Drowned in Sound is counting down our favourite albums of 2025.

Every year is a great year to be a music obsessive. 2025 was a year that felt like music was both a catalyst for change and the much needed escape hatch.

It was also a year where profit-driven corporations went gloves off with non-consensual AI and humanity raised its collective fist aloft. Being human, whether that's being wonderfully weird or painfully honest or building sonic landscapes peppered with easter eggs for lyric-decoding fans, feels like the dominant theme in all the records we adored this year.

Resistance, rage and resilience feature too but those themes are perhaps a given every year if you've been paying attention to our album of the year lists for the last 25 years.

We'll share our top 10 later this week but for spoilers, listen to this week's Drowned in Sound podcast where we chat through our favourites and a pile of honourable mentions. Listen on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

Anyway, in the words of Stealing Sheep, let's gooooooooooooo!

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