New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 22

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Doja Cat's Scarlet, Kylie Minogue's Tension, yeule's genre-hopping softscars and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Doja Cat — Scarlet

Featured Songs: "Demons," "97," "Go Off," "Often"

2. Mykki Blanco — Postcards From Italia

Featured Songs: "Tequila Casino Royale," "Holidays In The Sun," "Love Fell Down Around Me," "Magic On My Back"

3. yeule — softscars

Featured Songs: "4ui12," "software update," "x w x," "dazies," "fish in the pool"

4. Kylie Minogue — Tension

Featured Songs: "You Still Get Me High," "Padam Padam," "10 Out Of 10," "Story"

5. Loraine James — Gentle Confrontation

Featured Songs: "Let U Go (ft. keiyaA)," "Gentle Confrontation," "Glitch the System (Glitch Bitch 2)," "I DM U," "One Way Ticket To the Midwest (Emo) [feat. Corey Mastrangelo]"

Lightning Round:

Doechii — "Pacer" (single)

DUFFY x UHLMANN — Doubles

Moemaw Naedon and C. Scott — Yinztroducing...

The National — Laugh Track

Other notable releases for Sept. 22:

Bakar — Halo

Bibio — Sunbursting (EP)

The Breeders — Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition)

Brent Cobb — Southern Star

CHAI — CHAI

Chappell Roan — The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

Devendra Banhart — Flying Wig

Grails — Anches En Maat

Grrrl Gang — Spunky!

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids — Afro Futuristic Dreams

KEN mode — VOID

Lydia Loveless — Nothing's Gonna Stand In My Way Again

Pkew Pkew Pkew — Siiick Days

Roosevelt — Embrace

Teenage Fanclub — Nothing Lasts Forever

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