Evans is a place on Earth: Albums Of The Year 2025.

Friday, 5 December 2025

Albums Of The Year 2025.

At the end of 2005 I was working in an office and most people had finished for Xmas. I was pretty bored to be honest. So I decided to put together some kind of metacritic list of the albums of the year.

I chose five publications and/or websites that had listed 50 (or more) of their best albums of the year. Selecting the top 50 I awarded 50 points for 1st, 49 for 2nd, and so on down to 1 point for 50th. I then crunched the numbers and made a list of the top 30 scoring.

This silly piece of time wasting proved to be quite popular so I continued and have done every year since. I used to send the e-mails round to a few mates who had either expressed an interest or I'm trying to impress in some way. Now I have a blog I'm gonna use this to disseminate the data. So, here we are, no photos, just a list of 2025's Top 30. Incidentally, the 21st consecutive years I've done this. Enjoy (or not)....

1. Richard Dawson - End Of The Middle

2. Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film

3. Caroline - Caroline 2

4. aya - hexed!

5. Suede - Antidepressants

6. Pulp - More

7. Los Thuthanaka - Los Thuthanaka

8. Billy Woods - Golliwog

9. Wednesday - Bleeds

10. Oklou - Choke Enough

11. Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone

12. Blawan - SickElixir