*me taking notes of albums in this thread I missed…* I didn’t listen to as much new music as normal, but the albums I did listen to, I really connected with and listened on repeat. S-tier 1. Arm’s Length - There’s a Whole World Out There 2. Coheed and Cambria - The Father of Make Believe 3. Slowly Slowly - Forgiving Spree 4. Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done 5. Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When it’s Still 6. Ben Quad - Wisher 7. Survive Said the Prophet - Luv Sux Sessions Awesome-tier 8. L.S. Dunes - Violet 9. Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea 10. Deftones - Private Music 11. Danny Brown - Stardust 12. Origami Summer - 6 Seasons in Reverse 13. Gully Boys - Gully Boys I also liked and need to spend more time with tier 14. The Starting Line - Eternal Youth 15. Aren’t We Amphibians - Parade! Parade!
loved my top 2 albums more than anything else. listing everything else alphabetically cause i can't decide. solid year! 1. la dispute - no one was driving the car 2. aesop rock - black hole superette -- aesop rock - i heard it's a mess there too arms length - there's a whole world out there charmer - downpour first day back - forward free range - lost & found greet death - die in love hot mulligan - the sound a body makes when it's warm jay som - belong moving mountains - pruning of the lower limbs racing mount pleasant - s/t samia - bloodless saturdays at your place - these things happen tape trash - eden the callous daoboys - i don't want to see you in heaven the starting line - eternal youth twiabp - dreams of being dust
Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH Petey USA - The Yips Deftones - private music Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power Murder By Death - Egg & Dart PUP - Who Will Look After the Dogs? Moving Mountains - Pruining of the Lower Limbs Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys DRAIN - … Is Your Friend The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here Liquid Mike - Hell is an Airport Weakened Friends - Feels Like Hell Teen Mortgage - Devil Ultrasonic Dream Rocket - R is For Rocket Geese - Getting Killed The Hives - The Hives Forever! Chevelle - Bright as Blasphemy Melvins - Thunderball Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party The Dirty Nil - The Lash Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun The Murder Capital - Blindness Mogwai - The Bad Fire Kerosene Heights - Blame It On The Weather Dave Hause - … and The Mermaid Wednesday - Bleeds L.S. Dunes - Violet Beach Bunny - Tunnel Vision Wavves - Spun Wet Leg - moisturizer Thrice - Horizons/West Greet Death - Die in Love Anxious - Bambi Laura Jane Grace - Adventure Club Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wonderful Wasteland Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis: Act III: The Father of Make Believe The Starting Line - Eternal Youth King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island Die Spitz - Something to Consume Soul Blind - Red Sky Mourning Downward - Downward (2) Superheaven - S/T Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out Osees - ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie Propagandhi - At Peace Saturdays at Your Place - these things happen Spiritual Cramp - RUDE Scowl - Are We All Angels Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo - In The Earth Again
Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs Dijon - Baby The Starting Line - Eternal Youth Charmer - Downpour Greet Death - Die In Love Cloakroom - Last Leg of The Human Table Men I Trust - Equus Caballus Hayley Williams - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam Jay Som - Belong Deftones - private music Audrey Hobert - Who's The Clown? Billie Marten - Dog Eared Superheaven - Superheaven Ruby Haunt - Blinking In The Wind Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones Mini Trees - Slow It Down Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE Ovrkast. - While The Iron Is Hot Anxious - Bambi El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports Seer Believer - Make A Wish Momma - Welcome To My Blue Sky Saba / No ID - From The Private Collection of Saba and No ID Dirty Art Club - The Silver Suite MIKE - Showbiz! crushed - no scope YUNGMORPHEUS - A Spyglass To One's Face Whitney - Small Talk Geese - Getting Killed Ben Quad - Wisher Zac Farro - Operator Mo Lowda & The Humble - Tailing The Ghost Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) Teethe - Magic Of The Sale Garage Sale - Any Day Now Dream, Ivory - When You Come Back, I Have So Much To Tell You Loyle Carner - hopefully ! Glare - Sunset Funeral PUSH - maybe our days are numbered Mei Semones - Animaru Dying Wish - Flesh Stays Together Bedridden - Moths Strapped To Each Other's Backs little truck - Miss Honey Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love MAVI - The Pilot forever ☆ - Second Gen Dream Rocket - R Is For Rocket Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
01. Deafheaven — Lonely People With Power 02. La Dispute — No One Was Driving the Car 03. The Starting Line — Eternal Youth 04. Propagandhi — At Peace 05. Yasmine Hamdan — I remember I forget بنسى وبتذكر 06. Bad Bunny — DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 07. Turnstile — NEVER ENOUGH 08. Anxious — Bambi 09. Ethel Cain — Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You 10. Moving Mountains — Pruning Of The Lower Limbs 11. Rosalía — LUX 12. Thrice — Horizons/West 13. Oklou — Choke enough 14. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die — Dreams of Being Dust 15. Samia — Bloodless 16. Motion City Soundtrack — The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World 17. L.S. Dunes — Violet 18. Lorde — Virgin 19. Dying Wish — Flesh Stays Together 20. Hot Mulligan — The Sound A Body Makes When It's Still 21. PinkPantheress — Fancy That 22. The Weeknd — Hurry Up Tomorrow 23. The Beths — Straight Line Was A Lie 24. saturdays at your place — These Things Happen 25. Deftones — Private Music 26. Pool Kids — Easier Said Than Done 27. Hayley Williams — Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party 28. Militarie Gun — God Save The Gun 29. Ben Quad — Wisher 30. Momma — Welcome to My Blue Sky 2015 revisited: Harmlessness (Pale Horses at #2) 2005 revisited: From Under the Cork Tree (Phantoms at #2)
Favorite Albums 1. Fust - Big Ugly 2. Geese - Getting Killed 3. Cory Hanson - I Love People 4. Ty Segall - Possession 5. Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up 6. Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - New Threats From the Soul 7. SG Goodman - Planting By The Signs 8. Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away 9. Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak 10. Bonnie Prince Billy - Purple Bird 11. Greg Freeman - Burnover 12. Jens Kuross - Crooked Songs 13. Annie & The Caldwells - Can't Lose My Soul 14. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends 15. Shallowater - God's Gonna Give You A Mil lion Dollars 16. Whitney K - Bubble 17. Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark 18. Wednesday - Bleeds 19. Florry - Sounds Like.. 20. Dan English - Sky Record 21. Golomb - The Beat Goes On 22. Phil Cook - Appalachia Borealis 23. Water From Your Eyes - It's A Beautiful Place 24. Modern Nature - The Heat Warps 25. Kassi Valazza - From Newman Street 26. Lilly Seabird - Trash Mountain 27. Dove Ellis - Blizzard 28. Rose City Band - Sol Y Sombra 29. Michael Hurley - Broken Homes and Gardens 30. Teethe - Magic of the Sale 31. Ken Pomeroy - Cruel Joke 32. Mavis Staples - Sad and Beautiful World 33. Luke Bell - The King is Back 34. Dylan Day - The Unanswered Prayer 35. Annahstasia - Tether 36. Scott Hirsch - Lost Padres 37. Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo - In The Earth Again 38. Graves - Gary Owens Jr.:Super Hits Volume 3 39. Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow 40. Tobacco City - Horses 41. Bill Fox - Resonance 42. Lou Hazel - Riot of the Red 43. Liam Kazar - Pilot Light 44. Dead Gowns - It's Summer, I Love You, and Im Surrounded By Snow 45. Caleb Hawley - soft as i can sing 46. Sabine McCalla - Don't Call Me Baby 47. The Union - Eclectic 48. Jesse Lovelock and The Velvet Voices - S/T 49. Grace Rogers - Mad Dogs 50. Esther Rose - Want Favorite Live Album 1. Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton - Live at the Legion Favorite Songs 1. Fust - Spangled 2. Wednesday - Elderberry Wine 3. Cory Hanson - Bad Miracles 4. Friendship - Resident Evil 5. Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - New Threats For the Soul Favorite Shows 1. Geese, Courting - The Blue Room (Nashville) 2. Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings - The Ryman (Nashville) 3. Fust - The Blue Room (Nashville)
My Favorite Albums of 2025: 20) Portugal. The Man: SHISH 19) Kid Cudi: Free 18) Now, Now: 01 ep 17) Silverstein: Pink Moon/Antibloom 16) Nuovo Testamento: Trouble ep 15) Pool Kids: Easier Said Than Done 14) Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend 13) The Midnight: Syndicate 12) Nine Inch Nails: TRON: Ares OST 11) Yellowcard: Better Days 10) Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be The Light 9) The Starting Line: Eternal Youth 8) Wisp: If Not Winter 7) Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl 6) Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky 5) Scowl: Are We All Angels 4) AFI: Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... 3) Winona Fighter: My Apologies to the Chef 2) Deftones: private music 1) Turnstile: NEVER ENOUGH Favorite Non 2025 Albums of 2025: 10) Semisonic: Feeling Strangely Fine 9) Metallica: Master of Puppets 8) Glassjaw: Worship and Tribute 7) Strung Out: Exile in Oblivion 6) Heavens: Patent Pending 5) Elliott Smith: Either/Or 4) Information Society: S/T 3) Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 2) Turnstile: GLOW ON 1) The Police: Synchronicity
I’ve given “Getting Killed” some more listens. I am starting to hear some of why there has been so much praise. But the vocals are really difficult for me to enjoy. Don’t know what I could be missing here. They almost seem intentionally off or maybe even satirical at times… Will still keep in the rotation.
I’m much more of a ‘new songs on a playlist’ listener than an ‘new album’ listener for new music discovery nowadays, but here’s 20 albums (listed alphabetically) that I positively interacted with this year Addison Rae - Addison Balu Brigada - Portal Beach Bunny - Tunnel Vision The Beaches - No Hard Feelings The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie Coyote Theory - Still Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party late night drive home - as I watch my life online Julia Wolf - PRESSURE IDER - Late To The World Lovejoy - One Simple Trick Momma - Welcome To My Blue Sky Mumford & Sons - Rushmere Parcels - LOVED Penny & Sparrow - Lefty Swim School - Swim School SYML - Nobody Lives Here Tame Impala - Deadbeat The Walters - Good Company Wolf Alice - The Clearing
I can relate to that. I make a playlist for new stuff every year and a lot of my music listening is definitely me just listening to that playlist, so there are many songs that I adored that were either loosies or off of albums I did not care for. I listened to way more rap than my album list suggests in this way.
Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea The Midnight - Syndicate Deftones - private music Turnstile - Never Enough HEALTH - CONFLICT DLC Nine Inch Nails - TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Rosalía - LUX Underoath - The Place After This One Thornhill - BODIES Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS Lady Gaga - MAYHEM FKA twigs - EUSEXUA Afterglow Addison Rae - Addison Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful Lily Allen - West End Girl FKA twigs - EUSEXUA Rebecca Black - SALVATION Ethel Cain - Perverts Oklou - choke enough Pixel Grip - Percepticide: The Death of Reality Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I Will Always Love You Lorde - Virgin Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
Something like this, I think. Will probably edit a little more before the end of the year, but I don't think it'll change too much. Order is iffy outside of the top five and especially the top 10, but they're all good. La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car Suzzallo - The Quiet Year Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World Hayley Williams - Ego Death At a Bachelorette Party Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan Yellowcard - Better Days Snocaps - Snocaps Beauty School - From Now On The Armed - The Future Is Here and Everything Needs To Be Destroyed All Get Out - Side A G Flip - Dream Ride Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out Jason Isbell - Foxes In the Snow Elway - Nobody’s Going To Heaven Lorde - Virgin The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Dreams of Being Dust Laura Stevenson - Late Great Empty Heaven - Swear Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE Winona Fighter - My Apologies To the Chef Weakened Friends - Feels Like Hell Honorable Mentions The Starting Line - Eternal Youth First Day Back - Forward Telethon - Suburban Electric Momma - Welcome To the Blue Sky Kerosene Heights - Blame It On the Weather
I was wondering how much Sleep Token i’d see in here. And there’s been basically none, why did I think there was some greta love of them here…
1. Alex G - Headlights 2. Deftones - private music 3. FKA twigs - EUSEXUA 4. billy woods - GOLLIWOG 5. Addison Rae - Addison 6. ROSALÍA - LUX 7. Danny Brown - Stardust 8. Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party 9. Lorde - Virgin 10. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE 11. Purity Ring - purity ring 12. Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power 13. Wet Leg - moisturizer 14. Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH 15. MIKE - Showbiz! 16. Haim - I quit 17. Cloakroom - Last Leg of the Human Table 18. Rico Nasty - Lethal 19. Wednesday - Bleeds 20. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Mercy 21. Lady Gaga - MAYHEM 22. yeule - Evangelic Girl is a Gun 23. Dijon - Baby 24. Oklou - choke enough 25. Tyler, the Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS 26. Greet Death - Die In Love 27. Glare - Sunset Funeral 28. Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz 29. Snocaps - Snocaps 30. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky
Honestly, 11 through 20 are somewhat interchangeable. Just depends on what I'm feeling that day, but I'm content with this order. 1. The Starting Line - Eternal Youth 2. Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World 3. Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party 4. Charmer - Downpour 5. Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs 6. Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH 7. Liquid Mike - Hell Is an Airport 8. Deftones - private music 9. Armor for Sleep - There Is No Memory 10. Sam Fender - People Watching 11. Hamilton Leithauser - This Side of the Island 12. Anxious - Bambi 13. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE 14. Glitterer - Erer 15. White Reaper- Only Slightly Empty 16. saturdays at your place - these things happen 17. Snocaps - Snocaps 18. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk 19. Yellowcard - Better Days 20. Lucy Dacus Forever Is a Feeling 21. Ben Quad - Wisher 22. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie 23. Brian Dunne - Clams Casino 24. Wednesday - Bleeds 25. AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… 26. Speedway - A Life's Refrain 27. Method of Doubt - Total Soul Ignition EP 28. Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not to Have a Thought 29. Thrice - Horizons/West 30. PLOSIVS - Yell At Cloud Honorable Mentions: Spite House - Desertion DRAIN - ...Is Your Friend Bloom- The Light We Chase Greet Death - Die in Love
EPs I loved this year (mostly unranked outside of the top 3) Spanish Love Songs - A Brief Intermission In the Flattening of Time The Wonder Years - Burst and Decay (Volume III) Spitalfield - Play + Record The Paradox - NSFW Harrison Gordon - Spring Break Abandcalledlove. - Thriving Season Customer Service - To You, After 2000 Years Christian Science Reading Room - Under the Bed and In the Eyes of Another Gatsby’s American Dream - Chyron Parts Work - Parts Work Retirement Party - Nothing To Hear Without a Sound My Point of You - This Is My First Heist Now Now - 01
1. Petey USA – The Yips 2. The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow 3. Turnstile – Never Enough 4. Moving Mountains – Pruining Of The Lower Limbs 5. The Starting Line – Eternal Youth 6. Hundreth – Faded Splendor 7. Blood Orange – Essex Honey 8. John Glacier – Like A Ribbon 9. Arm’s Length – There’s a Whole World Out There 10. Deforesters - Paradise Mausoleum 11. Underoath – The Place After This one 12. Press Club – To All The Ones That I Love 13. The Riptides – Burn After Listening 14. Hayley Williams – Egodeath at a Bachelorette Party 15. Xink – Dag Nul 16. Spite House – Desertion 17. Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out 18. Radioactivity – Time Won’t Bring Me Down 19. Tame Impala – Deadbeat 20. Yellowcard - Better Days 21. Motion City Soundtrack – The Same Old Wasted Beautiful World 22. Armor For Sleep – There Is No Memory 23. Anxious – Bambi 24. Charmer – Downpour 25. Slowly Slowly – Forgiving Spree 26. LS Dunes – Violet 27. Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power 28. The Maine - Dyed 29. Silverstein - Antibloom 30. Rosalia - Lux
BIG fan of this new album. Feel like we had a good idea that a new P&S album meant we were going to get some well executed acoustic/singer-songwriter music, so I really enjoyed hearing them break from that formula and do something more experimental.
I still think that Petey album is my least fav of his discography but it's been growing on me with every listen.
1. The Starting Line - Eternal Youth 2. Petey USA - The Yips 3. Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World 4. Yellowcard - Better Days 5. Cheekface - Middle Spoon 6. Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH 7. The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie 8. Rosalia - LUX 9. Goose - Everything Must Go 10. Mallrat - Light hit my face like a straight right
1. BABYMETAL - METAL FORTH Favourite track(s): from me to u (feat. Poppy) / KxAxWxAxIxI / Sunset Kiss (feat. Polyphia) / Algorism / METALI!! (feat. Tom Morello) 2. Purity Ring - Purity Ring Favourite track(s): many lives / red the sunrise / the long night 3. Danger - Windblown (Original Game Soundtrack) Favourite track(s): 11:50 Wild Eyes / 10:07 Broken Breeze / 10:19 The Rift Child / 3:18 Navelless Family 4. Lux Terminus - Cinder Favourite track(s): Mosaic Mind / Neon Rain / Apparent Horizon / Natuskashii 5. Caelestra - Bastion Favourite track(s): Lightbringer / The Hollow Altar 6. Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea Favourite track(s): Fata Morgana / A Haven With Two Faces 7. aswekeepsearching - kyun? Favourite track(s): you left something / happiness > god 8. Return to Zion - Burdened with Glorious Purpose Favourite track(s): One Day, the Water Will Wash It All Away / Adrift 9. BRUIT ≤ - The Age Of Ephemerality Favourite track(s): The Intoxication Of Power 10. Shedfromthebody - Whisper and Wane Favourite track(s): Mooring / Sungazer / Milk 11. La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car Favourite track(s): Environmental Catastrophe Film / Landlord Calls the Sheriff In / Steve / Top-Sellers Banquet / I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In 12. Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia Favourite track(s): Emergence / Caramel / Gethsemane / Infinite Baths 13. Myriad Drone - A World Without Us Favourite track(s): DYHAMTTAJ / Longing 14. Lights - A6 Favourite track(s): DAMAGE / SURFACE TENSION / TAKE IT EASY / DAY TWO 15. vildjharta - + där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar + Favourite track(s): + två vackra svanar + / + sargasso + / + viktlös & evig + / + den spanska känslen + 16. MIRAR - Ascension Favourite track(s): Faux-Amis / Èpreuve / Confiance 17. Dispirited Spirits - Winds Wept Favourite track(s): Kishi Kaisei 18. The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Maiden Favourite track(s): The Maiden / Lady of the Cosmos / The Fall of Western Civilization 19. Kardashev - Alunea Favourite track(s): A Precipice. A Door / Reunion / Seed of the Night / We Could Fold the Stars (feat. Paweł JJ Przybysz) 20. Spy Balloon - Spy Balloon Favourite track(s): Gaps / Dear Avoidance / Waning Moon / Given Names 21. Dawn of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence Favourite track(s): Bioluminescence / Nebulae / Dueling Sunsets 22. Anthony Green - So Long, Avalon Favourite track(s): Drug Dealer / Devils Song (This Feels Like a Nightmare) 23. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis — Act III: The Father of Make Believe Favourite track(s): The Father of Make Believe / The Continuum III: Tethered Together 24. Asunojokei - Think of You Favourite track(s): Dogma / In the City Where Cobalt Falls / The Farewell Frost 25. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality Favourite track(s): Voyagers / Rift in Reality / Liftoff 26. Amber Ambedo - Invierno Ambedo Favourite track(s): Kuebiko / Rowan / Today Feels Different 27. Firmament - A New World If You Can Take It Favourite track(s): Angels in Vermillion / Deadringer / High as in Low / A Prohibition on Dreaming 28. Grandbrothers - Elsewhere Favourite track(s): Where Else / Velvet Roads 29. Ranges - Sin Favourite track(s): Their Eyes Sewn Shut / Three Throats 30. Broken By The Scream - Solar Strain Favourite track(s): Kocchi Muite, Amore / Chocolat the End — Honourable mentions: Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette APRS - Radio Nocturna, Vol 2: Voces del pasado Astronoid - Stargod Aurora Falls - Maze GoGo Penguin - Necessary Fictions Leech - Sapperlot letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful (Revisited) New Century Classics - Bearing with the Sea Paledusk - PALEDUSK pulses. - pulses. pack, vol. 1 Summer Fades Away - Endless vianova - Hit It! you, infinite - you, infinite — EPs: Arch Echo - 3X3: Catalyst Autumn Creatures - Doomsday Fantasy The Cutting Room Floor. - sheer.sonic.flux Hail Your Highness - Wonderlust Luo - Toad Mirabi Frame - Hedgehog’s Dilemma Rolo Tomassi - In The Echoes Of All Dreams Salvaguarda - Trazas