New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 27

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the long-awaited sophomore full-length from Black Pumas, Peruvian electronic artist Sofia Kourtesis, The Mountain Goats and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Black Pumas — Chronicles of a Diamond
Featured Songs: "More Than A Love Song," "Gemini Sun," "Angel," "Hello," "Rock and Roll"
2. Sofia Kourtesis — Madres
Featured Songs: "Funkhaus," "Vajkoczy," "Habla Con Ella," "Estación Esperanza (feat. Manu Chao)"
3. The Mountain Goats — Jenny from Thebes
Featured Songs: "Fresh Tattoo," "Only One Way," "Going to Dallas"
4. María José Llergo — ULTRABELLEZA
Featured Song: "RUEDA, RUEDA"
5. Mint Field — Aprender a Ser
Featured Song: "Respiro Profundo"
6. Taylor Swift — 1989 (Taylor's Version)
Featured Song: "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)"
7. Shabazz Palaces — Robed in Rareness
Featured Song: "Binoculars (feat. Royce The Choice)"
8. Nirvana — In Utero (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe)
Featured Song: "Heart-Shaped Box (Live In Seattle, Seattle Center Arena - January 7, 1994)"

Other notable releases for Oct. 27:
Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again
DJ Shadow — Action Adventure
Duran Duran — DANSE MACABRE
The Gaslight Anthem — History Books
The Kills — God Games
Mayer Hawthorne — For All Time
Mike Reed — The Separatist Party
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Bauhaus Staircase
Poppy — Zig
Wild Nothing — Hold

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Linda Holmes from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast.
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0:21.6	Happy Friday, everybody. Happy Friday. Happy Friday.
0:25.7	Congratulations. You made it through another week.
0:28.1	Absolutely. By the grace of God.
0:30.6	Yeah, by the grace of God, which means that we get to do another new music Friday together.
0:35.9	I'm Robin Hilton and with me, Latisha Harris.
0:39.0	Hi everybody.
0:40.1	Stephanie Fernandez.
0:41.5	Hey Robin.
0:42.6	We're doing a quick rundown of our picks for the best albums out on October 27th and that means
0:47.9	we've got a whole bunch of great music that we want to share starting with the band Black Pumas.
0:51.8	Yes.
0:52.5	Yes, they dropped their second full length album today. It's called Chronicles of a Diamond.
0:57.2	This is the cut more than a love song.
1:27.2	It feels so hard sometimes.
1:29.8	They've got the news, the music, the sweet soul music.
1:36.2	We ignite your soul with that. To ignite your soul.
1:41.1	Cause life is more. More than a love song.
1:44.7	There's more than a fantasy. More than a living.
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