Best Albums of September 2025
The highest-rated albums released in September 2025, ranked by critical consensus from professional music critics.
September 2025 arrives as a pointed, unpredictable month in new music - Best Albums of September 2025 collects a run of releases that mix veteran restorations, adventurous jazz, and sharp indie statements. Critics framed the month as both retrospective and forward-looking, with several high-scoring projects demanding repeated listens.
Standout releases included Donny McCaslin's Lullaby For The Lost, which topped the consensus at 90.0 from its initial review, and veteran vibraphonist Mulatu Astatke's Mulatu Plays Mulatu, also at 90.0 across three reviews. Equally arresting was Geese's Getting Killed, a critical favorite at 87.07 from 15 reviews that pushed the month's indie-rock conversation. The consensus suggests a balance between archival projects like David Bowie's I Can't Give Everything Away (2002 - 2016) [Box Set] (87.33, three reviews) and risk-taking contemporary records such as Lucrecia Dalt's A Danger To Ourselves (86.25).
September's releases emphasize genre diversity - jazz, post-punk, experimental electronic, and curated reissues - and set a rich context for the ranked list below. Scroll on for the month's top albums, their aggregated scores, and why critics singled these records out as September's most compelling new music.
Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Mulatu Astatke
Lullaby For The Lost
Donny McCaslin
LSD
Cardiacs
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I Can't Give Everything Away (2002 - 2016) [Box Set]
David Bowie
Hagen
Titanic
A Danger To Ourselves
Lucrecia Dalt
Allbarone
Baxter Dury
Through The Wall
Rochelle Jordan
Buckingham Nicks
Buckingham Nicks
Rainy Sunday Afternoon
The Divine Comedy
The Cords
The Cords
Begging The Night To Take Hold
Emma Pollock
Don't Look Down
Kojey Radical
Bleeds
Wednesday
Getting Killed
Geese
Antidepressants
The London Suede
Midnight Sun
Zara Larsson
Blurrr
Joanne Robertson
Joy In Repetition
Hot Chip
Tomorrow We Escape
Ho99o9
No One Was Driving The Car
La Dispute
Saving Grace
Robert Plant
The Art Of Loving
Olivia Dean
THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!
JADE
Double Infinity
Big Thief
Girl Violence
King Princess
Purity Ring
Purity Ring
Something To Consume
Die Spitz
Dim Probs
Gruff Rhys
Perimenopop
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Broken Homes And Gardens
Michael Hurley
Kaleidoscopic Visions
Tom Skinner
Arctic Moon
Chameleons
Look Out Live!
Johnny Marr
All That Is Over
Sprints
Inland See
Bitchin Bajas
Juniper
Joy Crookes
Futique
Biffy Clyro
Uh Oh
Patrick Watson
Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark
Gwenifer Raymond
International
Saint Etienne
Cutthroat
Shame
Songs For Other People's Weddings
Jens Lekman
Real Warmth
Joan Shelley
Orcutt Shelley Miller
Orcutt Shelley Miller
Pain To Power
Maruja
Neon Grey Midnight Green
Neko Case
Twilight Override
Jeff Tweedy
Nobody’s Girl
Amanda Shires
41 Longfield Street Late '80s
Kieran Hebden + William Tyler
Michelangelo Dying
Cate Le Bon
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TRON: Ares [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Nine Inch Nails
In The Hour Of Dust
Grant-Lee Phillips
More Is More
George Riley
I remember I forget
Yasmine Hamdan
Only Slightly Empty
White Reaper
Based On The Best Seller
Sloan
Altar
NewDad
Oh Snap
Cécile McLorin Salvant
I'm Only F**king Myself
Lola Young
Vie
Doja Cat
Better Broken
Sarah McLachlan
Dance Called Memory
Nation of Language
Who Is the Sky?
David Byrne
Here for It All
Mariah Carey
I Will Swim To You: A Tribute To Jason Molina
Various Artists
I Believe In You, My Honeydew
Josh Ritter
Am I The Drama?
Cardi B
Bots
Pickle Darling
SISTER
Frost Children
Baby Man
Fruit Bats
Play
Ed Sheeran
SWAG II
Justin Bieber
UY SCUTI
Young Thug