Moments in Timelessness

Everybody Scream (Chamber Version) Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Florence + the Machine “There was basically an urgency to this record. It came out of me in this furious burst,” Florence Welch tells Apple Music ’s Zane Lowe of Florence + the Machine’s sixth full-length. “And it’s one of those records where if I hadn’t have put it out now, it never would’ve come out because I think how I felt about things is so specific to this moment in time, and this roared out of me. It was made almost like a coping mechanism.” That moment in time began for Welch during the  Dance Fever  tour. “I actually ended up having a ectopic miscarriage onstage that was dangerous, and that I had to be hospitalised for, and I had to have immediate surgery because I had a Coke can of blood in my abdomen,” she explains. Her health crisis and ensuing feelings fuelled  Everybody Scream , which offers a haunting yet cathartic experience for both the singer and those listening. “I felt so out of control o...

Lil Herb Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 G Herbo When the rapper known as Lil Herb broke through in 2012 with his searing Lil Bibby duet “Kill Shit”—an instant classic in the Chicago drill canon—he was a baby-faced 16-year-old with the voice and gravitas of a grizzled veteran. Since then, G Herbo (as he’s been known since 2015) has watched the genre he helped pioneer become a worldwide juggernaut. Meanwhile, he grappled with the trauma of the lifestyle that informed his storytelling on albums like 2020’s  PTSD  and 2022’s  Survivor’s Remorse , which upped the studio gloss without sacrificing his visceral intensity. Stardom fit the former street rapper like a glove. But for his seventh album, titled after his original alias, the 30-year-old rapper felt drawn back to his past, revisiting old songs like 2015’s “Briks & Mansions” or 2017’s “ Street .” “I was just trying to tap into that stage and that era—just trying to find the hunger again,” Herbo tells Apple Music’s Ebro ...

LUX Album ∙ Rock y Alternativo ∙ 2025 ROSALÍA For ROSALÍA, her fourth full-length album  LUX  only has “little pieces” of her in the lyrics of its songs—and she prefers it that way. “I think the best fiction has this blurry line, the sweet spot between what’s personal and what’s universal, what’s detailed and what’s abstract, what’s implicit and what’s explicit,” the Spanish star tells Apple Music . “It’s both. Because I wrote it, there has to be some sort of truth for me in it. But at the same time, I think it’s much more about the other than about myself.” The “other,” in this case, is a group of saints— Saint Rose of Lima , Anandamayi Ma , Hildegard von Bingen , Sufi mystic Rabia al-Adawiyya , and other martyrs across cultures, centuries, and continents—that ROSALÍA voraciously studied in the wake of her third album, 2022’s  MOTOMAMI . Instead of immediately writing about the emotional turmoil she’d weathered in its aftermath—a period that included the end of her engag...

Lil Herb (Extended) Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 G Herbo When the rapper known as Lil Herb broke through in 2012 with his searing Lil Bibby duet “Kill Shit”—an instant classic in the Chicago drill canon—he was a baby-faced 16-year-old with the voice and gravitas of a grizzled veteran. Since then, G Herbo (as he’s been known since 2015) has watched the genre he helped pioneer become a worldwide juggernaut. Meanwhile, he grappled with the trauma of the lifestyle that informed his storytelling on albums like 2020’s  PTSD  and 2022’s  Survivor’s Remorse , which upped the studio gloss without sacrificing his visceral intensity. Stardom fit the former street rapper like a glove. But for his seventh album, titled after his original alias, the 30-year-old rapper felt drawn back to his past, revisiting old songs like 2015’s “Briks & Mansions” or 2017’s “ Street .” “I was just trying to tap into that stage and that era—just trying to find the hunger again,” Herbo tells Apple Mu...

Piss In The Wind Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2026 Joji

Still Goin the Ep Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 MexikoDro

Do Not Disturb Album ∙ Latin ∙ 2025 Young Miko Since first going viral with her breakthrough single “ Riri ” back in 2022, Young Miko quickly became the sort of star that Latin trap had long been needing. Yet by the time her full-length debut  att.  dropped some two years later, it was abundantly clear that this Puerto Rican rapper couldn’t be contained by any one style or sound. For instance, her joint single “ Classy 101 ” with Feid proved a massive success, its reggaetón beat and her charged-up lyrics making for a perfect match. With  Do Not Disturb , she looks to better unify her expanding set of styles under one artistic roof, resulting in an album that holds her hip-hop bona fides close, even as she takes creative risks. Thematically, Miko leans assertively into her queerness here, righteously upending Latin rap and reggaetón’s predominantly male gaze with her own highly credible brand of sex positivity and unmistakable charm on such songs as “ En el Ritz ” and “...

Purple Passion Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Icewear Vezzo Though Icewear Vezzo is one of the most successful rappers to emerge from Detroit during the city’s 2020s renaissance, his 2025 EP  Purple Passion  is a dedication to the idea that despite having accomplished many of his goals in this game, there’s plenty of opportunity to get better. The album cover glows with the stunning purple of Vezzo’s luxury whip, but the operative word in the title is “passion,” which the MC brings in spades, even when he’s attacking these electro-infused beats with his signature laidback flow. Opener “Regular” floats along with a whimsical woodwind sample and rumbling bass, leaving plenty of room for Vezzo to take a moment and count his wins. He invites 2 Chainz to join the fun on “Status,” featuring a powerful choir sample and Vezzo lamenting that upstarts in the game are glamorizing the wrong things.

Songs About Us Album ∙ Country ∙ 2026 Jason Aldean

  Thinking Too Much Album ∙ Alternative Country ∙ 2025 Joshua Slone Joshua Slone quickly found a broad audience thanks to a co-sign from collaborator Zach Bryan , but the Kentucky-based singer-songwriter is more than just another up-and-comer trying to follow in the superstar’s footsteps. That’s evident on his full-length debut album, boasting 16 feature-less tracks written by the artist himself. Anchored by Slone’s skillful narrative songwriting and sneakily agile voice,  Thinking Too Much  is an especially sturdy first project from an artist with deep potential. The record opens with “ Wanting More ,” an introspective account of a situationship gone wrong, with a vocal that recalls Dylan LeBlanc or Role Model . “ Regret It ” addresses a gone but not forgotten ex-flame, with gentle banjo and acoustic guitar creating a lush backdrop. “ Somehow I Got You, Somehow You Love Me ” is a soulful standout, as Slone employs an old-school croon to profess his love. He closes the a...