The Guardian's Best Albums of 2025 So Far

Bon Iver straddles stark indie-folk and poppy R&B while PinkPantheress makes an unarguable case for going <em>out</em> out as we revisit six months of the music you mustn’t miss

Published: June 10, 2025 11:00 Source

# 1

Addison by Addison Rae

Album • Jun 06 / 2025 Alt-Pop Contemporary R&B

# 2

Can't Lose My (Soul) by Annie and the Caldwells

Album • Mar 21 / 2025

# 3

The Sky, the Earth & All Between by Architects

Album • Feb 28 / 2025 Metalcore Alternative Metal

# 4

hexed! by aya

Album • Mar 28 / 2025 Deconstructed Club UK Bass

# 5

DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS by Bad Bunny

Album • Jan 05 / 2025 Reggaetón Caribbean Music

# 6

GOLLIWOG by billy woods

Album • May 09 / 2025 Experimental Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 7

SABLE, fABLE by Bon Iver

Album • Apr 11 / 2025 Pop Soul Art Pop

# 8

Antigone by Eiko Ishibashi

Album • Mar 28 / 2025 Ambient Pop Art Pop

# 9

Dan's Boogie by Destroyer

Album • Mar 28 / 2025 Art Rock Art Pop

# 10

Music Can Hear Us by DJ Koze

Album • Apr 04 / 2025 Electronic Dance Music

# 11

Under Tangled Silence by Djrum

Album • Apr 25 / 2025 IDM

# 12

Museum Music by Edward Skeletrix

Album • Jan 01 / 2025 Experimental Hip Hop Electronic

# 13

Lifetime by Erika de Casier

Album • May 08 / 2025 Downtempo Alternative R&B

# 14

Phonetics On and On by Horsegirl

Album • Feb 14 / 2025 Indie Rock Indie Pop C86

# 15

For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) by Japanese Breakfast

Album • Mar 21 / 2025 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 16

You Are the Morning by jasmine.4.t

Album • Nov 15 / 2024 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk Indie Rock

# 17

Gift Songs by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Album • Mar 21 / 2025 Ambient Drone

# 18

Like A Ribbon by John Glacier

Album • Feb 14 / 2025 Experimental Hip Hop UK Hip Hop

# 19

Kiniata by Kin'Gongolo Kiniata

Album • Apr 04 / 2025

# 21

Jupiter by Nao

Album • Feb 21 / 2025 Contemporary R&B Pop

# 22

Glory by Perfume Genius

Album • Mar 28 / 2025 Singer-Songwriter Art Pop

# 23

Fancy That by PinkPantheress

Album • May 09 / 2025 Dance-Pop UK Garage

# 24

It's Later Than You Think by Ploy

Album • Apr 04 / 2025

# 25

WITH A VENGEANCE by SHERELLE

Album • Apr 09 / 2025

# 26

Big city life by Smerz

Album • May 23 / 2025 Art Pop Alternative R&B Alt-Pop

# 27

Ghostholding by venturing

Album • Feb 14 / 2025 Indie Rock

# 28

Time Indefinite by William Tyler

Album • Apr 25 / 2025 Ambient

# 29

cupid by wolfacejoeyy

Album • Jan 08 / 2025

# 30

A Paradise In The Hold by Yazz Ahmed

Album • Feb 28 / 2025 Arabic Jazz

# 31

45 Pounds by YHWH Nailgun

Album • Mar 21 / 2025 Experimental Rock Neo-Psychedelia