Which Albums Will Critics Choose As 2025’s Best? Let’s Make Some Educated Guesses

Getty Image/Derrick Rossignol This time of year, I don’t have to look at the calendar to know what time it is. I can already feel it in my bones. The urge to eat pumpkin pie and start making my year-end albums list tells me all I need to know. I have been doing both things for most of my life. I’m not sure if either is good for me, and yet I persist. When it comes to the second thing, I also start thinking about what other music critics are going to put on their lists. And then I go into prognostication mode about annual critical consensus. A lot of albums come out in any given year. It’s