NPR Music’s Ann Powers and Sheldon Pierce are your guide to this week’s most exciting new music. The October 18th selection includes a number of genre-bending, ambitious, melodic and emotional new albums.
Additionally, we’re celebrating the arrival of a new music website and reflecting on what motivates us to write and talk about music in the first place.
Featured albumsJoy Oladokun, Observation from a Crowded Room CKay, EMOTIONS Kelly Lee Owens, Dreamstate Porridge Radio, Clouds in the Sky, They Will Always Be There for Me, Bon Iver, Sable, Other albums will be released on October 18thpop
Audrey Noona, Trench Bishop Briggs, Tell Your Therapist You’re Fine Caroline Alves, Passionfruit Chino Pacas, Que Cigan Jegando Las Pacas Dean Lewis, The Epilogue Jennifer Hudson, The Gift of Love Kylie Minogue, Tension II Lin-Manuel Miranda, Asa Davis, Warriors Rag’n’Bone Man, what do you believe?Thelma Plumb: “I’m sorry, please say it again.”
Rock/Alternative/Indie
American Football, s/t (25th Anniversary Edition) Andrew Byrd & Madison Cunningham, Cunningham Byrd The Armed, Everlasting Gaze EP Bare Hands, The Key To What Black Dollar Drums , In Limerence Christopher Owens, I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair Copyright, New Ghosts EP Corker, Hallways of Gray Dead Moon, Dead Ahead (Reissue) Greg Mendez, First Time / Alone EP High Vis , Guided Tour Hildegard, Jour 1596 Humble the Great, Humdrum, Every Heaven The Intima, Peril & Panic Jab, Star Japan Droid Gathering Soft, Fate & Alcohol Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) , I Want Blood Jordana, Dynamic Premonition Karate, Make It Fit Carl Blau, Vultures of Love Liesel, Vanishing Point Maneater, Cuatro Muchachos Nap Eyes, Neon Gate・Oryx, Primordial Sky Phantogram, Memory of a Day Pinhead Gunpowder (Billie Joe Armstrong), Ant Pipe Eye, Pipe Defy Remo Drive, Mercy (Deluxe) S ***, For A Better World Saloon, Peel Sessions Shower Curtain, Words From A Wishing Well Silverbacks, Easy Being A Winner Skeggs, Pacific Highway Music Stray View, Displace/Erase EP Swallow the Sun, Shining
Americana/Folk/Country
Giorgos Katsaros, s/t (Reissue) Amy Speace, The American Dream Benjamin Tod, Shooting Star BRELAND, Project 2024 EP Ella Raphael, Mad OnceFantastic Negrito, Son of a Broken Man Jeron Paxton, Things Done Changed Joe Henry, Blood from Stars (Resale) Liv Green, Deep Feeler Riley Green, Don’t Mind If I Dusekou Keita, Homeland Snowgoose, Descendant Souled American, Frozen Tierra Kennedy, Rooted Tim Keita Heidecker, Slipping Away Twisted Pine, Love Your Mind V/A, Can’t Steal My Fire, The Song of David Olney, Wild Rivers, Better Now William Prince, The. The Sound of Christmas Wyatt Flores, Welcome to the Plains
hip hop
Benny the Butcher & 38 Spesh, STABBED & SHOT 2 DC The Don, REBIRTH Jaden, 2024: A Case Study of the Long-Term Effects of Young Love KO KO, I Think You Spoke Too Soon Yeat, Lyfestyle
R&B/Soul
Kelly Finnigan “King Paris, where my lover was born” goes there
jazz
Aaron Parks, Little Big III Anna Weber, simpletrio2000 Bonnie James, Slow Burn Brandon Seabrook, Object of Unknown Function John Rhodes/Mark Dresser, Bandwidth Kevin Sun, Quartet Marie・Kruttli Trio, Scoria Randy Ingram, Aries Dance Roy Hargrove’s Chrysol, Grande-Terre Zamora Pinderhughes, Venus Smiles Not in the House of Tears, Svaneborg Caldiv, Super Killen Sylvie Courvoisier, To Be Other-Wise Tim Byrne & Michael Formanek, Parlor Games
classic
Simone Dinnerstein “The Eye is the First Circle” Anja Lechner “Bach/Abel/Hume” Flora Ying Wong “Trigram for Earth” John Luther Adams “An Atlas of Deep Time” Vikinger Olafsson “Continuum EP” ”
Electronic/Out There
Black Pus, Terrestrial Seethings The Blessed Madonna, Godspeed Bogdan Raczynski, You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever Breymer, When I Get Through Confidence Man, 3AM (LA LA LA) d’monk, Shine David Keenan & Bruce Russell (The Dead C), Monument Maker Elle Hardwick, Process of Elimination Emma Anderson (Rush), Spiraray: Parley’s Rearranged Honey Dijon, DJ-Kicks La Fleur, Wesen LP Giobbi, Dot Machine・Girl, MG Ultra MLiR, Playing Pulpo Fiction The Nex, Bleed Novatron & Carter IV, Two Tone Oliver Coates, Throb, shiver, arrow of time Oren Ambarchi, Quixotism (10th Anniversary Remaster) Paper Jays, s/t Poirier, Quiet Revolution V/A, VINT (Lapsus Records)
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