The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Album Chart
for the Year of 2025
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mahashmashana | Father John Misty | Sub Pop |
| 2 | Humanhood | The Weather Station | Fat Possum |
| 3 | Get Sunk | Matt Berninger | Concord |
| 4 | Deadbeat | Tame Impala | Columbia |
| 5 | Ace | Madison Cunningham | Verve |
| 6 | Always Been | Craig Finn | Tamarac |
| 7 | Here in the Pitch | Jessica Pratt | Mexican Summer |
| 8 | Find El Dorado | Paul Weller | Parlophone |
| 9 | Now Would Be a Good Time | Folk Bitch Trio | Jagjaguwar |
| 10 | Forward | The Swell Season | Masterkey Sounds |
| 11 | Spring Grove | The Ophelias | Get Better |
| 12 | All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade | Of Monsters and Men | Virgin |
| 13 | Fatal Optimist | Madi Diaz | Anti |
| 14 | Memory of a Day (Deluxe) | Phantogram | Neon Gold |
| 15 | Dance Therapy | Ora The Molecule | Mute |
| 16 | Harsh & Exciting | Moonrisers | Concord |
| 17 | Interior Live Oak | Cass McCombs | Domino |
| 18 | Man on the Moon | Fitz & The Tantrums | Atlantic |
| 19 | The Resurrection Game | Emma Swift | Self-Release |
| 20 | Oh Smokey | Clem Snide | Cloverdale |
| 21 | Dropout Boogie | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 22 | Soberish | Liz Phair | Chrysalis |
| 23 | Surrender Instead | Field Medic | Many Hats |
| 24 | Pinto | Kristen Ford | Righteous Babe |
| 25 | Lo | Paula Cole | 675 Records |
| 26 | Neon Pill | Cage the Elephant | RCA |
| 27 | Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party | Hayley Williams | Post Atlantic |
| 28 | Butter | Sofi Tukker | Self-Release |
| 29 | Honeychurch | Widowspeak | Captured Tracks |
| 30 | We've Been Going About This All Wrong | Sharon Van Etten | Jagjaguwar |
| 31 | Things I've Said Before | Remi Goode | Self-Release |
| 32 | Under the Weather | HOMESHAKE | Sinderlyn |
| 33 | Second Nature | Lucius | MOM + POP |
| 34 | Norm | Andy Shauf | Anti |
| 35 | Henry St. | The Tallest Man On Earth | Anti |
| 36 | False Prophets | Kaneb Andrews | Self-Release |
| 37 | When the Day Leaves | Valley Maker | Frenchkiss |
| 38 | Underdressed at the Symphony | Faye Webster | Secretly Canadian |
| 39 | Lives Outgrown | Beth Gibbons | Domino |
| 40 | My Soft Machine | Arlo Parks | Transgressive |
| 41 | OK ORCHESTRA | AJR | Self-Release |
| 42 | Queen Anne | Queen Anne | Queen Anne |
| 43 | Don't Shy Away | Loma | Sub Pop |
| 44 | Inside Problems | Andrew Bird | Loma Vista |
| 45 | Long Lost | Lord Huron | UMG |
| 46 | Life, and Another | Mega Bog | Paradise of Bachelors |
| 47 | Giant Palm | Naima Bock | Sub Pop |
| 48 | Artvertisement | Darrin Bradbury | Anti |
| 49 | Serpentine Prison | Matt Berninger | Concord |
| 50 | Blue Rev | Alvvays | Transgressive |
| 51 | Midnight Surgery | Ian McFarland | Self-Release |
| 52 | Jubilee | Japanese Breakfast | Dead Oceans |
| 53 | Life and Life Only | The Heavy Heavy | ATO |
| 54 | Fruit | The A's | Psychic Hotline |
| 55 | Cruel Country | Wilco | dBPM |
| 56 | BRIGHTSIDE | The Lumineers | Dualtone |
| 57 | And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow | Weyes Blood | Sub Pop |
| 58 | I Inside the Old Year Dying | PJ Harvey | Partisan |
| 59 | Unlimited Love | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Warner |
| 60 | This is Why | Paramore | Atlantic |
| 61 | Dance Fever | Florence + the Machine | Universal |
| 62 | Reset | Panda Bear | Domino |
| 63 | Okemah Rising | Dropkick Murphys | Dummy Luck |
| 64 | Pleasure Centre Remixed | Kraak & Smaak | Boogie Angst |
| 65 | Lavender Days | Caamp | By and By |
| 66 | Surrender | Maggie Rogers | Capitol |
| 67 | Freewheelin' Woman | Jewel | Words Matter |
| 68 | Genius Killer | The Mommyheads | Self-Release |
| 69 | I Walked with You a Ways | Plains | Anti |
| 70 | Ivory | Omar Apollo | Warner |
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