Every week we update our Best New Songs playlist with some of the tracks that caught our attention, and we round up the best songs of the month in this segment. Here are the best songs of November 2025 in alphabetical order.
Grace Ives “Dance with Me”
Grace Ives’ “Dance With Me” is the gift that keeps on giving, the kind of pop song that takes time to build and enjoys the rewards. The chorus is simple and catchy. “Why don’t you come out and dance with me?/Because it’s only the same when I’m next to you.” But the magic is in all the story details and the musical touches she delivers, working with producer Ariel Rechtscheid to really bring this song to life. Break away from the lonely image of quotation time When I’m with my cat (“Always the love and the years in between us”), when I actually go out into the outside world, it feels “bigger than I thought.” The excitement will bubble and trickle from one location to the next, and we can only hope that in 2026 it will be incorporated into an even bigger project.
Jana Horn: “Now move your body.”
Jana Horne, who earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Charlottesville, is no stranger to the seminal work of Joseph Campbell. power of myth. In the lead single from her self-titled album, she recalls one of her most famous quotes. “I say, follow your bliss, and be fearless, and doors will open where you never knew they would open.” She then sharply retorted, “But what are you chasing when you have no scent?” “Go on, move your body” is, of course, about fighting inertia, but it’s an unusual song that not only mimics that emotion, but also about the aimlessness of drifting through it, like a mind trapped both in memory and in a body that has to move. “Nothing compares to what’s already been done,” she sings, and she clearly does just that.
Heist Robbery “Talkback”
We often want to come up with a sharper, more witty retort than we can actually come up with on the spot. Robber Robber’s first single from Fire Talk, “Talkback,” focuses on that relatable emotion, but instead of analyzing what she’s supposed to say, Nina Cates, along with her bandmates, actually tracks it in her body. “Calm down, calm down again/Don’t worry, I got sucked in,” she chimes in, but the band is locked in a state of nervous bewilderment, their heads backtracking on the conversation, twisting and turning in quick succession. Without changing the tempo at all, they seem to relax as Cates acknowledges that the moment has passed. Contrary to her initial reaction, it never ends well.
Robin “Dopamine”
“Dopamine” is classic Robin from the first moment. As the singer’s first single in seven years, it’s a particularly positive statement, but it also justifies the pop euphoria (often intertwined with desire) that she’s known for. “I know it’s just dopamine, but it feels so real to me,” she sings over and over again, playfully juxtaposing human facts with a robot voice repeating what sounds like the word “dope.” (I know which part disease But no amount of Giorgio Moroder-like synths can discount the sheer emotionality of her voice. The voice is even more nuanced than it was in the first moment, but it’s no less Robin’s. When she declares, “There’s nothing sweeter than when it’s just out of reach,” she sounds like she’s pulling for it. You can almost taste it.
Underscore, “Try it!”
I was late to the Underscore hype and overlooked April Harper Gray’s 2023 album wall socket. But since her single “Music” in July, I’m all in. Despite combining different strains of pop, “Do It” is even more infectious. The song is a perfect match for Robyn’s single, except Gray playfully interrogates the terms of the relationship rather than just jumping in. “If you want/You better know this isn’t real,” she warns. After all, not so much is reserved for its reality or its absolute investment. “I’m married to music,” she sings, and the best this suitor can hope for is to catch the BPM to the underscore “Music.”
Rosalia “Relikia”
Rosalia sings in 13 languages luxBut there’s something chilling about her return to her native Spanish on “Reliquia.” This song depicts her running like a breeze through cities around the world that have left her mark. in the same way lux No matter how many languages you speak, “Relikia” feels like a map of your personal memory, no matter how much you can project. However, when she begins with Jerez, the birthplace of flamenco and where I lived at the time, I can’t help but be moved. Book reading I broke through. Some of my friends may relate to my tantrums in Berlin and my flight from Florida. Rosalía memorializes all these places over string arrangements, making it sound like she’s floating above the earth. Rather than being completely tied to a single place, they are attached to so many places. “We hop like dolphins, in and out/In the scarlet ring of time,” she sings. It’s a rough translation, a half-shared understanding, and something that binds us together.
Source: Our Culture – ourculturemag.com
