The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2025
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| 2 | Twilight Override | Jeff Tweedy | dBpm |
| 3 | Moisturizer | Wet Leg | Domino |
| 4 | For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) | Japanese Breakfast | Dead Oceans |
| 5 | Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory | Sharon Van Etten | Jagjaguwar |
| 6 | Send a Prayer My Way | Julien Baker & TORRES | Matador |
| 7 | Straight Line Was a Lie | The Beths | Anti |
| 8 | Thee Black Boltz | Tunde Adebimpe | Sub Pop |
| 9 | Who is the Sky? | David Byrne | Matador |
| 10 | Manning Fireworks | MJ Lenderman | Anti |
| 11 | SABLE, FABLE | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
| 12 | Rushmere | Mumford & Sons | Glassnote |
| 13 | Hickey | Royel Otis | UMG |
| 14 | The Clearing | Wolf Alice | Columbia |
| 15 | Songs of a Lost World | The Cure | Polydor |
| 16 | No Name | Jack White | Third Man |
| 17 | If You Asked for a Picture | Blondshell | Partisan |
| 18 | Hope We Have Fun | Mt. Joy | Dualtone |
| 19 | Neon Grey Midnight Green | Neko Case | Anti |
| 20 | Automatic | The Lumineers | Dualtone |
| 21 | Belong | Jay Som | Polyvinyl |
| 22 | Return to Zero | Neal Francis | ATO |
| 23 | Flowers | Durand Jones & The Indications | Dead Oceans |
| 24 | Dance Called Memory | Nation of Language | Sub Pop |
| 25 | Cutouts | The Smile | Self Help |
| 26 | No Rain, No Flowers | The Black Keys | Warner |
| 27 | Snocaps | Snocaps | Anti |
| 28 | The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 | Lord Huron | Mercury |
| 29 | Forever is a Feeling: the Archives | Lucy Dacus | Geffen |
| 30 | Getting Killed | Geese | Partisan |
| 31 | The Human Fear | Franz Ferdinand | Domino |
| 32 | Evergreen | Soccer Mommy | Loma Vista |
| 33 | Better Dreaming | Tune-Yards | 4AD |
| 34 | Instant Holograms on Metal Film | Stereolab | Duophonic UHF Disks |
| 35 | Boys These Days | Sports Team | Bright Antenna |
| 36 | Lucius | Lucius | Wildewoman |
| 37 | This Far South | Tommy Prine | Nameless Knight |
| 38 | Everybody Scream | Florence + the Machine | Polydor |
| 39 | Aperture | The Head and The Heart | Every Shade of Music |
| 40 | Welcome to the Family | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Thirty Tigers |
| 41 | The Scholars | Car Seat Headrest | Matador |
| 42 | Dotr | LP Giobbi | Counter |
| 43 | I Blow out Big Candles | Freak Slug | Future Classic |
| 44 | One of a Kind | The Heavy Heavy | ATO |
| 45 | Shish | Portugal. The Man | KNIK |
| 46 | Billboard Heart | Deep Sea Diver | Sub Pop |
| 47 | Welcome to My Blue Sky | Momma | 2025 Polyviny |
| 48 | Phonetics on and on | Horsegirl | Matador |
| 49 | Muscle Shoals Record Shop | Copperhead Six Project | Self-Release |
| 50 | Lefty | Penny & Sparrow | Thirty Tigers |
| 51 | Love Made Trees | Loaded Honey | AWAL |
| 52 | Patterns in Repeat | Laura Marling | Chrysalis |
| 53 | No Obligation | The Linda Lindas | Epitaph |
| 54 | EELS | Being Dead | Bayonet |
| 55 | Something to Consume | Die Spitz | Third Man |
| 56 | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin | Suki Waterhouse | Sub Pop |
| 57 | It's a Beautiful Place | Water From Your Eyes | Matador |
| 58 | Magic of the Sale | Teethe | Winspear |
| 59 | Lower | Benjamin Booker | Fire Next Time |
| 60 | Cutthroat | Shame | Dead Oceans |
| 61 | Everybody Needs a Hero | Orla Gartland | New Friends |
| 62 | 2 | Foxwarren | Anti |
| 63 | Ginkgo | Panchiko | Nettwerk |
| 64 | Horror | Bartees Strange | 4AD |
| 65 | Good Together | Lake Street Dive | Concord |
| 66 | Lost & Found | Free Range | Mick Music |
| 67 | Fathers, Sons and Brothers | David Lowery | Cooking Vinyl |
| 68 | EP #2 | Kings of Leon | Love Tap |
| 69 | Golden Wolf | Dope Lemon | Angus Stone |
| 70 | More | Pulp | Rough Trade |
| 71 | Ten Small Fractures | Human Drama | Bob Frank Ent |
| 72 | Liquorice | Hatchie | Secretly Canadian |
| 73 | Glory | Perfume Genius | Matador |
| 74 | Battery Lane | Zack Keim | Self-Release |
| 75 | Butter Miracle, the Complete Sweets! | Counting Crows | BMG |
| 76 | The Life You Save | Flock Of Dimes | Sub Pop |
| 77 | Five Dice, All Threes | Bright Eyes | Dead Oceans |
| 78 | Two Star & the Dream Police | Mk.gee | Two Star & The Dream Police |
| 79 | A Million Knives | The Velveteers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 80 | Maiden Voyage | The Perfect Storm | MTS |
| 81 | Lagos Paris London (feat. Tony Allen) | Yannis & The Yaw | Transgressive |
| 82 | We Do Not Fear Ruins | Mobley | MNRK/Last Gang |
| 83 | Curse | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Jagjaguwar |
| 84 | Wild God | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Play It Again Sam |
| 85 | Moon Mirror | Nada Surf | New West |
| 86 | Masquerade | Cardinals | So Young |
| 87 | Joyride | Lucius | Fantasy |
| 88 | Real Deal | Honeyglaze | Fat Possum |
| 89 | Here Comes the Good Part | Gyasi | Alive Naturalsound |
| 90 | Smash the Control Machine | Jonas Wilson | Mr Pink |
| 91 | Tigers Blood | Waxahatchee | Anti |
| 92 | Paradise Pop. 10 (Deluxe) | Christian Lee Hutson | Anti |
| 93 | What's Wrong with New York? | The Dare | UMG |
| 94 | The Universe Smiles Upon You II | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans |
| 95 | The Future is Our Way out | Brigitte Calls Me Baby | ATO Records |
| 96 | Something is Working Up Above My Head | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone |
| 97 | This Side of the Island | Hamilton Leithauser | Glassnote |
| 98 | Better Wonder | Kestrels | Darla |
| 99 | Perpetual Motion | Phantoms | Foreign Family Collective |
| 100 | Possession | Ty Segall | Drag City |
| 101 | Viva Hinds | Hinds | Lucky Number |
| 102 | Glutton for Punishment | Heartworms | Speedy Wunderground |
| 103 | Slipper Imp and Shakaerator | Babe Rainbow | pdoom |
| 104 | Awoo | Ruen Brothers | Yep Roc |
| 105 | Young-Girl Forever | Sofie Royer | Stones Throw |
| 106 | Hangover Terrace | Ron Sexsmith | Cooking Vinyl |
| 107 | 8000 Days | West Texas Exiles | Floating Mesa |
| 108 | Headlights | (Sandy) Alex G | RCA |
| 109 | Daniel | Real Estate | Domino |
| 110 | Things Take Time, Take Time | Courtney Barnett | Mom+Pop |
| 111 | You Are the Morning | jasmine.4.t | Saddest Factory |
| 112 | 12 | White Denim | Bella Union |
| 113 | Adagio | Σtella | Sub Pop |
| 114 | Subtropical | Variety | Very Soft |
| 115 | Ohio Players | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 116 | Alternative History: a Cracker Retrospective | Cracker | Cooking Vinyl Limited |
| 117 | Cowards | Squid | Warp |
| 118 | The Mountain | Gorillaz | Kong |
| 119 | The Cleansing | Peter Perrett | Domino |
| 120 | Glimmer of God | Jean Dawson | P+ |
| 121 | Rome | The National | 4AD |
| 122 | Flight B741 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Self-Release |
| 123 | Last Cowboy on the Prairie | Patton Magee | Self-Release |
| 124 | Face Down in the Garden | Tennis | Self-Release |
| 125 | Phantom Island | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | p(doom) |
| 126 | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again | The Decemberists | YABB |
| 127 | News of the Universe | La Luz | Sub Pop |
| 128 | Strange Burden | Font | Acrophase |
| 129 | Lucky for You | Bully | Sub Pop |
| 130 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador |
| 131 | Black Lipstick | Chicano Batman | ATO |
| 132 | Waking Up | Annabelle Chairlegs | TODO |
| 133 | Heavy Metal | Cameron Winter | Partisan |
| 134 | Cherry Picker | Girl Tones | Mercury |
| 135 | Year of the Banana | Rubblebucket | EggHunt |
| 136 | Changes All the Time | James Bay | Mercury |
| 137 | H.E.A.R.T. | Katrina Ford | Chrysalis |
| 138 | All Born Screaming | St. Vincent | Loma Vista |
| 139 | Anything to Get It | Blah Spa | Self-Release |
| 140 | If Not Winter | Wisp | Music Soup |
| 141 | Make It Right | Steve Wynn | Fire |
| 142 | The 4th Album | The Record Company | Round Hill |
| 143 | Searching for Strawberries: the Story of Jongo Bongo | Rare Americans | Crooked City |
| 144 | Moneyball | Dutch Interior | Fat Possum |
| 145 | Your Mother's Name | Susannah Joffe | Open Management |
| 146 | Loose Tooth and a Short Skirt | Freak Slug | Future Classic |
| 147 | Dan's Boogie | Destroyer | Merge |
| 148 | Tripla | Miki Berenyi Trio | Bella Union |
| 149 | Fate & Alcohol | Japandroids | Anti |
| 150 | Doggod | L.A. WITCH | Suicide Squeeze |
| 151 | 1 | bby | Glassnote |
| 152 | I Got Too Sad for My Friends | Shura | Play It Again Sam |
| 153 | Nightmare Daydream | The Velveteers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 154 | LUX | ROSALÍA | Columbia |
| 155 | Pacific Highway Music | Skegss | Loma Vista |
| 156 | I Must Be Dreaming | Alabama Shakes | Sel-Release |
| 157 | Cardinals | Cardinals | So Young |
| 158 | Mood Control | Blk Odyssy | EARTHCHILD |
| 159 | Shy Bairns Get Nowt | Bartees Strange | 4AD |
| 160 | Slo Mo | Fat Freddy's Drop | Self-Release |
| 161 | Five Mile Point | Unlettered | Self-Release |
| 162 | Yume | Yukimi | Ninja Tune |
| 163 | Untame the Tiger | Mary Timony | Merge |
| 164 | Dream Noise | Spun Out | Shuga |
| 165 | My Method Actor | Nilufer Yanya | Ninja Tune |
| 166 | The Clearing | Wolf Alice | Columbia |
| 167 | Power | illuminati hotties | Snack Shack Tracks |
| 168 | Mucho Mistrust | Fake Fruit | Carpark |
| 169 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino |
| 170 | Iovi | Trees Inside Out | Sonic Halo |
| 171 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon | BMG |
| 172 | Adult Romantix | Winter | Winspear |
| 173 | Adesso | Sophia Warren | Universal |
| 174 | Glasgow Eyes | The Jesus And Mary Chain | Fuzz Club |
| 175 | Digital Dream | Deap Vally | Cooking Viny |
| 176 | Prelude to Ecstasy | The Last Dinner Party | Island |
| 177 | Commander Trainwreck | Skinner | Faction |
| 178 | The Breaks | Suuns | Joyful Noise |
| 179 | Boeckner! | Boeckner | Sub Pop |
| 180 | Not God | Finom | Joyful Noise |
| 181 | Sugarcoat | Blushing | Kanine |
| 182 | Careful! | Deeper | Sub Pop |
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