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.
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Allbarone
Baxter Dury
Sep 12, 2025
Antidepressants
Suede
Sep 5, 2025
Through The Wall
Rochelle Jordan
Sep 26, 2025
Buckingham Nicks
Buckingham Nicks
Sep 19, 2025
Bleeds
Wednesday
Sep 19, 2025
Getting Killed
Geese
Sep 26, 2025
Antidepressants
The London Suede
Sep 5, 2025
Midnight Sun
Zara Larsson
Sep 26, 2025
Blurrr
Joanne Robertson
Sep 19, 2025
No One Was Driving The Car
La Dispute
Sep 5, 2025
Saving Grace
Robert Plant
Sep 26, 2025
The Art Of Loving
Olivia Dean
Sep 26, 2025
THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!
JADE
Sep 12, 2025
Neon Grey Midnight Green
Neko Case
Sep 26, 2025
THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!
JADE
Sep 12, 2025
Double Infinity
Big Thief
Sep 5, 2025
Nobody’s Girl
Amanda Shires
Sep 26, 2025
Girl Violence
King Princess
Sep 12, 2025
All That Is Over
Sprints
Sep 26, 2025
Futique
Biffy Clyro
Sep 19, 2025
International
Saint Etienne
Sep 5, 2025
Cutthroat
Shame
Sep 5, 2025
Songs For Other People's Weddings
Jens Lekman
Sep 12, 2025
Pain To Power
Maruja
Sep 12, 2025
Twilight Override
Jeff Tweedy
Sep 26, 2025
41 Longfield Street Late '80s
Kieran Hebden + William Tyler
Sep 19, 2025
Michelangelo Dying
Cate Le Bon
Sep 26, 2025
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Nine Inch Nails
Sep 19, 2025
I'm Only F**king Myself
Lola Young
Sep 19, 2025
Vie
Doja Cat
Sep 26, 2025
Caramel
Coach Party
Sep 26, 2025
Dance Called Memory
Nation of Language
Sep 19, 2025
Am I The Drama?
Cardi B
Sep 19, 2025
Play
Ed Sheeran
Sep 12, 2025
Who Is The Sky?
David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra
Sep 5, 2025
SWAG II
Justin Bieber
Sep 5, 2025