New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 25 : All Songs Considered

New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 25 Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Partisan Records Courtesy of Partisan Records NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills are your guides to the week's most compelling new releases. A new album by the mysterious British duo Two Shell is out widely this week but was made available months ago, on flash drives left to be found on dance club floors or embedded within rocks sold via the group's Bandcamp page. Sponsor Message Featured Albums • Amythyst Kiah, Still + Bright • Soccer Mommy, Evergreen • Laura Marling, Patterns in Repeat • Elmiene, Anyway I Can • Anna Butterss, Mighty Vertebrate Other Albums Out Oct. 25 Pop • Bryan Ferry, Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 • Florence + The Machine, Symphony of Lungs - BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall • Gavin Friday, Ecce Homo • Halsey, The Great Impersonator • Judeline, BODHIRIA • Katie Gavin, What a Relief • Louane, solo • Megan Thee Stallion, MEGAN: ACT II • Oscar and the Wolf, TASTE • Queen, Queen I • Tears For Fears, Songs for a Nervous Planet Rock/Alt/Indie • 2nd Grade, Scheduled Explosions • 311, Full Bloom • Amyl and the Sniffers, Cartoon Darkness • Anthony Moore, Home of the Demo • Bastille, "&" • Ben Folds, Sleigher • Black Moth Super Rainbow, Demon's Glue • Courteeners, Pink Catcus Café • Euros Childs, Beehive Beach • Fievel Is Glauque, Rong Weicknes • Hammock, From The Void • The Hellp, LL • Little Moon, Dear Divine • Mope Grooves, Box Of Dark Roses • Naked Roommate, Pass the Loofah • Peach Pit, Magpie • Pixies, The Night the Zombies Came • Pom Pom Squad, Mirror Starts Moving Without Me • Slint, Tweez • St. Lenox, Ten Modern American Work Songs • Tess Parks, Pomegranate • They Might Be Giants, Beast of Horns • trauma ray, Chameleon • Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Midnight at the Castle Moorlands Sponsor Message Americana/Folk/Country • Angie K, s/t • Chapel Hart, Hartfelt Family Christmas • Chuck Prophet, Wake the Dead • Fancy Hagood, American Spirit • Hannah Scott, Absence of Doubt • Joe Nichols, Honky Tonks and Country Songs • Kelsea Ballerini, Patterns • Lanie Gardner, A Songwriter's Diary • Paul Cauthen, Black on Black • Tyler Halverson, Western Amerijuana • William Harries Graham, Annie's House Hip-Hop • Che Noir, The Lotus Child • Cochise, WHY ALWAYS ME? • G Herbo, BIG SWERV 2.0 • Hunxho, Thank God • Kembe X, It's Not That Deep EP • Rejjie Snow, PEACE 2 DA WORLD R&B/Soul • Allen Stone, Mystery • Ruthven, Rough & Ready Jazz • Avishai Cohen, Brightlight • BADBADNOTGOOD, Mid-Spiral • Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City • Igmar Thomas' Revive Big Band, Like A Tree It Grows • Jazzmeia Horn, Messages Classical • Bryce Dessner, Katia & Marielle Labèque & David Chalmin, Sonic Wires • Caroline Shaw, Leonardo da Vinci Electronic/Out There • Catherine Christer Hennix, Further Selections from The Electric Harpsichord • DJ Lycox, Guetto Star • Earthen Sea, Recollection • Félicia Atkinson, Space As An Instrument • Moin, You Never End • More Eaze & Kaho Matsui, computer and recording works for girls • Nicolá Cruz, Kinesia • Shigeto, Cherry Blossom Baby • Theis Thaws, Fifteen Days • Two Shell, s/t • Underworld, Strawberry Hotel