NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers take you on a tour of the most exciting albums out Friday, Sept. 6, including an album-length collaboration (don't call it a comeback) between rapper LL Cool J and producer Q-Tip.
Among the week's other new releases, there's a potential breakthrough record by MJ Lenderman, who has built anticipation in the indie world based on his own tilted, shambolic songs; his guitar playing in the band Wednesday; and his collaborations with Waxahatchee.
Plus, Ann and Daoud dig into how up-and-coming musicians get to the point where people start to think of them as the "next big thing," and what the title can mean for an artists.
Featured albums
- LL Cool J, The FORCE
- MJ Lenderman, Manning Fireworks
- Nala Sinephro, Endlessness
- The Dare, What's Wrong with New York?
- Toro Y Moi, Hole Erth
Other albums out Sept. 6
- Farida Amadou, When It Rains It Pours
- Beth Anderson, I Can't Stand It
- Arsenal Mikebe, Drum Machine
- Ashe, Willson
- Basic, THIS IS BASIC
- Bleachers, A Stranger Desired
- Danielle Bradbery, Danielle
- Bremer/McCoy, Kosmos
- Callahan & Witscher, Think Differently
- Alejandro Cohen, Chamber of Tears
- The Crane Wives, Beyond Beyond Beyond
- Jackson Dean, On the Back
- The Deslondes, Roll It Out
- Dummy, Free Energy
- Fat Dog, WOOF
- Fcukers, Baggy$$
- Fred Again.., ten days
- Claude Fontaine, La Mer
- G Herbo, Big Swerv
- David Gilmour, Luck and Strange
- Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals, Give An Inch EP
- The Heavy Heavy, One Of A Kind
- Paris Hilton, Infinite Icon
- Hinds, Viva Hinds
- Ishmael Ensemble, Rituals
- Jhayco, Le Clique: Vida Rockstar (X)
- Corey Kent, Black Bandana
- Sarah Kinsley, Escaper
- Isik Kural, Moon in Gemini
- La Doña, Los Altos de la Soledad
- Laila!, Gap Year
- Dusty Leigh and Bubba Sparxxx, Impolite Gentlemen
- Ernesto Longobardi + Demetrio Cecchitelli, Maloviento
- Luke Sanger, Dew Point Harmonics
- Heiko Maile and Julian Demarre, NEOSTALGIA
- Man or Astro-Man?, ROYGBIV (Recordings From The BBC)
- Mercury Rev, Born Horses
- Midwife, No Depression in Heaven
- Molchat Doma, Belaya Polosa
- Monolake, Studio
- Jessie Murph, That Ain't No Man That's The Devil
- Nexcyia, Exodus
- Nicky Jam, INSOMNIO
- Okay Kaya, Oh My God - That's So Me
- Party Dozen, Crime In Australia
- Laurence Pike, The Undreamt-of Centre
- Jenna Paulette, Horseback
- Payfone, Wild Butterfly EP
- Ransom, Conway the Machine and V Don, Chaos is My Ladder 2
- Rex Orange County, The Alexander Technique
- Max Richter, In A Landscape
- Shovels & Rope, Something Is Working Up Above My Head
- SleazyWorld Go, More Than A Shooter
- Laetitia Sonami / Éliane Radigue, A Song For Two Mothers / OCCAM IX
- George Strait, Cowboys and Dreamers
- Suuns, The Breaks
- The The, Ensoulment
- Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir
- Three Quarter Skies, Fade In
- Gavin Turek, Diva Of The People
- V/A, Kompakt: Total 24
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