The Best Albums of 2025 (So Far) • Page 2

Very much appreciating Garrett bringing some Skrillex representation, that album rules

 

That Berninger record is really damn good.

 

THIS!

 

Interesting, I always associate them with summer but it's probably just because their albums usually come out in may/june. His sounds like summer to me because of a lot of the arrangements and lyrical content though

 

Arm's length is my AOTY so far. The lyrics are unbelievable.

 

Would have expected to see more love to Orthodox and Stick to Your Guns.

 

Gonna be hard for anything to jump in front of Never Enough at this point.
They are far and away my top and have been a stellar Summer soundtrack!

 

<Moving Mountains has entered the chat>

 

I have way more in common with these lists compared to last year's 2024 end of year list.

So far I've loved: L.S. Dunes, Michigander, Pet Symmetry, Arm's Length, Pup, Slow Joy and Moving Mountains

 

Surprised no mentions of Viagra Boys so far. I did not expect to love that album so much, it's so catchy in such weird ways.

Lots of albums I loved in the full list and personal lists, but some ones that weren't mentioned that I think are great:

Samia - Bloodless
Sharen Van Etten - Sharen Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
Courting - Lust for Life
hey, nothing - 33°
Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away
The Dear Hunter - North American EP

 

Lots of new stuff to check out! I had no idea of any of these lol

 

I'm adding a lot to my list to check out from everyone's lists too, you've got quite a bit on yours that I have also loved so far.

 

Thanks! I'll have to search back through my inbox to see if I was ever "pitched" any of those bands/artists you named.

 

My favorites so far:
1. Arm’s Length
2. Slowly Slowly
3. Coheed and Cambria
4. Spiritbox
5. L.S. Dunes
6. Silverstein

I still have a lot I need to list to. I’ll use these lists :)

 

Kickass lists pretty much across the board! Here’s my playlist of album and EP highlights so far:

 

mine is currently
1-5 greet death
5-10 ray vaughn

 

Not sure how I missed out on Moving Mountains. Very much my jam.

 

Arms Length new album been my favorite album this year. Coheed is pretty excellent as well.

 

It sounds like a warm winter

 

So happy to see Moving Mountains get some push, and glad to see Spitalfield mentioned (it's only an EP, but that comeback is sooo important to me as well!)

It would take me too much time to rank, so I'll go alphabetically, these have been some of my real highlights (off the top of my head)

Anthony Green - So Long, Avalon
Bartees Strange - Horror
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
Cleopatrick - FAKE MOON
Foxwarren - 2
Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam
Lakes - Slow Fade
Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs
PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs?
Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream

On second thought, I'd add Japanese Breakfast, Samia, L.S. Dunes, Denison Witmer (prod. with Sufjan Stevens), QUICKLY, QUICKLY, and (surprisingly) Haunted Mouths (prod. with Aaron Marsh though ;u). Plenty more, I guess, but I'll leave it at 15 items today

 

I can't believe this came out this year. my brain is melted.

 

It's funny because I remember feeling the same about Remind Me Tomorrow as it came out in Jan 2019 and Seventeen came out as a single ahead of that.

Now I create playlists for every year and as I remember or listen to albums from the current year, or years past, I add them in there so I don't lose them. Definitely helps me keep track of releases and ensure I don't forget about albums I love.

 

I need something like that, but I listen to so many albums in a year that I'm not sure that adding whole albums in there would do a ton for me.

My annual playlist strategy is:
- 1x "Songs from 20XX" playlist where I save cool things as I hear them... may or may not stick around in rotation, but they're captured
- 1x "EOTY 20XX" playlist of my 250-300 most-played and favorite songs
- 1x "Unk Joe 20XX" Christmas mix for my uncle that fits on a burned CD with written liner notes
- 4x roughly seasonal "life playlists" that reflect what I am listening to in that time period

plus separating stuff into my genre, time of day/mood, and revised catalog playlists

 

I love the Unk Joe mix.

I mostly listen to albums and have a hard time listening to or making single playlists, but definitely haven't gotten through as many as you have despite listening to more music than anyone else I know personally. I had 836 tracks on my 2024 playlist, so I assume that's around 70 albums. I don't put the stuff on there that I wasn't really into though. Honestly your list here on Chorus is similar to what I'm doing, I keep a spreadsheet too that I eventually use to figure out my top albums.

 

I went to set up a rateyourmusic account on my birthday a year ago, can't remember the real numer now, but I've checked out over 900 new releases throughout just one year, I thought it's pretty sick (I definitely listen to the biggest amount of new stuff compared to what I'm already familiar with now). Second year going and it's 1250 altogether now! Can't see too many details as for the stats there though, so that's what I still use last fm for