Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2025 Staff Picks!

Today’s 2025 Top 10 is from Catherine.

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CATE LE BON
Michelangelo Dying

LAEL NEALE
Altogether Stranger

BUNTSPECHT
Konstrukt 5

JONATHAN RICHMAN
Only Frozen Sky Anyway

PANDA BEAR
Sinister Grift

JESSE SYKES AND THE SWEET HEREAFTER
Forever, I’ve Been Being Born

EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY
Weirdo

YOUTH LAGOON
Rarely Do I Dream

DEEP HEAVEN
in:

THE LAST DINNER PARTY
From the Pyre

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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2025 Staff Picks!

Today’s 2025 Top 7 is from Glenn.

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DEATHFIEND
Dark Rising 

DISTANCE
Le Décor 

POLICY OF 3
Policy of 3 (discography)

VAMPIRE
What Seems Forever Can Be Broken 

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Tehrangeles Vice (Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993)  

DARK THOUGHTS
Highway to the End

BOMBARDEMENT
Dans la Fournaise

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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2025 Staff Picks!

Today’s 2025 Top 10 is from Erica.

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FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
Everybody Scream

LILY ALLEN
West End Girl

THE LAST DINNER PARTY
From the Pyre

GOLDIE BOUTILIER
Goldie Montana

SMERZ
Big city life

LITTLE SIMZ
Lotus

OKLOU
choke enough

LORDE
Virgin

SUDAN ARCHIVES
The BPM

GOGO PENGUIN
Necessary Fictions

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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2025 Staff Picks!

Today’s 2025 Top 10 is from Chad.

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SHE’S GREEN
Chrysalis

BONOBO
Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack)

NIGHTBUS
Passenger

GREET DEATH
Die in Love

HORSEGIRL
Phonetics On and On

MEI SEMONES
Animaru

BAR ITALIA
Some Like It Hot

ANTIBALAS
Hourglass

PINK FLOYD
Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII

TUNDE ADEBIMPE
Thee Black Boltz

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Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2025 Staff Picks!

Today’s 2025 Top 10 is from Nick.

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RADIOACTIVITY
Time Won’t Bring Me Down

AIR
The Virgin Suicides Redux

THE REPLACEMENTS
Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)

CATE LE BON
Michelangelo Dying

SUPERCHUNK
Songs in the Key of Yikes

LOBO LARA Y CHILLI WILLY
Pata de Perro

PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY
Fall From the Stars

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
Forever Howlong

MCGRUFF THE CRIME DOG
McGruff’s® Smart Kids Album

THE NUMBER ONES
Sorry / Blind Spot single

SABRINA CARPENTER
Man’s Best Friend

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