review

Remi Wolf – Mud
Remi Wolf – Mud
Still a Little Feral

In her new album, the artist turns bad habits, doomed romances, and twenty-something chaos into irresistible pop, finding humour in the mess of trying to get your life together.

Troye Sivan – She’s the Best
Troye Sivan – She’s the Best
A Cigarette, a Dance Floor and a Dream

In his new album, the Australian singer explores desire, confidence and the messiness of wanting to be loved, balancing glossy pop production with moments of unexpected vulnerability.

Tinashe – Popstar
Tinashe – Popstar
In Her Own Orbit

The singer makes contradiction look effortless, moving between electronic euphoria, intimacy, loneliness and celebrity without ever settling into one identity.

beabadoobee – Pylon
beabadoobee – Pylon
Embracing the Mess of Growing Up

Across “Pylon”, beabadoobee lets anger, tenderness and nostalgia coexist, tracing the uneven work of making peace with change.

Miley – Bass Persuades
Miley – Bass Persuades
The Art of Surrender

In the pop star’s latest album the bass persuades, but it’s asking us to surrender to music, to another person, to ageing, to pleasure while remaining recognisably ourselves.

Adéla – Prima
Adéla – Prima
Ambition En Pointe

On “Prima”, the Slovak singer turns pop ambition into a tightly choreographed spectacle, glossy, funny and vulnerable enough to show what becoming a star can truly cost.

Arca – XXXXX
Arca – XXXXX
Unmatched by the Present

On her new album, the artist transforms mutation, desire and uncertainty into one of the year's most visionary records that encrypts hope in its core.

Charli xcx – Music, Fashion, Film
Charli xcx – Music, Fashion, Film
Irony, Interrupted

Far from chasing trends, the British artist’s new record quietly rewires the logic of contemporary pop, turning the genre into a space for cultural thinking.

Hombres de acero, de Cal McMau
Hombres de acero, de Cal McMau
Empatía sin fin en una violencia incesante

La prisión sigue operando fuera de sus muros en un drama que encuentra empatía y tensión entre Taylor y Dee.

Eartheater – Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message
Eartheater – Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message
The Message Is Infinite Love

In a dark-wave take on her classic ethereal sound, the artist explores her changing relationship with the world and herself as a new mother, ultimately embracing love as transcendent.

Madonna – “Confessions II”
Madonna – “Confessions II”
(The) Class on a Dancefloor

On her latest, long-awaited album, the Queen of Pop seems content to invest in nostalgia instead of imagining the future, revisiting sounds from her career.

Gener8ion – Love & Tears
Gener8ion – Love & Tears
Visions of an Empty Future

A dystopian concept album turns climate collapse, artificial intelligence, masculinity and faith into an uneasy vision of humanity approaching the point of no return.

Olivia Rodrigo – you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Olivia Rodrigo – you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Longing, Loss, and the In-Between

An emotionally intricate album trading teenage explosions for quieter unravelling. Rodrigo documents a romance from euphoric beginnings to painful endings.

Vince Staples – Cry Baby
Vince Staples – Cry Baby
The American Superfugue

Somewhere between reflection and rallying cry, the artist’s new album captures the contradictory superfugue that is the ugly underbelly of American neoliberalism.

Kim Petras – Detour
Kim Petras – Detour
Authentically, Intentionally Disjointed

The singer’s latest album delivers the dirty dance music fans want, while also exposing a new vulnerability in a celebration of her newfound musical independence.

Siempre soy tu animal materno, de Valentina Maurel
Siempre soy tu animal materno, de Valentina Maurel
Una casa habitada por ausencias

Un regreso familiar en Costa Rica abre una grieta íntima donde deseo, ausencia y desajuste emocional convierten la casa en un territorio imposible de reconciliar.

I’ll Be Gone in June by Katharina Rivilis
I’ll Be Gone in June by Katharina Rivilis
American Desert Patriotism

The German director’s debut film turns adolescence into a political space without forcing the film into thesis, tracing how fear, media and national identity enter ordinary life after 9/11.

Fjord, by Cristian Mungiu
Fjord, by Cristian Mungiu
The Violence of Good Intentions

The film enters the Cannes Competition as a tightly controlled moral dispute, where institutional care and private belief systems are placed in direct conflict without the comfort of resolution.

Viva, de Aina Clotet
Viva, de Aina Clotet
La ligereza como forma de colapso

Tras el cáncer, Nora vuelve a una vida que ya no encaja y convierte deseo, pareja y miedo en un territorio de negociación constante.

Soudain (All of a Sudden), by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Soudain (All of a Sudden), by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Care Against Capitalism

A three-hour meditation on care, mortality and time that turns philosophical dialogue into one of Cannes 2026’s most quietly radical cinematic gestures.

Ceniza en la boca, de Diego Luna
Ceniza en la boca, de Diego Luna
El explícito retrato de todo aquello que nos incomoda

Un retrato áspero de la migración, la culpa familiar y el dolor que sobrevive incluso cuando se intenta empezar de nuevo.

Gentle Monster, by Marie Kreutzer
Gentle Monster, by Marie Kreutzer
Intimacy Under Suspicion

Desire turns intimacy into a system of doubt, where love, opacity and complicity blur inside Marie Kreutzer’s most unsettling domestic drama.

El ser querido, de Rodrigo Sorogoyen
El ser querido, de Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Contra el mito del genio masculino

Una película sobre el afecto contaminado desmonta la figura del genio masculino desde el silencio, el poder y una tensión paterno-filial sin catarsis fácil.

Lykke Li – The Afterparty
Lykke Li – The Afterparty
The Comedown of Today

The artist transforms emotional learning into a profound humanistic reflection, delivering her most conceptually ambitious and existential album to date.

Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere
Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere
Roots, Humour, and Heartbreak

A playful return to country roots where humour, heartbreak and regional Mexican touches make personal reflection feel unexpectedly light.

Lecx Stacy – The Folkhouse
Lecx Stacy – The Folkhouse
Echoes Of Another Life

Past and present quietly fold into each other as grief, heartbreak and inherited memory shape the emotional world of “The Folkhouse.”

Noah Kahan –  The Great Divide: The Last Of The Bugs
Noah Kahan – The Great Divide: The Last Of The Bugs
Fans Never Want Less Music

A sprawling folk record trades immediacy for emotional depth, turning memory, distance and connection into something long, uneven and quietly devastating.

Barbara Forever, de Brydie O’Connor
Barbara Forever, de Brydie O’Connor
La revolución de ser una misma

El documental de la directora estadounidense retrata el legado de una pionera del cine queer y experimental a través de imágenes íntimas, memoria colectiva y archivo personal.

Zara Larsson – Midnight Sun: Girls Trip
Zara Larsson – Midnight Sun: Girls Trip
This One’s for the Girls

The Swedish pop star teams up with Shakira, PinkPantheress, JT, Robyn, and more for a creative explosion that redefines the album that’s brought her back to the mainstream spotlight.

Couture (Alta costura), de Alice Winocour
Couture (Alta costura), de Alice Winocour
Melodrama en el Hilton

Un melodrama de alta costura que desfila por la superficie de la moda, la enfermedad y la experiencia femenina sin atreverse a incomodar.