NPR Music’s Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling new releases of the week, including the first new album in 16 years by The Cure and a surprise release by Tyler, the Creator.
Plus: A conversation about one of the greatest power pop albums of the 1990s.
Featured albums
• The Cure, Songs of a Lost World
• Tyler, the Creator, Chromokopia
• Willie Nelson, Last Leaf on the Tree
• Haley Heynderickx, Seed of a Seed
Other notable albums out Nov. 1
Pop
• Cloudy June, Crazy Woman
• mxmtoon, liminal space
Rock/Alt/Indie
• Able Noise, High Tide
• Annie Hamilton, Stop and Smell the Lightning
• deary, Aurelia EP
• Elliott Smith, From a Basement on the Hill (20th Anniversary Edition)
• Low Cut Connie, CONNIE LIVE
• Market, Well I Asked You A Question
• Mount Eerie, Night Palace
• Peter Perrett, The Cleansing
• Richard Swift, 4 Hits & A Miss: The Essential Richard Swift
• Sam Blasucci, Real Life Thing
• Sarah Blasko, I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain
• Thee Alcoholics, Bear Bites Horse Session
• Thus Love, All Pleasure
• Trust Fund, Has It Been A While?
• V/A, Soul Jazz Records presents D-I-Y: DO-IT-YOURSELF – Punk, Post Punk, Punk Funk & Beyond: The Rise of the Independent Music Industry
• Velociraptor, Computer Future
• Weezer, Blue Album (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
