Moments in Timelessness

moisturizer Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Wet Leg Love, Davina McCall, and making more tunes to play live: Wet Leg’s inspiration for their second album sounds like it came easily, but they had to shift into new territory on  moisturizer . Their debut—2022’s  Wet Leg —provided 36 minutes of lo-fi hooks, wit, and twentysomething confessions to catapult them into a BRIT- and Grammy-winning swirl of well-deserved hype. After a relentless but enjoyable touring schedule, they decided to escape to a seaside town for two weeks at a time to turn their attention to album number two. “I think we’re really fortunate we can write in that traditional band setup,” Rhian Teasdale tells Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson. “When we stopped touring, we were like, ‘OK, what are we going to play when we go on tour again? Let’s make some tunes.’” So the band decamped to a house in Southwold, Suffolk and got to work. “There was a kid’s playroom with some LEGO around, so we took the majority of the stuff out ...

  I quit Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 HAIM Even though HAIM named their fourth studio album—and first since 2020’s  Women in Music, Pt. III — I quit , the trio of sisters aren’t quitters. “Quitting can be looked at as giving up in normal circumstances,” bassist/vocalist Este Haim tells Apple Music. “We look at it as a new beginning and betting on yourself. We quit things that don’t serve us anymore.” The follow-up to their Grammy-nominated opus takes its name from a scene in 1996’s  That Thing You Do!  where the band’s leader announces his departure by snapping his fingers and sing-talking the words “I quit”—a move the women use regularly as an inside joke. “One day, we were checking the mic and we did it again,” Este adds. “We were like, ‘Wait, should we name our album  I quit ? Say that again.’ ‘Wait a minute. Should we?’ It took on a life of its own.” Produced by Rostam and lead vocalist/guitarist Danielle Haim, the band’s latest takes parting shots at the peop...

Idols Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 YUNGBLUD “Would this be the album you would expect me to make next?” Dominic Harrison, better known as perky pop punk YUNGBLUD, asks Apple Music. “Fuck no.” Idols  is an ambitious, swaggering affair, from the nine-minute-long opener “Hello Heaven, Hello” to the heart-on-a-ripped-open-sleeve opus “Supermoon.” YUNGBLUD actually started making  Idols , his fourth studio album, after his second, 2020’s  weird! , but the timing wasn’t right. So he made 2022’s  YUNGBLUD  instead. Now, it’s time for  Idols . “This is not an album for your head, it’s an album for your chest,” he says. “It’s five-dimensional. Limitless. Everyone’s had a lot of opinions about YUNGBLUD, which I think is beautiful, good and bad, because that means my art’s doing something to people. But I really want to show that I could orchestrate and I have imagination to use horns, brass, strings, and classical elements.” Idols  swings from big, bold stadium ro...

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...

More Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Pulp Certainly, any Pulp fan who caught the long-dormant Britpop legends on their 2024 reunion tour would’ve been completely satisfied with just hearing the ’90s classics we never thought we’d get to hear performed live again. But the surprise inclusion of some new tunes on the set list made it clear Jarvis Cocker and co. were not interested in being a mere nostalgia act. And now, less than a year later, Pulp has gifted us with a new album—and while it arrives 24 years after their last one,  More  actually came together with unprecedented expedience. “The previous two Pulp records [2001’s  We Love Life  and 1998’s  This Is Hardcore ] had a bit of a concept for them, and that slowed everything down,” Cocker tells Apple Music. “And this time I just thought, let’s not think about it. Let’s do it. And then you’ve got a lot of time to think about it later. Like the rest of your life, for instance.” With  More , Pulp carries on as ...

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.

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...

Hope We Have Fun Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Mt. Joy Mt. Joy Artist ∙ Alternative Formed by a pair of high school friends from Philadelphia who reunited a decade later in L.A., Mt. Joy crafts modern folk rock filled with lush harmonies and percussion-driven melodies. ∙ Although the band was conceived as nothing more than a casual side-project, its founding members dropped their day jobs after the viral success of their 2016 single, “Astrovan.” ∙ It took more than four months for “Silver Lining,” a meditative look at addiction from their self-titled 2018 debut, to climb to No. 1 on  Billboard ’s Adult Alternative Songs chart. ∙  Rolling Stone  and NPR are among the outlets that have praised the band, with the latter naming them to its 2018 list of Slingshot Artists, a title given to public radio’s rising stars. ∙ Tucker Martine—named one of  Paste ’s 10 Best Producers of the Decade in 2009—worked on 2020’s  Rearrange Us , which was a vinyl bestseller the week that...

Get Sunk Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Matt Berninger Matt Berninger Artist ∙ Alternative In both his solo work and as leader of Grammy-winning outfit the National, Matt Berninger is a singer and songwriter recognized for his deep baritone, brooding delivery, and contemplative, literate lyrics. Berninger rose to fame early in the 2000s with a mixture of alternative country-rock, Americana, and chamber pop as well as post-punk. Merging these sounds into moody, crafted indie rock, their earliest albums won a dedicated fan base and critical praise before they charted with their fourth LP, 2007's Boxer, which embraced a more expansive, orchestral sound. The National catapulted into the Top Three in multiple countries with 2010's High Violet, and 2017's Sleep Well Beast made Berninger and his bandmates Grammy winners. In 2020, Berninger released his solo debut, the ruminative Serpentine Prison. The National remained a Top 20 act in their third decade, while Berninger continued his ...

Goodwill Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Weeping Willows A synonym for teratoid is  monstrous .  Other similar words include abnormal, malformed, grotesque, and freakish.  

7 piano sketches Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 André 3000 She is fine and xanthic She is well and thick Everybody wanna be with her But she chose me cos I can make her think Think well and not lose her mind, frankenstein Mamma mia, she wanna be mine Her kiss tastes like gelato She says mine tastes like panna Hi I'm szn, nice to meet you I bet below there, there will be a cotton candy

Make ‘em Laugh, Make ‘em Cry, Make ‘em Wait Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Stereophonics The most powerful confronts with the gentlest touch So baby ima be slow with you touching, kissing and making love Let me librate in between you You may call that making love Be cautious you may cause a tide Hi beauty I'm glad you are mine We go to places we've never been To places we've never seen To places we're yet to see Let's be us and know ourselves Let's be us and just be us

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Forever Howlong Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Black Country, New Road By the time Black Country, New Road released their sprawling second album  Ants from Up There  in 2022, lead vocalist Isaac Wood had departed the London-based indie experimentalists and a magical first phase of the group had come to a close. Rather than tour those records without their original singer, they rejigged their dynamic and wrote a whole new batch of songs—captured on 2023’s  Live at Bush Hall —to initiate a new period of the band where vocals and much of the songwriting were led by Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery, and May Kershaw. It made for an exhilarating fresh start and their third album  Forever Howlong  directly picks up from the momentum of starting over again. “We’d done a lot of touring of the live album and we really wanted to further develop this new lineup and write new songs so we could get them into the set list,” saxophonist Lewis Evans tells Apple Music. “There’s a whole bun...