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4 days agoThe Best Albums of 2025
In 2025, inventive, genre-blending albums engaged contemporary hardships and offered incisive, survival-minded music that united diverse styles into empathetic, powerful art.
Like they did on their song list, Pitchfork ranked Cameron Winter's December 2024 solo album Heavy Metal and Geese's 2025 album album Getting Killed separately here, though neither made #1. Both made the top 25 though, as did Bad Bunny, Rosalía, Dijon, Smerz, Wednesday, Addison Rae, PinkPantheress, Nourished by Time, billy woods, Sudan Archives, Earl Sweatshirt, aya, Oklou, Amaarae, Alex G, Water From Your Eyes, Blood Orange, and more.