The albums ‘Lux’, by the Spanish Rosalía, and ‘I should throw more photos’, by the Puerto Rican Bad Bunny, appear this Friday in the list of the 25 best albums of 2025 prepared by the critics of the newspaper The New York Times.
The list is topped by rising Korean pop star Effie and indie rock band Brooklyn Geese.
“Rosalía is a restless and tireless consumer of the world and its multiple ideas, and one of those rare artists in any medium who wants to leave the places she goes better than she found them (and, in fact, she can),” indicates the newspaper, which includes in each comment a link to listen to the album.
‘Lux’ was released three years after the success of ‘Motomami’ (2022) and features collaborations with artists such as Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, Silvia Pérez Cruz and Yves Tumor, among others. In it, Rosalía sings in up to thirteen languages, although Spanish is the main one.
The newspaper praises Bad Bunny’s new project – who had a successful residency this year in Puerto Rico, under the name ‘I don’t want to go from here’ from July to September – and refers to the artist as “the main theorist of intergenerational exchange in pop.”
The album ‘I should throw more photos’ was named album of the year at the Latin Grammy Awards held last month in Las Vegas, where he finished the night with five gramophones.
“Now more than ever, the future can seem dizzyingly disconnected from the past. So leave it to Bad Bunny, pop’s leading theorist of intergenerational exchange, to create an album so modern and current that it also explicitly roots itself in and defends the joys of tradition. Everything old was also new in its time,” critics highlight.
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After a successful year for the urban artist, all attention remains on the Puerto Rican who in 2026 will be the central figure in the Super Bowl halftime show, the most important game in the US Football League, anticipated by many and surrounded by criticism by others.
The list could not miss ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (TLOAS), the twelfth studio album by singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, which according to critics of the Times, is perhaps the “most evanescent” album in her catalog.
“‘TLOAS’ does not show her work. It simply, and without ostentation, places her in a particularly unconcerned moment of showing what she has and how it makes her feel,” they point out.
“That means songs about the pleasures of being hated, the pleasures of hating, the pleasures of being the boss, the pleasures of domestic happiness and the pleasures of pleasure,” the newspaper highlights.
“There is no obvious consensus pick for the best album of 2025, partly because the release schedule was short on big names and partly because some of the most anticipated albums of the year (including Swift and Sabrina Carpenter) turned out to be disappointing,” the review states.
“But that also means it was a great year to discover new artists and delve into more low-key releases, the kind that are likely to inspire more mixed and less predictable year-end lists,” they add.
With information from EFE.
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