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Best Albums of 2025 (So Far)
A candid posthumous release plus a soundtrack for bedrooms and basements.
Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS is a wonder of threading art and advocacy, a collection of catchy tracks stuffed with multifaceted Puerto Rican pride from its lyrics to its genre selection to its employment of local artists and studio space. In true Spotify final boss fashion, you don’t necessarily need to grok the entire context this music fits into — the succession of salseros and reggaetoneros it takes to get to a song like the winding “Baile Inolvidable” — for a hook to catch you. Proving his mettle by easing into the burgeoning indie and mainstream Cali rap movements in the early 2010s, he went back and forth between delivering a tight commercial argument for radio airplay and a more totalizing dive into his bursting gifts as a multi-instrumentalist.
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