From electro ambience through to heavy noise-rock, via lo-fi underground rap; we recommend 10 of the best 2025 projects that you may have missed.

Our top 50 albums, top 20 EPs, and most overrated picks. Plus 8 hours+ of the year’s best tunes selected in our Big 2025 playlist.

Justin Vernon leans into the mythology of Bon Iver, while delivering his most straightforward songwriting yet on a trip through his darkest lows and brightest highs Justin Vernon’s latest had been …

A countdown of our top 20 EPs of 2025.

There’s hints of pop greatnesss as Self Esteem makes her stadium-sized ambitions clear, but it slips into a caricature version of her best work. After the success of 2021’s Prioritise Pleasure, Reb…

As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

Kicking off list season, with our annual rundown of the year’s most overrated albums. Find out who made our unlucky thirteen.

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Counting down our top 50 albums of 2025. Here’s our picks from 50-31.

Part 2 of our top 50 albums of 2025. Counting down numbers 30 to 11.

Counting down No Frills Reviews’ pick of the top 10 albums of 2025.

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A countdown of our top 20 EPs of 2025.

Kicking off list season, with our annual rundown of the year’s most overrated albums. Find out who made our unlucky thirteen.

Kicking off list season, with our annual rundown of the year’s most overrated albums. Find out who made our unlucky thirteen.

As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

A review of the latest from South African star, Moonchild Sanelly. An album full of heart, humour, and horniness.

A review of the latest solo effort from The Walkmen frontman.

A review of the debut album from Boston-based indie-pop artist, Justine Bowe aka Photocomfort.

Track of the Day is a wild, three-act psychedelic rap epic, blazing its scorched earth trail in under three minutes.

Track of the Day is a hard-edged West-Coast rap banger.

A relatable ode to belatedly coming-of-age in the tradition of great British pop Five years on from their debut and after almost a decade together, there’s a risk that the London duo of Joey Bradbu…

Continuing on from our pick of the best albums of 2025 so far, here are five of the best albums that have went under the radar.

As they sacrifice some of their catchy charm, The Lumineers lack of songwriting depth is increasingly exposed The Lumineers may only be five albums deep, and still command popular appeal, even if i…

Justin Vernon leans into the mythology of Bon Iver, while delivering his most straightforward songwriting yet on a trip through his darkest lows and brightest highs Justin Vernon’s latest had been …

As a Oasis fever grips the UK, our track of the day looks back at an oddity unlike anything else in their catalogue.

A review of the second album from Merseyside psych-pop eccentrics, The Dream Machine.

Part 1 in our top albums of 2024 counts down numbers 50-31. Featuring Doechii, Jack White, and Jamie XX.