Moments in Timelessness

bomb - EP Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 ILLIT Naming their third mini album  bomb  was clearly a statement of intent for a nascent girl group like ILLIT. The South Korean-based multinational act embellishes their signature beat-driven-yet-dreamy sound on five tracks that incorporate a modern vintage feeling (“little monster”) and playful moods (the boisterous “oops!”). In particular, the lead single “Billyeoon Goyangi (Do the Dance)” compares the thrill and trepidation of a first date to the shyness of a “borrowed cat” over chic French house beats. Exclusively for Apple Music, the group’s five members take us through the record, track by track. “little monster” Yunah: “‘little monster’ is built around a vintage-inspired, simple sound and an addictive hook. The lyrical feel of the vocals really adds to the vibe of the track. In the lyrics, the ‘monsters’ represent all the negative emotions, like sorrow or gloom, that bother us. The point here is cheerfully saying that we’re going to gob...

INDÓMITA Album ∙ Latin ∙ 2025 Belinda

Win - EP Album ∙ Worldwide ∙ 2025 Dice Ailes

Strawberry Blonde Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Molly Sandén

The World Is Yours Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Asme

Minns Du Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 VIOEL

traence Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Souly

HOME Album ∙ Soca ∙ 2025 Mical Teja

Don't Tell The Dog Album ∙ Indie Pop ∙ 2025 James Marriott

Remembering Now Album ∙ Blues ∙ 2025 Van Morrison The legendary singer revisits personal themes with warmth and wisdom.

Home to Myself - EP Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Fz

Still The Mayor Album ∙ Afrobeats ∙ 2025 Mayorkun The Afrobeats star returns with a showcase of streetwise charisma.

Mixes Of A Lost World Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 The Cure When a rock band releases a remix album, it’s often treated like an afterthought, with execs enlisting high-profile dance producers to slap new beats onto old singles and promoting them to club audiences who wouldn’t typically buy rock albums. This has never been the case for The Cure’s remix albums. Ever since their first—1990’s  Mixed Up , which yielded the Balearic classic “Lullaby (Extended Mix)”—the band’s singer and principal songwriter, Robert Smith, has had a close hand in the process, doing many of the mixes himself. The tracks rarely veer into proper club-music territory. Instead, certain motifs are teased out and built upon, and are occasionally augmented with new instruments or lengthened for more languid DJ sets. The band’s third remix album generally hews to that ethos. Even a towering name like Paul Oakenfold (who previously remixed “Close to Me” on  Mixed Up ) treats “I Can Never Say Goodbye” with a ligh...

Alive in the Catacombs - EP Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Queens of the Stone Age In July 2024, Queens of the Stone Age descended underneath Paris for a unique unplugged performance to an audience of six million...corpses. Founder Joshua Homme says his interest in the city’s famous catacombs began in childhood and it became a dream to play there. “Obviously, in the simplest terms, there’s a bunch of bodies and they’re stacked in a certain manner,” he tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. Recording in a subterranean cemetery filled with over six million skeletal remains proved challenging, but Homme had a “desire for it to have this improv element to it.” Ultimately, the morbid setting helped turn their hard rock anthems into haunting, acoustic balladry. “It’s very ASMR in there,” he says. “When you’re playing something that’s stripped down to the bones, and I guess in front of people that are stripped to the bones too, it just felt intuitively like this should be [like] there’s almost nothing be...

Don't Die Before You're Dead Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 AJ Tracey Death is at the forefront of AJ Tracey’s mind on his third studio album; the title,  Don’t Die Before You’re Dead , makes that more than clear. And although success has granted the West London rapper a certain level of immortality, no one, not even Tracey—who has seen his career go from strength to strength since he put his home borough on the map with the 2019 hit single “Ladbroke Grove”—lives forever. “I’ve been through a lot of things since I dropped the second album,” he tells Apple Music’s Dotty. “Life is beautiful, but it’s also quite tough sometimes…We all go through it, but I come out the other side stronger and with a different perspective on life.” The reason for his preoccupation is laid out in “3rd Time Lucky,” which finds him sorting through his emotions as his mother recovers from cancer, over solemn chords reminiscent of Sting’s “Shape of My Heart.” The track is a rare moment of vulnerability on an...