The Best New Music According to Critics

Rosalía's Lux arrives as a bravely orchestrated statement, folding pop bravura into liturgical drama and staking a claim on grand, operatic territory....

Hayley Williams's Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party arrives as a bruised, bravado-filled statement that critics largely hail as a career-affirming rei...

Anna von Hausswolff's ICONOCLASTS arrives as a cathedral-sized statement that pivots her ritualistic gloom into widescreen, sax-lined drama. Across si...

Jim Legxacy's black british music (2025) [Mixtape] arrives as a vivid, shape-shifting statement that turns personal grief and cultural reclamation int...

Dijon's Baby arrives as a vivid, intimate collision of domestic life and experimental R&B, earning critical praise for its daring production and emoti...

Deftones's private music arrives as a purposeful reunion that balances bruising heft with intimate lyricism, and across professional reviews it largel...