The Needle Drop's Best Albums of 2025 So Far

# 1

Only Dust Remains by Backxwash

Album • Mar 28 / 2025 Conscious Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop Experimental Hip Hop

# 2

Album • Apr 04 / 2025 Progressive Pop Art Rock Baroque Pop

# 3

Album • Mar 28 / 2025 Blackgaze Post-Metal

# 4

Soft Spot by Honningbarna

Album • Feb 28 / 2025 Post-Hardcore Noise Rock

# 5

Goldstar by Imperial Triumphant

Album • Mar 21 / 2025 Avant-Garde Metal Dissonant Death Metal

# 6

Album • Apr 04 / 2025 Experimental Hip Hop Political Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 7

Revengeseekerz by Jane Remover

Album • Apr 04 / 2025 Digicore Experimental Hip Hop Electronic Dance Music

# 8

Lotus by Little Simz

Album • Jun 06 / 2025 Conscious Hip Hop UK Hip Hop

# 9

Balloonerism by Mac Miller

Album • Jan 17 / 2025 Jazz Rap Neo-Soul Abstract Hip Hop Neo-Psychedelia

# 10

Magic, Alive! by McKinley Dixon

Album • Jun 06 / 2025 Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop Southern Hip Hop

# 11

Pirouette by Model/Actriz

Album • May 02 / 2025 Industrial Rock Dance-Punk

# 12

Cancionera by Natalia Lafourcade

Album • Apr 24 / 2025 Singer-Songwriter Mexican Folk Music

# 13

Sinister Grift by Panda Bear

Album • Feb 28 / 2025 Psychedelic Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 14

Album • Jun 20 / 2025 Art Punk Experimental Rock

# 15

viagr aboys by Viagra Boys

Album • Apr 25 / 2025 Art Punk