The Nocturnal Times Top Electronic/Dance Albums of 2025

Each year, even long before The Nocturnal Times came to fruition – over 12 years ago already (!!!) – keeping up with new music and picking and choosing your favorites of the year was always something to look forward to.

Regardless of whether or not you like to keep track of which albums you’ve enjoyed listening to most this year or which artists released albums this year… that you maybe didn’t know about – we’ve got you covered. Rather than only selecting a few of our favorites, the team at The Nocturnal Times has put together a list of our favorite albums released in 2025. Dubbed The Nocturnal Times Top Electronic/Dance Albums of 2025, we’ve selected our favorites across all electronic music subgenres – EDM, dance pop, house, techno, trance, progressive, electro, drum & bass, disco, electronica, UK garage, new wave, and more. Listed alphabetically by artist, enjoy our selection of albums released this year that we recommend you check out.

Above & Beyond – Bigger Than All Of Us [Anjunabeats]

Adam Beyer – Explorer Vol. 1 [Drumcode]

Alan Walker – Walker World 2.0 [Kreatell Music]

Alan Walker & Steve Aoki pres. Lonely Club – Quantum Beats [World of Walker Music]

Alison Wonderland – GHOST WORLD [EMI]

Alison Goldfrapp – Flux [A.G. Records]

Anyma – The End Of Genesys [Afterlife]

Armin van Buuren – Breathe [Armada Music]

Armin van Buuren – Piano [Armada Music]

Audien – First Love [Armada Music]

Bakermat – Grace Note [Big Top Records]

BAMBII – INFINITY CLUB II [Because Music]

Barry Can’t Swim – LONER [Ninja Tune]

Big Gigantic – Fluorescence [Big Gigantic]

BlackGummy – Ra(z/is)e [Mau5trap]

BLOND:ISH – Never Walk Alone [Insomniac Records]

Bob Moses – BLINK [AWAL Recordings]

Booka Shade – For Real [Blaufield Music]

Carl Craig – Landcruising [Warner Music UK]

Cat Dealers – LOOP THEORY [Cat House Records]

Charlotte de Witte – Charlotte de Witte [KNTXT]

Cheat Codes – Future Renaissance [Create Music Group]

Chris Lake – Chemistry [Black Book Records]

Christoph – Life Through A Different Lens [Consequence of Society Recordings]

Dabin – Aura Park [Kannibalen Records]

DJ Koze – Music Can Hear Us [Pampa Records]

DJ Snake – Nomad [Interscope Records]

Doctor P & Flux Pavilion – Doctor P & Flux Pavilion [Circus Records]

E-Dancer – e-Dancer [One House]

Eats Everything – We Lost Ourselves and Found A Family [Three Six Zero/Ministry of Sound]

Faul & Wad – Therapy [Ultra Records]

Felix Jaehn – NAGTTB+ [Virgin Records]

FKA twigs – Eusexua [Young / Atlantic Records]

Folamour – Movement Therapy [FHUO/All Night Long]

Fox Stevenson – Sunk Cost Fallacy [Pilot.]

Ganja White Night – Sprouted [SubCarbon]

Gareth Emery pres. LSR/CITY – CYBERPUNK [LSR/CITY]

Grabbitz – Big Epic Nothing [Blue Butterfly Records]

Gramatik – Aequoreus [Lowtemp]

HAAi – HUMANiSE [Mute Artists Ltd.]

Ilan Bluestone – Ignite [Anjunabeats]

Jessica Audiffred – RAVE NEW WORLD [A Records]

Kasablanca – Higher Resolution: Side B [Anjunabeats]

Kaskade – undux [Monstercat & Arkade]

KAYTRANADA – AIN’T NO DAMN WAY [RCA Records]

KETTAMA – Archangel [Steel City Dance Discs]

Kölsch – KINEMA [IPSO]

Knock2 – nolimit [88rising Records]

Lights – A6 [Lights Music]

Lipless – State Of Mind [Colorize/Enhanced Music]

Loco Dice – Purple Jam [Virgin Records]

LSDXOXO – DGTL ANML [F.A.G./Because Music]

LYNY – Noise To Dance [Noxious Recordings/Create Music Group]

Malaa pres. Alter Ego – Blackout [Malaa Music]

Maribou State – Hallucinating Love [Ninja Tune]

Mansionair – Some Kind of Alchemy [SME Australia]

Myd – Mydnight [Ed Banger Records]

Moore Kismet – Saturate Your World [Thrive Music]

Monolink – The Beauty Of It All [Ultra Records]

NGHTMRE – MINDFULL [Gud Vibrations]

Ninajirachi – I Love My Computer [NLV Records]

Oliver Smith – Footprints [Anjunabeats]

OTTAGON & Giuseppe Ottaviani – Eight [Armada Music]

Paul Kalkbrenner – THE ESSENCE [B1 Recordings]

Pendulum – Inertia [Mushroom Music/Virgin Music Group]

PinkPantheress – Fancy Some More? [Warner Records UK]

Polo & Pan – 22:22 [Hamburger Records/Virgin France]

Purity Ring – purity ring [the fellowship]

RAC – CLOUDS [Battlestation Records]

Ray Volpe – FOREVER, VOLPE [VOLPEVERSE]

REZZ – As The Pendulum Swings [HypnoVizion Records]

Rebūke – World Of Era [ERA Music Limited]

Röyksopp – True Electric [Dog Triumph]

Rudimental – RUDIM3NTAL [Room Two Recordings]

Sam Feldt – Time After Time [Epic Amsterdam]

Sammy Virji – Same Day Cleaning [Polydor]

Seven Lions – Asleep in the Garden of Infernal Stars [Ophelia Records]

SG Lewis – Anemoia [Forever Days/Positiva]

Shouse – Collective Ecstasy [Hell Beach]

SIPPY – Scars In Stereo [Deadbeats]

Skrillex – FCK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3* [OWSLA/Atlantic Records]

Slushii & sapientdream – Chrysalis [SONICdream]

SOFI TUKKER – butter [SOFI TUKKER]

Solarstone – innermost [Black Hole Recordings]

Soulwax – All Systems Are Lying [Because Music]

TEED – Always With Me [Nice Age]

TOKiMONSTA – Eternal Reverie [Young Art Records]

Tourist – Music Is Invisible [Queens Road Music/Atlantic Records]

William Black – The Shadow Realm [Lost In Dreams]

Zeds Dead – Return to the Spectrum of Intergalactic Happiness [Deadbeats]