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Feb 01, 2025 By Mark Redfern

In an effort to be better prepared when it comes to putting together our Top 100 Albums of 2025 list at the end of the year, in 2025 we aim to highlight the best albums released each month, including streams for each album. Below are the best albums released in January 2025. We have included Bandcamp or Spotify embeds (some albums aren’t on Bandcamp) for each album and links to any reviews or interviews we did to support the release.

Unlike our Top 100 Albums lists, we didn’t do a formal vote. I put together a list of albums and asked our writers to suggest additional titles. So the list below is in alphabetical order and is a more casual collating of January’s most notable releases.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy”: The Purple Bird (No Quarter)

Read our review of The Purple Bird.

Benjamin Booker: Lower (Thirty Tigers)

Read our review of Lower.

Ethel Cain: Perverts (Daughters of Cain)

Read our review of Perverts.

DITZ: Never Exhale (Republic of Music/Domino)

Read our review of Never Exhale. Read our interview with the band about the album.

C Duncan: It’s Only a Love Song (Bella Union)

FKA twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic)

Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (Domino)

Lilly Hiatt: Forever (New West)

Read our new The End interview with Lilly Hiatt.

jasmine.4.t: You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory)

Read our review of You Are the Morning.

Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang)

lots of hands: into a pretty room (Fire Talk)

Maribou State: Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune)

Read our review of Hallucinating Love.

Ela Minus: DIA (Domino)

Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Temporary Residence Ltd./Rock Action)

Read our review of The Bad Fire.

Rose City Band: Sol Y Sombra (Thrill Jockey)

Anna B Savage: You and i are Earth (City Slang)

Read our review of You and i are Earth.

Tunng: Love You All Over Again (Full Time Hobby)

The Weather Station: Humanhood (Fat Possum)

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