10.30.2020 - By NPR
NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out on Oct. 30 include a surprise release from Common, the return of rapper Busta Rhymes, singer Sam Smith, the country artist Cam, Ane Brun and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Outkast — Stankonia 20th Anniversary Edition
Featured Songs: "So Fresh, So Clean" and "B.O.B. (A Cappella version)"
2. Sam Smith — Love Goes
Featured Song: "Love Goes (feat. Labrinth"
3. Busta Rhymes — Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God
Featured Song: "True Indeed"
4. Ane Brun — After the Great Storm
Featured Song: "After the Great Storm"
5. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou — May Our Chambers Be Full
Featured Song: "Ancestral Recall"
6. Common — A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1
Featured Song: "Fallin'"
7. Nothing — The Great Dismal
Featured Song: "Say Less"
8. Elvis Costello — Hey Clockface
Featured Song: "We Are All Cowards Now"
9. Cam — The Otherside
Featured Song: "The Otherside"
10. Junk Magic — Compass Confusion
Featured Song: "Laser Beaming Hearts"
Other notable releases for Oct. 30: 38 Spesh — Interstate 38; Andrew Bird — Hark!; Creature Comfort — Home Team; Dizzee Rascal — E3 AF; Echo Collective — The See Within; Goo Goo Dolls — It's Christmas All Over; Grateful Dead — American Beauty 50th Anniversary Edition; Joni Mitchell — Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1 - The Early Years (1963-1967); King Khan — The Infinite Ones; LÉON — Apart; Marco Pavé — Crossroads; Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche — I Can Still Hear You; War on Women — Wonderful Hell.