As the year winds down, we asked every artist whose music Ruptured released in 2025 to share the records that stayed closest to them over the past months.
Published here over the coming days, these end-of-season charts gather the albums that accompanied writing, touring, waiting, and living through it all.
PREFACES (Charif Megarbane, Salim Naffah, and Pascal Semerdjian)
(Charif’s picks)
Guess What – Solar Boats
Florence Adooni – AOEIU (An Ordinary Exercise in Unity)
Dana & Alden – Speedo
Sven Wunder – Daybreak
Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film
(Salim’s picks)
Snakeskin – We live in sand
Mac DeMarco – Guitar
Aviram – Drag Me Down
Charif Megarbane – Hawalat
SANAM – Sametou Sawtan
(Pascal’s picks)
Smote – Songs from the Free House
Sary Moussa – Wind, Again
Yo La Tengo – Old Joy (Original Soundtrack)
Geese – Getting Killed
Michel Maouad – Good Thing We Cleaned The Stairs
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