Moments in Timelessness

BELOVED Album ∙ R&B/Soul ∙ 2025 GIVĒON GIVĒON has been working on his craft these past few years, and the fruits of his labor are resplendent on  BELOVED , a love letter to R&B that has the timeless feel of ’70s soul sides while possessing a distinctly 21st-century sensibility. “There’s that element where I’m doing this because it’s in my DNA,” GIVĒON tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I didn’t choose music. I tell people all the time, ‘I didn’t choose it. It chose me.’ But I care about rhythm and blues. It means a lot to me.” BELOVED  starts off in a big way: Surging strings create a high-drama atmosphere that sets the mood for “MUD,” a poison-pen letter to an ex that’s given a cushion by GIVĒON's supple croon and the sonic splendor surrounding it. Not only does the song send a message to the person who did GIVĒON wrong, it lets listeners know that the singer-songwriter has leveled up in the years since his last album, 2022’s  Give or Take . “I think I grew as an ar...

Until Night Comes Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Larry June  &  Cardo Got Wings Whether paired with the likes of The Alchemist, Harry Fraud, or production duo LNDN DRGS, Bay Area-hailing MC Larry June is motivation in motion—a lifestyle salesman committed to telling tales rife with bike rides and unabashed organic living. June’s chemistry with celebrated beatsmith Cardo Got Wings (Travis Scott, Baby Keem, and Playboi Carti), however, has proven over the course of four projects to be something else altogether. Cardo, to be clear, has served as go-to producer for a bevy of popular MCs, but there’s an undeniable synergy that surfaces in his work with June. Or as Uncle Herm says on project opener, it adds “a guaranteed slight edge.” In tow on the duo’s fifth outing together are Bay Area legends E-40 (“Ya Feel Me”) and Richie Rich (“Until Night Comes”), Cactus Jack label melody specialist Don Toliver (“100 Bags”), and one-time Cashout Boyz standouts Payroll Giovanni and HBK. They, ...

No Sign of Weakness Album ∙ Afro-fusion ∙ 2025 Burna Boy The man who in 2019 knew well enough to declare himself the  African Giant  may not have needed a Mick Jagger collaboration to certify his rock-star bona fides, but with his eighth studio album,  No Sign of Weakness , that is what Burna Boy saw fit to deliver. “Shout-out to Naomi Campbell,” the Nigerian-born superstar tells Apple Music’s Ebro Darden. “It was literally her idea. She was like, ‘You and Mick Jagger would be so legendary.’ And she pressed about it for so long.” The song is called “Empty Chairs” and is a unique classic-rock/Afrobeats hybrid—just one of a wealth of disparate vibes Burna explores across  No Sign of Weakness , an album whose title implies a plan for continued dominance while asserting a pronounced lack of fear in his musical practice. “I was trying to make something that I haven’t made before,” Burna says. “In a sense that I’m trying to do the opposite of everything I’ve ever done—in a...

Tkey vs. Tony Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Lil Tony Official

I Am What They Don't See Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Yungeen Ace

THIS IS FOR Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 TWICE In their first decade as a nine-member K-pop girl group, TWICE became masters at exploring new facets of their concept without ever losing the unwavering cheerfulness that defines it. For  THIS IS FOR , TWICE’s fourth full-length album since their 2015 debut, the third-generation squad slides into a comparatively subdued cool-girl persona to explore overlapping themes of female empowerment and romantic frustration, artfully navigating the space between K-pop’s “girl crush” and “bubblegum pop” false binary. The cool-girl persona is especially on display in  THIS IS FOR ’s title track, a high-energy song that starts with a chuckle and a shout-out: “This is for all my ladies who don’t get hyped enough/If you’ve been done wrong, then this your song, so turn it up.” TWICE makes room for feelings of otherness on “THIS IS FOR” before using the synth-pop bop “MARS” to expand on the theme: “Do you ever feel like/You don’t belong in the world?” The...

ZOMBIES 4: Dawn of the Vampires (Original Soundtrack) Album ∙ Soundtrack ∙ 2025 ZOMBIES – Cast High-energy pop and dance tracks fuel another adventure.

Midtown Sessions - EP Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Riley Green

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 ...

Chemistry Album ∙ Dance ∙ 2025 Chris Lake For Chris Lake, releasing his debut album two decades into his career was worth the wait. “I didn’t really know how to put together an album’s worth of material in an interesting way,” he tells Apple Music. “But that changed in the last few years. I developed more as a musician, and I had the vision for it.” Though the idea of an album once felt distant, the UK-born, LA-based producer had already made his mark through a long run of club and chart successes, from his 2006 breakthrough “Changes” to later hits like “Turn off the Lights,” “Deceiver” (with Green Velvet), and “In the Yuma.” But after wrapping a tour in late 2022, he stepped back to reset. Digging through old demos, he uncovered a melodic side of his sound that had since taken a backseat in his recent work. “I’d kept refining my music to where it became more and more simple and effective,” he says. “I wanted to put more musicality into what I was doing.” Two years later,  Chemistr...

GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 'In Your Fantasy Edition' Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 ATEEZ The day after the eight members of ATEEZ announced the signing of an additional seven-year contract at KQ Entertainment, the K-pop boy group released  GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 ‘In Your Fantasy Edition’ . While technically a repackage of ATEEZ’s June 2025 release  GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 , the album includes mostly new tracks, including English and Korean versions of lead single “In Your Fantasy” and solo tracks for each member. ATEEZ’s main producer, EDEN, and rapper-leader Hongjoong took songwriting lead on the 15-track album, including for “In Your Fantasy,” a pulsating, “SexyBack”-esque track that encourages the listener to give in to desire. The entire song leans into the unabashed sexiness of ATEEZ’s  GOLDEN HOUR  era, as do solo tracks like vocalist Seonghwa’s “Skin” (“The way she moves, wildfire/Exploding desire/Wanna see you go higher/It’s written on my skin”). Other solo tracks include Hongjo...

The Summer That Saved Me Album ∙ Afrobeats ∙ 2025 Odeal After a childhood spent living across Europe, British Nigerian singer Odeal moved back to London in 2017, putting a stop to a phase of his life that had been largely defined by moving between countries and experiencing life’s joys and fluctuations from several locales. “I think what makes my music special is where the inspiration comes from,” Odeal tells Apple Music. “That shift—from being constantly exposed to the world to being limited—shaped the way I saw things and the way I made music.” Yet putting roots back down in London didn’t dull his sense of wonder and craft. Since 2017’s  New Time , the singer has been making music that pays homage to the sweeping confessions and lilting melodic underpinning of neo-R&B influences within Afropop. In characteristic Odeal fashion,  The Summer That Saved Me  contends with the dynamics of modern romance, adding an unavoidable sense of cosmopolitanism to the mix. The aptly...

INTROSPEZIONE - EP Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Mecna

DIASPO MIXTAPE Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Néza

SCRAPS Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Loco