On this section, we showcase probably the most notable albums out every week. Listed below are the albums out on November 21, 2025:
Oneohtrix Level By no means, Tranquilizer
So far as Oneohtrix Level By no means information go, Tranquilizer’s most quick antecedent is Duplicate, an album that’s nearly a decade and a half outdated. Whereas that assortment noticed Daniel Lopatin wistfully repurpose sounds from bootleg DVDs compiling TV commercials from the ‘80s and ‘90s, Tranquilizer mines from a set of business pattern CDs preserved on the Web Archive. The flimsiness of that upkeep – the web page was taken down, then instantly got here again – is a part of what impressed the producer and differentiates his follow-up to Once more, the way in which swathes of doubtless soulful music will be misplaced to and resurface by way of time. Learn the complete evaluation.
Tobias Jesso Jr., s h i n e
Tobias Jesso Jr. has returned along with his first new album in over a decade. s h i n e, the understated, demo-ish follow-up to the singer-songwriter’s 2015 debut Goon, was introduced only a week in the past and options not more than eight tracks, together with the beforehand launched ‘I Love You’. The document was combined by Shawn Everett. “The eight songs are about himself, his mother, his son, a breakup and his life at this second in time,” in accordance with a press launch, “with some assist from Danielle Haim, Eli Teplin, Julian Bunetta, Justin Vernon, Rosie Hamilton, Tommy King and a psychic.”
Keaton Henson, Parader
“Previous to being a largely quiet musician I performed in hardcore and emo bands,” Keaton Henson notes within the press launch for his new album Parader. Although his lyrics stay as introspective as ever, he pays homage to these heavier sounds, going so far as to enlist Wednesday collaborator Alex Farrar on manufacturing. He additionally collaborated with Ratboys’ Julia Steiner on the early single ‘Lazy Magician’. “It’s not me pretending to be something I’m not,” Henson defined. “I feel it’s simply me accepting that a part of me is that this. It’s louder and brasher, however not from a performative perspective. Possibly I’m simply accepting that that’s all a part of me as effectively.”
Sharp Pins, Balloon Balloon Balloon
Kai Slater has had a busy 12 months. He had his 2024 debut as Sharp Pins, Radio DDR, reissued by Okay Information’ Perennial imprint, and his different band Lifeguard additionally launched its debut album. Slater is closing out the 12 months with Balloon Balloon Balloon, one other assortment of lo-fi power-pop gems – 21 of them, to be precise. “I recorded this album principally every time I had time, which was not that a lot, in comparison with the common Joe,” he informed Rolling Stone, utilizing guitars he described as “a faux Vox Phantom” and “a faux Rickenbacker,” in addition to a boombox-style cassette deck delivered to its breaking level.
WRENS, Half of What You See
Brooklyn jazz-rap outfit WRENS have unveiled their playful, audacious new document, Half of What You See. It follows their 2023 debut, alligator sneakers [on flatbush]. “There’s a long-standing aroma across the idea of the sophomore album that, for some, triggers involuntary vomiting of ‘what if it’s not’’s and comparable brown notes,” Ryan Easter mirrored. “The fascinating factor about WRENS, identical with many ensembles which are rooted in a relentless through-line of reactive improvisation, is that the very essence of what’s heard is rooted in three issues: how good are they on their very own, how good are they at realizing every others’ individuality, and what did they eat that day? This document is, as determined by the casually grown males concerned, sinister.”
De La Soul, Cabin within the Sky
De La Soul have dropped their first album for the reason that 2023 dying of David Jude Jolicoeur, the group’s founding member also referred to as Trugoy, Dave, and Trugoy the Dove. The colourful 20-track effort options manufacturing contributions from DJ Premier, Tremendous Dave, and Pete Rock, in addition to visitor spots from Killer Mike, Little Dragon’s Yukimi, Frequent, Nas, and the Roots’ Black Thought. “Cabin within the Sky lives in that house between loss and light-weight,” Posdnuos stated in press supplies. “It’s in regards to the ache we stock and the enjoyment that by some means nonetheless finds us. This album is remedy and celebration on the identical time. There’s a vulnerability in these songs, as a result of the whole lot we’ve been by way of has introduced us to this second, to this album, honoring what we’ve misplaced and lifting up what nonetheless stays. That duality. That’s life, and that’s De La.”
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover, What of Our Nature
“What would you like me to consider, and what can I not?/ What of our nature have we carried out forgot?” Haley Heynderickx sings on ‘to every their dot’, a haunting spotlight off her new collaborative album with Max García Conover. A pensive, revolutionary spirit runs by way of What of Our Nature, the follow-up to Amongst Horses III (Fifth Version), which the pair launched in 2023. Produced by Sahil Ansari, the document was tracked on to tape in 5 days in a barn in Vermont, utilizing nothing greater than their guitars, voices, and a few discovered percussion.
Glitterer, erer
Glitterer – the band led by Title Combat’s Ned Russin – have adopted up final 12 months’s Rationale with a brand new album known as erer. Out now through the band’s personal Purple Circle Information, the document as soon as once more finds them working with producer Arthur Rizk and options paintings by Andrew Peden. It was led by the only ‘Stainless Metal’, which encapsulates the temper of the album: “How am I presupposed to create change/ I need to see?/ It’s not sufficient/ To sit down round and fear/ Whereas the world is blowing up.”
Different albums out at this time:
Dendrons, Indiana; Shygirl, ALIAS is ME; Twin Shadow, Cadet; S.C.A.B., Anyone in New York Loves You!; Charlotte de Witte, Charlotte de Witte; Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello, Trinity; Anthony Moore, On Beacon Hill; Glyders, Without end; Sub Focus, Contact; ILUKA, the wild, the harmless, & the raging; SUDS, Inform me about your day once more.; The Futureheads, Christmas; doris dana, wild at coronary heart; Tristan Perich & James McVinnie, Infinity Gradient; Ella Eyre, the whole lot, in time; Ioa Beduneau, Mélodies pour Clairons; Gabriel Zucker, Confession; Stray Children, Do It; Ani Zakareishvili, Neither within the sky nor on the bottom.
