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The leading 10 albums out on Oct. 29 : All Songs Considered : NPR

The leading 10 albums out on Oct. 29 : All Songs Considered : NPR

Mon Laferte’s 1940 Carmen is 1 of our picks for the finest releases out on Oct. 29.

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Mon Laferte’s 1940 Carmen is just one of our picks for the very best releases out on Oct. 29.

Joel Orta/Courtesy of the artist

We open this week’s present with the Philly band The War on Medicine, whose rock tracks fill stadiums while nonetheless finding room to breathe and sprawl. Its fifth album, I Never Are living Listed here Any longer, is the abide by-up to 2017’s A Deeper Being familiar with, which won a Grammy for Most effective Rock Album. Chicago’s Mick Jenkins helps make rap documents that draw on not only hip-hop, but also spoken-word and jazz, not to mention a huge-ranging awareness of background — musical and in any other case. His excellent new history is named Elephant in the Room. Tori Amos continues her impressive occupation on her 16th album, Ocean to Ocean, which mixes the particular, the political and the mystical. Colorado singer-songwriter Emily Scott Robinson mixes folks and state with gorgeous, obvious-eyed exams of religion, hope and regret her spectacular new album is American Siren. And Palberta’s Lily Konigsberg helps make her official solo debut with Lily We Want to Chat Now, a sensible and humorous report total of sly hooks and wry, sideways humor.

Albums by DJ, producer and all-all around thinker Eris Drew, multipurpose Chilean singer-songwriter Mon Laferte, tuba-rocking polymath Theon Cross, daring Americana storyteller Lilli Lewis and versatile jazz drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake spherical out the blend, alongside with a packed lightning spherical. Joined by author Christina Lee and Vocalo Radio’s Ayana Contreras, as well as NPR’s Nate Chinen, Hazel Cills, Jewly Hight, Lyndsey McKenna and Ann Powers, visitor host Stephen Thompson shares the gang’s picks for the finest new albums out Oct 29.

Featured Albums

  1. The War on Medicine — I Really don’t Dwell Below Any longer
    Featured Tune: “Alter”
  2. Mick Jenkins — Elephant in the Room
    Highlighted Tune: “Rigid Arm”
  3. Tori Amos — Ocean to Ocean
    Featured Song: “Talking With Trees”
  4. Emily Scott Robinson — American Siren
    Highlighted Tune: “Permit ‘Em Melt away”
  5. Lily Konigsberg — Lily We Will need to Discuss Now
    Showcased Track: “By itself”
  6. Eris Drew — Quivering in Time
    Showcased Song: “Demonstrate U Appreciate”
  7. Mon Laferte — 1940 Carmen
    Featured Tune: “Algo Es Mejor”
  8. Theon Cross — Intra-I
    Showcased Tune: “40Tude”
  9. Lilli Lewis — Americana
    Showcased Tune: “Wrecking Ball”
  10. Johnathan Blake — Homeward Sure
    Highlighted Track: “Homeward Certain (For Ana Grace)”

Other notable releases for Oct 29:

Ed Sheeran — = Migos — Society III Jónsi — Obsidian Demise Taxi for Cutie — The Photograph Album (20th Anniversary Edition) R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition) Spice Ladies — Spice (25th Anniversary Edition) Johnny Dollars — Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Income at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968 Maya Jane Coles — Evening Creature They May Be Giants — Ebook Charlotte Cornfield — Highs in the Minuses Hayes Carll — You Get It All Sam Evian — Time to Melt Marissa Nadler — The Route of the Clouds Mastodon — Hushed and Grim