Tom Dunne: Women rule in my best albums of 2025 list
It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Women writers have dominated fiction writing for years. Similar domination of the music charts was inevitable. Women writers now publish 60 to 70% of traditionally published novels. But this year their dominance of the music world has been startling.
It’s only when you make your end of year list, and you know I love a good list, that the shear extent of it becomes clear. Yes there were comebacks -Pulp, Sparks, St. Etienne etc –and great albums from Bon Iver, Geese and Bren Berry, but after that, in 2025, female writers were utterly in the ascendance.
