Category: 2025 in Review

• 2025 in Review: Hidden Gems

  

  From electro ambience through to heavy noise-rock, via lo-fi underground rap; we recommend 10 of the best 2025 projects that you may have missed.

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  29th Jan 2026

  2025 in Review

  Crystal Sting, Dossers, Echomatica, Errol Holden, gnrlyhd, Hyloxolos, J.U.S, Julianna Riolino, sleepingdogs, Tickles

• 2025 in Review

  

  Our top 50 albums, top 20 EPs, and most overrated picks. Plus 8 hours+ of the year’s best tunes selected in our Big 2025 playlist.

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  2nd Jan 2026

  2025 in Review, Music reviews

• 2025 in Review: Albums of the year (50-31)

  

  Counting down our top 50 albums of 2025. Here’s our picks from 50-31.

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  21st Dec 2025

  2025 in Review

  Albums of the Year, August Fanon, Blu, Brògeal, Bruiser Wolf, Cameron Scott, De La Soul, DJ Koze, eljah jamal asani, Gabe ‘Nandez, Hamilton Leithauser, Harry Fraud, HORSEBATH, Jordan Patterson, Labrador, Le Volume Courbe, Lord Sko, Matt Berninger, NAHreally, Nourished by Time, Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Preservation, Red Rum Club, Sækyi

• 2025 in Review: Albums of the year (30-11)

  Part 2 of our top 50 albums of 2025. Counting down numbers 30 to 11.

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  19th Dec 2025

  2025 in Review

  Alan Sparhawk, Albums of the Year, Best New Music, Bon Iver, Clipse, Driveby, Earl Sweatshirt, Fatboi Sharif, Geese, Grief Club, Insecure Men, Jim Legxacy, Lily Allen, MIKE, Moonchild Sanelly, Nobody Jones, Open Mike Eagle, Pulp, sleepingdogs, The Moonlandingz, Trampled by Turtles, Tunde Adebimpe, Wave Generators, Wet Leg

• 2025 in Review: Albums of the year (10-1)

  Counting down No Frills Reviews’ pick of the top 10 albums of 2025.

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  16th Dec 2025

  2025 in Review

  Albums of the Year, Benjamin Booker, billy woods, Brian Ennals, CMAT, DARKSIDE, Infinity Knives, Rhys Langston, ROSALÍA, Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, William Tyler, Youth Lagoon

• 2025 in Review: Top 20 EPs

  

  A countdown of our top 20 EPs of 2025.

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  5th Dec 2025

  2025 in Review

  54 Ultra, Arkayla, Burial, Chiedu Oraka, EsDeeKid, Grace Ives, La Reezy, Lex Vervain, Magana, Moletrap, new music, Perfect Chicken, PUNCHBAG, Ro$ama, Swimming Bell, The Dream Machine, The Null Club, The Toxic Crusaders, Westside Cowboy, Westside Gunn, Āthmaan

• 2025 in Review: The Most Overrated Albums

  

  Kicking off list season, with our annual rundown of the year’s most overrated albums. Find out who made our unlucky thirteen.

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  30th Nov 2025

  2025 in Review, Music reviews

  Big Thief, caroline, Clipse, Earl Sweatshirt, Folk Bitch Trio, Geese, Greg Freeman, Ichiko Aoba, Lifeguard, Maruja, Sam Fender, Smerz, Turnstile

• 2025 Mid-Year Review: The Best Albums you haven’t heard of

  

  Continuing on from our pick of the best albums of 2025 so far, here are five of the best albums that have went under the radar.

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  9th Jul 2025

  2025 in Review

  Cameron Scott, chasay, Jay Cinema, Nobody Jones, Perfect Chicken, The Taste of Vomit

• The Best Albums of 2025 . . . so far

  

  Our pick of the best 15 albums of the year so far.

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  18th Jun 2025

  2025 in Review

  August Fanon, Benjamin Booker, billy woods, Blu, Bon Iver, DARKSIDE, Driveby, Fatboi Sharif, Hamilton Leithauser, HORSEBATH, Lord Sko, MIKE, Moonchild Sanelly, sleepingdogs, Tunde Adebimpe, William Tyler, Youth Lagoon