The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Album Chart
for the Year of 2025

1
Mahashmashana
by: Father John Misty

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Label: Sub Pop
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Humanhood
by: The Weather Station

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Label: Fat Possum
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Get Sunk
by: Matt Berninger

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Label: Concord
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Always Been
by: Craig Finn

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Label: Tamarac
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Here in the Pitch
by: Jessica Pratt

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Label: Mexican Summer
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Spring Grove
by: The Ophelias

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Label: Get Better
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Dance Therapy
by: Ora The Molecule

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Label: Mute
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Forward
by: The Swell Season

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Label: Masterkey Sounds
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Dropout Boogie
by: The Black Keys

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Label: Nonesuch
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Lo
by: Paula Cole

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Label: 675 Records
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Neon Pill
by: Cage the Elephant

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Label: RCA
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Find El Dorado
by: Paul Weller

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Label: Parlophone
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We've Been Going About This All Wrong
by: Sharon Van Etten

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Label: Jagjaguwar
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Second Nature
by: Lucius

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Label: MOM + POP
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Honeychurch
by: Widowspeak

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Label: Captured Tracks
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Underdressed at the Symphony
by: Faye Webster

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Label: Secretly Canadian
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Lives Outgrown
by: Beth Gibbons

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Label: Domino
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I Inside the Old Year Dying
by: PJ Harvey

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Label: Partisan
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BRIGHTSIDE
by: The Lumineers

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Label: Dualtone
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Inside Problems
by: Andrew Bird

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Label: Loma Vista
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And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
by: Weyes Blood

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Label: Sub Pop
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22
The Last Goodbye
by: ODESZA

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Label: Foreign Family Collective
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23
Cruel Country
by: Wilco

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Label: dBPM
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24
Don't Shy Away
by: Loma

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Label: Sub Pop
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Under the Weather
by: HOMESHAKE

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Label: Sinderlyn
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Reset
by: Panda Bear

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Label: Domino
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When the Wind Forgets Your Name
by: Built To Spill

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Label: Sub Pop
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My Soft Machine
by: Arlo Parks

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Label: Transgressive
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Okemah Rising
by: Dropkick Murphys

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Label: Dummy Luck
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