Topped The New Yorker's best albums of 2025 list, praised as feral, disobedient, pretty, and hopeful for popular music's future with tense, supernatural vocals and unpredictable squall.[newyorker.com](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2025)

Number 2 on The New Yorker's 2025 best albums, hailed as getting richer and weirder with each listen, tuneful country-indie-rock with hard left turns and revelatory, sacred lyrics.[newyorker.com](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2025)

Ranked 3rd by The New Yorker as the most compelling experimental R&B since Frank Ocean's Blonde, with deep, haunted romantic songs, adventurous production that's uncanny yet warm.[newyorker.com](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2025)

The New Yorker ranks it 5th, an explosive rock record animated by grief over his son's death yet with ecstatic moments and lightness, guests like MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee.[newyorker.com](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2025)

Number 6 by The New Yorker, inches closer to genius with incredibly funny and unbearably affecting lyrics on heartache, thick with loud heavy guitar.[newyorker.com](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2025)

Pitchfork reviewed the Afterglow expansion (7.4/10) as chaotic fun in her EUSEXUA universe, with thrillers like ballroom-inspired 'Sushi'; The New Yorker ranks original 7th for tension/release at pinnacle of human experience.[pitchfork.com](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fka-twigs-eusexua-afterglow/) [newyorker.com](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-albums-of-2025)

Pitchfork's 6.8/10 for this R&B return after 8 years praises vocal prowess and studio experiments placing him in a class of his own, though little new ground broken.[pitchfork.com](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/miguel-caos)