NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Lars Gotrich provide a guide to the most exciting new releases out this week. The selections include some recordings that are new and some that are as much as a half-century old, verging on mythological.
The producer Jamie xx began his career as a teenager making beats for the moody electronic band The xx. His solo recordings, including the new album In Waves, have tapped into a higher energy and a wider range of sounds. The saxophonist Nubya Garcia's new album, Odyssey, is as adventurous as the title sounds. And the Kansas City-based Blackstarkids swing between electronic pop, hip-hop and indie rock sounds that feel like they stepped off a time machine directly from the 1990s.
Plus, we've got a pair of releases that package previously unreleased material by Bob Dylan, and Galaxie 500 sparks a conversation about bootlegs, alternate versions and other rare and unreleased favorites.
Featured albums
- Jamie xx, In Waves
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey
- BLACKSTARKIDS, Saturn Dayz
- Bob Dylan and The Band, The 1974 Live Recordings
- Galaxie 500, Uncollected Noise New York '88-'90
Other notable albums out Sept. 20
- The Alchemist, The Genuine Articulate
- Alien Nosejob, Turns the Colour of Bad S***
- Trey Anastasio, Atriums
- Kassi Ashton, Made from the Dirt
- The Black Dog, Seclusion EP
- Blossoms, Gary
- Axel Boman, Space Drag
- Blu & Exile, Love (the) Ominous World
- Bright Eyes, Five Dice, All Threes
- Manu Chao, Viva Tu
- Cher, Forever Fan
- CLIFFDIVER, Birdwatching
- Depeche Mode, Spirit: The 12" Singles box set
- Kirk Degiorgio, The Statement
- Jerry Douglas, The Set
- Noga Erez, The Vandalist
- Fidlar, Surviving the Dream
- Fleetwood Mac, Mirage Tour '82
- Nelly Furtado, 7
- Future, Mixtape Pluto
- Sophie Gault, Baltic Street Hotel
- Hippo Campus, Flood
- Honeyglaze, The Real Deal
- Joan as Police Woman, Lemons, Limes And Orchids
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Chain of Light
- The Kills, Happier Girls Sessions
- Lampen, Halogen
- Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook, Psychonavigation box set
- Gábor Lázár, Reflex
- Lice, Third Time at the Beach
- Alan Licht, Havens
- Lil Tecca, PLAN A
- Louis the Child, The Sun Comes Up
- MC Lyte, 1 of 1
- Max McNown, Willfully Blind EP
- Midland, Barely Blue
- Thurston Moore, Flow Critical Lucidity
- More Eaze, lacuna and parlor
- Neon Trees, Sink Your Teeth
- Nonpareils, Rhetoric & Terror
- Office Dog, Doggerland
- Orion Sun, Orion
- Katy J Pearson, Someday, Now
- Perfume, Nebula Romance Part 1
- Katy Perry, 143
- Photay, Windswept
- Kate Pierson (of The B-52s), Radios & Rainbows
- Prairiewolf, Deep Time
- Purple Disco Machine, Paradise
- Cassie Ramone, Sweetheart
- Mason Ramsey, I'll See You In My Dreams
- Tim Reaper & Kloke, In Full Effect
- Regional Justice Center, Freedom Sweet Freedom
- Chase Rice, Go Down Singin'
- Rrose & Polygonia, Dermatology
- Nina Ryser, Water Giants
- Patrick Shiroishi, Glass House EP
- Sunset Rubdown, Always Happy to Explode
- Tasha, All This and So Much More
- Tennyson & Leslie, Dolphin EP
- Mitchell Tenpenny, The 3rd
- Molly Tuttle, Into the Wild EP
- Keith Urban, HIGH
- Marcos Valle, Túnel Acústico
- The Voidz, Like All Before You
- The WAEVE, City Lights
- Drake White, Low Country High Road
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