The Best Albums of 2025
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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their favorite albums of 2025. They’ll also hear selections from their production staff.
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Featured Songs:
Wednesday, "Elderberry Wine," Bleeds, Dead Oceans, 2025
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
The Hives, "They Can't Hear the Music," The Hives Forever Forever the Hives, PIAS, 2025
Billy Woods, "BLK XMAS (feat. Bruiser Wolf & Sadhugold)," Golliwog, Backwoodz Studioz, 2025
Sabrina Carpenter, "Nobody's Son," Man's Best Friend, Island, 2025
Gwenifer Raymond, "Jack Parsons Blues," Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark, We Are Busy Bodies, 2025
Lambrini Girls, "Love," Who Let the Dogs Out, City Slang, 2025
Trupa Trupa, "Backwards Water," Mourners, Glitterbeat, 2025
Viagra Boys, "Man Made of Meat," Viagr Aboys, Shrimptech Enterprises, 2025
Aesop Rock, "Full House Pinball," I Heard It's A Mess There Too, Rhymesayers, 2025
Maruja, "Look Down On Us," Pain to Power, Music For Nations, 2025
Poor Creature, "All Smiles Tonight," All Smiles Tonight, River Lea, 2025
Rosalía, "Berghain," Lux, Columbia, 2025
Wet Leg, "mangetout," Moisturizer, Domino, 2025
FKA twigs, "Perfect Stranger," Eusexua, Atlantic, 2025
Sprints , "Coming Alive," All That Is Over, City Slang, 2025
Horsegirl, "I Can't Stand to See You," Phonetics On and On, Matador, 2025
Lenny Dee, "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," Happy Holi-Dee, Decca, 1961
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