Moments in Timelessness

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

LIFE LOVER Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Bassagong

DREAM BOY Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 sokodomo

Daribet El Bo3d Album ∙ Egyptian Pop ∙ 2025 Assala

محسبتهاش Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Ramy Gamal

The 1st full album [BLISS] Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 D.O. As a member of third-generation K-pop boy group EXO, Doh Kyung-soo (aka D.O.) has been moving listeners with his rich, powerful vocals since 2012. In his solo work, which began with his 2021 post-military-enlistment EP  Empathy , the versatile tenor gravitates towards acoustic pop and R&B ballads. For his first K-pop studio album, 2025’s  BLISS , D.O. uses the genres to explore themes of rest, nostalgia, and love. On the 10-track album’s breezy opener “Nobody Knows It,” the Korean idol and actor taps into the same lazy vibes as Maroon 5’s “Sunday Morning” (which D.O. previously covered) to encourage listeners, and perhaps himself, to take a break without shame. In the more joyous “5 minutes,” D.O. becomes more specific in his advice, suggesting listeners “feel comfortable in short moments of leisure.” The 32-year-old artist gets nostalgic on “Do you remember?,” expressing a desire to return to childhood, when “dreaming was...