New Music Friday: The Top 10 Albums Out On Nov. 13

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

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NPR Music's picks for the week's best new albums include the long-awaited So Help Me God from 2 Chainz, country singer Chris Stapleton, the Afrobeats of Davido, Gillian Welch rarities and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Chris Stapleton — Starting Over
Featured Song: "Starting Over"
2. Davido — A Better Time
Featured Song: "I Got A Friend"
3. Quakers — II: The Next Wave
Featured Song: "Gun Control"
4. Hachiku — I'll Probably Be Asleep
Featured Song: "I'll Probably Be Asleep"
5. Gillan Welch and David Rawlings — Boots 2: The Lost Songs Vol. 3
Featured Song: "What Can I Do?"
6. 2 Chainz — So Help Me God
Featured Song: "YRB"
7. Katy J Pearson — Return
Featured Song: "Tonight"
8. Aesop Rock — Spirit World Field Guide
Featured Song: "Holy Waterfall"
9. Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin — FlySiffu's
Featured Song: "Mind Right"
10. Marika Hackman — Covers
Featured Song: "Between the Bars"

Other notable releases for Nov. 13: AC/DC — Power Up; BENEE — Hey u x; Goodie Mob — Survival Kit; Gwenifer Raymond — Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain; Jesse Kivel — Inifite Jess; Jules Shear — Slower; Nané — Nané; Randall Bramblett — Pine Needle Fire; Meg Myers — Thank You For Taking Me To The Disco and I'd Like To Go Home Now; Told Slant — Point The Flashlight And Walk; TSHA — Flowers.

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0:21.7	Happy Friday everyone! You did it! You made it through another week. I'm Robin Hilton from
0:26.2	MPR Music and all songs considered. It's new music Friday that day the week when most albums come out.
0:31.2	I'm here with Ann Powers, hey Ann? Hello Robin! It's November 13th. A whole bunch of new
0:37.1	music is out today and we're going to do a quick run through some of our favorites. It's a really
0:41.2	big week for rap and hip hop, including the long awaited release from Two Chains. But we start with
0:46.2	the country singer Chris Stapleton. His new one is called Starting Over.
0:56.2	Two better plays than the one we're at.
1:02.0	And I ain't got no kind of playing. But I've had all this sound I can sing.
1:12.7	And I got friends out on the coast. We can jump in the water and see world flows.
1:21.8	And saving for any day. Let's be the storm we'll be on our way.
1:34.2	You don't have to be anywhere but we all know that I want to be. And I'm gonna for once that I laugh
1:41.6	and say God chants a little bit. I can be your look at it. Can't be my folly
1:50.4	over. Starting over.
1:58.8	This is Chris Stapleton. The album is starting over. We're listening to the title track from it.
2:03.8	This is a record that's all about change and evolution and new beginnings as the title says,
2:08.5	starting over. And it finds Chris Stapleton now 40 years old, reflecting on his life and how he got
2:14.5	to where he is and where he wants to go. Yeah, Chris is really a, you know, okay, I got to say the
2:19.8	corny thing Chris is at the top of his game with this record. That's what this record sounds like.
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