New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 4 : All Songs Considered

New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 4 Enlarge this image toggle caption ShinKatan x Weirdcore/Courtesy of XL Recordings ShinKatan x Weirdcore/Courtesy of XL Recordings 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. 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, s/t • Wild Pink, Dulling the Horns • V/A, American Football Sponsor Message Jazz • Adrian Younge, Jazz is Dead 021 • Anna Butterss, Mighty Vertebrate • Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Quiet in a World Full of Noise • Michael Mayo, Fly • Weird of Mouth, s/t • Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard • Tord Gustavsen Trio, Seeing Hip-Hop • 310babii, 310degrees • Jabee, The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak • Joey Cool, Roller Coaster • M1llionz, Ghetto Life • Rome Streetz & Daringer, Hatton Garden Holdup • Tee Grizzley, Post Traumatic • Toosii, JADED Country/Americana/Folk • Conner Smith, Storyteller EP • Hayes and The Heathens, s/t • Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Live From The Ryman Vol. 2 • Jett Holden, The Phoenix • Joan Shelley, Mood Ring EP • Little Big Town, The Christmas Record • Mindy Smith, Quiet Town • Nate Smith, California Gold • Noeline Hofmann, Purple Gas EP • The Wild Feathers, Sirens • Tucker Wetmore, Waves On A Sunset Pop • Andy Grammer, Monster • Coldplay, Moon Music • FINNEAS, For Cryin' Out Loud! • Genevieve Stokes, With a Lightning Strike • Maya Hawke, Clipped Wings EP • V/A, Joker: Folie à Deux OST R&B/Soul • Leon Bridges, Leon • Thee Sacred Souls, Got a Story to Tell Classical • San Francisco Symphony, Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas • Danil Trifonov, My American Story: North • Maurizio Pollini, Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 Sponsor Message Electronic/Out There • Alessandro Cortini, NATI INFINITI • Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, HOAX • Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works Volume II • Caribou, Honey • Frost Children x Haru Nemuri, Soul Kiss EP • James William Blades, Pare De Sufrir OST • John Davis, Landlines • Jonah Yano, Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop • Maelstrom, The FM Tapes • Midland, Fragments of Us • Peni Candra Rini, Wani • Pharmakon, Maggot Mass • The Bug, Machines I-V • Weval, Night Versions EP • V/A, ELECTRO THROWDOWN: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89