[ This top 3 albums list for each year doesn't reflect lists of best-selling albums of a particular year nor my acknowledgement of music critics' reviews, but are solely reflecting what albums I have heard the most. I intend to expand the list to a top 10 list, and to include other favourites of the year in sorted order, but that's a costly affair... time-wise. ]
2025... so far
1. Grant-Lee Phillips In the Hour of Dust
2. BBB bbb
3. CCC ccc
4. Jens Lekman Songs for Other People's Weddings
5. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont Twilight
6. Wednesday Bleeds
7. Anna Ternheim Psalmer från sjunde himlen best album from Ternheim
8. Bruce Springsteen Lost and Found Selections from the Lost Albums
9. Bob Mould Here We Go Crazy
10. Big Thief Double Infinity
others, sorted after my rating (top-bottom):
Paul Weller Find El Dorado
Daniel Ögren Pine Great warm jazz guitar
Mogwai The Bad Fire
Rumpistol Nebula
Volbeat God of Angels Trust
FKA twigs Eusexua
STILL NEED TO HEAR:
Lily Allen West End Girl
Armory Show Dead Souls
Miki Berenyi Trio Tripla
Matt Berninger Get Sunk
Blue Foundation Close to the Knife
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy The Purple Bird
The Bug Club Very Human Features
Edwyn Collins Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation
Lucy Dacus Forever Is a Feeling
Everything Is Recorded Temporary
Bryan Ferry Loose Talk
Alison Goldfrapp Flux
S.G. Goodman Planting by the Signs
Anna von Hauswolff Iconoclasts
Hvalfugl Bag vore øjne strømmer drømme sagte forbi
Sophie Jamieson I Still Want to Share
Cassandra Jenkins My Light, My Massage Parlor
Salif Keita So Kono
Kele The Singing Winds pt. 3
LCD Soundsystem 'To Be Annouced'
Little Simz Lotus
Mars Volta Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio
Mac Miller Balloonerism
Van Morrison Remembering Now
Peter Murphy Silver Shade
Youssour N'dour Eclairer le monde - Light the World
Orbital Lush
Hans Philip Honey
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke Tall Tales
The Raveonettes Pe'ahi II
Skunk Anansie The Painful Truth
Smerz Big City Life
Sun Kil Moon All the Artists
SZA SOS Deluxe: Lana
Rufus Wainwright Dream Requiem
The Weather Station Humanhood
Neil Young Coastal Soundtrack
Neil Young Oceanside Countryside
Neil Young Talkin to the Trees
Bottom (not recommended):
Lorde Virgin
Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory do. Somewhat underwhelming... so far
Miki Berenyi Trio Tripla
Matt Berninger Get Sunk
Blue Foundation Close to the Knife
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy The Purple Bird
The Bug Club Very Human Features
Edwyn Collins Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation
Lucy Dacus Forever Is a Feeling
Everything Is Recorded Temporary
Bryan Ferry Loose Talk
Alison Goldfrapp Flux
S.G. Goodman Planting by the Signs
Anna von Hauswolff Iconoclasts
Hvalfugl Bag vore øjne strømmer drømme sagte forbi
Sophie Jamieson I Still Want to Share
Cassandra Jenkins My Light, My Massage Parlor
Salif Keita So Kono
Kele The Singing Winds pt. 3
LCD Soundsystem 'To Be Annouced'
Little Simz Lotus
Mars Volta Lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio
Mac Miller Balloonerism
Van Morrison Remembering Now
Peter Murphy Silver Shade
Youssour N'dour Eclairer le monde - Light the World
Orbital Lush
Hans Philip Honey
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke Tall Tales
The Raveonettes Pe'ahi II
Skunk Anansie The Painful Truth
Smerz Big City Life
Sun Kil Moon All the Artists
SZA SOS Deluxe: Lana
Rufus Wainwright Dream Requiem
The Weather Station Humanhood
Neil Young Coastal Soundtrack
Neil Young Oceanside Countryside
Neil Young Talkin to the Trees
Bottom (not recommended):
Lorde Virgin
Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory do. Somewhat underwhelming... so far
