Best Albums of October 2025
The highest-rated albums released in October 2025, ranked by critical consensus from professional music critics.
Best Albums of October 2025 arrives as a startlingly varied month, where spectral folk, archival excavations, and bold alternative statements shared equal billing. Critics took notice across genres, producing a critical consensus that elevated quiet dreamscapes and major reissues alike.
Sirom's In The Wind Of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper led October with a 90.67/100 consensus from three reviews, while the rediscovered country intimacy of Waylon Jennings's Songbird scored 90.0 across two reviews. Anna von Hausswolff's ICONOCLASTS followed closely at 89.83 from six reviews, signaling a month in which both new, atmospheric composition and carefully curated historical releases commanded attention. Standouts such as Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 (86.0, five reviews) and Agriculture's The Spiritual Sound (86.67, seven reviews) reinforced a pattern of critics rewarding depth, craft, and archival ambition.
October's top albums reveal two clear trends: a hunger for evocative, immersive soundscapes and a renewed critical appetite for archival projects and veteran voices. Below is our ranked list of the month's top albums, ordered by aggregated score and review count to reflect the prevailing critical consensus for October 2025.
In The Wind Of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper
Sirom
Songbird
Waylon Jennings
ICONOCLASTS
Anna von Hausswolff
The Spiritual Sound
Agriculture
Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963
Bob Dylan
Nested In Tangles
Hannah Frances
The Boy Who Played The Harp
Dave
A Lifetime Of Riding By Night
Rhett Miller
Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse
Horace Silver
Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death
Creeper
Idlewild
Idlewild
Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire
Jerskin Fendrix
Returning To Myself
Brandi Carlile
![Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition [Box Set] by Bruce Springsteen](https://assets.chorus.reviews/images/bruce-springsteen/nebraska-82-expanded-edition-box-set/cf68010c-6d3c-54d8-be90-a9f9f2f0fdb5.jpg)
Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition [Box Set]
Bruce Springsteen
Everybody Scream
Florence + the Machine
hooke’s law
keiyaA
Night CRIÚ
Hilary Woods
Snocaps
Snocaps
Melt
Not For Radio
God Save The Gun
Militarie Gun
Disquiet
The Necks
SickElixir
Blawan
One Hundredfold Now In This Age
Jeff Tobias
Figure In Blue
Charles Lloyd
Tower Block In A Jam Jar
Mozart Estate
Ad Astra
Ash
From The Pyre
The Last Dinner Party
Off The Record
Makaya McCraven
West End Girl
Lily Allen
R is for Rocket
Rocket
THE BPM
Sudan Archives
Belong
Jay Som
We Are Love
The Charlatans UK
LOTTO
They Are Gutting A Body Of Water
WE WERE JUST HERE
Just Mustard
Tremor
Daniel Avery
Death & Love
Circa Waves
a little death
Claire Rousay
In The Earth Again
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
Describe
Hannah Jadagu
It's Not That Deep
Demi Lovato
Blight
The Antlers
The Life You Save
Flock of Dimes
And Your Song Is Like A Circle
Skullcrusher
Silver Bleeds The Black Sun...
AFI
FEVEREATEN
Witch Fever
Again
The Belair Lip Bombs
Infinite
Mobb Deep
Fatal Optimist
Madi Diaz
All Systems Are Lying
Soulwax
Worldwide
Snooper
Ace
Madison Cunningham
Touch
Tortoise
The Besnard Lakes Are The Ghost Nation
The Besnard Lakes
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
St. Paul & the Broken Bones
Liminal
Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe
![Power To The People [Box Set] by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band](https://assets.chorus.reviews/images/john-yokoplastic-ono-band/power-to-the-people-box-set/4aa138fb-a115-5cd1-a411-729cd18d58a9.jpg)
Power To The People [Box Set]
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band
Not For Lack Of Trying
Dodie
Some Like It Hot
bar italia
Deadbeat
Tame Impala
The Life Of A Showgirl
Taylor Swift
CAOS
Miguel
Son Of Spergy
Daniel Caesar
Lovin' You
Richard Ashcroft
Love Chant
The Lemonheads
High, Lonesome And Then Some
Todd Snider