Best Albums of 2025
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Debí Tirar Más FotosA record about leaving Puerto Rico that keeps Puerto Rico in every bar, and the first Spanish-language album to win the top Grammy.Read the review
Alfredo 2The reunion arrives comfortable rather than urgent, and comfortable from these two is still worth playing.
MayhemShe stops apologising for the early records and makes the best thing she has done since 2011.
Don't Tap the GlassUnder thirty minutes of house, bounce and synth funk with exactly one instruction attached: move.
Equus AsinusThe first half of a two album project, slower and sadder, and the prettiest they have ever sounded.
Equus CaballusThe companion album, with the grooves restored and three old songs rerecorded to fill it out.
I'm the ProblemThirty seven tracks and nearly two hours long, which is both why it sold and why it sags.
The Life of a ShowgirlShort, bright and back with the Swedes, and pleased with itself in a way that keeps the songs at arm's length.
Hurry Up TomorrowA grand closing statement that mistakes exhaustion for profundity and runs almost half an hour too long.
DeadbeatA move into outdoor dance music that keeps the four on the floor and mislays the songwriting entirely.