New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 18

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

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Summary

NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious, melodic and emotional new albums spanning genres.

Plus: celebrating the arrival of a new music website and considering what drives us to write and talk about music in the first place.

Featured albums:
• Joy Oladokun, 'Observations From a Crowded Room'
• CKay, 'EMOTIONS'
• Kelly Lee Owens, 'Dreamstate'
• Porridge Radio, 'Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me'
• Bon Iver, 'SABLE,'

Check out our longer list of albums out Oct. 18 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.

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0:20.8	Oh man, did you ever have one of those weeks where like every little thing was just
0:26.8	going wrong you know what I mean like nothing big really oh. I came home from the road promoting the new NPR music book.
0:37.5	I knew my car was already broken down, so I had to take it to the shop.
0:41.3	Then I lost like my freaking prescription sunglasses. Goodbye $250. Thank you. And then
0:49.0	my dog had to go to the ER, but my dog is okay. Nobody worry.
0:52.8	But it's just like,
0:53.7	what do you do, Sheldon, when this happens, like,
0:56.9	do you seek solace in music?
0:59.4	I do, in fact, often seek solace in music. It can feel soothing but it can also like
1:06.7	sort of allow you to purge any like latent anger you have. I just keep going back to that Kate Bush song,
1:14.7	Get out of my house where she like screams,
1:17.7	get out, get out of my house.
1:19.4	I don't know, that's like, anyway,
1:21.1	no one needed that. Hi, I'm Anne Powers.
1:29.0	Hi, I'm Anne Powers.
1:30.0	I'm critic and correspondent for NPR Music and I'm here with my friend and colleague
1:35.2	Sheldon Pierce to talk about the best and most discussion worthy albums out
1:39.9	October 18th and actually you know we have some healing records this week and
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