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

Riko Sasaki’s RI PATHOS packs 10 new tracks into

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 01 · MUSIC Voice actress and alt-rock singer Riko Sasaki delivers RI PATHOS, a full album of 10 all-new songs that trace her own life… Read our review →

LE SSERAFIM’s Supergirl version tests whether CELEBRATION had more

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 02 · MUSIC LE SSERAFIM has released "CELEBRATION (Supergirl ver.)," a two-track single expanding the PUREFLOW Pt.1 track with no Spotify distribution. The new version… Read our review →

aespa bets LEMONADE can make K-pop’s most complex mythology

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 03 · MUSIC aespa's second full album opens a new lore portal between the digital and real worlds, with ten tracks, no Spotify, and 23M+… Read our review →

Ludwig Göransson bets three seasons of Mandalorian music can

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 04 · MUSIC Ludwig Göransson's 20-track score for the Mandalorian theatrical film moves his TV-built musical language into cinema architecture — whether it holds depends… Read our review →

Masayoshi Oishi bets ‘Kimi wa Koibito’ can carry the

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 05 · 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 06 · 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 07 · 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 →