VA - Playlist: Best of 2025 - Indie (2025)

Carefully curated by our team of passionate music experts, here are our favorite indie and alternative recordings of 2025 featuring the Beths, Wednesday, verity den, Neko Case, The Bel Air Lip Bombs, Sharp Pins, Michael Beach, Mei Semones, Wombo, Delivery, Good Flying Birds, Sacred Paws, spil tab, Cate Le Bon, Hayley Williams, S.G. Goodman, The Dears, The New Eves, Daughter of Swords, Japanese Breakfast, The Last Dinner Party, Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, The Limiñanas, Blondshell, NewDad, Sharon Van Etten, Alex G, and more.

Tracklist
01 - Alex G - Afterlife
02 - Alice Phoebe Lou - Darling
03 - Ash - Which One Do You Want?
04 - Bartees Strange - Too Much
05 - Baxter Dury, JGrrey - Return Of The Sharp Heads
06 - Beirut - Tuanaki Atoll
07 - Big Thief - Los Angeles
08 - Black Country - The Big Spin
09 - Blondshell - 23's A Baby
10 - Bria Salmena - Stretch the Struggle
11 - Car Seat Headrest - The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)
12 - caroline, Caroline Polachek - Tell me I never knew that
13 - Cass McCombs - Peace
14 - Cate le Bon - Mothers of Riches
15 - Circuit Des Yeux - Megaloner
16 - Claire days - Help you
17 - Courting - Pause at You
18 - Daughter of Swords - Money Hits
19 - Dead Gowns - Wet Dog
20 - Delivery - Operating At A Loss
21 - Destroyer - The Same Thing as Nothing at All
22 - Divorce - All My Freaks
23 - Dope Lemon - Electric Green Lambo
24 - Doves - Saint Teresa
25 - Ethel Cain - Janie
26 - Everyone Says Hi - On The Same Side
27 - Florence + The Machine, Sampha, Everything Is Recorded - Never Felt Better
28 - Ezra Furman - Jump Out
29 - Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream
30 - Andy Shauf, Foxwarren, Darryl Kissick - Listen2me
31 - Franz Ferdinand - Night Or Day
32 - Garbage - Chinese Fire Horse
33 - Geese - 100 Horses
34 - girlpuppy - Champ
35 - Hannah Cohen - Draggin'
36 - Hayley Williams - Ice In My OJ
37 - Horsegirl - Switch Over
38 - Idlewild - It's Not The First Time
39 - Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
40 - jasmine.4.t - Elephant
41 - Jim Adkins, Jay Som - Float
42 - Jenny Hval - The artist is absent
43 - Jensen McRae - The Rearranger
44 - Lord Huron - Bag of Bones
45 - Lucy Dacus - Ankles
46 - Luvcat - Blushing
47 - Madison Cunningham - Skeletree
48 - Maruja - Bloodsport
49 - Matt Berninger - Bonnet Of Pins
50 - Maya Delilah - Squeeze
51 - Mei Semones - I can do what I want
52 - Midlake - The Ghouls
53 - Miki Berenyi Trio - Big I Am
54 - Model/Actriz - Vespers
55 - Moreish Idols - Dream Pixel
56 - My Morning Jacket - Time Waited
57 - Nadia Reid - Hotel Santa Cruz
58 - Neko Case - Wreck
59 - NewDad - Roobosh
60 - Oracle Sisters - Marseille
61 - Other Lives - Versailles
62 - Pale Blue Eyes - The Dreamer
63 - Panda Bear - Ferry Lady
64 - Parcels - Tobeloved
65 - Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding - No Front Teeth
66 - Pulp - Spike Island
67 - Richard Ashcroft - Out Of These Blues
68 - Royel Otis - car
69 - S.G. Goodman - Fire Sign
70 - Sam Fender, Olivia Dean - Rein Me In
71 - Samia - Bovine Excision
72 - Shame - Cutthroat
73 - Shannon Wright - Reservoir of Love
74 - Sharon Van Etten - Afterlife
75 - Smerz - Big city life
76 - Sophie Jamieson - Camera
77 - spill tab - Angie
78 - Squid - Building 650
79 - Stella Donnelly - Feel It Change
80 - Teethe - Magic Of The Sale
81 - The Belair Lip Bombs - Hey You
82 - The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie
83 - The Dears - Babe, We'll Find A Way
84 - The Last Dinner Party - Second Best
85 - Penny, The Liminanas - Faded (feat. Penny)
86 - The Lumineers - Same Old Song
87 - The New Eves - Highway Man
88 - The Ophelias - Cicada
89 - The Weather Station - Humanhood
90 - tUnE-yArDs - Swarm
91 - twenty one pilots - RAWFEAR
92 - Ty Segall - Shining
93 - U.S. Girls - Like James Said
94 - Water From Your Eyes - Life Signs
95 - Wednesday - Townies
96 - Wet Leg - catch these fists
97 - Winter - Just Like A Flower
98 - Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom
99 - Wombo - Danger in Fives
100 - yeule - The Girl Who Sold Her Face