NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and Sheldon Pearce round up the most exciting albums out this Friday, and reflect on the history of instrumental music as protest. Featured albums • The Smile, Cutouts • Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere • Half Waif, Meet Me at the Maypole • Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) • Yasmin Williams, Acadia • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD Other notable albums out Oct. 4 Rock/Alternative/Indie • A Place To Bury Strangers, Synthesizer • Ada Lea, notes EP • Alison Moyet, Key • Balance and Composure, with you in spirit • Cumgirl8, the 8th cumming • Chubby and The Gang, And Then There Was.
.. • Drug Church, PRUDE • Fred Thomas, Window in the Rhythm • Geordie Greep, The New Sound • Human Impact, Gone Dark • Jake Bugg, A Modern Day Distraction • James Bay, Changes All The Time • Joni Mitchell, Archives, Vol.
4: The Asylum Years 1976-1980 • Karl D'Silva, Love Is A Flame In The Dark • La Sonora Mazurén, Magnetismo Anímal • MEMORIALS, Waterslides • Orla Gartland, Everybody Needs a Hero • Pete Townshend, Live: In Concert 1985-2001 • Public Service Broadcasting, The Last Flight • Sex Swing, Golden Triangle • Sixpence None the Richer, Rosemary Hill EP • Temples, Other Structures EP • Trash Boat, Heaven Can Wait • The Hard Quartet (Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White), s/t • Wild Pink, Dulling the Horns • V.
