New Music Friday: The top 8 albums out on Nov. 5

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

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NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include ones from the Portland rapper Aminé, Snail Mail, composer and saxophonist Terrace Martin, the string ensemble Attacca Quartet and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Aminé — TWOPOINTFIVE
Featured Song: "OKWME"
2. Attacca Quartet — Of All Joys
Featured Songs: "Mishima, 1957: Award Montage," "Miserere," "Fratres"
3. Tasha — Tell Me What You Miss The Most
Featured Song: "Bed Song 1"
4. Snail Mail — Valentine
Featured Song: "Mia"
5. Terrace Martin — Drones
Featured Song: "Leave Us Be"
6. Sloppy Jane — Madison
Featured Songs: "Judy's Bedroom," "Overture" and "Lullaby Formica"
7. Curtis Harding — If Words Were Flowers
Featured Song: "Hopeful"
8. Remy Le Boeuf — Architecture of Storms
Featured Song: "The Melancholy Architecture of Storms"

Other notable releases for Nov. 5: ABBA — Voyage; Diana Ross — Thank You; Hana Vu — Public Storage; Joan As Police Woman — The Solution is Restless; Radiohead — Kid A Mnesia; serpentwithfeet — DEACON'S GROVE; Summer Walker — Still Over It.

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with
0:04.1	NPR's Latisha Harris. Hey Latisha. Hi Robin. It's new music Friday and we're taking a quick
0:09.4	look at the best albums out now on November 5th. Starting with the Portland rapper Amine, he's
0:14.7	back with a new one called 2.5.
1:14.7	Couldn't you listen to a loop of that beat pretty much all day? Oh absolutely. I'm really glad you
1:22.5	played that one, Robin, because I feel like, okay, with me and Neo are my two standout tracks on
1:26.4	this one. So good. Amine is the rapper. His new one's 2.5 and yes, the song is called Okay With Me.
1:33.0	His previous record, Limbo, came out just a little more than a year ago. It was kind of more
1:38.5	reflective on his life up to this point. And Latisha, this new one's kind of more about just
1:44.3	letting go and having fun. Yeah, which I love. I feel like this mixtape, his fourth one,
1:50.4	it's really important to note that he approached this mixtape very differently than Limbo.
1:55.7	I feel like a limbo, he was trying to prove something after that really try hard mixtape.
2:00.7	A 1.5, I don't know if this one got panned a little bit. And I feel like the result with limbo
2:05.6	was a very overly produced album like the death. But on this one, that overworking and that overthinking
2:11.8	is missing, which is a huge credit to like his vibrant musicality and stream of consciousness
2:16.0	creations. I'm really glad he went. I'm just gonna have fun with this one. Yeah, you just see
2:20.5	a time and time again when artists quit trying to be what they think they're supposed to be to
2:26.0	like have a hit or whatever and they're just true to themselves and they end up making some of
2:29.3	their best work. And what's amazing to me is like how natural it all sounds, you know? This isn't
2:34.1	Amine cost playing 100 Gags. It's Amine testing the waters of maybe hyperpops, you know?
2:39.6	Emerging soundscape, which means I think this mixtape compares really well with like other
2:43.7	Gen Z genre defiers like Rime Wolf or Pink Panthers. I feel like he's returning to the musicality
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