Blinded by the Floodlights songs of the year 2025

Our top 10 songs from the year that's just been featuring Geese, Turnstile and more - who will take our top spot?

Keeping it short and sweet this year, here’s our favourite ten songs of the year.

10. Fontaines D.C. – It’s Amazing To Be Young

9. Geese – Taxes

8. The Lemon Twigs – I’ve Got A Broken Heart

7. Just Mustard – We Were Just Here

6. Big Thief – Los Angeles

5. Wolf Alice – Bloom Baby Bloom

4. Turnstile – Seein’ Stars/Birds

3. Geese - Au Pays Du Cocaine

2. Tame Impala – End of Summer

1. Pulp – Spike Island

Our track of the year is one we’d been waiting over decades for. ‘Spike Island’ is majestic. And it’s everything you’d want from a Pulp comeback. “The universe shrugged, shrugged and moved on,” Jarvis Cocker sings, nodding to the apathy that greeted their 2002 split. But he sounds determined now: “It’s time I’ll get it right.” His classic frontman swagger returns too: “I was born to perform… I exist to do this.” The synths glitter, the chorus hits hard, and Stone Roses get a cheeky name-check. Like their their latest album More, ‘Spike Island’ was a triumphant return. It reminds us why this band mattered - and why it still does.