The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2025
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) | Japanese Breakfast | Dead Oceans |
| 2 | Is | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| 3 | Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory | Sharon Van Etten | Jagjaguwar |
| 4 | Send a Prayer My Way | Julien Baker & TORRES | Matador |
| 5 | Manning Fireworks | MJ Lenderman | Anti |
| 6 | Who is the Sky? | David Byrne | Matador |
| 7 | RUSHMERE | Mumford & Sons | Glassnote |
| 8 | SABLE, FABLE | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
| 9 | Straight Line Was a Lie | The Beths | Anti |
| 10 | Hickey | Royel Otis | UMG |
| 11 | The Clearing | Wolf Alice | Columbia |
| 12 | No Name | Jack White | Third Man |
| 13 | Songs of a Lost World | The Cure | Polydor |
| 14 | If You Asked for a Picture | Blondshell | Partisan |
| 15 | Hope We Have Fun | Mt. Joy | Dualtone |
| 16 | Belong | Jay Som | Polyvinyl |
| 17 | Neon Grey Midnight Green | Neko Case | Anti |
| 18 | Romance | Fontaines D.C. | Partisan |
| 19 | Return to Zero | Neal Francis | ATO |
| 20 | Flowers | Durand Jones & The Indications | Dead Oceans |
| 21 | Cutouts | The Smile | Self Help |
| 22 | Who Wants to Talk About Love? | Jade Bird | Glassnote |
| 23 | Automatic | The Lumineers | Dualtone |
| 24 | Forever is a Feeling | Lucy Dacus | Geffen |
| 25 | The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 | Lord Huron | Mercury |
| 26 | The Human Fear | Franz Ferdinand | Domino |
| 27 | Evergreen | Soccer Mommy | Loma Vista |
| 28 | Better Dreaming | Tune-Yards | 4AD |
| 29 | Instant Holograms on Metal Film | Stereolab | Duophonic UHF Disks |
| 30 | No Rain, No Flowers | The Black Keys | Warner |
| 31 | Boys These Days | Sports Team | Bright Antenna |
| 32 | This Far South | Tommy Prine | Nameless Knight |
| 33 | Welcome to the Family | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Thirty Tigers |
| 34 | Aperture | The Head and The Heart | Every Shade of Music |
| 35 | Everybody Scream | Florence + the Machine | Polydor |
| 36 | Dotr | LP Giobbi | Counter |
| 37 | The Scholars | Car Seat Headrest | Matador |
| 38 | Lucius | Lucius | Wildewoman |
| 39 | One of a Kind | The Heavy Heavy | ATO |
| 40 | Muscle Shoals Record Shop | Copperhead Six Project | Self-Release |
| 41 | I Blow out Big Candles | Freak Slug | Future Classic |
| 42 | Billboard Heart | Deep Sea Diver | Sub Pop |
| 43 | Love Made Trees | Loaded Honey | AWAL |
| 44 | Phonetics on and on | Horsegirl | Matador |
| 45 | Lefty | Penny & Sparrow | Thirty Tigers |
| 46 | Patterns in Repeat | Laura Marling | Chrysalis |
| 47 | No Obligation | The Linda Lindas | Epitaph |
| 48 | EELS | Being Dead | Bayonet |
| 49 | Magic of the Sale | Teethe | Winspear |
| 50 | It's a Beautiful Place | Water From Your Eyes | Matador |
| 51 | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin | Suki Waterhouse | Sub Pop |
| 52 | Lower | Benjamin Booker | Fire Next Time |
| 53 | Cutthroat | Shame | Dead Oceans |
| 54 | Everybody Needs a Hero | Orla Gartland | New Friends |
| 55 | Welcome to My Blue Sky | Momma | 2025 Polyviny |
| 56 | 2 | Foxwarren | Anti |
| 57 | Ginkgo | Panchiko | Nettwerk |
| 58 | Lost & Found | Free Range | Mick Music |
| 59 | Horror | Bartees Strange | 4AD |
| 60 | Fathers, Sons and Brothers | David Lowery | Cooking Vinyl |
| 61 | EP #2 | Kings of Leon | Love Tap |
| 62 | More | Pulp | Rough Trade |
| 63 | Golden Wolf | Dope Lemon | Angus Stone |
| 64 | Ten Small Fractures | Human Drama | Bob Frank Ent |
| 65 | Liquorice | Hatchie | Secretly Canadian |
| 66 | Battery Lane | Zack Keim | Self-Release |
| 67 | Five Dice, All Threes | Bright Eyes | Dead Oceans |
| 68 | Glory | Perfume Genius | Matador |
| 69 | The Life You Save | Flock Of Dimes | Sub Pop |
| 70 | Two Star & the Dream Police | Mk.gee | Two Star & The Dream Police |
| 71 | A Million Knives | The Velveteers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 72 | Maiden Voyage | The Perfect Storm | MTS |
| 73 | CURSE | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Jagjaguwar |
| 74 | Wild God | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Play It Again Sam |
| 75 | Moon Mirror | Nada Surf | New West |
| 76 | Real Deal | Honeyglaze | Fat Possum |
| 77 | Smash the Control Machine | Jonas Wilson | Mr Pink |
| 78 | What's Wrong with New York? | The Dare | UMG |
| 79 | Tigers Blood | Waxahatchee | Anti |
| 80 | Something is Working Up Above My Head | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone |
| 81 | Paradise Pop. 10 (Deluxe) | Christian Lee Hutson | Anti |
| 82 | This Side of the Island | Hamilton Leithauser | Glassnote |
| 83 | Possession | Ty Segall | Drag City |
| 84 | Glutton for Punishment | Heartworms | Speedy Wunderground |
| 85 | Young-Girl Forever | Sofie Royer | Stones Throw |
| 86 | Better Wonder | Kestrels | Darla |
| 87 | Hangover Terrace | Ron Sexsmith | Cooking Vinyl |
| 88 | Slipper Imp and Shakaerator | Babe Rainbow | pdoom |
| 89 | Daniel | Real Estate | Domino |
| 90 | Viva Hinds | Hinds | Lucky Number |
| 91 | You Are the Morning | jasmine.4.t | Saddest Factory |
| 92 | Lagos Paris London (feat. Tony Allen) | Yannis & The Yaw | Transgressive |
| 93 | 12 | White Denim | Bella Union |
| 94 | Subtropical | Variety | Very Soft |
| 95 | Adagio | Σtella | Sub Pop |
| 96 | The Universe Smiles Upon You Ii | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans |
| 97 | Ohio Players | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 98 | Headlights | (Sandy) Alex G | RCA |
| 99 | Awoo | Ruen Brothers | Yep Roc |
| 100 | Perpetual Motion | Phantoms | Foreign Family Collective |
| 101 | The Cleansing | Peter Perrett | Domino |
| 102 | Glimmer of God | Jean Dawson | P+ |
| 103 | Alternative History: a Cracker Retrospective | Cracker | Cooking Vinyl Limited |
| 104 | Flight B741 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Self-Release |
| 105 | Last Cowboy on the Prairie | Patton Magee | Self-Release |
| 106 | Face Down in the Garden | Tennis | Self-Release |
| 107 | Rome | The National | 4AD |
| 108 | Cowards | Squid | Warp |
| 109 | Strange Burden | Font | Acrophase |
| 110 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador |
| 111 | Phantom Island | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | p(doom) |
| 112 | Waking Up | Annabelle Chairlegs | TODO |
| 113 | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again | The Decemberists | YABB |
| 114 | Cherry Picker | Girl Tones | Mercury |
| 115 | Lucky for You | Bully | Sub Pop |
| 116 | Black Lipstick | Chicano Batman | ATO |
| 117 | News of the Universe | La Luz | Sub Pop |
| 118 | Year of the Banana | Rubblebucket | EggHunt |
| 119 | Changes All the Time | James Bay | Mercury |
| 120 | Heavy Metal | Cameron Winter | Partisan |
| 121 | Anything to Get It | Blah Spa | Self-Release |
| 122 | H.E.A.R.T. | Katrina Ford | Chrysalis |
| 123 | If Not Winter | Wisp | Music Soup |
| 124 | Make It Right | Steve Wynn | Fire |
| 125 | Searching for Strawberries: the Story of Jongo Bongo | Rare Americans | Crooked City |
| 126 | The 4th Album | The Record Company | Round Hill |
| 127 | Your Mother's Name | Susannah Joffe | Open Management |
| 128 | Moneyball | Dutch Interior | Fat Possum |
| 129 | Loose Tooth and a Short Skirt | Freak Slug | Future Classic |
| 130 | Dan's Boogie | Destroyer | Merge |
| 131 | Tripla | Miki Berenyi Trio | Bella Union |
| 132 | Fate & Alcohol | Japandroids | Anti |
| 133 | 1 | bby | Glassnote |
| 134 | The Mountain | Gorillaz | Kong |
| 135 | DOGGOD | L.A. WITCH | Suicide Squeeze |
| 136 | Nightmare Daydream | The Velveteers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 137 | Good Together | Lake Street Dive | Concord |
| 138 | LUX | ROSALÍA | Columbia |
| 139 | Pacific Highway Music | Skegss | Loma Vista |
| 140 | All Born Screaming | St. Vincent | Loma Vista |
| 141 | Cardinals | Cardinals | So Young |
| 142 | MOOD CONTROL | Blk Odyssy | EARTHCHILD |
| 143 | Shy Bairns Get Nowt | Bartees Strange | 4AD |
| 144 | Five Mile Point | Unlettered | Self-Release |
| 145 | SLO MO | Fat Freddy's Drop | Self-Release |
| 146 | Untame the Tiger | Mary Timony | Merge |
| 147 | Dream Noise | Spun Out | Shuga |
| 148 | The Clearing | Wolf Alice | Columbia |
| 149 | Power | illuminati hotties | Snack Shack Tracks |
| 150 | My Method Actor | Nilufer Yanya | Ninja Tune |
| 151 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino |
| 152 | Mucho Mistrust | Fake Fruit | Carpark |
| 153 | Iovi | Trees Inside Out | Sonic Halo |
| 154 | Yume | Yukimi | Ninja Tune |
| 155 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon | BMG |
| 156 | I Got Too Sad for My Friends | Shura | Play It Again Sam |
| 157 | Adesso | Sophia Warren | Universal |
| 158 | Glasgow Eyes | The Jesus And Mary Chain | Fuzz Club |
| 159 | Digital Dream | Deap Vally | Cooking Viny |
| 160 | Commander Trainwreck | Skinner | Faction |
| 161 | The Breaks | Suuns | Joyful Noise |
| 162 | Boeckner! | Boeckner | Sub Pop |
| 163 | Not God | Finom | Joyful Noise |
| 164 | Sugarcoat | Blushing | Kanine |
| 165 | We Do Not Fear Ruins | Mobley | MNRK/Last Gang |
| 166 | For the First Time, Again | Tyler Ballgame | Rough Trade |
| 167 | What Do We Do Now | J Mascis | Sub Pop |
| 168 | My Light, My Destroyer | Cassandra Jenkins | Dead Oceans |
| 169 | Adult Romantix | Winter | Winspear |
| 170 | Careful! | Deeper | Sub Pop |
| 171 | Ain't It Tragic | Dead Sara | Atlantic |
| 172 | Little Rope (Deluxe) | Sleater-Kinney | Loma Vista |
| 173 | Light Verse | Iron & Wine | Sub Pop |
| 174 | SORCS 80 | Thee Oh Sees | Castle Face |
| 175 | Only God Was Above Us | Vampire Weekend | Columbia |
| 176 | Bite Down | Rosali | Merge |
| 177 | Through Today | Chimers | 12XU |
| 178 | FEVER / SKY | Wilder Woods | Dualtone |
| 179 | Charm | Clairo | Self-Release |
| 180 | The Record | Boygenius | Interscope |
| 181 | The Moon is in the Wrong Place | Shannon & The Clams | Easy Eye Sound |
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