NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to today's most compelling new releases, including a mixtape by rapper Ab-Soul and a celebration of Margo Guryan. Plus, Ann and Daoud are joined by WRTI's Nate Chinen for a look at the latest, greatest new releases, reissues and archival albums from the world of jazz.
Featured albums
- Ab-Soul, Soul Burger
- Jamey Johnson, Midnight Gasoline
- Our Girl, The Good Kind
- Various Artists, Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan
- Vanisha Gould, She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth
- The Bad Plus, Complex Emotions
- Keith Jarrett, Paul Motian & Gary Peacock, The Old Country
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 — The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8
Other notable albums out Nov. 8
Pop
- Aziya, BAMBI
- Garfunkel & Garfunkel, Father and Son
- Whitney Houston, The Concert for a New South Africa
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Bad Astronaut, Untethered
- Bag of Cans, Favourite Shirt EP
- Bananagun, Why is the Colour of the Sky?
- chimers, THROUGH TODAY
- Dan Melchior, Hill Country Piano
- Freak Slug, I Blow Out Big Candles
- King Stingray, For The Dreams
- Myles Smith, A Minutes... EP
- The Ladybug Transistor, The Albemarle Sound (25th Anniversary Expanded Edition)
- The Twilight Sad, Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave (Demos)
- Various Artists, The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated
- Widespread Panic, Hailbound Queen EP
- Wussy, Cincinnati Ohio
Americana/Folk/Country
- Ellie Gowers, You the Passenger
- Flatland Cavalry, s/t
- Gabby Barrett, Carols and Candlelight
- Judy Collins, In Concert Wildflowers at the Town Hall NYC (Live)
- Twinnie, Something We Used To Say
- Yonder Mountain String Band, Nowhere Next
Hip-Hop
- BabyTron, Tronicles
- Maxo Kream, Personification
- SahBabii, Saaheem
R&B/Soul
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Jazz
- Lionel Loueke / Dave Holland, United
- Multatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra, Tension
Classical
- Florian Christi, Donau
- Niklas Walentin / Christina Bjorkoe, Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3
Electronic/Out There
- Andert Tysma, Hana
- Black Rain, Neuromancer
- claire rousay, The Bloody Lady
- Finneas O'Connell, Disclaimer (Original Series Soundtrack)
- George Reid, 0-6M
- H.A.N.K., The Big Melt
- Leifur James, Magic Seeds
- Orbital, A Beginner's Guide
- Pancrace, Papotier
- Perila, Intrinsic Rhythm
- Rafael Anton Irisarri, FAÇADISMS
- Sarah Davachi, Music for a Bellowing Room
- Speakers Corner Quartet, Mr Loverman (OST)
- Sussan Deyhim / Richard Horowitz, The Invisible Road: Originals Recordings 1985-1990
- The Body, The Crying Out of Things
- The Orb, Orboretum: The Orb Collection
- Various Artists, Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea (1974-88)
- Various Artists, Chromesthesia: the Colour of Sound Vol. 1
- Zane Trow, Landscape
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