A look at 2025’s most standout albums, spanning pop, hip-hop, and beyond, highlighting the year’s boldest sounds and most memorable releases.

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zekke represents that exciting new wave of local artistes who aren't afraid to blur genres and try new things. With crisp, ...

"There was four different samples on it we had to clear, and they all wanted 40% or 50%... we were like, 'You can all have 25 ...

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NPR Music critics, editors and Tiny Desk producers each singled out one album they would recommend to anyone who came calling ...

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And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with the bellow 11 albums, listed in artists’ alphabetical order, are among those ...

From Arm's Length to Algernon Cadwallader to Drain to Pool Kids to End It to First Day Back, here are the 50 best punk albums ...

For nine years here at WMOT, I’ve been proud and privileged to select and remark on thirty albums from the closing year that ...

All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you were looking for good hip-hop music, 2025 was one of the best years to be a ...

The ‘Superman’ writer-director took time out from head-honchoing the DC Universe to make us a killer year-end playlist.