With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

The revelation of Mayhem’s Top 50 Albums Of 2025 is underway. In past years it has only ever been a top 20, but it was hard to whittle the original list of 60 down to 20, so we kept 50 of them! Last week we gave you part 1 which included positions 41 through to 50. Now we reveal the numbers from 31 to 40 in part 2

Have your favourite albums made the Mayhem cut? Check out the list below and check out parts 1, 3, 4 and 5 which will reveal the rest of the top 50 very soon! Very soon! Are you looking forward to the countdown? There will be a 50 song play list when Part 5 arrives! Here comes numbers 31 to 40.

31 ‘A Paradise In The Hold’ – Yazz Ahmed – “Telling wondrous stories via her middle eastern heritage with an injection of gorgeous jazz“
32 ‘Essex Honey’ – Blood Orange – “Dev Hynes a.k.a. Blood Orange delivers and ethereal, emotional, melancholy masterpiece”
33 ‘EUSEXUA’ – FKA Twigs – “Twigs the wonderkid strikes again with an album that combines, pop, dance and what the mainstream media calls ‘adult themes’!”
34 ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’ – Bad Bunny – “I knew nothing about him until the Super Bowl furore. This album is infectious and is the definition of perfect rhythms”
35 ‘Addison’ – Addison Rae – “Sensual, confident and perhaps the introduction of a future superstar”
36 ‘THE BPM’ – Sudan Archives – “Sublime electro R & B, Sudan Archives continues to grow”
37 ‘Like A Ribbon’ – John Glacier – “More spoken word than rap, Glacier holds the torch for great British music. This is an album that could only come from the UK!”
38 ‘That’s Showbiz Baby!’ – JADE – “A supremely confident debut album from a former member of Little Mix that makes Pop cool again”
39 ‘The Bad Fire’ – Mogwai – “Deep, dark, stunning, synth soundscapes that in my opinion should only ever be played at maximum volume!”
40 ‘A Complicated Woman’ – Self Esteem – “Anthemic superior sounds and songs from an entertainment and artistic polymath”

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