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November 2025
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- November 28
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- “Remains a perfect distillation of 80s alienation and ambition. Its tunes are sublime”: Tears For Fears’ 40th anniversary edition of Songs From The Big Chair
- “A fitting monument to a band who, quite remarkably, remain at the peak of their powers”: Dream Theater mark their 40th year with Quarantième: Live À Paris
- November 25
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- “It may lack hits, but this set bulges with red-eyed, bright ideas, displaying the ethos that first endeared them to space cadets”: Ozric Tentacles’ anthology Through The Magick Valley
- "What gets you hot under the collar? Is it the implicit, the unsaid, the tension of a subtle exchange…or it is asking someone point-blank to whip it out?" Harpy's debut EP VII is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
- “More like an inspired act of creativity than a raging blow-out”: Mike Oldfield’s Amarok began life as a protest against his label. But it turned out to be one of his most skilful sculptures
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- November 21
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- "It's abundantly clear that this is some of Aerosmith's best work in nearly a quarter of a century." Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
- “The first minute confirms that their musical identity is intact – complex and multilayered without becoming bewildering”: Spock’s Beard reference their own past and future on The Archaeoptimist
- The first two albums recorded by what became their definitive line-up: Now a seven-CD countdown to Thin Lizzy's lift-off
- "As a Beatles record, it is not very good, offering nothing exciting": Anthology 4 is more evidence of original reality turned distorted mythology
- "Like the best modern prog rock, The Archaeoptimist reveals more and more at every new sitting": Spock’s Beard are still pushing boundaries on first album in seven years
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- "An all-you-can-eat barbecue that looks delicious at the start but turns into an indistinguishable mush by the end": Blackberry Smoke overcook the recipe on Rattle, Ramble & Roll - The Best Of Volume One
- “He’s full of warmth for those they befriended on their rise, and full of ire for those who crossed them”: Derek Shulman takes aim at Syd Barrett, the Beach Boys, the Eagles and others in his not-very-gentle memoir Giant Steps
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- November 3
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- Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
- "I don't know if rock needs saving, but if Wolf and his crew can't do the job it's because we failed in getting the message out that the messiah is here": Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album
- November 2
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