best songs and albums of 2025

A week after the release of Spotify Wrapped, I come to you with this post! A little late but better than never. You can tell a lot about the year I’ve had from the songs I listened to. Additionally, this year Spotify Wrapped showed what albums were listened to most and I’m interested in diving into that data. 

Here’s to the best songs of 2025!!!

Four of the five top songs were from Ms. Rachel Morley. Which is from her album Songs from the Valley. So you can tell what season I’m walking through with God. The number 1 was When Did I Stop Burning?, a song about slowly losing your intimacy with God and acknowledging it. The rest of the songs focused on being in a waiting season and trying to trust without having answers. These songs—My Loss is Not Lost on You, Winds That Delay, and It’s Good to Need You—are prayers I can use when my own words fail.

Some seasons are hard to walk through.

The only song that was not from Rachel Morley was Made of Wax by my beloved Mat Kerekes. This song feels like a perfect song to sing live. It feels brutal and angry and it’s just fun to sing along with. The rest of the Mat Kerekes’ album To Dream of Something Wicked is morose and moody, perfect for a long train ride and melancholy daydreams.

If ever a song embodied my love for emo and faith, it is Dangerous by Gracie Binion. Just listen to the first minute, and if the end of the chorus doesn’t move you, I don’t know what will. 

I’d close my eyes in the air

If You are my parachute

I’m resolute on a mission

You are my hardest pursuit

Every dollar to my name

I would give it all away

Just to know You

To know You

The Divine Zero is the perfect song to display with the juxtaposition of worship and screamo for my top genres. I do enjoy listening to Pierce the Veil. Songs to scream while you’re in the car for some stress relief. Perhaps worship music helps me practice putting words to my faith and emo music puts words to my lament, the hard days.

Now onto the albums~

Everything I saw on my Spotify Wrapped was a confirmation. But this! This shocked me. Seeing the top album be Fields 2 by Torchbearers was very unexpected. But when it came out, I hit replay over and over again. Particularly Here I Am and Send Me, both based on Isaiah 6.

What I did expect was to see the State Champs self-titled. For some reason, I was obsessed. It feels so quintessentially them that I adored it. Just a solid pop punk album! You have to listen to Silver Cloud–it’s the best I’ve heard Derek sing. And his voice is so so good.

Despite coming out in the second half of the year, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party made it into my top 5. Favorites: Whim (my number #1), Blood Bros, Parachute (emotionally devastating), and I Won’t Quit On You.

Lonely astronaut

It’s gonna cost

But you just can’t beat that view

…

Turns out home is not a place

When I think home I see your face

If you want a worship album that’s poignant, then Good Grief by Liv Douglas is what you’re looking for. Proud of Me has such a history for my tender heart. Memory makes me miss Virginia. I’m Not Okay has a gorgeous bridge.

I did so well in my own strength

A hammer to the walls

Rolled on the paint

But in blew the wind

And it all came down

A great wolf you are

To flatten my clout

Mitch Wong is a songwriter. It’s so clear when I actually look at his lyrics. It’s his gift. It Needs To Be Said by Mitch Wong is amazing. But if I had to recommend one song, one I keep going back to, it has to be House of Prayer. An amazing picture of what the church should be.

Now, dear readers, share your favorite songs of this year below! I always need more recommendations.

Signing off,

Gigi