2025 may not have been a great year for everyone, but it was for these bands…

Here’s to another year of many words!

Behold the albums that kept my faith in music intact this year.

The real treasure was the music we listened to along the way.

Ranked by emotional damage, riff recall, and reckless replay behavior.

Watch in horror with the rest of The Progressive Subway team as Justin picks 10 albums ranging from “consensus blog pick” to “you’re the only one who listened to this more than once”.