2025 has proven itself to be an incredible year for music. Throughout the industry, artists were taking big steps to reinvent their sounds, push boundaries between genres, and explore new emotional and sonic territories. This year saw veterans like Pulp and Suede return with records that balance nostalgia of the Britpop era with urgent modernity, while newcomers like Model/Actriz helped redefine what rock and punk can sound like today. Across pop, indie, electronic, rock, lat

LUX  blends classical, electronic, and pop influences into a bold exploration of spirituality, femininity, and sacrifice. Anchored by flashes of familiar flamenco-pop, the album demands close attention, cementing Rosalía as one of modern pop’s most inventive voices. The Mic's Ben Dale reports. LUX Album Cover, Rosalía In his 1992 song Anthem , Leonard Cohen writes, “Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”. These are the lin

5 Seconds of Summer, at any given time, could have been considered punk, or pop, or alt-rock — but never a boy band. Much to the band members’ despair, their early association with One Direction as openers for the Take Me Home Tour  seemed to permanently brand their punk act. They’ve been trying to shake the title ever since. The Mic's Aaliyah Field reports on the soon-to-be-released poppy-punky-rocky record. I kept up with 5SOS in my early teens and I remember very distinctl

The modern U.S. shoegaze scene has been dissected countless times, but if you ask its most devoted fans to name the scene’s most ambitious act, one name inevitably surfaces: They Are Gutting a Body of Water. The Mic's Josh Holmes reports on the latest shoegaze spotlight contender. Past full-length projects such as Destiny XL  and Lucky Styles  have earned the Philadelphia outfit a dedicated underground following, while supporting sets for dream pop and shoegaze figureheads

In May 2025, PinkPantheress released her mixtape, and the musical world has not been the same since. After dropping the two crowd-pleasing singles, Illegal  and Tonight , she explicitly illustrated that she not only fears experimentation with her production, but her lyrics as well. This mixtape contrasts her previous two albums through its exploration of themes such as desire, attraction, and young love. Her earlier projects leaned towards the sombre, but Fancy That was a mix

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Reneé Rapp has returned with her sophomore album and an even more iconic attitude on life. This emerging superstar, previously known for her EP Everything to Everyone  and album Snow Angel , introduces her evolved artistry with this album. Her record, and its punchy title, is a body of work commendable for streamlining her previous project’s vulnerability into a feisty façade. The Mic’s Daniela Roux reviews BITE ME . The Original Cover of BITE ME Reneé Rapp's opener , Leave

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EUSEXUA is the latest offering of music with a mission to push a self-made philosophy onto the audience. Avant-garde maestro FKA twigs coined the word ‘Eusexua’ to define what is basically the pinnacle of human experience, the climax of inspiration, effortless presence and an undeniable freedom. She has now returned from her half-decade orbit around the sun with her third LP, stated with a new outlandish close-up of her face for us all to wonder how she’ll wholly explain Euse