The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2025
1 |  | Twilight Override by: Jeff Tweedy   | Label: dBpm Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
2 |  | Moisturizer by: Wet Leg | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:   |
3 |  | For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) by: Japanese Breakfast | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
4 |  | Is by: My Morning Jacket | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
5 |  | Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory by: Sharon Van Etten | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
6 |  | Thee Black Boltz by: Tunde Adebimpe | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
7 |  | Send a Prayer My Way by: Julien Baker & TORRES | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
8 |  | Manning Fireworks by: MJ Lenderman | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
9 |  | Who is the Sky? by: David Byrne | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
10 |  | RUSHMERE by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:   |
11 |  | SABLE, FABLE by: Bon Iver | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
12 |  | Straight Line Was a Lie by: The Beths | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
13 |  | Hickey by: Royel Otis | Label: UMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
14 |  | The Clearing by: Wolf Alice | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
15 |  | No Name by: Jack White | Label: Third Man Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
16 |  | Songs of a Lost World by: The Cure | Label: Polydor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
17 |  | If You Asked for a Picture by: Blondshell | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
18 |  | Hope We Have Fun by: Mt. Joy | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
19 |  | Belong by: Jay Som | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
20 |  | Neon Grey Midnight Green by: Neko Case | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
21 |  | Romance by: Fontaines D.C. | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
22 |  | Return to Zero by: Neal Francis | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
23 |  | Flowers by: Durand Jones & The Indications | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
24 |  | Dance Called Memory by: Nation of Language | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
25 |  | Cutouts by: The Smile | Label: Self Help Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
26 |  | Snocaps by: Snocaps | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
27 |  | Automatic by: The Lumineers | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
28 |  | Forever is a Feeling by: Lucy Dacus | Label: Geffen Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
29 |  | The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 by: Lord Huron | Label: Mercury Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
30 |  | The Human Fear by: Franz Ferdinand | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
31 |  | Evergreen by: Soccer Mommy | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
32 |  | Better Dreaming by: Tune-Yards | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
33 |  | Instant Holograms on Metal Film by: Stereolab | Label: Duophonic UHF Disks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
34 |  | No Rain, No Flowers by: The Black Keys | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
35 |  | Boys These Days by: Sports Team | Label: Bright Antenna Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
36 |  | Getting Killed by: Geese | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
37 |  | This Far South by: Tommy Prine | Label: Nameless Knight Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
38 |  | Welcome to the Family by: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
39 |  | Aperture by: The Head and The Heart | Label: Every Shade of Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
40 |  | Everybody Scream by: Florence + the Machine | Label: Polydor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
41 |  | Dotr by: LP Giobbi | Label: Counter Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
42 |  | The Scholars by: Car Seat Headrest | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
43 |  | Lucius by: Lucius | Label: Wildewoman Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
44 |  | One of a Kind by: The Heavy Heavy | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
45 |  | Muscle Shoals Record Shop by: Copperhead Six Project | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
46 |  | I Blow out Big Candles by: Freak Slug | Label: Future Classic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
47 |  | SHISH by: Portugal. The Man | Label: KNIK Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
48 |  | Billboard Heart by: Deep Sea Diver | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
49 |  | Love Made Trees by: Loaded Honey | Label: AWAL Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
50 |  | Phonetics on and on by: Horsegirl | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
51 |  | Lefty by: Penny & Sparrow | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
52 |  | Patterns in Repeat by: Laura Marling | Label: Chrysalis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
53 |  | No Obligation by: The Linda Lindas | Label: Epitaph Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
54 |  | EELS by: Being Dead | Label: Bayonet Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
55 |  | Something to Consume by: Die Spitz | Label: Third Man Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
56 |  | Magic of the Sale by: Teethe | Label: Winspear Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
57 |  | It's a Beautiful Place by: Water From Your Eyes | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
58 |  | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin by: Suki Waterhouse | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
59 |  | Lower by: Benjamin Booker | Label: Fire Next Time Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
60 |  | Cutthroat by: Shame | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
61 |  | Everybody Needs a Hero by: Orla Gartland | Label: New Friends Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
62 |  | Welcome to My Blue Sky by: Momma | Label: 2025 Polyviny Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
63 |  | 2 by: Foxwarren | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
64 |  | Ginkgo by: Panchiko | Label: Nettwerk Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
65 |  | Lost & Found by: Free Range | Label: Mick Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
66 |  | Horror by: Bartees Strange | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
67 |  | Fathers, Sons and Brothers by: David Lowery | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
68 |  | EP #2 by: Kings of Leon | Label: Love Tap Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
69 |  | More by: Pulp | Label: Rough Trade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
70 |  | Golden Wolf by: Dope Lemon | Label: Angus Stone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
71 |  | Ten Small Fractures by: Human Drama | Label: Bob Frank Ent Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
72 |  | Liquorice by: Hatchie | Label: Secretly Canadian Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
73 |  | Battery Lane by: Zack Keim | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
74 |  | Five Dice, All Threes by: Bright Eyes | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
75 |  | Glory by: Perfume Genius | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
76 |  | The Life You Save by: Flock Of Dimes | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
77 |  | Two Star & the Dream Police by: Mk.gee | Label: Two Star & The Dream Police Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
78 |  | A Million Knives by: The Velveteers | Label: Easy Eye Sound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
79 |  | Maiden Voyage by: The Perfect Storm | Label: MTS Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
80 |  | CURSE by: Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
81 |  | Wild God by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Label: Play It Again Sam Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
82 |  | Masquerade by: Cardinals | Label: So Young Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
83 |  | Moon Mirror by: Nada Surf | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
84 |  | Real Deal by: Honeyglaze | Label: Fat Possum Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
85 |  | Smash the Control Machine by: Jonas Wilson | Label: Mr Pink Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
86 |  | What's Wrong with New York? by: The Dare | Label: UMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
87 |  | Tigers Blood by: Waxahatchee | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
88 |  | Something is Working Up Above My Head by: Shovels & Rope | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
89 |  | Paradise Pop. 10 (Deluxe) by: Christian Lee Hutson | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
90 |  | This Side of the Island by: Hamilton Leithauser | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
91 |  | Possession by: Ty Segall | Label: Drag City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
92 |  | Glutton for Punishment by: Heartworms | Label: Speedy Wunderground Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
93 |  | Young-Girl Forever by: Sofie Royer | Label: Stones Throw Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
94 |  | Better Wonder by: Kestrels | Label: Darla Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
95 |  | Hangover Terrace by: Ron Sexsmith | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
96 |  | Slipper Imp and Shakaerator by: Babe Rainbow | Label: pdoom Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
97 |  | Daniel by: Real Estate | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
98 |  | Viva Hinds by: Hinds | Label: Lucky Number Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
99 |  | You Are the Morning by: jasmine.4.t | Label: Saddest Factory Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
100 |  | Lagos Paris London (feat. Tony Allen) by: Yannis & The Yaw | Label: Transgressive Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
101 |  | 12 by: White Denim | Label: Bella Union Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
102 |  | Subtropical by: Variety | Label: Very Soft Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
103 |  | Adagio by: Σtella | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
104 |  | The Universe Smiles Upon You Ii by: Khruangbin | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
105 |  | Ohio Players by: The Black Keys | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
106 |  | Headlights by: (Sandy) Alex G | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
107 |  | Awoo by: Ruen Brothers | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
108 |  | Perpetual Motion by: Phantoms | Label: Foreign Family Collective Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
109 |  | The Mountain by: Gorillaz | Label: Kong Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
110 |  | The Cleansing by: Peter Perrett | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
111 |  | Glimmer of God by: Jean Dawson | Label: P+ Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
112 |  | Alternative History: a Cracker Retrospective by: Cracker | Label: Cooking Vinyl Limited Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
113 |  | Flight B741 by: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
114 |  | Last Cowboy on the Prairie by: Patton Magee | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
115 |  | Face Down in the Garden by: Tennis | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
116 |  | Rome by: The National | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
117 |  | Cowards by: Squid | Label: Warp Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
118 |  | Strange Burden by: Font | Label: Acrophase Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
119 |  | Lucifer on the Sofa by: Spoon | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
120 |  | Phantom Island by: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Label: p(doom) Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
121 |  | Waking Up by: Annabelle Chairlegs | Label: TODO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
122 |  | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again by: The Decemberists | Label: YABB Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
123 |  | Cherry Picker by: Girl Tones | Label: Mercury Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
124 |  | Lucky for You by: Bully | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
125 |  | Black Lipstick by: Chicano Batman | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
126 |  | News of the Universe by: La Luz | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
127 |  | Year of the Banana by: Rubblebucket | Label: EggHunt Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
128 |  | Changes All the Time by: James Bay | Label: Mercury Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
129 |  | Heavy Metal by: Cameron Winter | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
130 |  | Anything to Get It by: Blah Spa | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
131 |  | H.E.A.R.T. by: Katrina Ford | Label: Chrysalis Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
132 |  | If Not Winter by: Wisp | Label: Music Soup Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
133 |  | Make It Right by: Steve Wynn | Label: Fire Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
134 |  | Searching for Strawberries: the Story of Jongo Bongo by: Rare Americans | Label: Crooked City Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
135 |  | The 4th Album by: The Record Company | Label: Round Hill Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
136 |  | Your Mother's Name by: Susannah Joffe | Label: Open Management Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
137 |  | Moneyball by: Dutch Interior | Label: Fat Possum Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
138 |  | Loose Tooth and a Short Skirt by: Freak Slug | Label: Future Classic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
139 |  | Dan's Boogie by: Destroyer | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
140 |  | Tripla by: Miki Berenyi Trio | Label: Bella Union Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
141 |  | Fate & Alcohol by: Japandroids | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
142 |  | 1 by: bby | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
143 |  | DOGGOD by: L.A. WITCH | Label: Suicide Squeeze Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
144 |  | Nightmare Daydream by: The Velveteers | Label: Easy Eye Sound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
145 |  | Good Together by: Lake Street Dive | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
146 |  | LUX by: ROSALÍA | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
147 |  | Pacific Highway Music by: Skegss | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
148 |  | All Born Screaming by: St. Vincent | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
149 |  | Cardinals by: Cardinals | Label: So Young Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
150 |  | MOOD CONTROL by: Blk Odyssy | Label: EARTHCHILD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
151 |  | Shy Bairns Get Nowt by: Bartees Strange | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
152 |  | Five Mile Point by: Unlettered | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
153 |  | SLO MO by: Fat Freddy's Drop | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
154 |  | Untame the Tiger by: Mary Timony | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
155 |  | Dream Noise by: Spun Out | Label: Shuga Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
156 | | The Clearing by: Wolf Alice | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
157 |  | Power by: illuminati hotties | Label: Snack Shack Tracks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
158 |  | My Method Actor by: Nilufer Yanya | Label: Ninja Tune Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
159 |  | Wet Leg by: Wet Leg | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
160 |  | Mucho Mistrust by: Fake Fruit | Label: Carpark Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
161 |  | Iovi by: Trees Inside Out | Label: Sonic Halo Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
162 |  | Yume by: Yukimi | Label: Ninja Tune Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
163 |  | Rose Pink Cadillac by: Dope Lemon | Label: BMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
164 |  | I Got Too Sad for My Friends by: Shura | Label: Play It Again Sam Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
165 |  | Adesso by: Sophia Warren | Label: Universal Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
166 |  | Glasgow Eyes by: The Jesus And Mary Chain | Label: Fuzz Club Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
167 |  | Digital Dream by: Deap Vally | Label: Cooking Viny Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
168 |  | Commander Trainwreck by: Skinner | Label: Faction Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
169 |  | The Breaks by: Suuns | Label: Joyful Noise Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
170 |  | Boeckner! by: Boeckner | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
171 |  | Not God by: Finom | Label: Joyful Noise Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
172 |  | Sugarcoat by: Blushing | Label: Kanine Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
173 |  | We Do Not Fear Ruins by: Mobley | Label: MNRK/Last Gang Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
174 |  | For the First Time, Again by: Tyler Ballgame | Label: Rough Trade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
175 |  | What Do We Do Now by: J Mascis | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
176 |  | My Light, My Destroyer by: Cassandra Jenkins | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
177 |  | Adult Romantix by: Winter | Label: Winspear Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
178 |  | Careful! by: Deeper | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
179 |  | Ain't It Tragic by: Dead Sara | Label: Atlantic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
180 |  | Little Rope (Deluxe) by: Sleater-Kinney | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
181 |  | Light Verse by: Iron & Wine | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
182 |  | SORCS 80 by: Thee Oh Sees | Label: Castle Face Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
183 |  | Only God Was Above Us by: Vampire Weekend | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
184 |  | Bite Down by: Rosali | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
185 |  | Through Today by: Chimers | Label: 12XU Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
186 |  | FEVER / SKY by: Wilder Woods | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
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