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2025 - Music Albums of the Year 13:39 - Dec 24 with 1572 viewsstiff_talking

Here are my selection’s for best music albums of 2025. What are your favorites ?

1/ The Mummy Cats - Feels Like Fiction
2/ Glyders - Forever
3/ Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
4/ Delivery - Force Majeure
5/ Mandrake Handshake - Earth Sized Worlds
6/ Half Man Half Biscuit - All Asimov and No Fresh Air
7/ Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry
8/ Melin Melyn - Mill on the Hill
9/ Sharp Pins - Balloon Balloon
10/ Floral Image - Gone Down Meadowland
11/ The Gnomes - Introducing Gnomes
12/ Josh Ritter - I Believe in you; My Honeydew
13/ Ty Segall - Possession
14/ The Mommyheads - One Eyed Band / No Quietus
15/ Pile - Sunshine and Balance Beams


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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 13:50 - Dec 24 with 1514 viewsWeWereZombies

I'll support you on Melin Melyn (even though I managed to miss catching them live at Bearded Theory.)

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 13:54 - Dec 24 with 1499 viewsbrazil1982

Thanks for this, bookmarked.
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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 13:59 - Dec 24 with 1491 viewsSteve_M

Off the top of my head:

1. International - St Etienne
2. More - Pulp
3. Half Man Half Biscuit - All Asimov and No Fresh Air

With honourable mentions for the Divine Comedy's Rainy Sunday Afternoon and Doves' Constellations for the Lonely.

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 14:08 - Dec 24 with 1479 viewsThrobbe

Kae Tempest - Self Titled
Lambrini Girls -Who Let The Dogs Out
Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys

Probably my top 3 in that order.

Honourable mentions for Rosalia, Jasmine.4.t, Dead Pioneers, Slime City, Sprints, Soulwax, Self Esteem, Big Special, CMAT, Pigs x7, Clipping and Turnstile. I'm sure I've missed a few others, it's been an incredible year for music.

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 14:45 - Dec 24 with 1432 viewspositivity

1 pulp
2 bon iver
3 the beths
4 these new puritans
5 geese
6 black country new road
7 hotline tnt
8 suede
9 stereolab
10 mogwai

agree, a very good year, plenty of new music and some strong returns

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 15:33 - Dec 24 with 1383 viewsNettuce

Ren & The Skinner Bothers - Sick Sick Soul (Vol.1) - EP

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 15:42 - Dec 24 with 1371 viewsBlueNomad

When Rivers Meet - Addicted To You
Walter Trout - Sign Of The Times
Robert Plant - Saving Grace
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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 15:44 - Dec 24 with 1364 viewsSmithersJones

David Byrne - Who is the Sky
CMAT - Euro Country
Of Monsters and Men - All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade
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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 15:48 - Dec 24 with 1361 viewsBlueBadger

In no particular order(and this will probably change tomorrow) -

In Our Home Across the Fog - Bloody Valkyria(uber nerdy atmospheric black metal about video game Elden Ring)



Alt Blk Era - Rave Immortal(daft alt pop with occasional thrash riff- basically a Western take on Babymetal)



Eureka Machines - Everything(uber witty punk pop from Sheffield)



Lisa Knapp & Gerry Driver - Hinterland(alt folk)



Penfriend - House of Stories(one-woman singer songwriter-y stuff)



Mutagenic Host - The Diseased MAchine(we started the list with extreme metal, we'll end it with extreme metal. Old skool death this time)


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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 16:26 - Dec 29 with 1091 viewsDubtractor

Saw this thread the other day, but wasn't able to comment at the time.

1) Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious
2) Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
3) Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Trash Classic
4) Suede - Antidepressants
5) Upchuck - I'm Nice Now

Just outside the top 5 - Soulwax, Bdrmm, Viagra Boys.

Overall it's not been a year with loads of albums that have really blown me away though, lots of 6/10 albums that I've liked, but not loved. Hence last year's top 20 is only a top 5 this year!

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 17:42 - Dec 29 with 977 viewsJakeITFC

Getting Killed - Geese
Essex Honey - Blood Orange
A Deeper Life - Chaos in the CBD
Sable, Fable - Bon Iver
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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 11:57 - Jan 3 with 830 viewsWhos_blue

Another vote for Mandrake Handshake. I saw them at Latitude and they were one of the highlights for me.

Others is no particular order:

Wolf Alice - The Clearing
Say She She - Cut and rewind
The Beatles - Anthology 4
Paul Weller - Find El Dorado
The Who - Live at The Oval 71
Wet Leg - Moisturizer
Sault - Acts of faith
The Who - Who are you (Super delux edition)

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 12:05 - Jan 3 with 808 viewsNedPlimpton

Great thread

1) Geese - getting killed
2) Deftones - private music
3) wet leg - moisturizer
4) big thief - double infinity
5) billy nomates - metal horse
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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 12:13 - Jan 3 with 804 viewsNedPlimpton

2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 16:26 - Dec 29 by Dubtractor

Saw this thread the other day, but wasn't able to comment at the time.

1) Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious
2) Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
3) Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Trash Classic
4) Suede - Antidepressants
5) Upchuck - I'm Nice Now

Just outside the top 5 - Soulwax, Bdrmm, Viagra Boys.

Overall it's not been a year with loads of albums that have really blown me away though, lots of 6/10 albums that I've liked, but not loved. Hence last year's top 20 is only a top 5 this year!


Ooh, forgot Viagra boys. May just creep into my top 5 ahead of billy nomates
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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 14:59 - Jan 3 with 732 viewssouthnorfolkblue

Ad Astra by Ash is the best thing they’ve done in 20 years. It’s brilliant

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2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 16:28 - Jan 5 with 577 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

2025 - Music Albums of the Year on 14:59 - Jan 3 by southnorfolkblue

Ad Astra by Ash is the best thing they’ve done in 20 years. It’s brilliant


I've been listening to this after your mention of it (I didn't even know they had a new album out) and you're right, it's superb. Sounds like they're just having fun - it's a really upbeat album (in particular I can't stop singing/bouncing around to their cover of Jump In The Line... and I love Fun People with Graham Coxon too).

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