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Part Two favourite albums of 2025 collage
Welcome to the second part of Song Bar favourite albums of 2025. There is also a first part and a third part this week. There is no countdown nor describing these necessarily as “best” albums of the year, but they are chosen by their quality, originality and reader popularity
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The Moonlandingz: No Rocket Required
New album: Seven years since their last LP together, and many different projects in the meantime, Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi and Eccentronic Research Council’s Dean Honer and Adrian Flanagan return with their clever, witty electro-dance satire on a dystopian world, with guests including Iggy Pop, Nadine Shah, Jessica Winter and actor Ewen Bremner
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LUMP: Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay, inspired by the hairy one
This week we lavish you with a bumper crop of top-quality LPs: ethereal beauty in a Laura Marling collaboration, Father John Misty parodying narcissism, brilliant Brooklyn punk band Bodega, blues funk from Warmduscher, and superb solo female work by Neko Case and Natalie Prass
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Insecure Men's Saul Adamczewski, also of Fat White Family and Moonlandingz
Indie and postpunk are very much in evidence this week, alongside Saul from Fat White Family's new project and Montreal's Ought, female voices and songwriting talent shine out
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No swan song ... St Vincent
St Vincent to Queens of the Stone Age, Marika Hackman to Laura Marling, Fleet Foxes to the Mountain Goats, this second part of our readers' favourite albums throws up lots of questions over the self and others
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One of the album covers of Morrissey Low In High School
Brimful with brilliant lyrics, a scattering of controversy but also great tunes, Moz's first since 2014, plus Saul and co with an EP, plus the great Mavis, Karl Blau and Serge's daughter continues to make her mark
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Anarchy in the UK: Johnny Rocket and friends from Moonlandingz
This week's releases are a fabulously noisy blast off, featuring the Moonlandingz, a long-awaited return for Jesus & Mary Chain, plus Johnny Flynn and PINS featuring Iggy Pop
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Time to think ... Eno
Brian Eno opens 2017's album releases with some thinking time, alongside new offerings from C Duncan, You Me At Six, The Moonlandingz, and Sundara Karma
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Angel Olsen is on the line.
From Frank Ocean's Blonde to a fitting sign-off by Leonard Cohen, we complete our two-part list of a total of 50 album releases suggested by readers that reflected the mood and events of the past 12 months
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