Moments in Timelessness

PHOLKS Album ∙ R&B/Soul ∙ 2025 Leon Thomas The NYC singer weaves soul, R&B, and psychedelia on an adventurous project.

love?... or something like it Album ∙ R&B/Soul ∙ 2025 Halle The LA singer’s solo debut blends R&B elegance and openhearted intimacy.

  CAOS Album ∙ R&B/Soul ∙ 2025 Miguel A lot has changed in the eight years since Miguel last released an album, from the state of the world to his personal life. (In 2023, his divorce from longtime partner Nazanin Mandi was finalized.) If 2017’s  War & Leisure  hinted at turmoil both personal and political, the fifth album from the R&B auteur lands directly in the thick of it. On  CAOS , the fight for peace is messy, but cathartic. Previous hits like “ Adorn ” and “ Coffee ” reveled in the bliss of intimacy, but here Miguel ventures beyond soulful psychedelia to embrace darker sounds and themes, landing somewhere between P-Funk and Nine Inch Nails . In the dark underbelly of the present, love feels a lot like rage, and vulnerability and anarchy coexist more easily than you’d think. He’s masked, strapped, and ready for whatever on “New Martyrs (Ride 4 U),” a Bonnie and Clyde anthem for uncertain times. He sings in Spanish on the apocalyptic title track,...

30. Album ∙ R&B/Soul ∙ 2025 Queen Naija The day Queen Naija turned 30, she knew exactly how she wanted to honor the occasion. “I wanted to hike a mountain,” she tells Apple Music ’s Ebro Darden . “So, I did it. I just wanted to do something that was really empowering, something I’d never done before, and to challenge myself. And when I got up there, I was able to see the sunset, and it was beautiful. It was serene.” After years of documenting the highs and lows of her life online, the YouTube star turned R&B singer is learning to quiet the noise. “I used to be such an oversharer,” she says. “Now I’m trying to find the balance between maintaining my peace and family while staying true and relatable.” Looking back on her twenties, she sees how heartbreak and healing have shaped the woman she is now. She walks through that growth on  30. , a project that marks both a personal reset and creative evolution. “People know me as, like, the heartbreak girl, the lover girl, and that...