New Music Friday: Oct. 16

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include rapper Black Thought's stunning Streams of Thought Vol. 3, a solo debut from The National's Matt Berninger, Beabadoobee and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Black Thought — Streams Of Thought Vol. 3: Cane & Abel

Featured Song: "State Prisoner"

2. Autechre — Sign

Featured Song: "M4 Lema"

3. SPAZA — Uprize!

Featured Song: "Bantu Education"

4. Beabadoobee — Fake It Flowers

Featured Song: "Care"

5. Matt Berninger — Serpentine Prison

Featured Song: "Distant Axis"

6. Open Mike Eagle — Anime, Trauma And Divorce

Featured Song: "Asa's Bop"

7. Good Sad Happy Bad — Shade

Featured Song: "Blessed"

8. Deep Sea Diver — Impossible Weight

Featured Song: "Impossible Weight"

9. Helena Deland — Someone New

Featured Song: "Dog"

10. Mipso — Mipso

Featured Song: "Big Star"

Bonus Album: Sturgill Simpson — Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1: (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)

Featured Song: "I Don't Mind"

Other notable Oct. 16 releases: Annie — Dark Hearts; Cordovas — Destiny Hotel; Growing Concerns Poetery Collective — Big Dark Bright Futures; Gulfer — Gulfer; Goldmund — The Time It Takes; Homeboy Sandman & Quelle Chris — Don't Feed the Monster; Jennifer Castle — Monarch Season; James Blake — Before; Kevin Morby — Sundowner; Low Cut Connie — Private Lives; Manu Grace — No Room for Error; Mr. Gnome — The Day You Flew Away... Visit www.npr.org/allsongs for more