Nashville has long been more than country music. The Nashville artists on these five albums are untied to genre or legacy, moving forward with completely new sounds.

1. First is Chuquimamani-Condori, who is heralded by all the big music critics. Pitchfork gave one of the two albums they released this year the highest rating since Fionna Apple’s Fetch the Boltcutters got a perfect 10 in 2020. And named their album Los Thuthanaka the best album of 2025.

Chuquimamani-Condori is overstimulating. But there is peace in that. His album Edits from earlier this year recreates songs like “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby by layering Bolivian folk music, the original piano chords, and red level beats all on top of each other. It feels like scrolling Tiktok. Listening to an album in your air pods and

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