NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and Sheldon Pearce round up the most exciting albums out this Friday and reflect on the history of instrumental music as protest.
Featured albums
- The Smile, Cutouts
- Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere
- Half Waif, Meet Me at the Maypole
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)
- Yasmin Williams, Acadia
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor, NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD
Other notable albums out Oct. 4
Rock/Alternative/Indie
- A Place To Bury Strangers, Synthesizer
- Ada Lea, notes EP
- Alison Moyet, Key
- Balance and Composure, with you in spirit
- Cumgirl8, the 8th cumming
- Chubby and The Gang, And Then There Was...
- Drug Church, PRUDE
- Fred Thomas, Window in the Rhythm
- Geordie Greep, The New Sound
- Human Impact, Gone Dark
- Jake Bugg, A Modern Day Distraction
- James Bay, Changes All The Time
- Joni Mitchell, Archives, Vol. 4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980
- Karl D'Silva, Love Is A Flame In The Dark
- La Sonora Mazurén, Magnetismo Anímal
- MEMORIALS, Waterslides
- Orla Gartland, Everybody Needs a Hero
- Pete Townshend, Live: In Concert 1985-2001
- Public Service Broadcasting, The Last Flight
- Sex Swing, Golden Triangle
- Sixpence None the Richer, Rosemary Hill EP
- Temples, Other Structures EP
- Trash Boat, Heaven Can Wait
- The Hard Quartet (Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White), s/t
- Wild Pink, Dulling the Horns
- Various Artists, American Football (Covers)
Jazz
- Adrian Younge, Jazz is Dead 021
- Anna Butterss, Mighty Vertebrate
- Michael Mayo, Fly
- Spencer Zahn & Dawn Richard, Quiet in a World Full of Noise
- Weird of Mouth (Mette Rasmussen, Craig Taborn, Ches Smith), s/t
- Ben Wendel's Understory, Live at the Village Vanguard
Hip-Hop
- 310babii, 310degrees
- Jabee, The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak
- Joey Cool, Roller Coaster
- M1llionz, Ghetto Life
- Rome Streetz & Daringer, Hatton Garden Holdup
- Tee Grizzley, Post Traumatic
- Toosii, JADED
Country/Americana/Folk
- Conner Smith, Storyteller EP
- Hayes and The Heathens, s/t
- Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Live From The Ryman Vol. 2
- Jett Holden, The Phoenix
- Joan Shelley, Mood Ring EP
- Little Big Town, The Christmas Record
- Mindy Smith, Quiet Town
- Nate Smith, California Gold
- Noeline Hofmann, Purple Gas EP
- The Wild Feathers, Sirens
- Tucker Wetmore, Waves On A Sunset
Pop
- Andy Grammer, Monster
- Coldplay, Moon Music
- FINNEAS, For Cryin' Out Loud!
- Genevieve Stokes, With a Lightning Strike
- Maya Hawke, Clipped Wings EP
- Various Artists, Joker: Folie à Deux OST
R&B/Soul
- Leon Bridges, Leon
- Thee Sacred Souls, Got a Story to Tell
Classical
- San Francisco Symphony, Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
- Danil Trifonov, My American Story: North
- Maurizio Pollini, Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
Electronic/Out There
- Alessandro Cortini, NATI INFINITI
- Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, HOAX
- Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)
- Caribou, Honey
- Frost Children x Haru Nemuri, Soul Kiss EP
- James William Blades, Pare De Sufrir OST
- John Davis, Landlines
- Jonah Yano, Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop
- Maelstrom, The FM Tapes
- Midland, Fragments of Us
- Peni Candra Rini, Wani
- Pharmakon, Maggot Mass
- The Bug, Machines I-V
- Weval, Night Versions EP
- Various Artists, ELECTRO THROWDOWN: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89
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