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MARTIN CID MAGAZINE This week 7 releases worth your time — swipe →

Masayoshi Oishi bets ‘Kimi wa Koibito’ can carry the

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 01 · MUSIC Masayoshi Oishi's new single for The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Season 2 comes with a music video that contains no… Read our review →

tripleS built K-pop’s most complex system — pt.1 makes

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 02 · MUSIC Twenty-four members organized by fan vote, an ever-shifting sub-unit structure, a universe called ASSEMBLE26 — tripleS may be the most architecturally ambitious… Read our review →

Arashi’s disbandment single ‘Five’ shatters Japan’s Oricon first-day streaming

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 03 · MUSIC Arashi's 59th and final single rewrote Japan's streaming record books while saying goodbye. The numbers are real. The farewell is definitive Read our review →

Zedd remixes aespa’s LEMONADE — K-pop stakes its EDM

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 04 · MUSIC When Grammy-winning producer Zedd takes apart aespa's LEMONADE and puts it back together, the result is less a remix than a statement… Read our review →

Ariana Grande made millions love her — her new

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 05 · MUSIC "hate that i made you love me" is not a title fragment. It is a complete sentence, a confession that names a… Read our review →

Boards of Canada return with Inferno, an 18-track challenge

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 06 · MUSIC The Scottish electronic duo ends its longest absence between studio albums with a release that immediately unsettles the mythology they built around… Read our review →

J.Seph bets ‘Spin-off’ can carry the solo weight KARD’s

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 07 · MUSIC KARD's rapper and vocalist steps out with his debut EP, a five-track project that strips away the group's co-ed dynamic and asks… Read our review →