Next 39 Music Albums of 2025
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MadhattanJack 
Just because these albums didn't make it into my 2025 Top 100 doesn't mean they don't deserve to be accompanied by snarky blurbs beneath each entry.
- Chart updated: 01/14/2026 22:15
- (Created: 10/20/2025 07:32).
- Chart size: 39 albums.
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The release of a new SPC ECO album (there's one pretty much every year) is usually an occasion for joyous celebration, complete with parties, fireworks, dancing, feasts, parades, and of course gladiatorial contests. This time around though, the festivities were rather muted — or rather, I was told they were muted. For some reason, I wasn't even invited to the big kickoff event! Maybe that was because they basically decided to make a trip-hop album this time around and they knew I'd object, but that just seems kind of petty and vindictive to me.
[First added to this chart: 01/04/2026]
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The second LP from this LA-based tripgazer duo pretty much picks up where their 2023 debut, "Extra Life," left off. It's worth a listen, but someone should point out to them that you actually can buy targeting scopes that are fully compatible with the two-finger gun gesture, and since Crushed are based in the United States there's really no excuse for them not having all the firearm accessories they could possibly want.
[First added to this chart: 12/27/2025]
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The title is clearly "Introducing... The Gnomes," but for some reason the band insists it's just "The Gnomes." They're a retro-pop band from Melbourne's Bayside suburbs, so they describe their music as "Bayside Beat," probably to remind people of the Easybeats, and also "Merseybeat" in general, since that's the vibe they're going for here. They go a step further than most 60s-style retropop bands by not only wearing ca. 1970 hairstyles and moustaches, but clothes and shoes too, complete with the extra-wide lapels on the corduroy jackets. And while they don't use 60s-vintage recording gear like the Dukes of Stratsphear, and the guitar sound sort of gives the game away too (listen to a Chesterfield Kings album if you want to hear "realistic" retro guitars), bandleader Jay Millar nevertheless has the voice to pull this off. This is actually one of the better retro-pop albums I've heard lately, and if it weren't for those two Sharp Pins albums, probably the best in 5 years or so. (The font they're using on the front cover here is totally period-inappropriate, though. Not sure how that got past them.)
[First added to this chart: 12/21/2025]
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This band from Portland is spiky without being too punky, dark without being too goth, and best of all, not emo enough to make me turn it off. (All this is contrary to what the cover art would have you believe, but ehh, whatever.) I'm not hugely impressed with the scratchy-strat guitar sound, but the vocals are right up there, and at least for the time being you can get it for free at Bandcamp. Hopefully someone will remind me to move it into my Top 100, because it should probably be there instead of here. Also, I'm hoping someone will remind me to vacuum my living room. Somebody has to do it.
[First added to this chart: 11/06/2025]
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Here's a set of relatively quiet and introspective piano ballads from Finn Andrews, son of Barry Andrews. Barry was in XTC for a while and played keyboards on my all-time favorite album, XTC's "Go 2." I'm sure that has nothing to do with why I like this album, though. Okay, it does.
[First added to this chart: 12/27/2025]
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It's fairly clear that the reason this album is unpopular is because it isn't offensive, abrasive, outrageous, divisive, grotesque, mean, obscene, pandering, controversial, hideous, psychotic, or in any way detrimental to the interests of a well-balanced, productive society. And that's just the cover art!
[First added to this chart: 12/17/2025]
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Very catchy stuff from a pop-punk band from Durham, UK. There's maybe too much melody and lead guitar to call it "punk," and the singer (Laura Kovic, the gal with the glasses on the album cover) doesn't sound angry enough, and most of the time not angry at all, but there's still plenty of energy here. Some might call this "twee" instead, and it does have some of that Sarah Records C86 vibe going for it, but I'm only going to mention that in a sort of Ciceronian litotes-like fashion because that's what "difficult" people like me do.
[First added to this chart: 11/25/2025]
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The Futureheads are one of those 2000s-era "quirky" post-punk guitar bands that were influenced by XTC, but not enough to be accused of slavishly copying them. Naturally I became a fan, and from 2004-2012 they made five albums, all of them pretty good (though none that I liked as much as their self-titled debut). They also made a decent comeback LP of sorts called "Powers" in 2019 (no relation to Andy Partridge's "Powers" LP from 2010). And now this! Hardly any of the bands I like ever make full-length Christmas albums, so this is a bit of a surprise. It's also the best Christmas album I've ever heard, but that's not really saying much since I generally don't like Christmas albums. Still, I've heard a lot of them, so it's quite a feat! Especially these days, with the rise of secularism and all that sort of thing.
[First added to this chart: 12/15/2025]
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This is a live version of DIIV's last album, "Frog In Boiling Water," in case anyone failed to "get" that album's allusion to the tragedy of the largely-helpless everyman in a modern post-capitalist society gone mad (I'm sure you picked right up on it, but they probably figured, you know, "just in case"). It sounds really good, which seems to be a point of pride for DIIV (their "Live at The Murmrr Theatre" album is one of the best-sounding live albums I've heard in quite some time, and this is up to that same standard). Unfortunately, their studio albums sound pretty good too, so I'm not sure why you'd need this if you already have a copy of "Frog In Boiling Water," which of course you do because it was such a great album. Maybe you just like live albums? Nobody seems to know. So to address this problem, DIIV has helpfully added "interludes" between each track of this live version, each one just a little minute-long snippet of abstract (and in at least one case, self-promotional) audio. These could conceivably have been part of the live show too, though they sound a little too "clean" to me for that. I'm pretty sure they were added later. Either way, I kind of like them. (Not sure why.)
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A lovely record, almost too lovely in fact, to the point where the loveliness kind of overwhelms you, twists your insides, and gives you painful stomach cramps. But they're lovely stomach cramps! And there are drums and big-sounding synthesizers and everything, so it's not like it's a folk or chamber-pop record. This is serious electronic pop music, folks. I've compared her voice to that of Tori Amos and Toni Halliday, especially the latter, and if I think of any others I'll try to post an update. But maybe I only got that idea because they have similar-looking first names. (Amos and Halliday that is, not Sally. She has nothing to do with this "first names" thing. Just leave her out of this, okay? Thanks.)
[First added to this chart: 12/24/2025]
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Next 39 Music Albums of 2025 composition
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| 路傍の石 [Robounoishi] | 1 | 3% | |
| Franz Ferdinand | 1 | 3% | |
| Sally Dige | 1 | 3% | |
| aya (2020s) | 1 | 3% | |
| Bad Cop/Bad Cop | 1 | 3% | |
| Soft Blue Shimmer | 1 | 3% | |
| Pets | 1 | 3% | |
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Next 39 Music Albums of 2025 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 3 from 22nd to 19thCrush Me by Cross Record |
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| Down 2 from 18th to 20thMy Dear Family by 路傍の石 [Robounoishi] |
| Down 2 from 19th to 21stHexed! by aya (2020s) |
| Down 2 from 20th to 22nd🌀❓(Spiral Question Mark) by Pets |
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| Boiled Alive by DIIV |
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