Here are some of our favorite releases from November 2025 — listed in no particular order and grouped by genre. Most of these are also featured in our New Tracks and New Albums playlists on Spotify.

P.S. We update these lists throughout the year as we come across more standout releases — it’s impossible to catch everything right away 🙂 If we’ve missed something great, feel free to let us know in the comments!

AMBIENT

Albums

  • Be Still the Earth & Dear Gravity – Anodyne + Afterglow
    RIYL: Ambient, Drone
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp
  • Rusanda Panfili, Johannes Winkler – Echoes
    RIYL: Neoclassical, Cinematic
    LISTEN: Spotify

Singles & EPs

  • Kris Vango – Namaka
    RIYL: Dark Ambient, Experimental Electronic
    LISTEN: Spotify

ELECTRONIC

Albums

  • Sierra Veins – In The Name Of Blood
    RIYL: Darksynth, Cyberpunk, Darkwave
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp
  • Xenia Reaper – Nept Polarisation
    RIYL: Ambient Dubstep, IDM
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

  • Cix9 – Quiet Rise
    RIYL: Ambient-Electronic, Downtempo, Deep House
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Soft Siren – Low
    RIYL: Dream Pop, Alt Pop, Trip Hop
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Blaudiss – Dreams Of You
    RIYL: Downtempo, Future Garage
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Neuroklast, Cassiopeja – Succubus
    RIYL: Dark Techno, Cyberpunk
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp
  • Damian Boylan – Coda
    RIYL: Electro-Neoclassical, Downtempo
    LISTEN: Spotify

INDIE-ALT/FOLK

Albums

  • My Lovely Haunting – Forgotten Moon
    RIYL: Ambient Folk, Alternative Folk
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

  • Graygirrl – Van Gogh’s
    RIYL: Indie Folk, Slowcore, Indie Pop
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Specific Coast – Lonely
    RIYL: Indie Folk
    LISTEN: Spotify

JAZZ FUSION

Albums

  • Konrad Ciesielski – Koniec
    RIYL: Nu Jazz, Jazztronica, Experimental Electronic
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp
  • Crossing The Rubicon – Knowledge
    RIYL: Progressive Jazz Fusion, Progressive Metal
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

  • Martin Wiren – The Princess Danced with Her Tail
    RIYL: Ambient Jazz
    LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube
  • Dreamscapes – Maddy I
    RIYL: Jazz Fusion, Nu Jazz, Jazztronica
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Daniel Vildosola, John Waugh – Peace & Plenty
    RIYL: Jazz Fusion, Ambient Jazz
    LISTEN: Spotify

METAL

Albums

  • Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons
    RIYL: Black Metal
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

Singles & EPs

  • Svalbard – If We Could Still Be Saved
    RIYL: Post-black Metal, Blackgaze, Metalcore, Post-metal
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Constructing Infinity – Red Eye
    RIYL: Instrumental Progressive Metal
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp
  • Kami No Ikari, Benighted – Divine Excuse
    RIYL: Instrumental Progressive Metal
    LISTEN: Spotify | YouTube
  • Sugar Horse – Would You Like Me To Be The Cat?
    RIYL: Doomgaze
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp
  • Weston Super Maim – Bad Infinitum
    RIYL: Math Metal, Mathcore
    LISTEN: Spotify | Bandcamp

ROCK

Albums

  • N/A

Singles & EPs

  • Patience – Nothing’s Ever As Good As It Seems
    RIYL: Indie Rock, Emo, Math Rock
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Waste – Get Up
    RIYL: Punk, Noise Rock
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Thomas Di Viesti – Vendetta
    RIYL: Progressive Rock / Metal
    LISTEN: Spotify
  • Menu – Mizu
    RIYL: Math Rock, Post-hardcore, Emo
    LISTEN: Spotify

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