2025 Favorite Musics
It’s that time of year again.
2025 was a great year for music. We started with a list of 114 albums that caught my ear this year. From there, I whittled it down to my favorite 50 of the year. I’ve spent more time with some of these albums than others, but these are my favorites of the year.
The Holiday at the Sea 50 Favorite Musics of 2025 BIG PICTURE:
The Holiday at the Sea 50 Favorite Musics of 2025 BREAKDOWN:
Black Hole Superette by Aesop Rock
Anónimo by Juana Aguirre
The Omniverse Oriki by Marshall Allen
L'amour à la folie by Amadou & Mariam
Mulatu Plays Mulatu by Mulatu Astatke
Draw Near by Aux Meadows
Hillbilly Ragas by Sir Richard Bishop
Inland See by Bitchin Bajas
VII by Budos Band
Neon Grey Midnight Green by Neko Case
Hyperglyph by Chicago Underground Duo
Vol III: Ancestros Futuros by Cochemea
New Threats From The Soul by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Disiniblud by Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith)
Under Tangled Silence by Djrum
Horizons by Daniel Donato
Sasquatch Landslide by the Dwarfs of East Agouza
41 Longfield Street Late '80s by Four Tet And William Tyler
Getting Killed by Geese
QUIK-MELT by m. geddes gengras
Patterner by Golden Brown
Planting by the Signs by S.G. Goodman
Daylight Daylight by Steve Gunn
Noor-e Vojood by Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian
Phonetics On and On by Horsegirl
Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head) by Seun Kuti
Alone III (EP) by Lambert
Africanism by the Last Poets and Tony Allen ft. Egypt 80
Lotus by Little Simz
Techno Logic, The People's Mixtape, Hidden Out!, PopUp Shop by Makaya McCraven
The Heat Warps by Modern Nature
Totality by Natural Information Society / Bitchin Bajas
Another Place by Pachyman
Sinister Grift by Panda Bear
Made Through Ritual by Plunky & Oneness of Juju
Songs For Workers Tian Qiyi & Jah Wobble
Slow Pain: Live and Solo from Drop of Sun by Rosali
Sol Y Sombra by Rose City Band
Sametou Sawtan by SANAM
The Collapse Of Everything by Adrian Sherwood
How You Been by SML
Snocaps by Snocaps
Other Worlds and Habitats by the Sorcerers
Live 2024 by Soul Coughing
With Trampled By Turtles by Alan Sparhawk
TAKAAT - Is Noise, Vol. 1 by TAKAAT
Jazz is Dead 22: Ebo Taylor by Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Touch by Tortoise
Cotton Crown by the Tubs
SOGOLO by Witch