Moments in Timelessness

Slime Cry Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2026 YoungBoy Never Broke Again Knowing YoungBoy Never Broke Again, it wouldn’t be long into 2026 before the wildly prolific MC dropped his first project of the new year. Indeed, just 16 days into the thing, YoungBoy delivered with  Slime Cry , a 30-track epic that finds him getting ever closer to the ideal form of his diaristic, heartbreakingly honest pain rap .  Slime Cry , like most YoungBoy releases of the past few years, finds the rapper moving between shockingly vulnerable reflections on his struggles and the somewhat regular breath of fresh air where he allows himself to look back on how a broke kid from Baton Rouge hustled his way onto the Mount Rushmore of rap . “Anti-Social” represents one end of that spectrum, with YoungBoy reflecting on how the traumas of his childhood have manifested themselves in adulthood. Despite the occasional victory lap, this is a theme that appears again and again in the rapper’s music, and one that will nev...

With Heaven On Top Album ∙ Country ∙ 2026 Zach Bryan Oklahoma singer-songwriter Zach Bryan remains something of a cipher four years after his triple-album major-label debut  American Heartbreak : an introspective, headstrong superstar who rejects the trappings of fame while selling out arenas, a Navy cadet turned folk hero who now finds himself atop the pop and country charts despite not really making country music, or pop songs, or “hits.” Bryan’s songs are intense and writerly, inclined towards nostalgia and grief and favoring bare arrangements, live takes, and studio chatter. He embraces contradiction, avoids sloganeering, and is not soon to die on any one particular hill. He also likes to begin his albums with spoken-word poetry, as on 2023’s self-titled album and 2024’s  The Great American Bar Scene . His sixth album,  With Heaven on Top , opens with a spoken-word story where a long talk with the former owner of his new NYC home leads him to a dream where he is stan...

locket Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2026 Madison Beer Madison Beer decided on the title of her third album before she even wrote the songs. “I wanted it to feel very personal to me and tangible,” the singer-songwriter tells Apple Music’s Travis Mills . “So I wrote down a list of things that felt like they were a part of my life naturally. I really wanted something that was vintage-sounding, something that felt delicate and girly. ‘Locket’ was one of the words that was there from the start.” After heading to the dance floor on previous singles “ 15 MINUTES ,” “make you mine,” and “yes baby” (the latter two of which appear on the album), Beer leans into more acoustic textures and introspective, vocal-highlighting ballads on  locket , where she’s a hopeless romantic drifting through a world of whimsy and melancholy. Written in the wake of a breakup, the album cycles through a wide range of emotions and self-doubt, showing that growth isn’t always linear. Where the opening track “locket theme” shows...