Moments in Timelessness

Tha Carter VI Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Lil Wayne Hip-hop loves a franchise, and arguably none deserves more of that adoration than Lil Wayne’s  Tha Carter . Plenty of rappers have gone the sequels route in the hopes of recapturing a vibe or reinvigorating a fanbase, but the first four installments of the Young Money impresario’s album series hit the culture like monumental events. The exhaustive way in which this quartet was discussed, dissected, ranked, and re-ranked by listeners and critics alike almost eclipsed their chart successes, securing Weezy’s spot in the G.O.A.T. debate forever. The seven-year gap between the fourth and fifth volumes felt like an eternity, especially as focus shifted towards fresh stars and new sounds. Yet even that wait came with a massive payoff—not rebooting the saga to suit the times but continuing his story in a way only he could. Another seven years may have passed, with a handful of mixtapes in between, yet this sixth volume proves well worth th...

NEVER ENOUGH Album ∙ Rock ∙ 2025 Turnstile Turnstile is hardly the first band raised in a tight-knit DIY hardcore punk scene to graduate to big-tent popularity and grapple with what that success should look like. For the Baltimore-based five-piece, a stint opening for blink-182’s 2023 reunion tour served as a hands-on apprenticeship. “That summer was definitely a master class of existing in that space,” Turnstile bassist Franz Lyons tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “Riding with blink, they’re great people, but also their supporting cast—everything they do behind the scenes is very sharp, and it was cool to be in a situation where you have to learn how to mend your creative way to a different lens.” These lessons all came in handy in the making of their fourth album,  NEVER ENOUGH , which doubles down on the genre-expanding—and, subsequently, audience-expanding—twists of 2021’s breakthrough  GLOW ON  and throws in an ambitious visual-album component that ties all 14 songs to...

Sex Hysteria Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Jessie Murph

Lights, Camera, Action Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Chicken P

Black Tape N.W.O Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Sada Baby Sada Baby Artist ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap Lyricism and musicality matter, but star power is undeniable—and one glimpse of Sada Baby's magnetic presence proves he's special. Growing up on Detroit's east side, Sada Baby (born Casada Sorrell in 1992) developed a diverse music palate for street rap, Southern crunk, and rock music. As a kid, he sang in a church choir but turned to hip-hop in his early 20s after winning a local competition inspired him to take his career from playful freestyling to full-time. In his most extraordinary form, Sada Baby lays elastic, scratchy snarls over pounding pianos and stuttering drums, and often spits unsparing threats with bristling machismo while mixing in obscure animé references and outrageous jokes. In short, Sada is unafraid to let his animated side loose—spotlighted on his 2017 mixtape  Skuba Sada  and his star-turning 2018 hit with Drego, "Bloxk Party," where he spews hilarious, hedo...

Mediterraneo Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Bresh

FUORI MENÙ Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Golden Years

ANTI ANTI (Doom Edition) Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 18K

FATHER FIGURE Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Jon Bellion After 2018’s  Glory Sound Prep , songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Bellion stepped back from releasing music of his own. He still wrote and produced for other artists like Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, and Jonas Brothers, and headed up his label Beautiful Mind Records, which has released albums by the likes of Tori Kelly. He also became a dad—an experience, he tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, that sparked a realization. “You start to realize, ‘The father is wildly important in the home,’” he says. “You hear that, you believe that—and then you have children, and you’re like, ‘Oh, my God.’” Across  FATHER FIGURE —Bellion’s first full-length in seven years—the Long Island-born pop alchemist comes to grips with fatherhood’s enormity while also appreciating the way that living life apart from the day-to-day artist grind has opened up his creativity. Now fully independent ( FATHER FIGURE  is his first album on his own labe...

PIANO A Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Lele

DESIRE : UNLEASH Album ∙ K-Pop ∙ 2025 ENHYPEN ENHYPEN continues their vampiric agenda with  DESIRE : UNLEASH , the K-pop boy group’s sixth EP. The septet’s “concept” (used in K-pop to define a fixed aesthetic and/or narrative theme) had been supernatural since their debut in 2020, but they made their vampirism explicit with 2023’s “Bite Me,” a Y2K-inspired pop track that beckons listeners closer (“Just come kiss me and bite me, yeah”)—at their own risk. Two years later, by  DESIRE : UNLEASH , members Heeseung, Jay, Jake, Sunghoon, Sunoo, Jungwon, and Ni-ki have become masters at evoking a sense of dangerous desire with a vocal flourish or turn of phrase. “Out in the world, you’re just an angel/But here in the dark, my sacrifice,” they sing in dance-pop lead single “Bad Desire (With or Without You),” which sees “Bite Me” producer Cirkut returning to work with the group. While the album’s theme may stick tight to the titular unleashed desire, the mode of expression shifts: futur...

POEMV Album ∙ Korean Hip-Hop ∙ 2025 Owen

NAPISZ JAK BĘDZIESZ Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Sobel

PCC 2.5 Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Paluch  &  Chris Carson

Reservado Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Deejay Telio

CUARTO AZUL Album ∙ Pop Latino ∙ 2025 Aitana The Spanish pop star melds modern with retro on her fourth album.

PÓRTATE BIEN! Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 mvrk