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The best music of 2025

posted 2026.01.01
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I thought this was a weak year for music. I was gonna merge albums and EPs into one category and have a category for albums I newly heard from previous years. But then I started making the list and realized, this was a solid year. Dare I even say good. Especially for EPs! Who would’ve thought. The lists:

Albums

  1. saoirse dream by saoirse dream
  2. Portrait of My Heart by Spellling
  3. Choke Enough by Oklou
  4. LUX by RosalĂ­a
  5. KPOP B!TCH by The Deep
  6. I Love My Computer by Ninajirachi
  7. Disiniblud by Disiniblud
  8. Love & Ponystep by Vylet Pony
  9. Lotus by Little Simz
  10. A Paradise in the Hold by Yazz Ahmed

EPs

  1. After EP 2 by After
  2. After EP by After
  3. Fancy That by PinkPantheress
  4. But Anyway, No Worries! by Kacy Hill
  5. Apiary by gingerbee

Songs

  1. Candy From A Stranger by Jens Lekman
  2. Birthday by The Deep
  3. Outbound by After
  4. Back in Town (On the Road) by Annie DiRusso, Daffo, and Raffaella
  5. Bottle Blonde by Momma
  6. Arms by Blondshell
  7. Florida Girl by Nep
  8. It’s a Mirror by Perfume Genius
  9. Don’t Remind Me by Amber Mark and Anderson .Paak
  10. Love Ray Eyes by Spellling
  11. Water the Roses by FLAVOR FOLEY
  12. You’d Be Lying by Kacy Hill
  13. Reunite by Allie X
  14. XOXO by Maude Latour
  15. Delete by Ninajirachi

Normally I list my favorite mainstream songs of the year, but I was looking at the Billboard year-end chart and most of the songs were from 2024 or even earlier. And I hadn’t heard most of them anyway. So no list this year. The famous song from KPop Demon Hunters is pretty good, and I guess the Amber Mark song is kind of mainstream. So there’s that.

My favorite music video of the year was for Ninajirachi’s Infohazard.

That’s the list. If these weren’t your personal favorites, they are now!