The Cure and Robert Smith are back with a new album this week, ominously titled Songs for a Lost World.

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The Cure and Robert Smith are back with a new album this week, ominously titled Songs for a Lost World.

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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 Castle, Camelot
• Jeremie Albino, Our Time In The Sun
• Loose Cattle, Someone’s Monster
• Sam Barber, Restless Mind
• Warren Haynes, Million Voices Whisper

Hip-Hop
• Conductor Williams, Conductor We Have a Problem, Pt. 3
• Earthgang, Perfect Fantasy
• Freddie Gibbs, You Only Die 1nce
• IDK, Bravado + Intimo
• Ken Carson, More Chaos
• Lil Uzi Vert, Eternal Atake 2
• Westside Gunn, Still Praying

R&B/Soul
• Braxton Cook, My Everything
• Contour, Take Off from Mercy
• Tuxedo, Tuxedo IV

Jazz
• Berke Can Ozcan & Jonah Parzen-Johnson, It Was Always Time
• The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, All Is Sound
• Kokoroko, Get The Message EP
• Sam Gendel, Benny Bock and Hans P. Kjorstad, Dream Trio
• Scott Colley, Edward Simon and Brian Blade, Three Visitors
• Tomin, A Willed and Conscious Balance

Classical
• Bruce Liu, Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
• Philippe Jaroussky / Jérôme Ducros, Schubert: Lieder
• Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Choral Works

Electronic/Out There
• Alan Lamb, Night Passage (Reissue)
• Anno, s/t
• Beatrice Dillon, Seven Reorganisations
• The Black Dog, Sleep Deprivation
• Catherine Christer Hennix, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord
• Chris Bacon, Heretic OST
• Flying Lotus, Spirit Box EP
• Funkstörung, Mischmasch
• GAISTER, s/t
• Haruomi Hosono, Hosono House Revisited
• HAYLA, DUSK
• Jack J, Blue Desert
• Jon Mueller, Duality
• Limpe Fuchs / Mark Fell, Dessogia / Queetch / Fauch
• Luke Wyland, Kuma Cove
• Michael Mayer, The Floor is Lava
• Mike Cooper, Slow Motion Lightning
• Peverelist, Pulse Echo EP
• RAMZi, moon tan
• Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Pary, Rebecca Foon, First Sounds
• Tusks, Gold (For Synths and Strings)