Moments in Timelessness

Hollow - EP Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 Stray Kids In 2025, Stray Kids used their third Japanese mini album,  Hollow , to sing and rap about the highs and lows of life as an active, successful K-pop group, exploring feelings of emptiness despite success and defiant pride in the face of criticism across five tracks. Stray Kids released  Hollow  in the middle of their global dominATE tour, eight years into their career. The context is vital for a self-produced album that gets emotional but never strays far from Stray Kids’ signature high-energy bravado or the buoyant urgency of the J-rock sensibility from which it occasionally borrows. Title track “Hollow” is the most explicit in the album’s exploration of a deep loneliness, not easily shaken. “I embrace everything and run, but why do I feel hollow?/Loneliness haunts me no matter where I am, I’m alone,” Han sings in the chorus, shining some light on the realities of life as a hard-working K-pop idol. In the rat-tat-tat of “Parade,...

Olamidé Album ∙ African ∙ 2025 Olamide Since first making waves in 2011, Nigerian singer, rapper, and YBNL label head Olamide has released 10 albums, numerous hits, and shepherded the careers of chart-toppers such as Asake, Young Jonn, Fireboy DML, and Lil Kesh. He hasn’t restricted himself to Afropop, fùjí, rap, or R&B; he has been an Afropop innovator, with a voice which he variously modulates across genres, a knack for indelible hooks that reflects his fùjí music heritage, and a non-hierarchical collaborative spirit. Now, with his 11th album, 2025’s self-titled  Olamidé —which means “wealth” in Yoruba—the artist turns inward without being indulgent, the focus never straying from the songmaking even when the source of some songs is personal and private. “I name things how I feel them,” he tells Apple Music. “I wanted to create more mellow sounds for listeners who prefer laid‐back tracks over heavy drums. Knowing there’s fans who love that keeps me motivated to perfect each re...

Luca Brasi 4 Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Kevin Gates

V8 Album ∙ Regional Indian ∙ 2025 Jass Bajwa ,  Mandeep Maavi ,  Desi Crew  &  Black Virus The artist powers up a kinetic blend of bhangra, pop and hip-hop.

Down For You Album ∙ Punjabi ∙ 2025 J-Statik  &  Bhalwaan

ÉBĒM Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Yamê

bomb - EP Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 ILLIT Naming their third mini album  bomb  was clearly a statement of intent for a nascent girl group like ILLIT. The South Korean-based multinational act embellishes their signature beat-driven-yet-dreamy sound on five tracks that incorporate a modern vintage feeling (“little monster”) and playful moods (the boisterous “oops!”). In particular, the lead single “Billyeoon Goyangi (Do the Dance)” compares the thrill and trepidation of a first date to the shyness of a “borrowed cat” over chic French house beats. Exclusively for Apple Music, the group’s five members take us through the record, track by track. “little monster” Yunah: “‘little monster’ is built around a vintage-inspired, simple sound and an addictive hook. The lyrical feel of the vocals really adds to the vibe of the track. In the lyrics, the ‘monsters’ represent all the negative emotions, like sorrow or gloom, that bother us. The point here is cheerfully saying that we’re going to gob...

INDÓMITA Album ∙ Latin ∙ 2025 Belinda

Win - EP Album ∙ Worldwide ∙ 2025 Dice Ailes

Strawberry Blonde Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Molly Sandén

The World Is Yours Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Asme

Minns Du Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 VIOEL

traence Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Souly

HOME Album ∙ Soca ∙ 2025 Mical Teja

Don't Tell The Dog Album ∙ Indie Pop ∙ 2025 James Marriott