The 18th Best Album of 2025
Moving along we have an album that looking back now I might slide down a touch. Not because it's bad or anything, but I do think recency bias may have played a role in it being this high. But it is a super dope album still and I can't go back now and change shit that would be a mess. But without further ado, it's Rochelle Jordan's Through The Wall.
Rochelle Jordan is a Canadian artist (I think she was born in the UK but grew up in Toronto mostly?) who has been making music since the early 2010s, but who I had never heard of until this album dropped. Her previous releases have all been mostly R&B focused, but with this album she turned her focus more to house music. It's still R&B influenced for sure, but I think it's more of a R&B inspired house album than the opposite, and she nailed it imo. The smooth, upbeat energy is infectious and makes the almost hour-long runtime slide by.
I think of the R&B/dance-adjacent albums/projects released this year this one is probably my favorite (along with an EP/mixtape to be named separately), and it does have some absolute bangers imo. But I do think I would probably drop it a little bit if I were to re-rank the albums today. But hey in a few months maybe it will be top ten, such is the subjectivity of music. It still rules.