In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on November 7, 2025:
Rosalía, LUX
After being previewed last week by the single ‘Berghain’ with Björk and Yves Tumor, Rosalía’s LUX is now out in full. The Spanish superstar recorded the orchestrally striking and deeply spiritual LP with the London Symphony Orchestra, and, in addition to the aforementioned guests, it features Carminho, Estrella Morente, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Yahritza, and the Escolania de Montserrat i Cor Cambra Palau de la Música Catalana. It also has lyrics in fourteen languages: her native Catalan and Spanish, as well as Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Portuguese, Sicilian, and Ukrainian.
Danny Brown, Stardust
Danny Brown’s thrilling, hyperpop-fuelled new album, Stardust, has arrived via Warp Records. Its eccentric cast collaborators includes underscores, Femtanyl, Frost Children, Jane Remover, Quadeca, IssBrokie, Zheani, 8485, JOHNNASCU, Nnamdi, and Ta Ukraika. As the first album the rapper has made entirely sober, it also attempts to reconcile his new lifestyle with a still-anarchic sound. “The message wasn’t coming from the best place at the time, so I always associated the message with that style of music,” he told NME. “I felt like that wasn’t a part of me no more because I’m not partying and doing drugs.”
Westerman, A Jackal’s Wedding
Westerman has followed up 2023’s An Inbuilt Fault with a new album called A Jackal’s Wedding. Named after a particular folkloric interpretation of a sunshower – a “wedding” for a trickster animal – the album was partly influenced by his adopted home in Greece. “A lot of the textures on the album emerged from how the light works in Athens,” Westerman explained in press materials. “When the light changes here, there’s this oversaturated brilliance to everything. I wanted to make something where there were heavier textures punctured by these iridescent shards, both in individual tracks and in the overall shape of the record. It’s not hyperreal, but it’s mimicking something hyperreal.”
Stella Donnelly, Love and Fortune
After touring behind her last album, 2023’s Flood, Stella Donnelly decided to take a break before continuing to work on music. As she was going through a difficult friend breakup, she felt wary of grappling with it in her songwriting. “I have no shame about writing a breakup song about any of my exes, but when it came to this… There’s a reason I stopped playing music for two years,” she said in our inspirations interview around her new album, Love and Fortune. “I wasn’t sure I was willing to go there, because it’s just complicated, and a friendship breakup speaks so much to your personality and your humanity. It was a very confusing time.”
Hatchie, Liquorice
Hatchie has released her dazzling, lustrous new album, Liquorice, via Secretly Canadian. Harriette Pilbeam worked with producer Melina Duterte (Jay Som) on the follow-up to 2022’s Giving the World Away, capturing the bittersweetness of the titular candy. “This album feels like the culmination of everything I’ve wanted to do with this project since I first started it,” Pilbeam shared in a press release. “I focused on the finer details of the trajectory of love found and lost, inspired by my favourite tragic romance films. I’ve never felt more aligned with an album and can’t wait to share the experience with everyone.”
The Mountain Goats, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
“In the night of May 29, 2023, I had a dream,” John Darnielle wrote in a note introducing the Mountain Goats 23rd studio album. “Waking from it, I transcribed what I could remember of it into the note-taking app I keep on my phone. The note reads: ‘through this fire across from peter balkan #dream. It was the title of a work, not sure which form.’ The next time I sat at the piano to see if I had ideas, I got the notion of writing a work that proceeded from its title, and that tried to make real the dreamlike grammar of that title. This album is that work.” It features Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson, harpist Mikaela Davis, Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
h. pruz, Red sky at morning
The new album from h. pruz, the project of the Queens-based songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky, lifts its title from a proverb cited in the New Testament: “Red sky at night, sailors’ delight/ Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.” The follow-up to last year’s No Glory treads the unknown with beguiling tenderness. “I am drawn to the fact that so many people put their thoughts and beliefs into the sky, the mere color of it,” Pruzinsky explained. “That we can see things somewhere else, perhaps above, far beyond, that are to come to pass. To see a red sky above themselves, an outright warning of potential peril and collapse, and to still choose to go forward into something. If you know something is going to be uncovered or difficult or treacherous, how do you proceed with that warning sign?”
Armand Hammer and the Alchemis, Mercy
Armand Hammer and the Alchemist have reunited for a haunting new album, Mercy, out now via billy woods’ Backwoodz Studioz. The Haram collaborators tapped Earl Sweatshirt, Quelle Chris, Cleo Reed, Pink Siifu, Kapwani, and Silka for the new project, which was preceded by the singles ‘Super Nintendo’ and ‘Calypso Gene’. According to press materials, the record is “made out of blood and empire, children’s laughter, unpaid parking tickets, and unkept secrets.”
Kali Malone and Drew McDowall, Magentism
Kali Malone and Drew McDowall’s new collaborative LP, Magnetism, contains five tracks the pair recorded in just a matter of days. Malone reflected, “Playing this music felt like singing, as I freely followed my internal voice. A lot of those melodies I had been holding inside of me for so long.” McDowall added, “The music is surprisingly accessible even though some of the timbres are extreme. it’s not foreboding or even opaque. We might even be dabbling with pop sentiments.” They returned to the music after leaving them untouched for a year, finding “it had taken on some uncanny, mystical quality.”
Allie X, Happiness Is Going to Get You
Allie X’s new album, Happiness Is Going to Get You, arrives as a “deep breath” following the artist’s 2024 record Girl With No Face. It was self-produced and written largely on piano, coloured out by layers of harpsichord, timpani, and strings. It centers on the protagonist and Allie X’s alter ego Infant Marie to explore “the idea of existing in multiple places in time, weaving baroque instrumentation with digital production to reflect a world caught between nostalgia, hope, and dread,” per a press release.
Liam Kazar, Pilot Light
Sam Evian’s no-frills production is a perfect fit for Liam Kazar’s songwritering on Pilot Light. Recorded at Evian’s Flying Cloud Studios in the Catskills, it features Hannah Cohen and Sima Cunningham on backing vocals, Sean Mullins on drums, and more. “I’ve gone through periods of being a very private person and keeping my cards close to the vest, and I’ve let go of all that,” Kazar commented. “I think since the relationship I was in ended, I feel like being honest and being vulnerable has only brought me closer to people.”
Other albums out today:
Whitney, Small Talk; Twen, Fate Euphoric; BENEE, Ur an Angel I’m Just Particles; Mini Trees, Slow It Down; DRAIN, ..IS YOUR FRIEND; Mavis Staples, Sad And Beautiful World; Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World; Steve Gunn, Daylight Daylight; Sarathy Korwar, There Is Beauty, There Already; Tiny Vipers, Tormentor; White Lies, Night Light; Charlotte de Witte, Charlotte de Witte; Aris Kindt, Now Claims My Timid Heart; Clark, Steep Stims; Tristen, Unpopular Music; Teen Jesus & the Jean Teasers, GLORY; Del Water Gap, Chasing the Chimera; Portugal. the Man, SHISH; Brian House, Everyday Infrasound in an Uncertain World.
