It's taken two months and tens of thousands of words, but the best albums and songs of 2025 are now officially collated, and we can officially forget that year ever happened
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Remember 2025? It was a while back, admittedly, but here are the official 118 best songs
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Sorry everyone else, but #1 was a no-brainer.
The epic, ambitious, thrilling, esoteric and glorious #Gethsemane by #CarSeatHeadrest. Without a shadow of a fucking doubt
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Put it in her mouth! Then her bank account! Fuck her on the couch! In her favourite blouse!
I feel I don't need to explain #MsPacman by #SudanArchives at #2
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Is there a greater pop mystery than #MileyCyrus at #3? Sometimes she'll release trash that sells billions, sometimes she'll release genius like #SomethingBeautiful and gets ignored
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OK, so #4 is a cheap trick - #WhatWasThat by #Lorde is essentially just Green Light again... But, fuck me, keep pandering if this is the wonder we get
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79 years into their career (or whatever), and @welovepulp.bsky.social still won't stop singing about #SpikeIsland, but they can still make pieces of absolute perfect pop at #5
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OK, so #4 is a cheap trick - #WhatWasThat by #Lorde is essentially just Blue Light again... But, fuck me, keep pandering if this is the wonder we get
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#6 is #Blood by #LittleSimz, #Wretch32 and #Cashh, a song that brings me a standstill even now hearing it for the 6 billionth time
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#Stardust by the incomparable #AnnaVonHausswolff is at #7, and another one where the bass plays games with my very soul
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So, just chuck #ROSALÍA, #Björk and @yvestumor.bsky.social into a pot and you get the absolutely extraordinary #Berghain at #8
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The #9 song of 2025 is the delicious #Draggin' by #HannahCohen and, by God, why can't this song last for hours?
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MICHAEL I DON'T WANT TO SUCK YOU OFF ON YOUR LUNCH BREAK.
@lambrinigirls.bsky.social are at #10 with #CompanyCulture and BY GOD that bass guitar!
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OK, dweebs, are you ready for the top freaking ten?
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Scream at the sun
Cry when you come
#Yeule's #EvangelicGirlIsAGun is #11
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#12 is #Trouble by #SharonVanEtten and the Attachment Theory: FEEL THE BASS OF THIS GLAM-YACHT STOMPER
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#13 is #Stranger by #AlanSparhawk, which should become a legitimate all time standard, that every busker in every city, every annoying prick with a guitar at ever party, should be playing for the rest of time
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At #14 #AnnaVonHausswolff and #IggyPop combine to create the overwhelming beauty of #TheWholeWoman
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I'm not sure that #MaxPotential by #NourishedByTime really sounds like anything else. That's ever been released. Ever. And it's at #16
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OK, so #SoHardToTell was ACTUALLY released by #DebbyFriday back in 2023, but I DIDN'T HEAR IT THEN, so it's #17 this year, OK?
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At #18 @blondshell.bsky.social will come back if you put her down #TwoTimes
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God save your soul! The temperature rises, you're losing control! #UnknownMortalOrchestra do their best song in freaking YEARS with #BoysWithTheCharacteristicsOfWolves at #19
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At #20 SharonVanEtten (and the Attachment Theory) share their memories of Ariel on #Afterlife
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What you never noticed about the #21 song by #Pinkpantheress is that it feels #Illegal because
she's actually singing about her 11 year old nephew
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Do you swing
From your neck
With the hope
Someone cares?
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, Willoughby?!? #EthelCain is at #22 with #Tempest
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#WetLeg continue their noble quest of making indie music sexy for the first time since Bret Anderson threatened to jump on your bones back in 1993, with #CatchTheseFists at #23
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#ROSALÍA makes sure the London Sympathy Orchestra earn their pay on #Reliquia at #24
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#25 is #FuckMyComputer by @ninajirachi, proof that Australians will try literally everything before going to therapy
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Real Glass, CRY ME A RIVER!
That is to say: #BrokenGlass by #Lorde is at #26
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