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) Americana/Folk/Country • The Breath, Keep It Safe EP • Ella Langley, Still Hungover • Fionn Regan, O AVALANCHE • Jennifer C.
