THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2025
feat. Olivia Dean, Bon Iver, Sabrina Carpenter, Geese, & more! Dive into our year-end feature!HEADLINES
“I Serve Me. I Take Care of Me. I Am My Keeper”: Medium Build on Surviving the Dream, Choosing Himself, & More Takeaways From a Career-Defining Year
“You Have Me Marked as Nice”: Ski Team Sits With Desire, Restraint, & the Mercy of Boundaries on “Santa”
“Raw, Experimental, & Definitive”: Low.bō Debuts with a Bruised, Intimate Alt-R&B Reckoning on ‘husk’
“Anger, Death, & Acceptance”: Adult Mom’s Stevie Knipe Gives Life’s Hardest Feelings a Voice on ‘Natural Causes’
“None of us are free until all of us are free”: Rick Alverson & Emilie Rex on Making ‘Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers’
Editor's Picks
New Music Releases & Upcoming Albums
Check back here for our up-to-date calendar of the albums, EPs, mixtapes, & projects we're anticipating and excited about in 2025! Dive in!Atwood's Artists to Watch in 2025!
ATWOOD MAGAZINE'S 2025 ARTISTS TO WATCH
get to know the 50+ artists on our radar this year! Read the full feature!
50 YEARS OF HIP-HOP
Atwood Magazine’s staff celebrates hip-hop's 50th anniversary with a special feature and accompanying playlist diving deep into its music, its history, and its indelible impact on culture. Check it out!Recent Articles
“I Serve Me. I Take Care of Me. I Am My Keeper”: Medium Build on Surviving the Dream, Choosing Himself, & More Takeaways From a Career-Defining Year
byMedium Build’s Nick Carpenter looks back on a career-defining 2025 as both an arrival and a collapse – a “violent upheaval of self” where sobriety, mania, burnout, touring, and survival all collided at full speed. Tracing the whiplash between public momentum and private consequence, he opens up about turning the machine down without abandoning the dream, reclaiming honesty over performance, and channeling the year’s aftershocks into a beautifully raw collection of songs – including the darker new record he says is coming next.
Celebrating the Music of 2024
Features
“I Serve Me. I Take Care of Me. I Am My Keeper”: Medium Build on Surviving the Dream, Choosing Himself, & More Takeaways From a Career-Defining Year
byMedium Build’s Nick Carpenter looks back on a career-defining 2025 as both an arrival and a collapse – a “violent upheaval of self” where sobriety, mania, burnout, touring, and survival all collided at full speed. Tracing the whiplash between public momentum and private consequence, he opens up about turning the machine down without abandoning the dream, reclaiming honesty over performance, and channeling the year’s aftershocks into a beautifully raw collection of songs – including the darker new record he says is coming next.
