So Close To What
So Close To What Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Tate McRae Listen to “2 hands” and pre-add the upcoming album now.
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GIRIBOY 11th LP Pt.1 : Why Are You always like this? - EP
GIRIBOY 11th LP Pt.1 : Why Are You always like this? - EP Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 GIRIBOY
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works Album ∙ Classical ∙ 2025 Seong-Jin Cho “Even before my teens, I was exposed to Ravel's music,” Seong-Jin Cho tells Apple Music Classical. “The first piece by Ravel I played, at my teacher's request, was ‘Alborada del Gracioso’ (from Miroirs ). I was 11 or 12 years old, and previously, my repertoire had been mostly Classical or Romantic period music. Ravel was a new world for me—the writing and the musical language were totally different from Beethoven or Chopin. “It was also the most technically demanding piece that I'd ever done, so I have a very strong memory about the music. Since then, I've been learning lots of French music, including Debussy and Ravel, because I studied in Paris from 2012.” During his studies in the French capital, one Ravel work became particularly close to Cho’s heart. “The beginning of my Paris years was not so easy,” Cho remembers, “because it was my first experience of living abroad. And at that time, I l...
Flip it, Kick it! - EP
Flip it, Kick it! - EP Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 KickFlip The first major K-pop debut of 2025 belonged to JYP Entertainment’s KickFlip. Named after a classic skateboarding trick, the seven-member boy group is partially composed of winners from the 2021 survival series LOUD (Kyehoon, Amaru, Keiju, and Donghyeon) and partially composed of new faces (Donghwa, Juwang, and Minje). With mini-album Flip it, Kick it! , the group joins the music company’s pantheon of boy bands, which has included 2PM, GOT7, and Stray Kids. KickFlip’s proper introduction comes in the form of “Mama Said,” a lead single that throws off the weight of parental expectation with playful pop ease (“Mama said what are you trying to become/I don’t wanna/I don’t wanna”). The theme of easygoing defiance continues in bouncy, pre-release bop “Umm Great” (“Who’s nagging again this time?/Telling me I can’t do it?/Fine, I’ll just let it slide”) and the Young K-penned power-pop B-side “WARRIORS” (“I really hate fixed...