Favorite Music 2020-2025
Published on Nov 28, 2025
Just thinking about some of my favorite albums from the past five years (in no particular order):
- The Songs of Bacharach & Costello (Deluxe Edition) - Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach
- Dragon New Warm Mountain - Big Thief
- Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan
- Brought Future - Adrianne Lenker
- Shadow Kingdom - Bob Dylan
- Carnage - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
- Please Daddy - Sarah Mary Chadwick
- Me and Ennui are Friends Baby - Sarah Mary Chadwick
- I Don’t Live Here Anymore - The War on Drugs
- Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave alone at Alexandra Palace - Nick Cave
- Wild God - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Unlimited Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Woodland - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
And some albums I really liked, but I'm not sure if they hit that 'favorite' category:
- Soul Burger - Ab-Soul
- GNX - Kendrick Lamar
- Echo Dancing - Alejandro Escovedo
- WE - Arcade Fire
- Bewitched - Laufey
- As it Ever Was, So It Will Be Again - The Decemberists
- Radical Optimism - Dua Lipa
- An Overview on Phenomenal Nature - Cassandra Jenkins