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The Electronic albums list covers music that is less organic than what is on other lists, without being pop music. There is a little more button-pushing this year, but balanced out by songwriting rather than just cool sounds thrown together. Also, we have a little mix of synth wave, TRIP-HOP, and new wave projects leaning albums. These are not the coolest electronic albums, but the best, fuck what other blogs say.
After I sort through the top 10 albums of all the respective genres, I use those lists to compile the top 20 albums of 2025 The very fact that these bands made it on the list speaks to how great these albums are, so it's not a slight that the number 8 album is above the 9th album; there is something that just gives it an edge that makes me want to listen to it more. After all, we can try to look cool and pick the hippest bands for a list, but at the end of the day, what makes an album the best is that it makes you want more, you look forward to listening to it again. Perhaps you can find your next favorite on this list, and I have included links to reviews of these albums if you want to check out the audio on these guys. Anyway, here are the top 10 Electronic albums of 2025.
10-SINthetik Messiah- "Beneath the Surface."
This project is based in Louisiana and is the work of Bug Gigabyte. The first track is a dystopian soundscape that transcends his swampy roots. With electronic music, the challenge for artists can be to not get carried away by cool beats and sound but to tell a story. This is typically forsaken by dance music altogether. This project is geared to the dance floor, though it would take a great deal of Absinthe to get moving to the narcotic throb invoked here.
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2025/08/sinthetik-messiah-beneath-surface.html
9-Tayne- "Love"
Lighter androgynous vocals offset a noise-friendly battery of electronic sounds that still manage to stay song-focused, at times giving them a HEALTH-like sound without the industrial muscle.
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2025/01/tayne-love.html
8-No Joy- "Bugland'
ust catching up with this album that came out in August from No Joy, the Canadian indie rock project helmed by Jasamine Gluz. She continues down a more experimental path that focuses tightly on songwriting, as things head in an electronic direction that reminds me of 90s dream pop. Her voice sounds great and is used almost more like an instrument in how she layers it.
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-joy-bugland.html
7-Fix8 Sed8- "Octagram"
Their new album, "Octagra,m" finds the German electro groovers dabbling in a dark landscape that is more atmospheric than Skippy Puppy's harsher, stark apocalypse of sound, but fans of Skinny Puppy should find this band easy to embrace. Goth Nite DJs should also pay heed, as these songs are sure to put motion on the dance floor with their seductive lure.
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2025/08/fix8sed8-octagram.html
5-Palindrones- "'Chapter 2: The Slender Blade"
British duo is crafting some emotive electro pop with call and response vocal lines that recall some of the more moody moments in 80s pop. They dabble in both new wave and atmospheric techno. The female vocals become more of the dominant narrative of the songs. She shifts through a range of emotions in her presentation, to make this work .
4-the Cure- "Mixes of a Lost World."
I normally don't rank remix albums into these lists, but this double album gave a very comprehensive look at the British electronic scene, and they were remixing Cure songs so here it lands.
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-cure-mixes-of-lost-world.html
3-Aesop Rock- "Black Hole Superette."
The 10th album from New York's best rapper finds the rhymes flowing like malt liquor. Ten albums into your career, you are going to know how to write a song. He is quick to spit a collage of clever metaphors. The bar for hip-hop is held very high due to rappers like this. So, why accept inferior products being rolled off the assembly line of record labels looking to sedate people whose musical tastes reflect their low vibrational state?
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2025/05/aesop-rock-black-hole-superette.html
2-Perturbator-"Age of Aquarius."
The new album from these French masters of dark synth wave features some interesting guest vocalists, with Kristoffer Rygg from Ulver being the first to step up to the mic .It sounds like an 80s-themed space roller coaster you expect from these guys. The grooves on their instrumentals always help carry the songs. The dynamic shift it takes into heavier intentions also helps keep my attention; the arrangements this time around have really been fine-tuned.
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2025/10/gothtober-perturbator-age-of-aquarius.html
1-Patriarchy -"Manual for Dying."
The steamiest batch of bumping grinders since the golden years of Lords of Acid, certainly, is enough to give this duo the number one spot.
https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2023/08/patriarchy-forcefully-rearranged.html
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