The Best Albums of 2025

Birthing is my pick for aoty, and also just my favourite swans album in general. It’s my fourth favourite album of all time

unmusique is so freakin good dood

the way you described the matsui album, I can't recommend Alexander Panos's Nascent enough. Another album involving a lot of electronic noises and an almost intelligable voice. Really beautiful and life affirming.

Good ass video, Golliwog was also my #2 album of the year just behind Deafheaven

awesome video :)

Wildlife by La Dispute came out in 2011 not 2021

You might like marina herlop

58:01 holy peak
1:37:45 fucking based #2 pick amor de encava goes crazy

hey boundo

I feel like I just watched a video about select albums from RYM's top 100 albums of 2025. Not that it is a bad thing, I think I have about 20 albums out of my top 75 albums from 2025 all residing within the top 200 albums of RYM's 2025 charts.

amor de encava numero 2, i lovveeeeee itttttt

yo can anyone type it out? boring ahh qualityslop

I was super excited for this video, and now, not only do I have several albums that I missed that I must listen to, but a whole group with Weed420. This was great!

There are no shortage of best-of lists that come out this time of year but when it comes to music, I only look forward to the Boundo List.

Got on the stream late so i couldnt see at the time that thats not teen week 2:50 xd

let’s go

Saoirse dream is fantastic! Ty for recommendation boundo!!

1. Jason Isbell-Foxes in the Snow

2. Geese-Getting Killed

3. Castle Rat-The Bestiary

4. Messa -The Spin

5. Nektar-Om du behöver mig

6. Genom Natten-Genom Natten

7. Kallsup-En sista räddning

8. Mantras - Mentalism

9. Anna Von Hausswolff-Iconoclasts

10. Kassa Overall-Cream

11. Hurula-Existens

12. Ihlo-Legacy

13. Mulatu Astatke-Plays Mulatu Astatke

14. Kal-El - Astral Voyager Vol.1

15. Cosmic Ear-Traces

16. Jocke Åhlund å Jockum Nordström-Sköldpaddsön

17. Sinsuke Fujieda Group-Fukushima

18. Deftones-Private Music

19. Karmakanic-Transmutation

20. Eli Winter-A Trick of the Light

you can’t keep getting away with this (banger video)

Where yall getting the Nmesh album

Great list! Can’t wait to hear your opinions on Black Sabbath’s discography.

Oh ive been waiting for this one, I've found so many amazing albums through you (you're how I learned about UBOA!)

Nice list but why is the oneohtrix point never part so loud it’s hard to hear what you’re saying

23wa !!!!!!! great album

Damn it half of this is blocked in Palestine

Revengeseekerz such a good album

Thanks for keeping the albums on screen with their names, makes it easy to simply screenshot them and keep track of them thanks

Thank you for the video!

Amazing list and video! Thank you!!

My favourite album of this year is the last dinner party from the pyre

gonna be using this video as a checklist for the first couple months of next year for shit i missed before i get lost in the other new stuff

Rosalia's Lux album is the best so far this decade. People have a grudge against this album that's why they choose all this metal and rap rubbish instead of recognising an album of pure genius like Lux. Also, that Geese album is truly dreadful, the guy's voice is horrible. ☹️👎💩

This Is my personal top 25 of 2025, I know maybe i'm kinda basic but I'm kinda new to music
25. Nourished by Time - The Passionate Ones
24. Geese - Getting Killed
23. Brian Ennals & Infinity Knives - A City Drowned in God's Black Tears
22. Shallowater - God's Gonna Give You a Million Dollars
21. Miffle - Goodbye World
20. Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
19. Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
18. I Cani - Post-Mortem
17. Lausse the Cat - The Mocking Stars
16. The Orchestra (For Now) - Plan 75
15. Mateus Aleluia - Mateus Aleluia
14. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
13. Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz
12. Coroner - Dissonance Theory
11. Rochelle Jordan - Through the Wall
10. Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
9. Backxwash - Only Dust Remains
8. Huremic - Seeking Darkness
7. Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer
6. The Necks - Disquiet
5. Messa - The Spin
4. McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!
3. Antonina Nowacka & Sofie Birch - Hiraeth
2. Aya - Hexed!
1. Billy Woods - Golliwog

25:47 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

HELL YEAH DARSKIN... ONE OF THE AOTY.

YAAAY ALWAYS A TREAT

honestly kind of shocked that youd put unmusique above lucys other stuff (mainly fete de la vanille) but im glad to see him on the list

37:25 Well, you see jazz goes “zoo-zibba zop-zop zooba zop-zop zay”

Meanwhile, classical goes “Ah-ah dum ah-ah dum ah-a-a dum dah-dah”

SENTRIES MADE THE LIST LET'S GOOOO!!!!

1:24:36 Unfathomably based

you should interview Travis Scott

Excellent work! I really love EOTY lists that are wildly eclectic, somehow messy and full of weird surprises, filing obscure bandcamp stuff next to big major releases. Even though we've got almost zero common ground (I've made a top 25 list myself and there's not a single overlap with your list) I enjoyed this a lot and watched the whole thing through with pleasure, making notes. Will definitely check out weed420 and this new Elysia Crampton project - these two I'm the most curious and excited about after watching your 2025 review. I'm often too vinyl/physical focused in my listening habits so I tend to overlook stuff that "only" gets a digital release (or perhaps I'm just getting too old for this shit, haha...). Also will give Anna von Hausswolff, Ramleh and Sudan Archives another spin...these ones didn't really do it for me in the first place but hearing your reviews made me want to re-visit them again. So, thanks for this and everything. I really appreciate all the work and effort and enthusiasm that went into this.

i finally have the opportunity to say this but i owe you so much for your lists. i remember stumbling upon one of them and not recognizing a single artist there (i was a real newcomer to music at that time) and it incentivized me to explore more of this medium that now is a major part of my life. fast forward to today and i consider myself pretty knowledgeable on this field and have listened to close to 200 albums this year alone! still have yet to fully finish the list but i already know there's gonna be some great stuff i missed. happy new years and thanks for helping me start being interested in music!

Cool list will need to check out these I haven’t heard. Here are mine:
1. Quadeca - Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
2. ROSALÍA- LUX
3. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong
4. Allie X - Happiness Is Gonna Get You
5. Backxwash - Only Dust Remains
6. PinkPantheress - Fancy That
7. Maruja - Pain to Power
8. Jane Paknia - Millions of Years of Longing
9. MARINA - Princess of Power
10. Wet Leg - moisturizer
11. The Last Dinner Party - From the Pyre
12. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
13. clipping. - Dead Channel Sky
14. Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer
15. Deftones - private music
https://youtu.be/DFLQosEH018

great to see the saorise dream album on here. Definitely one of my favourites from the year i didn't expect to see on anyone's list. (Also, saying unmusique is better than fete de la vanille is crazy imo)