Antagonzine’s Best Albums of 2025

Across all mediums, 2025 has been a pretty remarkable year. It felt like everywhere you looked, a shift was occurring, at times nostalgic and often brand-spanking new. The music of 2025 was simply the most explicit example. Pop mainstays like Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift used 2025 as an opportunity to ride the line between the familiar and the new with their most recent releases. Lily Allen returned with the critically acclaimed West End Girl. Bad Bunny and Rosalía incorporated some national pride and pulled folk music traditions from their countries into albums that garnered mainstream success.  

It’s been a wild year for music, so we gathered some of the writers at Antagonzine to give their wildly different thoughts on which album was the Best Album of 2025…