OFFICIAL FOLK ALBUMS CHART NOVEMBER 2025
7 new releases have entered the November chart!
Fresh from completing a sold out UK tour last month, Amble hold on to the No. 1 position again this month with their debut record, Reverie (Warner Records).
Stephen Duffy-led indie-folk band The Lilac Time claims the two highest new entries this month, the first being their live album, Live, entering at No. 6. Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete Paphides, unearthed this concert recording after it had lain dormant for over 17 years. Its release beautifully captures a remarkable moment in the band’s evolution.
The Lilac Time’s first vinyl release of their acclaimed 1999 album, Looking For A Day In The Night, is the band’s second new entry this month, landing at No.7. After eight years of quiet, frontman Stephen Duffy returned to the bucolic charm of the band’s 1987 debut, crafting deeply personal songs in a tiny attic at Air Studios. The album reflects a period of introspection, exploring loss, dreams and the simpler rhythms of life, making it one of the band’s most quietly powerful works.
Martyn Joseph’s Troubled Horses enters into the charts at No. 15. Joseph delivers eleven stripped-back tracks of haunting, elegiac folk. Written and recorded in days with just guitar and harmonica, the album captures the raw intimacy of his live shows, showcasing his candour, wistfulness and quiet power. MOJO calls him a “Welsh national treasure,” and here he proves it again, with songs that carry weight, dignity and the enduring spark of hope even in dark times.
Far From Nowhere by critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Josienne Clarke comes in at No. 25. Recorded in a remote Scottish cabin, the album is a natural step and a defiant response to the logistical and emotional toll of trying to eke out a living in the music industry in 2025. What’s captured, including the sometimes-painful process shown in the companion short film Deluded, is a largely solo record of stark, singular beauty.
Described as the sonic aftermath of a breaking heart, Gus White’s For Now Anyway follows on at No. 26. Blending folk, country and americana with diaristic writing in an album that feels homegrown, matured and authentic in its direct foundational songwriting, White reflects, “I wrote these songs to try to understand myself in a time of overwhelming uncertainty, maybe so I had something to cling on to.”
UK quintet Me and My Friends return with their new album Bring Summer at No. 33. Defying easy categorisation with its joyful, sun-drenched grooves underpinned by deeply reflective songwriting, the band draw on highlife, folk, jazz and more in a release that celebrates the inner child in all of us. It’s an invitation to dance as a raw, unfiltered expression of life.
Folk duo Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage’s fifth full-length album The Strangers’ Share, a record centred on dreams and the supernatural, enters at No. 35. “We’d done a really long stint of road - with so many amazing musicians who we love dearly; but come January we knew it was time to turn inward,” muses Ben. “We were both independently writing and arranging dream songs - some traditional, some our own - once we realised we had that synchronicity of thought we knew we had to try and bottle it for people.”
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