New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 25

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills are your guides to the week's most compelling new releases.

Featured albums:
• Amythyst Kiah, Still + Bright
• Soccer Mommy, Evergreen
• Laura Marling, Patterns in Repeat
• Elmiene, Anyway I Can
• Anna Butterss, Mighty Vertebrate

Plus: A discussion of unconventional album release strategies.

Check out the complete list of albums out Oct. 25 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.

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0:11.5	What happens when you walk out your door right now? Do you see like lots of
0:16.3	giant skeletons everywhere you go because that's what's happening in my
0:19.7	neighborhood? I do. Yeah I live in New York and I live in a very suburban neighborhood of Brooklyn,
0:25.2	Ditmas Park. People have brought the Halloween decorations. They like
0:30.3	witches, cobwebs, anything you can think of, it's out there.
0:35.0	East Nashville definitely celebrates Halloween.
0:39.0	This year it is about these giant skeletons that you can get at Home Depot.
0:45.0	They're massive.
0:46.0	They're just like towering everywhere.
0:49.1	I'm trying to read something into it like a cultural. Why are we so driven to purchase giant skeletons
0:56.5	and put them in our yards? What does it say about our psyche?
0:59.6	Death is here, it's bigger than ever. This isn't funny. This isn't funny. This isn't. This is quite dark.
1:07.0	Death and Candy. That's what it's all about this season. It's New Music Friday from NPR Music.
1:12.0	I'm Anne Powers, Critic and Correspondent with
1:14.6	NPR Music and I am here with the brilliant and beautiful Hazel Sills to talk
1:19.6	about the best and most discussion-worthy albums out today, October 25th.
1:25.0	Later on today's show, we're going to talk about some of the unusual release strategies,
1:31.0	even crazy ones that artists are cooking up right now.
1:35.2	An album inside of a fake rock?
1:38.6	Like that actually happened.
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