Merle Stevana

Pitchfork 50 Best Albums 2025. We listened to thousands of albums across every genre, from pop to folk to rock to rap to r&b to country to electronic to experimental. Written by bandmates aaron dessner and matt berninger along with padma newsome for the album high violet, the song seems to be about a character drinking away.

These are the 50 best albums of the year. There were some fantastic albums by lesser known artists that are getting zero respect from these joke publications.