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POEMV Album ∙ Korean Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Owen
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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...
Black Hole Superette
Black Hole Superette Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Aesop Rock Aesop Rock does not talk or tour. He has not been on a stage since 2017 or been interviewed since 2020. Instead, what one of his generation’s most recognizable and masterful voices continues to do as he enters the back half of his forties is rap—four albums since 2020 alone, each filled with his most harrowing or humorous experiences and a seemingly dauntless supply of esoteric or obvious enthusiasms. When he barks, “Anomaly in the algorithm, do the algebralculus/I’m all of Alexandria’s information in aggregate” at the start of “Checkers,” from his sprawling Black Hole Superette , it feels like he’s supplying a thesis statement of one—to be one of rap’s great outsiders, his rhymes free to do whatever they want. Would anyone else dare, after all, to spend three minutes chronicling the exponential growth curve of the snail population inside the aquarium he bought for his girlfriend, as he does on the dazzling “Snail Zero”? O...
BĒYĀH
BĒYĀH Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Damso Damso Artist ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap Combining a brooding wit with a flair for technical rhyme, Damso rode his ruminant couplets to become one of the most celebrated artists in francophone rap. Born William Kalubi in 1992 in Kinshasa (in what’s now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and raised in Brussels, Belgium, Damso spearheaded his adoptive homeland’s emergence into the neighboring French rap scene with his morose trap debut Batterie Faible in 2016. A year later, his sophomore LP Ipséité shattered the records for Belgian rap sales and intricately underlined his view of social ills, a theme he would further with 2018’s Lithopédion , an elegiac coalescence of conceptual allegories and relationship cynicism that boasted the dexterous ode to tainted love “Feu de bois.” Damso expanded his musical and lyrical palette on his 2021 album QALF Infinity , declaring a life-shifting change as a new father and sharing renewed reflec...
Sturm
Sturm Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Gölä Gölä Artist ∙ Pop Swiss rock band Gölä enjoyed chart-topping, award-winning success in their homeland for several years before switching languages from Swiss German to English in 2004. Led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Marco "Gölä" Pfeuti, the band originally performed songs in Swiss German and made its recording debut in 1998 with the album Uf U Dervo. Subsequent albums increased the group's popularity, but in 2004, Pfeuti left behind his native language and not only began singing songs in English, but changed the configuration of his band. Renamed Burn and pared down to a trio, this new incarnation of the group released one unsuccessful album before switching its name back to Gölä. ~ Jason Birchmeier
