. OSMIUM - OSMIUM
31. Modern Nature - The Heat Warps
32. Wednesday - Bleeds
33. clipping. - Dead Channel Sky
34. Throwing Muses - Moonlight Concessions
35. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious
36. Bitchin Bajas - Inland See
37. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Overspill Estates EP
38. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Public Works and Utilities
39. Goat - The Human Language Goat Tape
40. Orcutt Shelley Miller - Orcutt Shelley Miller
41. Divide & Dissolve - Insatiable
42. Prison - Downstate
43. The Tubs - Cotton Crown