NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling new releases of the week, including the first new album in 16 years by The Cure and a surprise release by Tyler, the Creator. Plus: A conversation about one of the greatest power pop albums of the 1990s.
Featured albums
- The Cure, Songs of a Lost World
- Tyler, the Creator, Chromokopia
- Willie Nelson, Last Leaf on the Tree
- Haley Heynderickx, Seed of a Seed
Other notable albums out Nov. 1
Pop
- Cloudy June, Crazy Woman
- mxmtoon, liminal space
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Able Noise, High Tide
- Annie Hamilton, Stop and Smell the Lightning
- deary, Aurelia EP
- Elliott Smith, From a Basement on the Hill (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Low Cut Connie, CONNIE LIVE
- Market, Well I Asked You A Question
- Mount Eerie, Night Palace
- Peter Perrett, The Cleansing
- Richard Swift, 4 Hits & A Miss: The Essential Richard Swift
- Sam Blasucci, Real Life Thing
- Sarah Blasko, I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain
- Thee Alcoholics, Bear Bites Horse Session
- Thus Love, All Pleasure
- Trust Fund, Has It Been A While?
- V/A, Soul Jazz Records presents D-I-Y: DO-IT-YOURSELF - Punk, Post Punk, Punk Funk & Beyond: The Rise of the Independent Music Industry
- Velociraptor, Computer Future
- Weezer, Blue Album (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
Americana/Folk/Country
- The Breath, Keep It Safe EP
- Ella Langley, Still Hungover
- Fionn Regan, O AVALANCHE
- Jennifer Castle, Camelot
- Jeremie Albino, Our Time In The Sun
- Loose Cattle, Someone's Monster
- Sam Barber, Restless Mind
- Warren Haynes, Million Voices Whisper
Hip-Hop
- Conductor Williams, Conductor We Have a Problem, Pt. 3
- Earthgang, Perfect Fantasy
- Freddie Gibbs, You Only Die 1nce
- IDK, Bravado + Intimo
- Ken Carson, More Chaos
- Lil Uzi Vert, Eternal Atake 2
- Westside Gunn, Still Praying
R&B/Soul
- Braxton Cook, My Everything
- Contour, Take Off from Mercy
- Tuxedo, Tuxedo IV
Jazz
- Berke Can Ozcan & Jonah Parzen-Johnson, It Was Always Time
- The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, All Is Sound
- Kokoroko, Get The Message EP
- Sam Gendel, Benny Bock and Hans P. Kjorstad, Dream Trio
- Scott Colley, Edward Simon and Brian Blade, Three Visitors
- Tomin, A Willed and Conscious Balance
Classical
- Bruce Liu, Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
- Philippe Jaroussky / Jérôme Ducros, Schubert: Lieder
- Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Choral Works
Electronic/Out There
- Alan Lamb, Night Passage (Reissue)
- Anno, s/t
- Beatrice Dillon, Seven Reorganisations
- The Black Dog, Sleep Deprivation
- Catherine Christer Hennix, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord
- Chris Bacon, Heretic OST
- Flying Lotus, Spirit Box EP
- Funkstörung, Mischmasch
- GAISTER, s/t
- Haruomi Hosono, Hosono House Revisited
- HAYLA, DUSK
- Jack J, Blue Desert
- Jon Mueller, Duality
- Limpe Fuchs / Mark Fell, Dessogia / Queetch / Fauch
- Luke Wyland, Kuma Cove
- Michael Mayer, The Floor is Lava
- Mike Cooper, Slow Motion Lightning
- Peverelist, Pulse Echo EP
- RAMZi, moon tan
- Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Pary, Rebecca Foon, First Sounds
- Tusks, Gold (For Synths and Strings)
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