New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 20

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include U.K. singer-songwriter Sampha, a Rolling Stones comeback and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Sampha — LAHAI

Featured Songs: "Dancing Circles," "Stereo Colour Cloud (Shaman's Dream)," "What If You Hypnotise Me (feat. Léa Sen)," "Spirit 2.0," "Only"

2. The Rolling Stones — Hackney Diamonds

Featured Songs: "Bite My Head Off," "Depending On You," "Dreamy Skies," "Mess It Up," "Sweet Sounds Of Heaven," "Whole Wide World"

3. Glen Hansard — All That Was East Is West of Me Now

Featured Songs: "The Feast Of Saint John," "Sure As The Rain," "Bearing Witness"

4. Dylan LeBlanc — Coyote

Featured Song: "Dust"

5. Helena Deland — Goodnight Summerland (Out Oct. 13)

Featured Song: "Bright Green Vibrant Day"

6. Valee & Michael Vincent Waller — Valeedation

Featured Song: "Tailor Swift"

Other notable releases for Oct. 20:

awakebutstillinbed — Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger

Blink-182 — ONE MORE TIME...

Blues Traveler — Traveler's Soul

Bombay Bicycle Club — My Big Day

Boys Like Girls — Sunday At Foxwoods

Devo — 50 Years Of De-Evolution (1972-2023)

Emily Wolfe — The Blowback

Israel Nash — Ozarker

Katie Von Schleicher — A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night

Lost Girls (Jenny Hval & Håvard Volden) — Selvutsletter

Pip Blom — Bobbie

Salt-N-Pepa — Very Necessary (30th Anniversary Edition)

Sleaford Mods — More Uk Grim EP

Summer Walker — Girls Need Love (Girls Mix)

Vince Guaraldi — A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (first-ever release)

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