Best Albums of August 2025
The highest-rated albums released in August 2025, ranked by critical consensus from professional music critics.
Best Albums of August 2025 arrives as a month where veteran voices and adventurous newcomers collided, producing a slate of records that critics returned to all month. August's standout albums blended sharp songwriting with bold reinvention - from introspective art-pop to widescreen country and daring jazz explorations.
Hayley Williams's Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party led the critical consensus with a 90.82/100 average across 11 reviews, a late-August statement that critics praised for its emotional range and risky production. Close behind was Dijon's Baby, an intimate 88.0/100 set from five reviews that deepens his genre-blurring palette, while CMAT's EURO-COUNTRY scored 87.45/100 from 11 reviews, turning country tropes into sly, transatlantic pop. Across the top-ranked releases there is clear critical agreement - adventurous songwriting met confident reinvention, reflected in aggregated scores and steady review counts.
August 2025 favored reinvention over safe retreads: established artists expanded their sonic vocabularies, and smaller acts carved memorable niches. Scroll down for the full ranked list of top albums, their consensus scores, and the reviews that made August one of the more compelling months for new music this year.
Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Hayley Williams
Aug 28, 2025
Baby
Dijon
Aug 15, 2025
EURO-COUNTRY
CMAT
Aug 29, 2025
private music
Deftones
Aug 22, 2025
The Passionate Ones
Nourished By Time
Aug 22, 2025
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Ethel Cain
Aug 8, 2025
The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
The Hives
Aug 29, 2025
Essex Honey
Blood Orange
Aug 29, 2025
A Matter Of Time
Laufey
Aug 22, 2025
Live Laugh Love
Earl Sweatshirt
Aug 22, 2025
Blue Reminder
Hand Habits
Aug 22, 2025
Interior Live Oak
Cass McCombs
Aug 15, 2025
THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED
The Armed
Aug 1, 2025
Hard Headed Woman
Margo Price
Aug 29, 2025
The New Eve Is Rising
The New Eves
Aug 1, 2025
It's A Beautiful Place
Water from Your Eyes
Aug 22, 2025
The Clearing
Wolf Alice
Aug 22, 2025
Learning Greek
Humour
Aug 8, 2025
Black Star
Amaarae
Aug 8, 2025
Straight Line Was A Lie
The Beths
Aug 29, 2025
GUSH
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Aug 22, 2025
Man's Best Friend
Sabrina Carpenter
Aug 29, 2025
when i paint my masterpiece
Ada Lea
Aug 8, 2025
METAL FORTH
BABYMETAL
Aug 8, 2025
If Not Winter
Wisp
Aug 1, 2025
Ricochet
Rise Against
Aug 15, 2025
Parasites & Butterflies
Nova Twins
Aug 29, 2025
BITE ME
Reneé Rapp
Aug 1, 2025
Guitar
Mac DeMarco
Aug 22, 2025
No Rain, No Flowers
The Black Keys
Aug 8, 2025
God Does Like Ugly
JID
Aug 8, 2025
hickey
Royel Otis
Aug 22, 2025
Star Line
Chance the Rapper
Aug 15, 2025
Flux
Alison Goldfrapp
Aug 15, 2025
lost americana
MGK
Aug 8, 2025