Music in November 2025

• Dead Hearts is a re-enchantment of the world with the melancholy found when one pauses to recall the shades of those long-forgotten.

• Jonny Greenwood captured a kind of sun-dried western gloom that wouldn’t be out of place in a McCarthy novel in his score for One Battle After Another.

• Only Love Can Break Your Heart & Give the Anarchist a Cigarette both have a fun ambling lo-fi echoey quality to them.

• There’s nothing quite like the bombastic melodrama of Meat Loaf.

• Erica Western Teleport is a really excellent grief song.

• Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan is another strange and profound album from The Mountain Goats, this time seemingly written on the shores of Kinnereth.

• 10,000 Maniacs’ 1992 album Our Time in Eden is one of the many great emotionally titanic musical achievements of the ‘90s.

• Angelo Badalamenti’s score for Twin Peaks is well-deserving of the full symphonic treatment.