Best Albums of 2025
Best music finds of the year.
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Best Albums (Week of 07/04/2025)
Best music finds of the week.
Best Albums (Week of 06/27/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 06/20/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 05/30/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 05/16/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 05/09/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 05/02/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 04/25/2025)
Best music finds of the week.
Best Albums (Week of 04/18/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 04/11/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 04/04/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 03/28/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 03/14/2025)
Best music finds of the week.
Best Albums (Week of 03/07/2025)
Best music finds of the week.
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Best Albums (Week of 01/31/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 01/24/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 01/10/2025)
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Best Albums (Week of 01/03/2025)
First week of 2025 is a bit quiet, but it will pick up from here for sure.
2024 Remaining Roundup + Best of
Have not been impressed with hardly anything releasing in these last few days of the year- and that's typical as most things pushed in at the end of the year or
Best Albums (Week of 12/20/2024)
More quiet weeks for the end of the year. ### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[desert sand feels warm at nig
Best Albums (Week of 12/13/2024)
End of the year tends to be pretty quiet. A lot of low-quality or questionable stuff gets crammed into the remaining days of the year and most of it isn't worth
Best Albums (Week of 12/06/2024)
Two bonuses this time, it was a quiet week otherwise. Both bonuses are 2024 releases from earlier in the year. ### Clean-sung, instrumental, or
Best Albums (Week of 11/29/2024)
### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[Skyzoo - Keep Me Company](https://skyzoo.bandcamp.com/album/keep-me-company)**
Best Albums (Week of 11/22/2024)
### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[swanskin - boymoder](https://zoomlens.bandcamp.com/album/boymoder)** I'll
Best Albums (Week of 11/15/2024)
A bit delayed again with the holidays and this time of year in general. Best of lists for 11/22 and 11/29 to follow shortly. Descriptions may be a bit shorter t
Best Albums (Week of 11/08/2024)
### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[Black Rain - Neuromancer](https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer)**
Best Albums (Week of 11/01/2024)
### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[Bubble Tea and Cigarettes - We Should Have Killed Each Other](https://bubbleteaa
Best Albums (Week of 10/25/2024)
Finally out! Lots of stuff from the week of 10/25, phew! ### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[Man Rei - Thread](http
Best Albums (Week of 10/18/2024)
We're back! Best of 10/25 currently being worked and will be posted soon. Enjoy this long list of 10/18's best for now! ### Clean-sung, instrum
Best Albums (Week of 10/11/2024)
Slow release week, but 10/18 is likely to be the opposite. A bonus included this time. ### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-
Best Albums (Week of 10/04/2024)
Sorry, a bit late on this post, but there's plenty of gems here! Enjoy. ### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[Hi
Best Albums (Week of 09/27/2024)
A relatively quiet week for September, to be honest. That said, Oct 4th is going to have an incredible amount of good releases- it is absolutely stacked, so sta
Best Albums (Week of 09/20/2024)
### Clean-sung, instrumental, or otherwise non-extreme music. **[Unto Others - Never, Neverland](https://untootherspdx.bandcamp.com/album/n
Best Albums (Week of 09/13/2024)
### Non-metal **[Sacred Skin - Born in Fire](https://sacredskin.bandcamp.com/album/born-in-fire)** LA post-punk/new wave/synthpop. Nice re
Best Albums (Week of 09/06/2024)
### Non-metal **[Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa](https://domamolchat.bandcamp.com/album/belaya-polosa)** Belarusian post-punk/new wave/synth
Best Albums (Week of 08/30/2024)
### Non-metal **[Tycho - Infinite Health](https://tycho.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-health)** Well-known electronic/ambient + post-rock in
Best Albums (Week of 08/23/2024)
All extreme stuff this week. ### Non-metal None this week. ### Heavier music or adjacent g
Best Albums (Week of 08/16/2024)
### Non-metal **[LEATHERS - Ultraviolet](https://leathers.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet)** Electro-pop project of Shannon Hemmett f
Best Albums (Week of 08/09/2024)
### Non-metal **[Cool Heat - Abandon](https://coolheat.bandcamp.com/album/abandon)** Smooth shoegaze/dreampop from Chicago. Dreamy,
Best Albums (Week of 08/02/2024)
### Non-metal **[Poison Ruin - Confrere](https://poisonruin.bandcamp.com/album/confrere)** Alongside their dungeon synth project mentione