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Albums of the Year: 2025

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Rejoice, Rejoice!

Published

December 16, 2025

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

Anywhere — Ratboys

Chains & Whips — Clipse. Kenrick Lamar, Pusha T, & Malice

Cherry Hard Candy — Snocaps

Childlike Things — FKA Twigs

Copycats — Danny Brown & underscores

Crystal — Adult Mom

Dancing in the Club — MJ Lenderman & This is Lorelei

Gemini v. Cancer — Mal Blum

Just Around the Corner — Beach Bunny

Mirror Shades — clipping.

No Joy — The Beths

Red — Jesse Welles

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

Townies — Wednesday

We’re Outside, Rejoice! – McKinley Dixon

X-Games Mode — Dim Wizard, Mike Krol, & Ratboys

The Yips — Petey USA

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

“You’ve got style / no one’s doin’ it like you are”

Seven

Dave Malloy — Three Houses

“atwood, austen / bronte and bronte / didion, jackson / so much good stuff / butler, lessing, murdoch, morrison, oates / wharton! / and a surprising number of trashy romance novels by danielle steele!!!”

Six

Carmen Perry — Eyes Like a Mirror

“I have to go now / I have class”

Five

Viagra Boys — viagr aboys

“It’s our policy / our policy / I’m sorry sir / but you got to leave”

Four

Geese — Getting Killed

“I was a car / and now I’m the road”

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

“But what’s inside of me / is basically gravity / a meaningless cavity / a bottomless hole / all the lazy sensations / easy gratifications / the corruption and gluttony / and sugar and fat / the me that I’d follow / is just shallow and hollow / to just me a natural me / will only me that”

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

BibTeX citation:
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  title = {Albums of the {Year:} 2025},
  date = {2025-12-16},
  url = {https://deeruttenberg.github.io/posts/2025-12-16-albums/},
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For attribution, please cite this work as:
“Albums of the Year: 2025.” 2025. December 16, 2025. https://deeruttenberg.github.io/posts/2025-12-16-albums/.