New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 7

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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WILLOW's first single, "Whip My Hair," came out just shy of the singer's 10th birthday. Now 21, she's returned with her fifth full-length album, titled . The record has big arena-rock vibes to go with its spiky pop-punk songcraft, and it effectively captures WILLOW's gift for conveying deeply felt emotions and the thrum of anxiety. We've also got new albums from genre-smashing singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ, arty rapper Open Mike Eagle, dance-music producer TSHA and the venerated space-jazz ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra.

Featured Albums:

1. WILLOW —
Featured Songs: "WHY?," "ur a "
2. NNAMDÏ — Please Have a Seat
Featured Songs: "Armoire," "ANXIOUS EATER," "Careful"
3. Open Mike Eagle — Component System With the Auto Reverse
Featured Songs: "79th and Stony Island," "I Retired Then I Changed My Mind," "Peak Lockdown Raps"
4. TSHA — Capricorn Sun
Featured Songs: "OnlyL (feat. Nimmo)," "Giving Up (feat. Mafro)," "Running," "Sister," "Anxious Mind (feat. Clementine Douglas)"
5. Sun Ra Arkestra — Living Sky
Featured Songs: "Somebody Else's Idea," "Marshall's Groove," "Night of the Living Sky," "Firefly"

Lightning Round:

Quavo & Takeoff — Only Built for Infinity Links
Fatnice — Vanglorious
Say She She — Prism
Collapsing Stars — Chapter

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:04.6	I'm here with NPR Music Contributor, Christina Lee.
0:07.5	Hey, Stephen.
0:08.4	Writer and host of Sirius Rap Shit and Culture Cypher Radio, John Morrison.
0:12.9	Hey, what's up, Stephen.
0:14.3	And from Radio Milwaukee to Rick Moody.
0:16.9	Howdy, Stephen.
0:18.3	It is great to have you all here.
0:20.0	We are talking about the best albums out today, starting with Willow,
0:24.1	and her new album, Coping Mechanism.
0:26.2	The song is called Why.
0:28.0	I don't wanna keep feeling alone, isolation.
0:31.7	Got me going to say good.
0:33.4	I just wanna, I just wanna stop this, get myself up.
0:38.7	I don't wanna keep being alone, isolation.
0:42.6	Got me going to say good.
0:44.2	I just gotta, I just gotta stop questioning my life.
1:10.3	I knew time was passed me by real quick when I looked up and I was like, wait, there's another Willow album.
1:39.7	And it really been a year since we had talked about lately, I feel everything, but I feel
1:46.2	like that time has just passed by so, so fast.
1:49.3	It's been such a whirlwind journey.
1:51.2	Like she had become, you know, in my eye, like a new face for Pop Punk.
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