Just like final 12 months, 2025 to this point has been a singles recreation relatively than a sequence of fantastic albums. I’ve even fewer on my record than I did this time final 12 months, and solely one in all them is a full album — although that classification is getting murkier as time goes on. There are various acquainted faces on this record alongside a couple of surprises and new arrivals.
What are your ideas, readers? Go away your individual picks within the feedback!
BOYNEXTDOOR – No Style
I don’t know that that is as musically different as its title suggests, but it surely’s one other robust assortment of songs filled with BOYNEXTDOOR’s distinctive character. No different group may have launched this with identical aptitude.
Greatest album tracks: Step By Step, 123-78
H1-KEY – Lovestruck
I’m a sucker for summer-themed albums, and H1-KEY have delivered this 12 months’s most convincing soundtrack to the season to this point with a refreshing rock twist.
Greatest album tracks: Good For U, Let Me Be Your Sea
ITZY – Ladies Will Be Ladies
In my view that is ITZY’s strongest album in a very long time, benefiting from their fierce perspective with thumping, catwalk-ready beats.
Greatest album tracks: Kiss & Inform, Stroll
NouerA – New Is Now / N: Quantity Of Instances
I’m combining each of NouerA’s mini albums as a result of every is implausible and collectively they forge an actual deal with for lovers of second and third technology Ok-pop. Their sound is referential however thrilling and most significantly appears like Ok-pop with a capital “Ok.”
Greatest album tracks: Convey The Crunk, Jet Stream, Myself, Warning!
RIIZE – Odyssey
RIIZE dominated this class final 12 months and proceed to take action in 2025. This album is a whistlestop tour of boy group sounds from a long time of historical past. There’s a bit of one thing for everybody and it’s all very robust.
Greatest album tracks: Ember To Photo voltaic, One other Life
TWS – Attempt With Us
In an already wonderful discography, this mini album has slowly crept as much as turn out to be (possibly?) my favourite TWS mission but. Past the standout singles, energetic highlights like Random Play and Go Again have turn out to be stealth highlights. Undoubtedly my most performed Ok-pop album of the 12 months.
Greatest album tracks: Go Again, Random Play
ZEROBASEONE – Blue Paradise
ZEROBASEONE have shortly turn out to be one of the vital constant teams in Ok-pop and that is one other no-skip album. From the unit tracks to the wonderful funk pop of Satan Sport, it’s all killer.
Greatest album tracks: Satan Sport, Step Again