New Music Friday: Oct. 30

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out on Oct. 30 include a surprise release from Common, the return of rapper Busta Rhymes, singer Sam Smith, the country artist Cam, Ane Brun and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Outkast — Stankonia 20th Anniversary Edition
Featured Songs: "So Fresh, So Clean" and "B.O.B. (A Cappella version)"
2. Sam Smith — Love Goes
Featured Song: "Love Goes (feat. Labrinth"
3. Busta Rhymes — Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God
Featured Song: "True Indeed"
4. Ane Brun — After the Great Storm
Featured Song: "After the Great Storm"
5. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou — May Our Chambers Be Full
Featured Song: "Ancestral Recall"
6. Common — A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1
Featured Song: "Fallin'"
7. Nothing — The Great Dismal
Featured Song: "Say Less"
8. Elvis Costello — Hey Clockface
Featured Song: "We Are All Cowards Now"
9. Cam — The Otherside
Featured Song: "The Otherside"
10. Junk Magic — Compass Confusion
Featured Song: "Laser Beaming Hearts"

Other notable releases for Oct. 30: 38 Spesh — Interstate 38; Andrew Bird — Hark!; Creature Comfort — Home Team; Dizzee Rascal — E3 AF; Echo Collective — The See Within; Goo Goo Dolls — It's Christmas All Over; Grateful Dead — American Beauty 50th Anniversary Edition; Joni Mitchell — Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1 - The Early Years (1963-1967); King Khan — The Infinite Ones; LÉON — Apart; Marco Pavé — Crossroads; Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche — I Can Still Hear You; War on Women — Wonderful Hell.

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0:26.3	An NPR Music contributor Gavin Gottfried.
0:28.4	Hey Gavin.
0:29.1	What's going on party people?
0:30.5	Well, it's new music Friday and we're looking at
0:32.9	another ridiculously packed week of big releases.
0:35.7	We've got new ones from Sam Smith,
0:37.5	Busta Rhymes, Common, Elvis Costello,
0:40.2	a whole bunch more,
0:41.1	but we start with the classic
0:42.3	the 20th anniversary edition of Stankonia from Outcast.
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