Wilco’s favorite albums of 2025

Christmas has come early: Wilco have shared their annual version of a best-of list, their Wilco Recommends list, which this year includes Geese (and Cameron Winter), Wednesday, Rosalia, Hayley Williams, S.G. Goodman, Horsegirl, Sharp Pins, Cate Le Bon, Hannah Cohen, Liam Kazar, Dijon, Tortoise, Blood Orange, Madison Cunningham, Mekons, Stereolab, Deerhoof, and more.

Wilco note, “The playlist is a sample of this list, but Wilco Recommends the whole record, front-to-back. Some of these you won’t find on streaming, so take this as an invitation to search the internet and your local record store.”

Check out the list of albums and the Wilco Recommends playlist below.

Jeff Tweedy just joined Yo La Tengo for Hanukkah Night 6, and Wilco announced the lineup for Solid Sound 2026.

WILCO RECOMMENDS 2025
Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
Anika – Abyss
Bill Fox – Resonance
birddog – Live at the Hotel Monte Vista*
Bizimungu Dieudonne – Inzovu Y’lmirindi
Blood Orange – Essex Honey
Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal
Catalyst – Perception
Case Oats – Last Missouri Exit
Cate Le Bon – Michelangelo Dying
Ches Smith – Clone Row
Chris Stamey – Anything Is Possible
Cosmic Ear – Traces
Dean Johnson – I Hope We Can Still Be Friends
Deerhoof – Noble And Godlike In Ruin
Dijon – Baby
Eiko Ishibashi – Antigone
Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O’Rourke – Pareidolia
Elijah Fox – Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Church of Kidane Mehret
Emily Robb – Live at Jerry’s
Everything is Recorded – Richard Russell
The Ex- If Your Mirror Breaks
Flock Of Dimes – The Life You Save
Friendship – Caveman Wakes Up
Geese – Getting Killed
Gregg Belisle-Chi – Slow Crawl
Gyan Riley – Winter Sun*
Hallelujah the Hills – DECK
Hannah Cohen – Earthstar Mountain!
Hayley Williams – Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
Henry Threadgill – Listen Ship
Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On
Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt – FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field
Hüsker Dü – 1985 The Miracle Year
Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flags of the Sacred Harp
Jamie Lidell – Places of Unknowing
John McNally – New Blood
Joe Westerlund – Curiosities From The Shift
John Scofield & Dave Holland – Memories Of Home
Joona Toivanen Trio – Gravity
Juan Wauters – MVD LUV
Junior Parker – Love Ain’t Nothin’ but a Business Goin’ On
Kyle M – The Real Me
Lhasa de Sela – Lhasa
Liam Grant – Prodigal Son
Liam Kazar – Pilot Light
Lijadu Sisters – Urede
Living Hour – Internal Drone Infinity!
Lô Borges – Nuvem Cigana
Macie Stewart – When the Distance is Blue
Madison Cunningham – Ace
Masakatsu Takagi – Omusuhi
Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World
Mekons – Horror
Mess Esque – Jay Marie, Comfort Me
Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii – KI
Natural Information Society – Perseverance Flow
The New Eves – The New Eve is Rising
Orcutt Shelley Miller – Orcutt Shelley Miller
Prewn – System!
WILCO RECOMMENDS 2025
The Reds, Pinks and Purples – The Past is a Garden / Never Fed
Rene Lopez-A New York Lie
Rich(ard) Dawson – End of the Middle!
Rosalia – LUX
Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band – New Threats from the Soul!
Saha Gnawa – Saha Gnawa
Sam and Louise Sullivan – Sweet Enough
Sepe – National Accessory
Setting – at Public Records!
S.G. Goodman – Planting By The Signs~
Sharp Pins – Radio DDR~
Shrunken Elvis – s/t
Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias
Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love
Stereolab – Instant Hologram On Metal Film
Sylvia Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – Bone Bells
Taper’s Choice – Prog Hat
Throwing Muses – Moonlight Concessions
Tim Barnes – Lost Words
Tim Heidecker – Slipping Away
Thomas Dollbaum – Drive All Night
Tortoise – Touch
Tristen – Unpopular Music
Tropical Fuck Storm – Fairyland Codex
Tuomo and Markus, Verneri Pohjola – Music for Roads
Uwade – Florilegium
Water From Your Eyes – It’s a Beautiful Place
Wednesday – Bleeds
Weirs – Diamond Grove
Weird Herald – Just Yesterday
Wilson Tanner – Legends
Young Fresh Fellows – Loft