Favorite Albums of 2025

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Lots of great music released in 2025.  Here are my favorites.  What are yours?

 

In no particular order:

 

Hallelujah The Hills - Deck

Wednesday - Bleeds

Horsegirl -- Phonetics On And On

Superchunk - Songs in the key of Yikes

Patterson Hood - Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

Stereolab - Instant Holograms on Metal Film

James McMurtry - The Black Dog and Wandering Boy

Mekons  - Horror

Wet Leg - Moisturizer

Guided By Voices - Thick, Rich & Delicious

Sea Lemon - Diving For a Prize

Snocaps - S/T

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Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override 
Scott McMicken & The Ever Expanding - New Purple Dress 
Ezra Furman - Goodbye Small Head
Sparks - MAD 
Mavis Staples - It’s a Sad and Beautiful World 
Geese - Getting Killed
David Byrne - Who is the Sky?
Pancho Morris - Public Freakout
Marc Ribot - Map of a Blue City 
Geckos - Geckos 
My Morning Jacket - Is
Ty Segall - Possession 
Hamilton Leithauser - This Side of the Island
AVTT/ PTTN
Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green 

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Alan Sparkhawk and Trampled by Turtles (Hands down, my favorite. Nothing else came close for me.)

Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart

Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow

Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy

De La Soul - Cabin in the Sky

The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie

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Also in no particular order:

 

Lemonheads - Love Chant

Belair Lip Bombs - Again

Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green

Mavis Staples - Sad and Beautiful World

Brògeal -  Tuesday Paper Club

Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

Westside Cowboy - This Better Be Something Great (EP)

Marshall Allen - New Dawn

Joshua Hedley - All Hat 

Wednesday - Bleeds

Various Artists - A Tribute to the King of Zydeco

De La Soul - Cabin in the Sky