New Music Friday: The top 10 albums out on Oct. 29
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🗓️ 29 October 2021
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Featured Albums
1. The War on Drugs — I Don't Live Here Anymore
Featured Song: "Change"
2. Mick Jenkins — Elephant in the Room
Featured Song: "Stiff Arm"
3. Tori Amos — Ocean to Ocean
Featured Song: "Speaking With Trees"
4. Emily Scott Robinson — American Siren
Featured Song: "Let 'Em Burn"
5. Lily Konigsberg — Lily We Need to Talk Now
Featured Song: "Alone"
6. Eris Drew — Quivering in Time
Featured Song: "Show U Love"
7. Mon Laferte — 1940 Carmen
Featured Song: "Algo Es Mejor"
8. Theon Cross — Intra-I
Featured Song: "40Tude"
9. Lilli Lewis — Americana
Featured Song: "Wrecking Ball"
10. Johnathan Blake — Homeward Bound
Featured Song: "Homeward Bound (For Ana Grace)"
Other notable releases for October 29:Ed Sheeran — =; Migos — Culture III; Jónsi — Obsidian; Death Cab for Cutie — The Photo Album (20th Anniversary Edition); R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition); Spice Girls — Spice (25th Anniversary Edition); Johnny Cash — Bear's Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968; Maya Jane Coles — Night Creature; They Might Be Giants — BOOK; Charlotte Cornfield — Highs in the Minuses; Hayes Carll — You Get It All; Sam Evian — Time to Melt; Marissa Nadler — The Path of the Clouds; Mastodon — Hushed and Grim
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:04.6 | It is new music Friday. |
| 0:06.5 | And for October 29th, we've got new albums by Tori Amos, Mick Jenkins, |
| 0:10.8 | Mon LeFairt and Moore. |
| 0:12.4 | But first, here's The War on Drugs and their new album, |
| 0:15.6 | I don't live here anymore. |
| 0:31.1 | I've been running from the way you like to try and get to you. |
| 0:40.4 | Tell me everything that you need. |
| 0:46.6 | I've been trying so hard. |
| 0:50.8 | Ain't got no time to lose. |
| 0:55.8 | Tell me everything that you need. |
| 1:00.5 | You are in the door to despair in man. |
| 1:09.5 | Easily could run from the start when you're falling. |
| 1:19.9 | That's change from I don't live here anymore by the Philly Rock Band, The War on Drugs. |
| 1:25.1 | This is The War on Drugs' fifth album and the follow-up to 2017's A Deeper Understanding, |
| 1:30.0 | which won a Grammy for Best Rock Album. |
| 1:32.3 | Joining me from a brief stopover in Alexandria, Virginia to talk about The War on Drugs |
| 1:36.7 | is my NPR colleague and pal Lindsey McKenna. |
| 1:39.2 | Welcome back, Lindsey. |
| 1:40.2 | Hey, Stephen, so happy to be here. |
| 1:42.7 | It's great to have you. |
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