Next 55 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: 05/28/2026 00:15
- (Created: 10/20/2025 07:32).
- Chart size: 55 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]
Here's a beautifully-produced, mostly high-powered electrogaze/tripadelic/noisepop album from the "Avery Collective," which means it has a nice collection of talented (mostly female) guest vocalists too. I should like this guy's records more than I do, so... why don't I? Am I simply inadequate? I mean, yeah, sure, I am simply inadequate, everybody knows that... But is that the real reason?
[First added to this chart: 03/10/2026]
This is the third Stella Diana album, recorded in a nice studio in Italy and released in September. (A month later they released another album, "Nothing To Expect," that was recorded at their home studio.) Compared to their earlier stuff, it's a bit more... Coldwave? Experimental? Dark 'n' desolate? Or just inaccessible? I mean, sure, the world can always use another coldwave album, I'm not disputing that, but why are there no hotwave albums? This seems like an oversight to me.
[First added to this chart: 03/19/2026]
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Paz, originally from Argentina, is probably best-known for playing bass for the Pixies for about 10 years when Kim Deal declined to participate in their post-reunion album-making activities, and after Kim Shattuck (and someone named "Dings") didn't quite work out for them long-term. She'd previously done short (guest?) stints with Silver Jews, A Perfect Circle, and Zwan, so she'd also worked with most of the Smashing Pumpkins. This is her first solo LP, and it's quite good, really - it doesn't sound like the Pixies (though it comes close on one or two tracks, such as "Wish I Was There," which lifts the chord progression from "Where Is My Mind?"), and she tends to whisper rather than sing out loud most of the time, but that isn't necessarily bad. I kind of like it, personally.
[First added to this chart: 05/27/2026]
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It's like I always say, just because I can't understand a bit of what's going on doesn't mean it isn't absolutely brilliant.
[First added to this chart: 02/11/2026]
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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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Here's the second album from this darkwave psych-dancegaze band from Austin, TX that sort of reminds me of bands like Chapterhouse and the Charlatans, though maybe a little more electrogoth-ish. Interesting stuff, and danceable, but fun 'n' catchy pop this is definitely not, despite a few neat-o musical moments here and there (such as the chorus of track 4, "Toad"). I guess if you're from Texas you have to have a bit of "the dark side" happening, if only for the sake of appearances.
[First added to this chart: 05/27/2026]
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Sir Chloe is a trio from Vermont led by singer Dana Foote. Nobody in the group is named "Chloe," and none of them have been knighted, so if that bothers you, I guess you'll just have to lump it. According to their PR, they're a cross between St. Vincent and the Pixies, which is actually fairly accurate, or at least accurate enough that I wouldn't complain about it. I complain about everything else, though. It's something of a "me problem."
[First added to this chart: 02/16/2026]
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Cubzoa is Jack Wolton, from Brighton, who also is one-half of a dreampop duo called Penelope Isles. (The other half is his sister, Lily Wolton — at one time they were a quartet with two non-siblings, but blood is thicker than wattage, I guess.) You can't really blame him for making this record; if I'd had to be in a band with my sister at that age, I would have gone off to do solo albums too. His voice is sort of an almost-but-not-quite falsetto, similar to that of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, and there are definite Radioheady influences on this album, though it's a little more dreamy and "nicer" than most Radiohead stuff. It is indeed very nice, but if you're like me and have a phobia about being accidentally frozen inside of a giant ice cube, the cover art might be a problem here.
[First added to this chart: 03/14/2026]
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Next 55 Music Albums of 2025 composition
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| Stella Diana | 1 | 2% | |
| Ethel Cain | 1 | 2% | |
| Dust (AU) | 1 | 2% | |
| The Veils | 1 | 2% | |
| Grails | 1 | 2% | |
| Paz Lenchantin | 1 | 2% | |
| The Mary Onettes | 1 | 2% | |
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13 | 24% | |
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Next 55 Music Albums of 2025 chart changes
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