#yearendlists

Another year in the books and another successful year of the AAD project. Hard to believe I started this in 2015, 10 years ago. I think I'm going to continue this again since it keeps me plugged into whats happening which is my only real connection to the world outside my small bubble.

This is absolutely a definitive list of the best albums of 2025 and only 2025. Over the course of the year I have listened to many albums outside of the current year, but I wanted to make sure that I just listed the albums released in 2025 in this list. I may not know all about music theory, but after 10 years of listening to an album a day one thing that I do have and refined is my palate and taste for the best music. Enjoy.

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25.

Carcosa

The Axe Remembers

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24.

Blood Orange

Essex Honey

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23.

Gabel/Ossler

Gabel/Ossler

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22.

Hekla

Turnar

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21.

Bambara

Birthmarks

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20.

Anna Tivel

Animal Poem

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19.

Hans Zimmer

The World of Hans Zimmer - Part II: A New Dimension

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18.

Whitechapel

Hymns of Dissonance

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17.

Mei Semones

Animaru

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16.

Deafheaven

Lonely People With Power

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15.

Navy Blue

Navy Blue EP

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14.

Emily A. Sprague

Cloud Time

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13.

Jenny Hval

Iris Silver Mist

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12.

FKA Twigs

EUSEXUA

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11.

Bon Iver

SABLE, fABLE

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10.

SAMAMI

Blood On the Silver Screen

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9.

Sharon Van Etten

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

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8.

Quadeca

Vanisher, Horizon Scraper

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7.

The Armed

THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED

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6.

Wednesday

Bleeds

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5.

Ichiko Aoba

Luminescent Creatures

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4.

Natalia Lafourcade

Cancionera

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3.

Ho99o9

Tomorrow We Escape

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2.

Rosalía

LUX

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1.

Bad Bunny

1) Summertime ‘06 (Vince Staples) ****Album of the Year****

2) Barter 6 (Young Thug)

3) Jump Out the Face (Meek Mill ft. Future) ***Song of the Year****

4) In Colour (Jamie xx)

5) Preach (Drake ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR)

6) Airplane Mode (Ty Dolla $ign) 

7) 1989 (Taylor Swift)

8) For Free? (Kendrick Lamar)

9) Sunday Candy (Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment)

10) March Madness (Future)

11) Digital Dash (Future and Drake)

12) Who’s Gonna Get Fucked First? (Father)

13) Pageant Material (Kacey Musgraves)

14) Whip it (ILOVEMAKKONEN)

15) Be Real (Kid Ink ft. Dej Loaf)

16) Again (Fetty Wap)

17) Maxo 187 (Maxo Kream)

18) Tell Your Friends (The Weeknd)

19) Again (Fetty Wap)

20) Canal St. (A$AP Rocky)

I know that many are thinking that this is too late.  We are ten days into the year.  Any thoughts of 2010 seem hopelessly outdated and irrelevant, but oh well.  These are the albums that stood out to me in 2010.  I have a very difficult time ordering albums and saying which are better so I will just leave it in no particular order.  I would have to say that Beach House's "Teen Dream" is pretty close to the top though.  This year had a lot of fantastic albums and I think it would be easy to bring some other albums into this list and take some others out, so this album could possibly change from day to day.  It took a lot to be worth noticing this year.

I should also mention that Steve Reich's, "Double Sextet/2x5" was released this year, but well you know it's from 2009 and it won a Pulitzer Prize for it, so we don't need to go overboard in mentioning him again... but I just did so there.

Here you go.  Cheers.

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Beach House, "Teen Dream"

Four Tet, "There Is Love In You"

LCD Soundsystem, "This Is Happening"

Memoryhouse, "The Years EP"

Caribou, "Swim"

The National, "High Violet"

Sufjan Stevens, "The Age of Adz"

Wild Nothing, "Gemini"/"Evertide EP"

Deerhunter, "Halcyon Digest"

The Sight Below, "It All Falls Apart"

No Age, "Everything In Between"

Massive Attack, "Heliogland"

Autolux, "Transit Transit"

Aloha, "Home Acres"

Phantogram, "Eyelid Movies"

Active Child, "Curtis Lane"

Dorgas, "Verdeja Music"

Tamaryn, "The Waves"

Janelle Monae, "The ArchAndroid"