The Brighton Film Club's Albums of the year 2025

Another year where the number of albums in the below list has had to be bumped up and still doesn't do justice to what's been released.

I present to you, after the customary squabbles and more shuffles than a Vegas casino, The Brighton Film Club’s Albums of the Year 2025:

50. Divorce - Drive to Goldenhammer

49. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out

48. HotWax - Hot Shock

47. Heartworms - Glutton For Punishment

46. Little Simz - Lotus

45. Tyler, The Creator - DON'T TAP THE GLASS

44. Alex G - Headlights

43. Water From Your Eyes - It's a Beautiful Place

42. Viagra Boys - viagr aboys

41. Welly - Big In The Suburbs

40. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Dreams of Being Dust

39. sombr - I Barely Know Her

38. The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre

37. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky

36. Djo - The Crux

35. Lorde - Virgin

34. Bad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

33. Deftones - private music

32. Lily Allen - West End Girl

31. Sorry - COSPLAY

30. Rosalía - LUX

29. Tame Impala - Deadbeat

28. Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You/Perverts

27. Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea

26. Dijon - Baby

25. PinkPantheress - Fancy That

24. Die Spitz - Something To Consume

23. Scowl - Are We All Angels

22. Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer

21. Oklou - choke enough

20. Architects - The Sky, The Earth & All Between

19. Black Honey - Soak

18. Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Boltz

17. Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun

16. Matt Berninger - Get Sunk

15. Nourished by Time - The Passionate Ones

14. jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning

13. Nova Twins - Parasites & Butterflies

12. Biffy Clyro - Futique

11. Wednesday - Bleeds

10. Bon Iver - SABLE,fABLE

9. Saya Gray - SAYA

8. Bartees Strange - Horror

7. Creeper - Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death

6. Hayley Williams - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

5. Tobias Jesso Jr. - s h i n e

4. Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025)

3. Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia

2. Geese - Getting Killed

1. Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH

There’s also been a smattering of excellent EP’s this year worth checking out if you’ve exhausted the above: skaiwater, Esme Emerson, Wallows, Alissic, Sunday (1994), Stephen Wilson Jr. and President to name a few as well as the brilliant Father John Misty Honeybear demos release. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Live God live album is also incredible.

I also need to save a full paragraph for a comment on the Alive in the Catacombs live album and film by Queens of the Stone Age, and the subsequent tour that accompanied it. A truly moving, haunting, life-affirming and beautiful thing.

Wait, there’s more: Big Thief, Tyler Childers, Amaarae, clipping., caroline, Mansionair, Taylor Swift, Balu Brigada, Sabrina Carpenter, Wolf Alice, The New Eves, Mac DeMarco, Haim, Blondshell, The Horrors, Sam Fender, Horse Vision, Inhaler, The Weeknd and PartyNextDoor & Drake were a few of the others fighting for inclusion on this list and are also worth a spin amongst what seems like countless others this year!

Have a fantastic festive season and roll on 2026.