NEW SINCEREST: 6/30/25

It’s The New Sincerest’s second favorite time of year: halfway-through-the-year list season! It’s been an eventful first six months of 2025, with major comebacks from pop stars (mainstream and alternative), a compelling new wave of freak folk and hypnagogic pop, some spectacular ambient club music, and much more. Listen to this episode to find out what host Connor Ferguson and contributor Matthew Hadley have selected as their favorite albums of 2025 so far!

Connor’s Favorite Albums of 2025 (…so far)

1. Lifetime - Erika de Casier

2. We Will Annihilate Our Enemies - Real Lies

3. Luster - Maria Somerville

4. Mayhem - Lady Gaga

5. Equus Caballus - Men I Trust

6. Rarely Do I Dream- Youth Lagoon

7. A Tropical Entropy - Nick León

8. Virgin - Lorde

9. Big City Life - Smerz

10. Stochastic Drift - Barker

Hadley’s Favorite Albums of 2025 (…so far)

1. Heavy Metal - Cameron Winter

2. Jellywish - Florist

3. Choke Enough - Oklou

4. Glory - Perfume Genius

5. Lifetime - Erika de Casier

6. Cotton Crown- The Tubs

7. Luster - Maria Somerville

8. Eusexua - FKA twigs

9. Día - Ela Minus

10. Pirouette - Model/Actriz