Following the release of their list of the Top 100 Songs of 2025, Pitchfork has unveiled their 50 Best Albums of the year. It’s a list that always generates conversation, and while some of it can be guessed by keeping track of which albums got Best New Music throughout the year, it never lines up exactly.
Like they did on their song list, Pitchfork ranked Cameron Winter‘s December 2024 solo album Heavy Metal and Geese‘s 2025 album album Getting Killed separately here, though neither made #1. Both made the top 25 though, as did Bad Bunny, Rosalía, Dijon, Smerz, Wednesday, Addison Rae, PinkPantheress, Nourished by Time, billy woods, Sudan Archives, Earl Sweatshirt, aya, Oklou, Amaarae, Alex G, Water From Your Eyes, Blood Orange, and more.
Also appearing on Pitchfork‘s 2025 list are Wet Leg, Annahstasia, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Panda Bear, Oneohtrix Point Never, keiyaA, Perfume Genius, Playboi Carti, Hayden Pedigo, FKA twigs, james K, Sharp Pins, and more. See the top 25 below, and find the full list, with commentary, on Pitchfork.
Pitchfork’s Top 25 Albums of 2025
25. Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall
24. Blood Orange: Essex Honey
23. Alex G: Headlights
22. aya: hexed!
21. billy woods: GOLLIWOG
20. Nick León: A Tropical Entropy
19. Titanic: HAGEN
18. PinkPantheress: Fancy That
17. Water From Your Eyes: It’s a Beautiful Place
16. Rosalía: LUX
15. Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love
14. Barker: Stochastic Drift
13. Sudan Archives: The BPM
12. Addison Rae: Addison
11. Smerz: Big city life
10. Amaarae: Black Star
9. Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones
8. Joanne Robertson: Blurrr
7. Geese: Getting Killed
6. Wednesday: Bleeds
5. Bad Bunny: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
4. Oklou: choke enough
3. Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal
2. Dijon: Baby
1. Los Thuthanaka: Los Thuthanaka
Read more 2025 year end lists here.