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Feature: The 50 Best Albums of 2025

All ranking lists are inherently ludicrous, and taking them too seriously is a fool’s errand, but I was genuinely shocked at some of the omissions in fairly high profile lists this year. I’ll leave it to you to work out which ones I’m talking about. And on the other side of the argument, everyone losing their minds over FKA Twigs this year had me initially baffled and then increasingly irritated. She worked with Anyma, the blandest man in all of electronic music!

My list is heavily biased towards droning ambient textures, unnecessarily bleak electronica and overly sentimental, er, sentiments, occasionally punctuated by some of the shiniest, most mainstream pop currently available, but it’s the best list by far.

These are the 50 best album of 2025.

50. Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam

49. Lily Allen – West End Girl

48. Nation of Language – Dance Called Memory

47. Rainy Miller – Joseph, What Have You Done?

46. Penelope Trappes – A Requiem

45. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – GUSH

44. Dylan Henner – Star Dream FM

43. Klein – sleep with a cane

42. Marta Fosberg – Archaeology of Intimacy

41. Gwenno – Utopia

40. Night Tapes – portals//polarities

39. Curtis Harding – Departures & Arrivals

38. Lea Sen – LEVELS

37. Florian T M Zeisig – A New Life

36. Florist – Jellywish

35. Binary Algorithims – Reminiscencias

34. Jadu Heart – POST HEAVEN

33. Marina Zispin – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

32. Dania – Listless

31. Sandwell District – End Beginnings

30. Kathryn Mohr – Waiting Room

29. Opsin – through the wall

28. Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors

27. Demdike Stare – To Cut & Shoot

26. Arvin Dola – O Ghost

25. jp – we’re here all the time

24. Barker – Stochastic Drift

23. Valentino Mora – Biotope

22. 36 – A Warm Static Sphere

21. Addison Rae – Addison

20. james k – Friend

19. Joanne Robertson – Blurrr

18. Dijon – Baby

17. Yagya – Vor

16. Blood Orange – Essex Honey

15. anaiis – Devotion & The Black Divine

14. Camille Schmidt – Nude #9

13. Joshua Burnside – Teeth Of Time

12. Erika De Casier – Lifetime

11. John Glacier – Like A Ribbon

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10. Voices From The Lake – Voices From The Lake II

09. Kpop Demon Hunters – Kpop Demon Hunters

08. Saya Grey – SAYA

07. OHYUNG – You Are Always On My Mind

06. XENIA REAPER – Gambling

05. Tren – Tears Of Things, Sorrows of the Universe

04. Lucy Gooch – Desert Window

03. Voice Actor – Lust 1

02. Natalie Bergman – My Home Is Not In This World

01. Maribou State – Hallucinating Love

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Feature: The 50 Best Albums of 2024

It’s that time of year again when we pretend that ranking music matters much more than is really does, and that our own taste is the best. And mine really is! Read on for proof of this.

Included in this list are ambient abstraction that sounds like 90s trance, indie rock albums in the midst of an existential crisis, and electronic records that feel like they might just collapse under their own weight, or are so spectral they’re barely even there. And despite everyone telling me how wrong I am, no Charli XCX at all. For other gaping holes or obvious omissions, I make no apologies whatsoever.

Here are the 50 best albums of 2024. They might change your life.

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Feature: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Given how many people are likely to read this, the amount of time I spent deciding which albums made the cut this year is frankly ridiculous. I’ve listened to hundreds of albums this year, and barely feel like I’ve scratched the surface. And despite my best efforts, there’s still no metal.

My preference for meandering ambient, breathy female vocalists and nostalgia-inducing electronica still continues to dominate. If you’re into any of this, lucky you!

I’m genuinely relived to be putting my own selections out there so I can now start the far more enjoyable process of going through all the other end of year lists and finding everything I missed.

Here are my favourite albums of 2023.

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Feature: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

Here it is! The absolutely in no way definitive list of the very best albums of 2022, as decided by me and me alone. This is not a democracy. This list is biased, subjective and missing entire genres (tough luck metal!), however it is – of course – also the best list you’re likely to read.

Year after year I continue to be blown away by the amount of insanely good music released by people I had previously never heard of, and 2022 is no exception. I hope you’ll find something to enjoy.

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