Best Albums of November 2025

The highest-rated albums released in November 2025, ranked by critical consensus from professional music critics.

Best Albums of November 2025 arrives with a luminous top spot and a packed field of veteran returns, inventive reinventions, and genre-fluid surprises that defined the month's releases. Critics coalesced around Lux by Rosalía, which led the consensus at 92/100 from 10 reviews, setting a high bar for ambitious production and boundary-pushing songwriting.

November's standout albums also included 1985: The Miracle Year by Hüsker Dü (83.6/100, 5 reviews) and Cosplay by Sorry (83.33/100, 6 reviews), both praised for balancing nostalgia with fresh creative risks. Critics noted recurring themes across the month's top-rated records: a pull between polished popcraft and raw, textural experimentation, plus a marked presence of established artists revisiting and reframing their catalogs alongside exciting contemporary acts. Aggregated scores and review counts suggest a clear critical consensus in places, and lively disagreement in others — from the tightly scored midrange to the breakout highs. Scroll on for our ranked list of November 2025 album releases to see how these records stack up and to explore the full spectrum of this month's top albums and best new music.