The 50 Best Albums Of 2025 So Far

I don’t envy anybody who decided to put out an album within the 12 months succeeding Brat Summer, Manning Fireworks Fall, and “Not Like Us” — especially considering that 2025, broadly speaking, did not exactly begin on the highest of notes. And yet, we here at Stereogum have once again spent Q1 and Q2 playing a never-ending game of catch-up with all the new music being released, filtering through the best of it so that you don’t have to. Sometimes what keeps us going is the comfort in knowing that, somewhere deep in our inboxes, we might soon find our next favorite album.