Moments in Timelessness

Don't Mind If I Do (Deluxe) Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Riley Green Riley Green’s third album opens with some sage advice. On “That’s a Mistake,” a warm and tender track with ’90s Tim McGraw vibes, Green runs through a laundry list of minor miscalculations—forgetting to get an oil change, perpetually running late—before revealing the kind of misstep that leaves a lasting impression: a romantic one. It’s an understated opening to Green’s boldest release yet, one that finds the Alabama-born star pushing himself as both a songwriter and a vocalist. Standout tracks on the record, which follows 2023’s  Ain’t My Last Rodeo , include “Turnin’ Dirt,” a laidback ode to blue-collar life, and “Don’t Mind If I Do,” an emotional duet with country singer-songwriter Ella Langley. The record wraps with the hit song “Worst Way,” a soulful solo write that shows off Green’s sultry side. Green wrote four of the album’s 18 tracks by himself, telling Apple Music that he’s unlocked a new level of artistry sin...

Different Night Same Rodeo Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Bailey Zimmerman Before becoming a country star, the 25-year-old from small-town Southern Illinois worked at the local meat processing plant, laid gas pipelines, and promoted his fledgling truck-lift business on TikTok. Then a video Zimmerman casually uploaded—covering Black Stone Cherry’s “Stay” between truck builds—went viral, and by December 2020, he’d written his first song. Cue the record deal, the Morgan Wallen co-sign, the world tour, and the double-platinum debut full-length (2023’s  Religiously. The Album. ). But as he reminds you on the rowdy “New to Country,” he’s still the same whiskey-sipping, ATV-riding country boy, emphasizing in his raspy drawl: “Ain’t a thing changed ’round here but the money.” Written fresh after a breakup,  Religiously  was rife with ballads about the pain of lost love. On its follow-up, Zimmerman sings a different tune. “When I first started writing songs, my life was like heartbreak,” ...

Music for the Soul Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Sam Barber Though he first found fame through his viral hit “Straight and Narrow,” Sam Barber proves he’s anything but a flash in the pan on this EP, which follows his 2024 full-length debut  Restless Mind . Anchored by another hit, “Man of the Year,” the seven-song collection charts a formative time period for the 22-year-old Barber, whose whirlwind rise to fame began in his late teens and is chronicled on  Restless Mind . Picking up where that album left off,  Music for the Soul  opens with its title track, which seems to serve as a mission statement for Barber’s blooming artistry as he sings, “Well, I know this ain't the bar song you wanna hear, but I make music for the soul.” “Nowhere Fast” is soulful and searching, as Barber tries on heartland rock to make sense of the major life changes he’s experienced in recent years, while songs like “Dust and Smoke” and “Same Sad Shit” play off the early-2010s-inspired folk-rock sou...

Snipe Hunter Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Tyler Childers Tyler Childers has never been one to play it safe, crafting traditionally informed, bluegrass-tinged country music with an expansive sense of what the genre can be. On this seventh full-length studio album from the Lawrence County, KY, native, Childers goes even bigger and bolder, recruiting superproducer and noted spiritual seeker Rick Rubin to helm a kaleidoscopic collection of wild, weird songs.  Snipe Hunter  opens with “Eatin’ Big Time,” a freewheeling rocker that takes its title from a phrase Childers and his band The Food Stamps deploy to mark milestones and celebrate successes. With a lyric as wild as his wailing vocal—there’s a verse about shooting and then skinning a man in a “motherfucking mansion”—it’s a fitting entry into this new world Childers built. “Bitin’ List” gets right to the point, opening with the line “To put it plain, I just don’t like you” while The Food Stamps sink their teeth into an old-time-adjace...

Texas Forever Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Hudson Westbrook Hudson Westbrook wears his Texas influences on his sleeve on this full-length debut collection, paying tribute to his home state sonically and thematically across an ambitious 17 tracks. A quickly rising up-and-comer, Westbrook tells Apple Music that  Texas Forever  spans a formative period and reflects the growth he’s experienced since first coming onto the scene with his viral single “Take It Slow.” “There are some songs on here from a year and a half ago,” Westbrook says. “And you’re like, ‘This is the headspace I was in when I wrote that song.’ It’s so weird how life changes and how you look back on your album. It’s really cool, because I have the opportunity to show an era of who I am, and then there’s another era, and there’s another era.” Texas Forever  opens with “Darlin’,” a soulful, deceptively sweet song about stealing someone’s girl. The title track likens Westbrook’s deeply rooted connection to his home st...

Westward Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Dylan Gossett Dylan Gossett’s debut album opens a prayer. With minimal accompaniment, the Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter wonders if he’s too far gone on the LP’s old-timey opening track, pairing gospel-tinged harmonies with rootsy guitar to dramatic effect as he asks, “Lord, will you carry me?” Only a minute and a half long, the song sets the tone for the searching and heartfelt collection, which Gossett wrote and produced himself. That tune leads into “Hangin’ On,” a bright and buoyant folk-rocker reminiscent of early Mumford & Sons with its quick-strummed rhythm guitar and anthemic feel. The road song “American Trail” dips into newgrass, complete with banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and multi-part vocal harmonies, a sound that differentiates Gossett from peers like Zach Bryan. And the album, of course, features one of Gossett’s biggest hits, the stripped-down and vulnerable “Coal,” on which he wonders if the pressures of life will ever bring forth ...

Midtown Sessions - EP Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Riley Green

Parker McCollum Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Parker McCollum A mid-career self-titled album is often an intentional statement, if not an outright reset. For Parker McCollum, attaching his name to his fifth studio album is something of a reintroduction, an hour-long tour of the Texas-born singer-songwriter’s expansive talents and a glimpse into his still immense potential. Co-produced by Music Row veteran Frank Liddell (Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack), the collection finds McCollum pushing his artistry to new places, a feat aided by stepping back from longtime collaborator Jon Randall and jetting up to New York City to record the album’s 14 tracks. “This record that we made in New York is the record I always wondered if I was good enough to make,” McCollum tells Apple Music. “I always thought about a record like this, and I finally just feel like maybe I might’ve gotten close to something that could be that.” The LP opens with “My Blue,” a rootsy, near-folk song following a character named J...

Own Worst Enemy Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Gavin Adcock

The Talco Tapes Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Treaty Oak Revival Treaty Oak Revival revisits some of their best-loved tracks on this stripped-down acoustic collection, which pulls material from the Odessa, Texas, act’s first two full-length albums, 2021’s  No Vacancy  and 2023’s  Have a Nice Day  and tosses in a cover for good measure. Known for their rough and rowdy approach to country rock, the band still sounds raw and potent with these toned-down arrangements, which offer a little more space for lead vocalist Sam Canty to wrench emotion out of the songs’ often narrative lyrics. Recorded at the SoundBank Studios in Talco, Texas,  The Talco Tapes  kicks off with “I’m the Worst,” a fan favorite that, in this incarnation, sounds twangier than its sludgy studio counterpart. “Boomtown” swaps the Tom Petty influence of the original for a more Red Dirt sound, with pristine pedal steel cutting through acoustic guitar. “Ode to Bourbon” dials up the harmonies, and “Fishn...

For Recreational Use Only Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Blake Shelton Grazie a una serie record di primi posti nella Billboard Country Airplay e alla lunga attività di coach per il talent  The Voice , durante il quale ha conosciuto l’attuale moglie Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton è stato probabilmente il musicista country più noto degli anni 2010. L’artista originario dell’Oklahoma racconta però a Kelleigh Bannen di Apple Music che girare due stagioni del programma all’anno lo ha fatto sentire fuori dalla scena di Nashville. “Era volato via un decennio abbondante e all’improvviso ho realizzato di essere invecchiato”, ammette il cantante, oggi quarantottenne. “Alla fine, ti ritrovi a leggere una classifica e a chiederti: chi diavolo è Morgan Wallen? E Luke Combs? Era come se un’intera nuova generazione avesse occupato il panorama. Il che mi portava a pensare: ‘Mio Dio, ormai sono un veterano’”. Quasi un quarto di secolo dopo aver sfondato con il singolo di debutto del 2001 ‘Austin’ (e a quattr...

COUNTRY! - EP Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 HARDY Things come in threes Feel broken get a crutch from a tree Pros, cons and neutral, which you standing on Sweetest of all hearts standing by my side Uno, due, tre let's go for a ride Such a cool girl, she is my cowgirl Stand in front, let me smack I aint just jibbering We standing in the middle of the disco and the lights glittering So on and so forth love stands in front Every light and night knows you the brightest I appreciate the love you give, makes you the coolest

The Price of Admission Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Turnpike Troubadours In recent years Evan Felker has transcended his role as the Turnpike Troubadours lead vocalist, representing for his legion of fans something more like a saint than a singer. Since he found sobriety after time off from music in the early 2020s, Felker and his redemption arc have influenced and inspired a number of today’s biggest and brightest country up-and-comers, including Zach Bryan, who wrote a song, 2019’s “Felker”, about the enigmatic musician and references the band in fan favourite “East Side of Sorrow”. That this follow-up to 2023’s  A Cat in the Rain  arrives after just two years is a welcome development given the drought of new Turnpike music between 2017 and 2023, and the relatively short period between LPs also, fortunately, does not point to hasty writing or half-assed recording. Instead, Felker and company sound invigorated as ever, with producer Shooter Jennings returning to lend his light but ...

Honkytonk Hollywood Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Jon Pardi Life has changed for Jon Pardi since he released  Mr. Saturday Night  in 2022. The California-born country hitmaker and notorious party boy has since become a father, welcoming his first daughter in 2023 and a second daughter a year later. As he releases this follow-up, Pardi is also on the cusp of turning 40, and the resulting music finds him in a more contemplative place than on past releases. While there’s no shortage of booze or bad ideas across the album’s 17 tracks, Pardi also dips into more serious territory, like exploring parenthood on the tear-jerking ballad “She Drives Away” and pushing the party too far on the down-and-out “Gamblin’ Man”. “I feel like this album is less party and a lot of soul, but it’s still party and dancing,” he tells Apple Music. “There’s lots of layers to this album, I think. There’s some big songs that are going to feel more personable to the listener than my other albums.” Other highlights...

I’m The Problem Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Morgan Wallen

Relapse, Lies, & Betrayal Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Warren Zeiders Warren Zeiders previewed this sprawling double album with 2024’s  Relapse , a tight 10-song collection of down-and-out country songs with hard-rock edges. Now, the Pennsylvania-born athlete turned singer-songwriter has fleshed out the project with 11 new tracks. He uses these new tunes both to deepen  Relapse ’s themes of heartache and substance abuse as well as to shake up its original sequence, which is rearranged somewhat here and makes space for a fuller portrait of Zeiders’ style of country music. Highlights of the new material include “Everything Comes to Go Away,” a soulful cut co-written by teenage wunderkind Ben Goldsmith, and “Love in Letting Go,” a tender duet with Lanie Gardner. Of course,  Relapse  favorites like “Intoxicated” and “Betrayal” are on the record, too, cast in a more potent light when flanked by songs like “Can a Heart Take,” a brooding and melodic power ballad that puts Zei...