Blizzard – Dove Ellis
GENRE; Folk/Country/Rock LABEL; Black Butter RATING; 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dove Ellis’s debut album Blizzard arrives as one of 2025’s most acclaimed releases, earning a Metacritic score of 94/100 and universal critical praise across major outlets. From the…
Anywhere – Yawning Portal
GENRE; Electronic LABEL; Year0001 RATING; 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Anywhere, the debut full-length from South London duo Yawning Portal — Jess Mai Walker and Joseph Ware — represents one of the most compelling explorations in ambient-electronic music of 2025.…
gutta child EP – Gabriel Jacoby
GENRE; Pop/R&B LABEL; Pulse RATING; 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gabriel Jacoby’s debut EP, gutta child, is a compact but charismatic eight-song introduction that stitches together Southern roots and modern R&B into a warm, restless groove. Across…
A Spyglass to One’s Face YUNGMORPHEUS / Dirty Art Club
GENRE; Rap/Electronic LABEL; Fat beats RATING; 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ YUNGMORPHEUS’s collaborative album with producer Dirty Art Club, A Spyglass to One’s Face, is a concise, atmospheric statement that refines the rapper’s signature chill while nudging him…
#FEDERAL – SINN6R
GENRE; Rap LABEL; XV/Lizzy RATING; 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SINN6R’s #FEDERAL is a blistering, high‑intensity project that cements the London rapper as one of the most compelling voices emerging from the UK underground in 2025. Released on 21 November…
No Control, No Glory – AKAI SOLO
GENRE; Rap RELEASE DATE; 14 November, 2025 RATING; 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ No Control, No Glory finds Brooklyn’s AKAI SOLO delivering one of his most introspective and idiosyncratic full‑lengths yet. The album’s title itself reflects the thematic core of the…
The Pilot – MAVI
GENRE; Rap LABEL; Loma Vista RATING; 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mavi’s The Pilot arrives as a compact, focused mixtape that trades the languid introspection of his earlier work for sharper, more immediate storytelling. Clocking in at roughly 24 minutes across ten…
USB002 – Fred again..
GENRE; Rap/Electronic/ Pop/R&B LABEL; Atlantic RATING; 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fred again..’s USB002 arrives like a late-night mixtape made for peak-hour euphoria. The album (and live project) doubles as part-documentary, part-club sermon: it stitches…
Zaytoun – Haitham Haidar
GENRE; Classical RELEASE DATE; 22 August, 2025 RATING; 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Haitham Haidar’s debut solo album Zaytoun is a beguiling, genre-blurring statement: part intimate Baroque recital, part Arabic song-cycle, and entirely its own world. Across 14…
Gluck Arias Ann Hallenberg / Ian Page / The Mozartists
GENRE; Classical RELEASE DATE; 26 September, 2025 RATING; 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ann Hallenberg’s Gluck Arias, recorded with Ian Page’s period-instrument orchestra The Mozartists, is a small revelation: an album that rescues Gluck from the margins and…