Rough Trade has announced its top 100 albums of 2025, led by Viagra Boys’ Viagr Aboys. To celebrate, the indie retailer is selling exclusive vinyl pressings tied to the top 30 albums on its list. Featured are new offerings from Geese and Cameron Winter, Turnstile, Pulp, Oklou, Bon Iver, Clipse, and others. Find the list of exclusives, available in-store and online, below. Check out Rough Trade’s 100 favorite albums here.
To celebrate their place at No. 1, Viagra Boys released the following cheeky statement:
Shrimptech Enterprises AB Official Communiqué;
Viagra Boys (and/or affiliated shell companies) would like to extend our deepest gratitude towards Rough Trade for awarding Viagr Aboys with Album of the Year 2025™.
Sales through all Rough Trade locations and online internet shops have been simply outstanding since its April 25th release, resulting in Shrimptech Enterprises AB stock soaring to stratospherical levels during Q2 and Q3 of the fiscal year.
Shrimptech Enterprises AB and Viagra Boys would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Rough Trade and all individuals who bought the record and thus saving us from inevitable bankruptcy due to ill informed investments in the horse medicine sector and/or various pending copyright infringements lawsuits. You will be awarded with Very Special Records and questionable merchandise in due time.
Best regards,
Shrimptech Enterprises AB Corporate Relations Division
01 Viagra Boys: Viagr Aboys
Viagra Boys’ semi-self-titled album is getting a special tricolor vinyl pressing. There is also a new live companion LP, Shrimp Sessions IV. Plus, Rough Trade is selling a new Viagra Boys T-shirt.
02 Oklou: Choke Enough
Both Choke Enough and its deluxe edition have unique editions. The original album is pressed on clear vinyl, and the deluxe version is opaque evergreen.
03 Pulp: More
To go with the Pulp comeback album More, Rough Trade is selling a new 12″ featuring the band’s cover of Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around.”
04 Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal / Geese: Getting Killed
Cameron Winter and his band, Geese, are lumped together at No. 4. The frontman’s solo debut, Heavy Metal, is released on splatter vinyl with an exclusive 7″ that he recorded live at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Then, Geese’s Getting Killed also gets the splatter treatment and a companion 7″ that was recorded at the Rough Trade out-store at London’s George Tavern.
05 Turnstile: Never Enough
Rough Trade has a neon green edition of Turnstile’s Never Enough.
06 Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong
Rough Trade has an exclusive 12″ from Black Country, New Road called Forever Howlong Demos: Live at the Cornish Bank. It’s a four-track release that the band recorded in July 2024.
07 Samia: Bloodless
There is a glittery black edition of Samia’s Bloodless, as well as well as an exclusive live CD capturing the singer’s tour stop in Minneapolis.
08 Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow
Rough Trade is selling exclusively a live album from Jason Isbell, Live in Dublin.
09 Caroline: Caroline 2
To go with Caroline 2, there is a 12″ titled Not Everything Needs to Even Out.
10 Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party gets a special new mirtazapine teal splash vinyl pressing.
11 Saint Etienne: International
There is a new tricolor France 98 vinyl pressing of Saint Etienne’s final album.
12 Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
Rough Trade is selling 200 copies of the SABLE, fABLE photography zine, with 50 of them signed at random by the artist.
13 CMAT: Euro-Country
There is a pink yolk in the middle of the new clear vinyl edition of CMAT’s Euro-Country.
14 The Lemonheads: Love Chant
The Lemonheads’ Love Chant is getting released on picture disc, and there is a companion live LP called Two Weeks in Australia Two.
15 Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out
Be sure to grab the “slutcore version” of Lambrini Girls’ Who Let the Dogs Out.
16 HotWax: Hot Shock
HotWax are releasing a Live at Rough Trade East LP.
17 Saya Gray: Saya
Saya Gray’s Saya now comes with previously unreleased demos and new tracks.
18 Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon
The raspberry açai green tea edition of Raspberry Moon comes with an alternate sleeve.
19 Say She She: Cut & Rewind
Say She She’s exclusive Larger Than Live! is limited to 500 copies.
20 Jensen McRae: I Don’t Know How but They Found Me!
The new edition of Jensen McRae’s I Don’t Know How but They Found Me! has a flex-disc featuring “Massachusetts.”
21 Clipse: Let God Sort Em’ Out
Clipse’s comeback album is pressed on pink vinyl.
22 Brutalismus 3000: Goodbye Salò
Goodbye Salò the Remixes is an exclusive 12″ to accompany Brutalismus 3000’s new album.
23 Jehnny Beth: You Heartbreaker, You
Like HotWax, Jehnny Beth also has a Live at Rough Trade East album.
24 Tropical Fuck Storm: Fairyland Codex
Accompanying Tropical Fuck Storm’s Fairlyand Codex (now pressed on fairyland frost vinyl) is Live at 3RRR FM, 25 July 2025.
25 Matt Berninger: Get Sunk
The new pressing of Matt Berninger’s Get Sunk comes with a flex-disc featuring “Bonnet of Pins.”
26 YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds
Rough Trade is offering a new edition of 45 Pounds that includes a flexi-disc with a live recording of “Hawk.”
27 Smerz: Big city life
Smerz’s Big City Life is pressed on pink vinyl.
28 Annahstasia: Tether
The black silk pressing of Annahstasia’s Tether comes with a flexi-disc featuring “Sunday.”
29 Quadeca: Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The flex-disc offering with Quadeca’s album contains the song “Melisa.”
30 Buntspecht: Konstrukt 5
Austrian indie band Buntspecht’s Konstrukt 5 is pressed on green-and-grey splatter vinyl and comes with a bonus live CD.
