In attesa della ormai imminente classifica di OndaRock dei migliori album del 2025, proseguiamo nella nostra carrellata sulle selezioni delle principali testate musicali internazionali. Dopo quelle già pubblicate di
Mojo,
Uncut,
Consequence,
Pitchfork,
Quietus,
Rolling Stone Usa e
Louder Than War, Stereogum,
NME e
The Wire, vi proponiamo oggi quella di PopMatters, storica rivista
online statunitense fondata nel 1999 da Sarah Zupko e orientata - come da nome - al pop, in tutte le sue sfaccettature, dal mainstream all'indie. "I migliori album del 2025 hanno messo in discussione le ortodossie, creato nuovi generi e attraversato una gamma vastissima di stili e tradizioni musicali, mantenendo lo sguardo rivolto al futuro", sottolinea PopMatters nell'introduzione.
Ecco allora la classifica dei migliori 80 album del 2025 secondo PopMatters (
qui il servizio completo)
- Rosalía – "Lux"
- Bad Bunny – "DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS"
- PinkPantheress – "Fancy That"
- Geese – "Getting Killed"
- Wednesday – "Bleeds"
- Barry Can't Swim – "Loner"
- Billy Woods – "Golliwog"
- FKA twigs – "Eusexua"
- Wet Leg – "Moisturizer"
- Hayley Williams – "Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party"
- yeule – "Evangelic Girl Is a Gun"
- Curtis Harding – "Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt"
- Mourning [A] BLKstar – "Flowers For The Living"
- Mavis Staples – "Sad and Beautiful World"
- Deftones – "Private Music"
- Neko Case – "Neon Grey Midnight Green"
- Annie and the Caldwells – "Can't Lose My (Soul)"
- Addison Rae – "Addison"
- Clipse – "Let God Sort Em Out"
- Laufey – "A Matter of Time"
- Self Esteem – "A Complicated Woman"
- S.G. Goodman – "Planting by the Signs"
- Benjamin Booker – "Lower"
- Mulatu Astatke – "Mulatu Plays Mulatu"
- CMAT – "Euro-Country"
- Sudan Archives – "The BPM"
- Patterson Hood – "Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams"
- Ora The Molecule – "Dance Therapy"
- Heartworms – "Glutton for Punishment"
- Baxter Dury – "Allbarone"
- Florence + The Machine – "Everybody Scream"
- Pulp – "More"
- Lady Gaga – "Mayhem"
- Blood Orange – "Essex Honey"
- Jeff Tweedy – "Twilight Override"
- Greet Death – "Die In Love"
- Richard Dawson – "End of the Middle"
- Little Simz – "Lotus"
- Mary Halvorson – "About Ghosts"
- Clara Mann – "Rift"
- Courting – "Lust for Life, Or: 'How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story'"
- Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian – "Witness"
- Viagra Boys – "Viagr Aboys"
- Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory – "Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory"
- Molly Tuttle – "So Long Little Miss Sunshine"
- Jade – "That's Showbiz Baby"
- Sports Team – "Boys These Days"
- Ethel Cain – "Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You"
- Deafheaven – "Lonely People with Power"
- Valerie June – "Owls, Omens, and Oracles"
- Mdou Moctar – "Tears of Injustice"
- TOKiMONSTA – "Eternal Reverie"
- Moonrisers – "Harsh & Exciting"
- The Beths – "Straight Line Was a Lie"
- Flora Hibberd – "Swirl"
- Milo J – "La vida era más corta"
- Sabrina Carpenter – "Man's Best Friend"
- The Waterboys – "Life, Death and Dennis Hopper"
- Florence Adooni – "A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity)"
- Turnstile – "Never Enough"
- Lily Allen – "West End Girl"
- Loyle Carner – "Hopefully!"
- Momma – "Welcome to My Blue Sky"
- Suede – "Antidepressants"
- Nation of Language – "Dance Called Memory"
- The Ophelias – "Spring Grove"
- Nate Parrish – "Make Me a Mountain"
- Galactic and Irma Thomas – "Audience With the Queen"
- Perfume Genius – "Glory"
- Water From Your Eyes – "It's a Beautiful Place"
- SASAMI – "Blood on the Silver Screen"
- Whatever The Weather – "Whatever The Weather II"
- Jesse Welles – "Middle"
- McKinley Dixon – "Magic, Alive!"
- The Devil Makes Three – "Spirits"
- Swans – "Birthing"
- Sami Galbi – "Ylh Byebye"
- Fieldwork – "Thereupon"
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio – "Bees In The Bonnet"
- Bartees Strange – "Horror"