Pleasure Oladokun’s Observations From a Crowded Room is among the many finest albums out Oct. 11.
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Pleasure Oladokun’s Observations From a Crowded Room is among the many finest albums out Oct. 11.
Rachel Deeb/Courtesy of the artist
NPR Music’s Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week’s most compelling new musical choices. For October 18, their picks embrace an array of bold, melodic and emotional new albums spanning genres.
Plus: celebrating the arrival of a brand new music web site and contemplating what drives us to write down and speak about music within the first place.
Featured Albums
• Pleasure Oladokun, Observations From a Crowded Room
• CKay, EMOTIONS
• Kelly Lee Owens, Dreamstate
• Porridge Radio, Clouds In The Sky They Will At all times Be There For Me
• Bon Iver, SABLE,
Different Albums Out Oct. 18
Pop
• Audrey Nuna, TRENCH
• Bishop Briggs, Inform My Therapist I am Effective
• Caroline Alves, PASSIONFRUIT
• Chino Pacas, Que Sigan Llegando Las Pacas
• Dean Lewis, The Epilogue
• Jennifer Hudson, The Present of Love
• Kylie Minogue, Rigidity II
• Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, Warriors
• Rag’n’Bone Man, What Do You Consider In?
• Thelma Plum, I am Sorry, Now Say It Again
Rock/Alt/Indie
• American Soccer, s/t (twenty fifth Anniversary Version)
• Andrew Chicken & Maddison Cunningham, Cunningham Chicken
• The Armed, Eternal Gaze EP
• Bear Palms, The Key to What
• Black Doldrums, In Limerence
• Christopher Owens, I Wanna Run Barefoot By way of Your Hair
• The Copyrights, New Ghosts EP
• Corker, Hallways of Gray
• Useless Moon, Useless Forward (Reissue)
• Greg Mendez, First Time / Alone EP
• Excessive Vis, Guided Tour
• Hildegard, Jour 1596
• Humble the Nice, i do not thoughts floating
• Humdrum, Each Heaven
• The Intima, Peril & Panic
• Jabu, A Tender and Gatherable Star
• Japandroids, Destiny & Alcohol
• Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), I Need Blood
• Jordana, Full of life Premonition
• Karate, Make It Match
• Karl Blau, Vultures of Love
• Lisel, The Vanishing Level
• Man-Eaters, Quatro Muchachos
• Nap Eyes, The Neon Gate
• Oryx, Primordial Sky
• Phantogram, Reminiscence of a Day
• Pinhead Gunpowder (Billie Joe Armstrong), Unt
• Pipe-eye, Pipe-defy
• Remo Drive, Mercy (Deluxe)
• S***, For A Higher World
• Saloon, Peel Classes
• Bathe Curtain, Phrases From a Wishing Effectively
• Silverbacks, Simple Being a Winner
• Skegss, Pacific Freeway Music
• Stray View, Displace/Erase EP
• Swallow the Solar, Shining
Americana/Folks/Nation
• Giorgos Katsaros, s/t (Reissue)
• Amy Speace, The American Dream
• Benjamin Tod, Capturing Star
• BRELAND, Challenge 2024 EP
• Ella Raphael, Mad Generally
• Incredible Negrito, Son of a Damaged Man
• Jerron Paxton, Issues Executed Modified
• Joe Henry, Blood from Stars (Reissue)
• Liv Greene, Deep Feeler
• Riley Inexperienced, Do not Thoughts If I Do
• Seckou Keita, Homeland
• Snowgoose, Descendant
• Souled American, Frozen
• Tierra Kennedy, Rooted
• Tim Heidecker, Slipping Away
• Twisted Pine, Love Your Thoughts
• V/A, Cannot Steal My Fireplace, The Songs of David Olney
• W.H. Lung, Each Inch of Earth Pulsates
• Wild Rivers, Higher Now
• William Prince, 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 Examine of the Lengthy Time period Results of Younger Love
• Ok.O, I Assume You Spoke Too Quickly
• Yeat, Lyfestyle
R&B/Soul
• Kelly Finnigan, A Lover Was Born
• King Pari, There It Goes
Jazz
• Aaron Parks, Little Large III
• Anna Webber, simpletrio2000
• Boney James, Sluggish Burn
• Brandon Seabrook, Object of Unknown Operate
• Jon Rose / Mark Dresser, Band Width
• Kevin Solar, Quartets
• Marie Krüttli Trio, Scoria
• Randy Ingram, Aries Dance
• Roy Hargrove’s Crisol, Grande-Terre
• Samora Pinderhughes, Venus Smiles Not within the Home of Tears
• Svaneborg Kardyb, Superkilen
• Sylvie Courvoisier, To Be Different-Smart
• Tim Berne & Michael Formanek, Parlour Video games
Classical
• Jeremy Denk, Ives Denk
• Simone Dinnerstein, The Eye is the First Circle
• Anja Lechner, Bach / Abel / Hume
• Flora Yin Wong, Trigram for Earth
• John Luther Adams, An Atlas of Deep Time
• VÃkingur Ólafsson, Continuum EP
Digital/Out There
• Black Pus, Terrestrial Seethings
• The Blessed Madonna, Godspeed
• Bogdan Raczynski, You are Solely Younger As soon as However You Can Be Silly Without end
• Breymer, Once I Get By way of
• Confidence Man, 3AM (LA LA LA)
• d’monk, Shine
• David Keenan & Bruce Russell (The Useless C), Performs Monument Maker
• El Hardwick, Strategy of Elimination
• Emma Anderson (Lush), Spiralée: Pearlies Rearranged
• Honey Dijon, DJ-Kicks
• La Fleur, Väsen
• LP Giobbi, Dotr
• Machine Lady, MG Extremely
• MLiR, Pulpo Fiction
• The Necks, Bleed
• Novatron & Carter IV, Two Tone
• Oliver Coates, Throb, shiver, arrow of time
• Oren Ambarchi, Quixotism (tenth Anniversary Remaster)
• Paper Jays, s/t
• Poirier, Quiet Revolution
• V/A, VINT (Lapsus Data)
