New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 11

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

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The rapper-turned-country star Jelly Roll, who has had a major breakthrough in Nashville in the last couple of years, leads the pack of the most exciting albums out on Friday, October 11.

As NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and WRTI's Nate Chinen discuss, his new album Beautifully Broken is a powerful (and sometimes overwhelming) portrait of recovery and empathy for those grappling with addiction.

Also on the show this week: The second album from punk teens The Linda Lindas feels like confirmation of a promising career; Samara Joy and Immanuel Wilkins put two different approaches to the modern jazz vocal album on display; E L U C I D combines influences from Miles Davis to Public Enemy into a harrowing experience of modern indie rap and Charli XCX's remix album leads us to consider the tradition of artists reworking their own songs.

Featured albums:
• Jelly Roll, 'Beautifully Broken'
• The Linda Lindas, 'No Obligation'
• Samara Joy, 'Portrait'
• Immanuel Wilkins, 'Blues Blood'
• E L U C I D, 'REVELATOR'

Check out our long list of albums out Oct. 11 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

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0:00.0	Just a quick heads up. This podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.4	Nate, thanks for joining me. I know you're just back in town. What have you been up to?
0:09.0	Yeah, I'm still on Texas time. I am fresh off the plane really from the
0:15.6	ACL Music Festival in Austin which is happening again this weekend.
0:20.3	So who'd you see? Duolipa. Those are her only North American dates this year.
0:25.0	So it was the Radical Optimism Tour, which the rest of the country will get to see next year.
0:30.0	Also a reunited blink 182.
0:34.0	How did that treat you?
0:36.0	I mean Travis Barker, come on.
0:38.0	There's a reason that guy's phone doesn't stop ringing.
0:40.0	Yeah, totally.
0:41.0	Also, I have to say, Chapel Roan. I was, I had fingers crossed going in that she would actually perform and she, boy did she. It was, yeah, it was pretty epic. There was no denying that she was the you know
0:57.4	the sort of gravitational force for the entire festival.
1:01.3	You can say that we are nothing but you know. for the entire festival. Hey everybody, it's New Music Friday from NPR Music,
1:09.0	here to talk about the best and most discussion-worthy new albums
1:12.0	coming out today, October 11th.
1:14.1	I'm David Tyler Amin here with Nate Chenen, editorial director at member station WRTI
1:19.2	and our jazz critic here at NPR.
1:20.9	How you doing man?
1:21.8	I'm doing great. Coming up today new music from
1:24.4	Samara Joy and Emmanuel Wilkins, an awesomely terrifying release from the
1:28.7	indie rapper Lucid and a few thoughts on when artists choose to return to their earlier works and utterly transform them.
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