50 New Albums in 2025 - new! improved! 2025!

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LindsD
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Dec 2024
4:21pm, 12 Dec 2024
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McGoohan
This is the NME's list of the 50 best albums of the year.

1 Brat - Charli XCX
2 Romance - Fontaines D.C.
3 This Could Be Texas - English Teacher
4 Silence Is Loud - Nia Archives
5 Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay
6 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure
7 Cowboy Carter - Beyoncé
8 Dunya - Mustafa
9 Hit Me Hard and Soft - Billie Eilish
10 What A Devastating Turn of Events - Rachel Chinouriri
11 Diamond Jubilee - Cindy Lee
12 GNX - Kendrick Lamar
13 Fine Art - Kneecap
14 Manning Fireworks - MJ Lenderman
15 Two Star & The Dream Police - Mk.gee
16 Right Place, Wrong Person - RM
17 Charm - Clairo
18 Verbathim - Nemahsis
19 Tyla - Tyla
20 3AM (La La La) - Confidence Man
21 On Purpose, with Purpose - Ghetts
22 Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker
23 Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party
24 Eternal Sunshine - Ariana Grande
25 Wall of Eyes - The Smile
26 Lives Outgrown - Beth Gibbons
27 You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To - Knocked Loose
28 Blue Lips - Schoolboy Q
29 Cartoon Darkness - Amyl and The Sniffers
30 Assemble24 - TripleS
31 Being Poor is Expensive - Bashy
32 Access All Areas - Flo
33 Who Am I - Berwyn
34 Letter to Self - Sprints
35 Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee
36 Night Reign - Arooj Aftab
37 My Method Actor - Nilüfer Yanya
38 HEIS - Rema
39 The Great Impersonator - Halsey
40 Iechyd Da - Bill Ryder-Jones
41 Born in the Wild - Tems
42 Short n' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter
43 Dreamstate - Kelly Lee Owens
44 Chromakopia - Tyler, The Creator
45 Madra - NewDad
46 Tangk - Idles
47 Midas - Wunderhorse
48 Megan - Megan Thee Stallion
49 Post Human: Nex Gen - Bring Me the Horizon
50 This Is How Tomorrow Moves - Beabadoobee

I think I've listened to about seven, maybe eight of those and none of them really grabbed me. Quite intriguing that the NME has now positioned itself as much more r&b/rap than it was with quite a few rather MOR things quite high (like Billie Eilish).
Dec 2024
10:18pm, 12 Dec 2024
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ElDuderino
Quite a few good albums in there mixed in with the poppy rnb stuff. Fontaines DC, Idles, The Cure. Amyl and Sniffers, Sprints. Bill Ryder Jones and Wunderhorse amongst the albums I’ve liked this year.
Dec 2024
3:59pm, 13 Dec 2024
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ElDuderino
Going to do a top 10 of the year. Thinking I’ll do it just based on how I feel now and memory. Will then look at my review scores and list it that way too and see how they compare.
Dec 2024
9:31pm, 13 Dec 2024
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Chrisull
New Saint Etienne lp dropped today! I was a big fan of their last one, "i've been trying to tell you" and the whole stitched together samples from late 90s pop to create a dislocating dreamlike atmosphere. The further away they drift from their pop roots the more interesting they become (not that I don't like the early stuff, just glad they're exploring other places now)
Dec 2024
9:35pm, 13 Dec 2024
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Llamadance
I was just trying to decide whether to listen to that, but am sticking with a Low retrospective
Dec 2024
9:02am, 14 Dec 2024
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Little Nemo
I have 2 of the NME's list - Sprints and Beth Gibbons and I did give Ths Last Dinner Party a try. I also liked the Bat For Lashes and Jane Weaver albums that came out this year.
Dec 2024
9:11am, 14 Dec 2024
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MaT.T
My top 5 albums of the year. Big shout out to The Cure, Vera Sola and Enjoyable Listens too.

Oisin Leech
Laura Marling
Bonnie Prince Billy
Rosali

Sam Morton
Dec 2024
10:29am, 14 Dec 2024
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Chrisull
Saw Rosali live, equally as terrific as the record.

And the Jane Weaver record one is excellent.
Dec 2024
8:36pm, 14 Dec 2024
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Joe1970
I thought of dropping my top 20 on here but it was a bit long so put it in a blog instead. TL;DR - The Cure is my fave, it's a bit indie-rock heavy overall.

I very much like looking through the various end of year lists and checking out things I've missed, there's always at least a couple of gems I pick up on late :)

About This Thread

Maintained by McGoohan
As a spin-off from Joopsy's excellent Albums of 2022 thread fetcheveryone.com/forum/albums-of-2022-62537/ this is a new thread where we commit to listen to one new album a week in 2023. Allowing a couple of weeks off for life commitments etc, that's 50 albums in the year.
EDIT - new and improved (i.e. exactly the same) for 2024

Fetch's patented Reviewatron is here: fetcheveryone.com/albums.php

All albums reviewed so far: fetcheveryone.com/albums-all.php

This year's album releases: albumoftheyear.org

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