curious what your current top ten albums of 2025 are.. what’s your #1 to beat? (pawb.social)

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my top ten is attached. lot of great metal this year tbh.

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[-] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

MESSSAAAA!! :D :D The Spin is awesome, was just coming here to post The Dress (still might tbh) really enjoying the Model/Actriz album too.

my favorites released this year so far, in no particular order:

Messa - The Spin
Model/Actriz - Pirouette
McKinley Dixon - Magic Alive!
key vs. locket - i felt like a sketch
Viagra Boys - viagr aboys
Honningbarna - Soft Spot
Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette
Los Thuthanaka - Los Thuthanaka
Nuvolascura - How This All Ends
Rival Consoles - Landscape from Memory
Bleed - Bleed

other albums I've fallen in love with this year:

Gallows Bound - Rotting Oak
Holy Locust - Beneath the Turning Wheel
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Elder - Innate Passage
James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds

[-] chosensilence@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Nuvolascura’s album is gonna end up in my top 25 for sure. i forgot about Elder! they’re one of my favorites. gonna listen tonight. i thought the new Viagra Boys was their best and Chelsea Wolfe’s triphoppy moments were awesome.

[-] knokelmaat@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago

I am going to sound super mainstream, but the only album of 2025 that I have listened to multiple times is Hurry Up Tomorrow by The Weeknd. Not his best work, but still a great ride with some absolute bangers.

I mostly listen to older music or am late to the party with more recent stuff :).

[-] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

I preferred the first record but This Bitter Garden is up there for me as well. End Beginnings from Sandwell District is another honorable mention

[-] chosensilence@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

that Oklou album was good. it's definitely in my top 25. other than clipping. and ethel cain i don't know any of these acts. i'll have to do some listening. which do you recommend i check out first?

[-] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If you like metal then that Jivebomb album is excellent hardcore punk. Along similar lines is Xiao's Control which is more powerviolence but still great

Edit: a more sasscore aligned record you might dig is Emma Goldman's All You Are is We. This features members of Dads Thighs, who put one of my fave emo records The Ghosts that I Fear