30 Best Folk Albums of 2025

1. Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight (River Lea)

2. Junior Brother - The End (Strap Originals)

3. Alannah Thornburgh - Shapeshifter (self-released)

4. VARO - The World That I Knew (self-released)

5. Jacob Alon - In Limerence (Island)

6. Richard Dawson - End of the Middle (Domino)

7. DUG - Have At It! (Claddagh)

8. Joshua Burnside - Teeth of Time (Nettwerk)

9. Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark (We Are Busy Bodies)

10. Amble - Reverie (Warner)

11. Michael Hurley - Broken Homes and Gardens (No Quarter)

12. Annahstasia - Tether (drink sum wtr)

13. Martin Carthy - Transform Me Then Into A Fish (HemHem)

14. Cormac Begley & Liam O’Connor - Into the Loam (self-released)

15. Jim Ghedi - Wasteland (Basin Rock)

16. Sam Amidon - Salt River (River Lea)

17. Adrian Crowley - Measure Of Joy (Valley of Eyes)

18. Muireann Bradley - I Kept These Old Blues, Remastered (Decca/Verve Forceast)

19. Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern)

20. I’m With Her - Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder/Universal)

21. Ultan O’Brien - Dancing The Line (Nyahh)

22. Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson - What Did The Blackbird Say To The Crow (Nonesuch)

23. Woody Guthrie - Woody At Home - Vol 1 + 2 (Shamus)

24. Zoé Basha - Gamble (self-released)

25. Bob Dylan - Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (Columbia)

26. David Keenan - Modern Mythologies (Good Form)

27. Inni-K - Still A Day (Green Willow)

28. Beoga - Phases (self-released)

29. Flook - Sanju (Flatfish)

30. Ispíní na hÉireann - Poxtail Soup (Faction)

Also Highly Recommended:

• Huartan - Huartan
• Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise
• Peggy Seeger - Teleology
• Brigid Mae Power - Songs For You
• James Yorkston - Songs for Nina and Johanna
• Willi Carlisle - Winged Victory
• Milkweed - Remscéla
• Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy - Cosán Casta
• Kingfishr - Halcyon
• Nick Shoulders - Refugia Blues
• Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver - Hinterland
• The Lumineers - Automatic
• Steve Gunn - Daylight Daylight
• Liffey Light Orchestra - Jigs and Other Stories
• Aisling Urwin - The Other Place
• James Joyce, Adrian Crowley & Matthew Nolan - Pomes Penyeach
• Robert Plant with Suzi Dian - Saving Grace
• Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia
• Ronan Furlong - Elysium
• Seanie Vaughan - Between Chaos and Order