Albums of the Year: 2025
Rejoice, Rejoice!
Music is good, and now that I have a blog, I don’t have to make a notes document with my albums of the year! Welcome to the discourse!
Twenty Songs I Love from Other Albums
Chains & Whips — Clipse. Kenrick Lamar, Pusha T, & Malice
Copycats — Danny Brown & underscores
Dancing in the Club — MJ Lenderman & This is Lorelei
Just Around the Corner — Beach Bunny
Sally, When then Wine Runs Out — ROLE MODEL
Something Cool — saoirse dream
Suddenly I See — Scott Bradlee’s Post Modern Jukebox
Tape Runs Out — Julien Baker & TORRES
We’re Outside, Rejoice! – McKinley Dixon
Top Ten Albums of 2025
Ten
Cheekface — Middle Spoon
“We are living the dream in a room full of flies / and we look out of place in a space out of time”
Nine
Alex G — Headlights
“Love ain’t for the young anyhow / something that you learn from falling’ down”
Eight
Lucy Dacus — Forever is a Feeling
Seven
Dave Malloy — Three Houses
Six
Carmen Perry — Eyes Like a Mirror
Five
Viagra Boys — viagr aboys
“It’s our policy / our policy / I’m sorry sir / but you got to leave”
Four
Geese — Getting Killed
Three
Kicksie – BIG SUCKER
“My laundry is here, my hamper is there / my mind is not in the same room”
Two
Jeffrey Lewis and the Voltage — EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis
One
Saintseneca — Highwallow and Supermoon Songs
“If it’s true, what they say / that the end will come some day / well it’s too true to be good”
Citation
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