Top Albums 2025

Here is my annual favourite albums list. As ever, I've given on consideration to critical opinion elsewhere, these are simply those of the many I've listened to in 2025 that have given me the most pleasure, or moved me the most.

1) Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles

2) Heartworms Glutton for Punishment

3) Kelly Moran Don't Trust Mirrors

4) Saya Grey SAYA

5) The Weather Station Humanhood

6) Caroline Caroline2

7) CMAT Euro Country

8) Divorce Drive to Goldenhammer

9) Darkside Nothing

10) Anna B Savage You & I Are Earth

11) Anna von Hausswolff Iconoclasts

12) Florence + Machine Everybody Scream

13) These New Puritans Crooked Wing

14) Other Lives Volume V

15) Smerz Big City Life

16) Sarah Klang Beauitful Woman

17) Brandi Carlile Returning to Myself

18) Rosalia Lux

19) The New Eves New Eve is Rising

20) Beirut Study of Losses

Honourable Mentions

Alison Krauss & Union Station Arcadia

Austra Chin Up Buttercup

Bon Iver Sable, fable

Flock of Dimes The Life You Save

The Last Dinner Party From the Pyre

Lapsley I'm a Hurricane

Lorde Virgin

Of Monsters and Men All is love and pain

Tuung Love You All Over Again

Wolf Alice The Clearing