Best Music 🎵 of 2025!

I was thinking about ranking the years of this decade (so far) in another thread. I've been revisiting a lot of my favorites from the past 5 years recently. It would be cool to put together a list of everyone's favorite albums of the half decade 2020-2024. Might be a fun idea for a new thread.
 
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Thread 'Best of the Decade (so far): Revisiting 2020-2024 in Music'

Now that the 2020s are halfway through, what do you think? What albums do you like more than others? Is your favorite release from 2021 better than your favorite release from 2024? How do the years hold up? Has there been anything that surprised you where you've come around to it a few years later?

Make a list! Sound off below!
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Okey Dokes

Best of February

  1. Abel Selacoe - Hymns of Bantu
  2. Damon Locks - List of Demands
  3. Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures
  4. Saor - Amidst the Ruins
  5. Marshal Allen - New Dawn
  6. Daniel Bachman- Moving Through Light
  7. The Altons - Heartache in Room 14
  8. Okonski - Entrance Music
  9. Alice Sara Ott - Field Complete Nocturnes
  10. Federico Albanese - Blackbirds and the Sun of October


Most listened

  1. Maria Dueñas - Paganini: 24 Caprices
  2. Abel Selacoe - Hymns of Bantu
  3. The Altons - Heartache in Room 14
  4. Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures
  5. James Brandon Lewis - Apple Cores
  6. Moses Yofee Trio - MYT
  7. Timothy Ridout - Telemen|Bach|Britten|Shaw
  8. Marshal Allen - New Dawn
  9. Elina Akselrud - Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas
  10. Okonski - Entrance Music
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
That’s pretty good. It reminds me a bit of the more avant garde of Jim O’Rourke. I would have to be in the right mood to fully enjoy it and usually that mood involves me being super focused on something else but I have now listened to an album on your list so that’s something.
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Alright..

My apologies in advance to anyone who gave this album a shoutout on here already, because I obviously missed it.. I'm just now checking out the new Panda Bear album, Sinister Grift (dropped Feb 28th). And, uh, yeah, it's pretty fucking great. I never had really gotten into Animal Collective or Noah's other solo albums as Panda Bear, and I'm just gonna say that's why I wasn't very gung-ho about checking this one out initially. At 10 tracks, 44 minutes, and with several guest appearances, including Cindy Lee, Rivka Ravede, and even his Animal Collective band mates, Sinister Grift just scratched an itch I didn't know needed scratching. It has a strong feeling of nostalgia, too, as I listen, and I haven't yet put my finger on where that's coming from.. Most of the songs are more upbeat and feel-good, giving me some summertime beach vibes. But my three standouts tracks right now are tracks 7, 8, and 9 ("Venom's In", "Left In The Cold", and "Elegy for Noah Lou", respectively), and those are a bit slower and just seemed to pack a bit more of a punch. So, yeah, a little late to this one, but this would definitely fall among my top albums from February (and of the year right now).

 
musicjunkiegreg said:
Alright..

My apologies in advance to anyone who gave this album a shoutout on here already, because I obviously missed it.. I'm just now checking out the new Panda Bear album, Sinister Grift (dropped Feb 28th). And, uh, yeah, it's pretty fucking great. I never had really gotten into Animal Collective or Noah's other solo albums as Panda Bear, and I'm just gonna say that's why I wasn't very gung-ho about checking this one out initially. At 10 tracks, 44 minutes, and with several guest appearances, including Cindy Lee, Rivka Ravede, and even his Animal Collective band mates, Sinister Grift just scratched an itch I didn't know needed scratching. It has a strong feeling of nostalgia, too, as I listen, and I haven't yet put my finger on where that's coming from.. Most of the songs are more upbeat and feel-good, giving me some summertime beach vibes. But my three standouts tracks right now are tracks 7, 8, and 9 ("Venom's In", "Left In The Cold", and "Elegy for Noah Lou", respectively), and those are a bit slower and just seemed to pack a bit more of a punch. So, yeah, a little late to this one, but this would definitely fall among my top albums from February (and of the year right now).

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wokeupnew said:
New Panda Bear album is a vibe. Completely unexpected album on my radar. This has however made me want to go back and listen to Person Pitch front to back a couple of times today already.
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