KVSC Top 88 Albums of 2025

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The KVSC Top 88 of 2025 was voted on by the radio station’s staff and listeners. Only albums that were spun as part of KVSC’s main music rotation were eligible for the station’s official Top 88.

The album cover to Getting Killed by the band Geese
  1. Getting Killed – Geese
  2. Never Enough – Turnstile
  3. Bleeds – Wednesday
  4. Neon Grey Midnight Green – Neko Case
  5. The Scholars – Car Seat Headrest
  6. Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse
  7. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams
  8. moisturizer – Wet Leg
  9. Euro-Country– CMAT
  10. For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) – Japanese Breakfast
  11. Eusexua – FKA twigs
  12. viagr aboys – Viagra Boys
  13. Forever Is a Feeling – Lucy Dacus
  14. Send a Prayer My Way – Julien Baker & TORRES
  15. Snipe Hunter – Tyler Childress
  16. Black British Music (2025) – Jim Legxacy
  17. Nice Day: A Collection of Singles – Magdalena Bay
  18. The BPM – Sudan Archives
  19. Double Infinity – Big Thief
  20. Phonetics On and On – Horsegirl
  21. LOVED – Parcels
  22. Cut & Rewind – Say She She
  23. What of Our Nature – Haley Henderickx & Max Garcia Conover
  24. Foxes in the Snow – Jason Isbell
  25. Hope We Have Fun – Mt. Joy
  26. Equus caballus – Men I Trust
  27. From the Pyre – The Last Dinner Party
  28. Forever Howlong – Black Country, New Road
  29. Headlights – Alex G
  30. Dollar a Day – Charley Crockett
  31. Nested in Tangles – Hannah Frances
  32. Instant Holograms on Metal Film – Stereolab
  33. The Clearing – Wolf Alice
  34. Everybody Scream – Florence + the Machine
  35. Erotica Veronica – Miya Folick
  36. Twilight Override – Jeff Tweedy
  37. Gully Boys – Gully Boys
  38. Virgin – Lorde
  39. It’s a Beautiful Place – Water from Your Eyes
  40. Evangelic Girl Is a Gun – yeule
  41. Welcome to My Blue Sky – Momma
  42. Death of the Heart – JER
  43. Blizzard – Dove Ellis
  44. St. Paul & the Broken Bones – St. Paul & the Broken Bones
  45. Vanisher, Horizon Scraper – Quadeca
  46. Balloonerism – Mac Miller
  47. At the Beach, in Every Life – Gigi Perez
  48. More – Pulp
  49. I’m Only F**king Myself – Lola Young
  50. Eusexua Afterglow – FKA twigs
  51. Equus asinus – Men I Trust
  52. Dog Eared – Billie Marten
  53. Raspberry Moon – Hotline TNT
  54. If Not Winter – Wisp
  55. Alfredo 2 – Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
  56. Apirary – Gingerbee
  57. Magic, Alive! – McKinley Dixon
  58. R Is for Rocket – Rocket
  59. 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky – Fleshwater
  60. Animaru – Mei Semones
  61. Mark William Lewis – Mark William Lewis
  62. Dead Channel Sky – clipping
  63. Cabin in the Sky – De La Soul
  64. Holo Boy – This Is Lorelei
  65. Deadbeat – Tame Impala
  66. The Crux – Djo
  67. Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan – The Mountain Goats
  68. Lux – Rosalia
  69. Snocaps – Snocaps
  70. Conversational Pieces – Boldy James & Real Bad Men
  71. Tranquilizer – Oneohthrix Point Never
  72. Tears of Injustice – Mdou Moctar
  73. Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles – Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles
  74. Breach – Twenty One Pilots
  75. Blush Response – Acopia
  76. Owls, Owens, and Oracles – Valerie June
  77. Wishbone – Conan Gray
  78. 1000 Variations on the Same Song – Frog
  79. The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy – James McMurtry
  80. Ghostholding – venturing
  81. Running with Scissors – Afternoon Bike Ride
  82. Choke Enough – Oklou
  83. Lonely People with Power – Deafheaven
  84. Liquorice – Hatchie
  85. Blush – Kevin Abstract
  86. Racing Mount Pleasant – Racing Mount Pleasant
  87. private music – Deftones
  88. Pogo Rodeo – Psychedelic Porn Crumpets