Music Mk.gee Probably Hears in His Dreams
We're listening to everything, all the time. Here are five older albums that were new to us in 2025—and made our years.
Album Review
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Shostakovich’s 5th Played Backwards in a Concrete Silo
A BPM-crushing jungle experiment by a canny Instagram curator, a rap album bridging the revolutionary and the corner boy, and more.
The Bronx Duo Bringing Perreo to the Mosh Pit
Plus: A Spider-Man-inspired rapper building his own superhero persona, an exploration in the freaky tunings of nature, and more.
Raps About Tony Blair, Synths About Vikings
Plus two more intimate hip-hop albums and a high-energy new DJ-Kicks mix.
Rosalía's Orchestral Benediction
Plus: a must-hear album from a virtuosic avant-rock quartet, the fiery return of an essential Chicago rap collective, and more.
Four Must Hears From Our Ears to Yours
A Swedish singer and pipe organist, a Portuguese experimentalist, a Canadian rapper, and more.
Music for Crashing Out
Albums contending with divorce, expatriation, suburban malaise, and other concerns
The Minor Nobility of Just Messing Around
A Yale professor and ‘One Battle After Another’ star makes his cheeky debut. Plus pop from the Tehrangeles diaspora, the new Tame Impala, and more.
Music for Giving a Crap About Other People
Deliriously strange club music, in-the-moment ambience, a knotted-up singer-songwriter, and more.
A Geese Review That's Not Like Every Other Geese Review
Plus a Massachusetts cellist's untamed rock music, a Cuban repartero's big-leagues gambit, and more.
Cardi B Can’t Contain Her Bronx Rizz
On her second album Am I the Drama?, the captivating rapper cackles through her city-hewn armor.
Work Music for Not Doing Work
Plus psychedelic dorm poster jams, ripping saxophones, gospel-inspired disco-funk, and more.