Best Albums of 2025

Obscure Sound’s top albums of 2025:

50. Richard Dawson – End of the Middle
49. Echomatica – Echomatica
48. Hotline TNT – Raspberry Moon
47. Big Pleasant – Songs from Big Pleasant
46. Jeff Jakobs – Lorem Ipsum
45. Michael Sanders – fuzzer
44. Cate Le Bon – Michelangelo Dying
43. Silk Daisys – Silk Daisys
42. Post Death Soundtrack – IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE
41. Y is Nature – Evasion
40. Oklou – choke enough
39. FKA twigs – EUSEXUA
38. Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
37. Caleb L’Etoile – PS
36. Perfume Genius – Glory
35. Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film
34. Great Horned Owl – Longyear
33. Dave – The Boy Who Played the Harp
32. Von Masse – COIL
31. Quadeca – Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
30. Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
29. Carl Hauck – Death Farm
28. Waves Crashing – Effection
27. Joey Valence & Brae – HYPERYOUTH
26. Ethel Cain – Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
25. Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist – Alfredo 2
24. Le Concorde – Second Mansions
23. Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
22. clipping. – Dead Channel Sky
21. Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures
20. Dijon – Baby
19. Big Thief – Double Infinity
18. McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive!
17. Los Thuthanaka – Los Thuthanaka
16. Suede – Antidepressants
15. Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love
14. Swans – Birthing
13. The Last Dinner Party – From the Pyre
12. Pulp – More
11. Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal

10. Cass McCombs – Interior Live Oak

9. Nourished by Time – The Passionate Ones

8. Candelabro – Deseo, Carne y Voluntad

7. Tennis – Face Down in the Garden

6. Wednesday – Bleeds

5. TOPS – Bury the Key

4. billy woods – GOLLIWOG

3. Little Simz – Lotus

2. Geese – Getting Killed

1. Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer

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