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The 20 Best Albums of 2025 So Far

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca |Jeremy D. Larson |Marissa Lorusso |Philip Sherburne

Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year. So we’re spotlighting some of 2025’s most outstanding records to date by rounding up albums that have earned high scores and Best New Music designations with a quick list of RIYLs (that’s Recommended If You Like) and links to our coverage. Unlike our year-end lists, this one is organized in reverse chronological order.
The Best Music of 2025 So Far

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Anna Gaca |Jeremy Larson |Marissa Lorusso |Philip Sherburne

All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by Pitchfork editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year.
Haim: “Relationships”

2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca

What’s that sound? Is it the first song of the summer? Is it “Relationships,” the featherweight, angst-filled new Haim track about a tortured silence in a long-term romance? Is it both, or it could be, maybe, if we just—no, wait, don’t answer that.
Haim: “Relationships”

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Anna Gaca

Este Haim’s Hacks for Bedroom Bliss Are Tea, Melatonin Gummies, and the Scandinavian Sleep MethodAs a born and raised Angeleno, Este Haim has never strayed too far from home. While growing up in San Fernando Valley, she and her sisters, Danielle and Alana (who comprise the award-winning band HAIM), lived in a cozy California ranch-style house full of heirlooms and trinkets. “I’ve been obsessed …
Marie Davidson: City of Clowns

2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca

Marie Davidson’s 2018 album, Working Class Woman, spoke the language of industrial labor. This year the cheeky Québécois dance producer takes up a new paradigm: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, to borrow the title of scholar Shoshana Zuboff’s 700-page critical survey of how giant tech corporations exploit human experience by mining our data.
Model/Actriz: “Cinderella”

2 months ago | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca

How did Cinderella feel meeting the prince? When he slid that glass slipper on, did he look right through her? “Cinderella,” the standout lead single from Model/Actriz’s forthcoming new album Piourette, is a fairytale too: frontman Cole Haden’s story of becoming the kind of person who can admit their childhood dream of a Cinderella birthday party on a first date. The five-year-old Cole backed out, nascently aware of what guests might think of a little boy in a big blue dress.
Rose Gray: Louder, Please

Feb 4, 2025 | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca

Do they have wet n wild brand in the UK? In America, wet n wild is the absolute cheapest makeup you can get at the drugstore—the sticky glitter you buy for costume parties, or because you are 14. “Wet & Wild” is also one of the deliriously cheap thrills on British pop singer Rose Gray’s debut, Louder, Please, a record with infernally catchy dance-pop hooks and the nutritional value of cotton candy.
11 Important Moments from the 2025 Grammys

Feb 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | Anna Gaca |Alphonse Pierre

Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, and Charli XCX (Image by Chris Panicker, photos via Getty Images)Normally, the Grammys are like a visit from your parents: Familiar, comforting, maudlin, not that funny, includes a series of speeches, and goes on a little too long.
11 Important Moments From the 2025 Grammys | Pitchfork

Feb 3, 2025 | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca |Alphonse Pierre

Beyoncé and Kendrick cleaned up at what became a star-studded telethon for Los Angeles wildfire relief, so we’re honestly not going to make fun of it (too much).
FKA twigs: “Eusexua”

Sep 13, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca

What’s “Eusexua”? If last week’s teaser video had the rarefied atmosphere of a designer perfume ad, or perhaps the trailer for a sex toy with a mechanism too graphic for television, rest assured that FKA twigs is operating on a higher level. An adaptation of the Greek word “euphoria,” which originally described a state of good health, her new song “Eusexua” envisions a state of total sensual wellness.