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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