2025 has been a big year for music. New York indie band Geese had a spectacular international breakthrough with the release of their fourth album Getting Killed , TikTok star Addison Rae made her pop-star debut and Lily Allen came back on the scene with a vengeance.

But which albums stood out above all the rest? Well, Time Out’s editors and contributors have had their say. We just published our ranking of the year’s top records , picking out 25 of 2025’s highest-calibre releases.

Time Out’s album of the year for 2025 is... Choke Enough by . Contributing writer Chiara Wilkinson, who nominated the record, wrote: ‘For a long time, French musician Oklou was gatekept by the nerdy and the chronically online. Her debut mixtape Galore was beloved by various internet communities for its

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