There’s so little mystery in music nowadays that it’s hard to know how to respond when a genuine enigma does emerge – all the more so when it’s in the guise of a rumpled Galway songwriter who sounds ...

In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

The experimental composer’s second album deepens their exploration of speech dysfluency and its musical possibilities. Here, their stutter is a pathway to probe family legacy and the passage of time.

It’s rare these days for an artist to arrive, seemingly fully-formed, with no advance hype. At the risk of sounding like an old man shouting at a cloud, it’s all algorithms, Tik Toks and content ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

The German Romantic poet Novalis once wrote of his search for “a single secret word” that would strip the world of its crude veil and reveal the glorious truth beneath. He never named the word, ...

War. Peace. War. A moon landing. An assassination. Stranger Things. Ozzy’s farewell. 100 men vs. a gorilla. Coldplay’s kiss cam. Six-seven. Labubus. A jeans ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best songs of 2025. In a chronically online, AI-slop-embedded hellscape, Don’t Tap the Glass is Tyler, the Creator’s surprise social ...

It's Friday, and that means we've reached our final 2025 episode of New Music Friday. While most of the music internet has moved on to looking backward (including the latest episode of All Songs ...

There are many throughlines in the list you’re about to scroll through: triumphant comebacks, showstopping debuts, thrill-seeking left-turns and emotional documents of grief and pain. But what stays ...