FUORI MENÙ
FUORI MENÙ Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Golden Years
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FATHER FIGURE
FATHER FIGURE Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Jon Bellion After 2018’s Glory Sound Prep , songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Bellion stepped back from releasing music of his own. He still wrote and produced for other artists like Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, and Jonas Brothers, and headed up his label Beautiful Mind Records, which has released albums by the likes of Tori Kelly. He also became a dad—an experience, he tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, that sparked a realization. “You start to realize, ‘The father is wildly important in the home,’” he says. “You hear that, you believe that—and then you have children, and you’re like, ‘Oh, my God.’” Across FATHER FIGURE —Bellion’s first full-length in seven years—the Long Island-born pop alchemist comes to grips with fatherhood’s enormity while also appreciating the way that living life apart from the day-to-day artist grind has opened up his creativity. Now fully independent ( FATHER FIGURE is his first album on his own labe...
DESIRE : UNLEASH
DESIRE : UNLEASH Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 ENHYPEN ENHYPEN continues their vampiric agenda with DESIRE : UNLEASH , the K-pop boy group’s sixth EP. The septet’s “concept” (used in K-pop to define a fixed aesthetic and/or narrative theme) had been supernatural since their debut in 2020, but they made their vampirism explicit with 2023’s “Bite Me,” a Y2K-inspired pop track that beckons listeners closer (“Just come kiss me and bite me, yeah”)—at their own risk. Two years later, by DESIRE : UNLEASH , members Heeseung, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunoo, Jungwon, and Ni-ki have become masters at evoking a sense of dangerous desire with a vocal flourish or turn of phrase. “Out in the world, you’re just an angel/But here in the dark, my sacrifice,” they sing in dance-pop lead single “Bad Desire (With or Without You),” which sees “Bite Me” producer Cirkut returning to work with the group. While the album’s theme may stick tight to the titular unleashed desire, the mode of expression shifts: futur...
CUARTO AZUL
CUARTO AZUL Album ∙ Pop Latino ∙ 2025 Aitana The Spanish pop star melds modern with retro on her fourth album.
¿Y ahora qué? - EP
¿Y ahora qué? - EP Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Alejandro Sanz Alejandro Sanz Artist ∙ Pop Latino In the ‘90s, as established Spanish pop stars competed for airplay against burgeoning rock en español upstarts, Alejandro Sanz concocted a riveting sound all his own with an irresistible mix of emotional pop balladry and flamenco soft rock. The Spanish troubadour also penned some of the most achingly romantic songs of Latin pop, bolstered by his sensuous Andalusian rasp. Born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro in Madrid, Spain in 1968 to parents from Andalusia, the flamenco capital, the Spanish prodigy began playing guitar at the tender age of seven, a skill he inherited from his musician father. At 10 years old, he was already writing his own songs. In 1989, he launched his music career with his debut Los Chulos Son Pa’ Cuidarlos , which skillfully combined techno and flamenco, under the pseudonym of Alejandro Magno. Two years later, the musician used his own name for the release of his major-label deb...
caroline 2
caroline 2 Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 caroline An experimental rock outfit based out of London, caroline's patient, meditative songs and instrumentals reflect a shared interest in Midwestern emo, Appalachian folk, and classical minimalism as well as noise. They began with a practice of deconstructing and then rebuilding the same small groups of songs. As they expanded their repertoire and their membership, the band played their first series of shows in alternative spaces in 2018, then delivered their self-titled debut album in 2022. The group returned in 2025 with caroline 2, an adventurous set of song and sound experiments produced by the octet's original three members.
Songs Of Last Resort
Songs Of Last Resort Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2025 The Haunted Arising from the ashes of the important mid-'90s Swedish death metal band At the Gates and featuring former members of Witchery and Face Down, the Haunted went through countless lineup changes during the late '90s before finally releasing The Haunted Made Me Do It in 2000, confirming the excitement surrounding the band. Back in 1996, guitarist Anders Björler and bassist Jonas Björler left At the Gates, eventually ending up as early members of the Haunted, along with ex-Seance guitarist Jensen and ex-At the Gates drummer Adrian Erlandsson. Though it took them nearly a year's time to find an adequate vocalist, they eventually settled on Peter Dolving from Mary Beats Jane after Earache approached the group about contributing music to the Earplugged 2 compilation. Soon the band went into the studio with this lineup and recorded its self-titled debut, which won plenty of praise from the metal community. Unfortunately, Erlands...
Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Instant Holograms On Metal Film Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Stereolab Each Stereolab album functions as a portal to a future we once imagined but never achieved: a world of flying cars, egg chairs, and space-age bachelor pads where the coolest Franco-pop, German psychedelic, and Brazilian jazz records are spinning 24/7. And so it remains on the indie icons’ first new album in 15 years, which begins with a minute-long flourish of oscillating synths that sounds like an old mainframe being rebooted back to life. Instant Holograms on Metal Film finds the Stereolab machine in perfect working order after an extended period of inactivity, and, if anything, the group sounds eager to make up for lost time with gloriously overstuffed songs that key in on familiar pleasure points while introducing all manner of shapeshifting surprises. “Immortal Hands” eases you into a laidback loungey groove before hitching itself to a funky drum-machine beat and coasting through a dizzying swirl of br...
viagr aboys
viagr aboys Album ∙ Punk ∙ 2025 Viagra Boys “I found a crouton underneath a futon,” singer Sebastian Murphy intones over a steady bass throb punctuated by flute accents on “Uno II,” one of the many clever and catchy tunes on the quasi-self-titled viagr aboys . “Mama said I couldn’t eat it ’cause all my teeth are gone.” Such is the delightfully absurdist world of Viagra Boys, a Swedish quasi-punk group with an American vocalist and an undying hunger for shrimp and shrimp-related products. The band’s fourth album doubles down on the self-deprecating, society-skewering antics and infectious grooves of 2022’s Cave World with gleeful abandon. Powered by slashing guitars and a droning chorus, “Man Made of Meat” offers historical perspective for modern complainers: “I don’t wanna pay for anything/Clothes and food and drugs for free/If it was 1970, I’d have a job at a factory.” Jet-propelled bass boogie “The Bog Body” doubles as a commentary on superficiality that plays o...