Moments in Timelessness

¿Y ahora qué? - EP Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Alejandro Sanz Alejandro Sanz Artist ∙ Pop Latino In the ‘90s, as established Spanish pop stars competed for airplay against burgeoning rock en español upstarts, Alejandro Sanz concocted a riveting sound all his own with an irresistible mix of emotional pop balladry and flamenco soft rock. The Spanish troubadour also penned some of the most achingly romantic songs of Latin pop, bolstered by his sensuous Andalusian rasp. Born Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro in Madrid, Spain in 1968 to parents from Andalusia, the flamenco capital, the Spanish prodigy began playing guitar at the tender age of seven, a skill he inherited from his musician father. At 10 years old, he was already writing his own songs. In 1989, he launched his music career with his debut  Los Chulos Son Pa’ Cuidarlos , which skillfully combined techno and flamenco, under the pseudonym of Alejandro Magno. Two years later, the musician used his own name for the release of his major-label deb...

Minns Du Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 VIOEL

caroline 2 Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 caroline An experimental rock outfit based out of London, caroline's patient, meditative songs and instrumentals reflect a shared interest in Midwestern emo, Appalachian folk, and classical minimalism as well as noise. They began with a practice of deconstructing and then rebuilding the same small groups of songs. As they expanded their repertoire and their membership, the band played their first series of shows in alternative spaces in 2018, then delivered their self-titled debut album in 2022. The group returned in 2025 with caroline 2, an adventurous set of song and sound experiments produced by the octet's original three members.

Songs Of Last Resort Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2025 The Haunted Arising from the ashes of the important mid-'90s Swedish death metal band At the Gates and featuring former members of Witchery and Face Down, the Haunted went through countless lineup changes during the late '90s before finally releasing The Haunted Made Me Do It in 2000, confirming the excitement surrounding the band. Back in 1996, guitarist Anders Björler and bassist Jonas Björler left At the Gates, eventually ending up as early members of the Haunted, along with ex-Seance guitarist Jensen and ex-At the Gates drummer Adrian Erlandsson. Though it took them nearly a year's time to find an adequate vocalist, they eventually settled on Peter Dolving from Mary Beats Jane after Earache approached the group about contributing music to the Earplugged 2 compilation. Soon the band went into the studio with this lineup and recorded its self-titled debut, which won plenty of praise from the metal community. Unfortunately, Erlands...

Instant Holograms On Metal Film Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Stereolab Each Stereolab album functions as a portal to a future we once imagined but never achieved: a world of flying cars, egg chairs, and space-age bachelor pads where the coolest Franco-pop, German psychedelic, and Brazilian jazz records are spinning 24/7. And so it remains on the indie icons’ first new album in 15 years, which begins with a minute-long flourish of oscillating synths that sounds like an old mainframe being rebooted back to life.  Instant Holograms on Metal Film  finds the Stereolab machine in perfect working order after an extended period of inactivity, and, if anything, the group sounds eager to make up for lost time with gloriously overstuffed songs that key in on familiar pleasure points while introducing all manner of shapeshifting surprises. “Immortal Hands” eases you into a laidback loungey groove before hitching itself to a funky drum-machine beat and coasting through a dizzying swirl of br...

viagr aboys Album ∙ Punk ∙ 2025 Viagra Boys “I found a crouton underneath a futon,” singer Sebastian Murphy intones over a steady bass throb punctuated by flute accents on “Uno II,” one of the many clever and catchy tunes on the quasi-self-titled  viagr aboys . “Mama said I couldn’t eat it ’cause all my teeth are gone.” Such is the delightfully absurdist world of Viagra Boys, a Swedish quasi-punk group with an American vocalist and an undying hunger for shrimp and shrimp-related products. The band’s fourth album doubles down on the self-deprecating, society-skewering antics and infectious grooves of 2022’s  Cave World  with gleeful abandon. Powered by slashing guitars and a droning chorus, “Man Made of Meat” offers historical perspective for modern complainers: “I don’t wanna pay for anything/Clothes and food and drugs for free/If it was 1970, I’d have a job at a factory.” Jet-propelled bass boogie “The Bog Body” doubles as a commentary on superficiality that plays o...

Black Hole Superette Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Aesop Rock Aesop Rock does not talk or tour. He has not been on a stage since 2017 or been interviewed since 2020. Instead, what one of his generation’s most recognizable and masterful voices continues to do as he enters the back half of his forties is rap—four albums since 2020 alone, each filled with his most harrowing or humorous experiences and a seemingly dauntless supply of esoteric or obvious enthusiasms. When he barks, “Anomaly in the algorithm, do the algebralculus/I’m all of Alexandria’s information in aggregate” at the start of “Checkers,” from his sprawling  Black Hole Superette , it feels like he’s supplying a thesis statement of one—to be one of rap’s great outsiders, his rhymes free to do whatever they want. Would anyone else dare, after all, to spend three minutes chronicling the exponential growth curve of the snail population inside the aquarium he bought for his girlfriend, as he does on the dazzling “Snail Zero”? O...

BĒYĀH Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Damso Damso Artist ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap Combining a brooding wit with a flair for technical rhyme, Damso rode his ruminant couplets to become one of the most celebrated artists in francophone rap. Born William Kalubi in 1992 in Kinshasa (in what’s now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and raised in Brussels, Belgium, Damso spearheaded his adoptive homeland’s emergence into the neighboring French rap scene with his morose trap debut  Batterie Faible  in 2016. A year later, his sophomore LP  Ipséité  shattered the records for Belgian rap sales and intricately underlined his view of social ills, a theme he would further with 2018’s  Lithopédion , an elegiac coalescence of conceptual allegories and relationship cynicism that boasted the dexterous ode to tainted love “Feu de bois.” Damso expanded his musical and lyrical palette on his 2021 album  QALF Infinity , declaring a life-shifting change as a new father and sharing renewed reflec...

Sturm Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Gölä Gölä Artist ∙ Pop Swiss rock band Gölä enjoyed chart-topping, award-winning success in their homeland for several years before switching languages from Swiss German to English in 2004. Led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Marco "Gölä" Pfeuti, the band originally performed songs in Swiss German and made its recording debut in 1998 with the album Uf U Dervo. Subsequent albums increased the group's popularity, but in 2004, Pfeuti left behind his native language and not only began singing songs in English, but changed the configuration of his band. Renamed Burn and pared down to a trio, this new incarnation of the group released one unsuccessful album before switching its name back to Gölä. ~ Jason Birchmeier

Nichen Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 VEN1

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Hope We Have Fun Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Mt. Joy Mt. Joy Artist ∙ Alternative Formed by a pair of high school friends from Philadelphia who reunited a decade later in L.A., Mt. Joy crafts modern folk rock filled with lush harmonies and percussion-driven melodies. ∙ Although the band was conceived as nothing more than a casual side-project, its founding members dropped their day jobs after the viral success of their 2016 single, “Astrovan.” ∙ It took more than four months for “Silver Lining,” a meditative look at addiction from their self-titled 2018 debut, to climb to No. 1 on  Billboard ’s Adult Alternative Songs chart. ∙  Rolling Stone  and NPR are among the outlets that have praised the band, with the latter naming them to its 2018 list of Slingshot Artists, a title given to public radio’s rising stars. ∙ Tucker Martine—named one of  Paste ’s 10 Best Producers of the Decade in 2009—worked on 2020’s  Rearrange Us , which was a vinyl bestseller the week that...

Get Sunk Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025 Matt Berninger Matt Berninger Artist ∙ Alternative In both his solo work and as leader of Grammy-winning outfit the National, Matt Berninger is a singer and songwriter recognized for his deep baritone, brooding delivery, and contemplative, literate lyrics. Berninger rose to fame early in the 2000s with a mixture of alternative country-rock, Americana, and chamber pop as well as post-punk. Merging these sounds into moody, crafted indie rock, their earliest albums won a dedicated fan base and critical praise before they charted with their fourth LP, 2007's Boxer, which embraced a more expansive, orchestral sound. The National catapulted into the Top Three in multiple countries with 2010's High Violet, and 2017's Sleep Well Beast made Berninger and his bandmates Grammy winners. In 2020, Berninger released his solo debut, the ruminative Serpentine Prison. The National remained a Top 20 act in their third decade, while Berninger continued his ...

Llllll A Minute, A Moment... Album ∙ Singer/Songwriter ∙ 2025 Myles Smith   Myles Smith Artist ∙ Singer/Songwriter A singer and songwriter whose sweetly sad tunes are warm and emotionally open, Myles Smith blends the gentle passion of his vocals with music that incorporates elements of contemporary folk, indie pop, and a dash of Americana. After finding an audience through social media, he developed an international following with the 2024 EP A Minute... and its break-out hit single "Stargazing."

Five Forever Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 PlaqueBoyMax PlaqueBoyMax Artist ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap Alternating between icy menace and detached coolheadedness, PlaqueBoyMax pursues rapping and production as an extension of his fame as the streamer behind the popular series Song Wars and In the Booth. The New Jersey native built a large following with his own series -- the latter of which features him recording tracks with his guests -- shortly after he started with esports brand FaZe Clan. After a batch of unassisted singles during late 2023 and early 2024, Max became more collaborative by using his platform as a way to make studio connections. He teamed with Summrs on "Rino Hercules," with Nino Paid and BabyChiefDoit on "Cooln," and was a featured artist on DDG's "Pink Dreads." Max branched out further in 2025 with London, an EP spotlighting U.K. MCs including Skepta and Nemzzz. He soon teamed up with Sexyy Red, BabyChiefDoit, LAZER DIM 700, and Baby Kia for ...

MUTT Deluxe: HEEL Album ∙ R&B/Soul ∙ 2025 Leon Thomas MUTT Deluxe: HEEL Album ∙ R&B/Soul ∙ 2025 Leon Thomas Leon Thomas wears seemingly every hat there is: He sings, he writes songs, he acts, and he produces. Despite being spread thin in a million different directions, he manages to excel in all these fields. After years of dedicating his talent to acting and writing songs for other artists, he emerged in 2023 with his solo debut,  Electric Dusk , via Ty Dolla $ign’s EZMNY imprint. A year later, he released its follow-up,  MUTT , a convincing sign that Thomas is all in on this latest endeavor. MUTT  finds Thomas showcasing his vocal prowess and lyrical talent alike, telling stories of love lost and betrayal, staggering his way through empty relationships as he looks for his soulmate. On “SAFE PLACE,” he sings over screeching guitars and the persistent beat of a ride cymbal bell, admitting, “I see the glass half empty.” On “FAR FETCHED,” which features his label bo...