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The technology used to remix the 56-year-old album is hard to fathom. But, with the help of producer Giles Martin, Revolver now sounds like a brand new album from a young band still putting out records.

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The best albums out this week include Smino's Luv 4 Rent, Icelandic singer Ásgeir's Time On My Hands, a staggering new work from Benjamin Clementine and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Smino — Luv 4 Rent
Featured Tracks: "Pro Freak," "Blu Billy," "Pudgy"
2. Nosaj Thing — Continua
Featured Tracks: "We Are," "Look Both Ways"
3. Ásgeir — Time on My Hands
Featured Tracks: "Time on My Hands," "Borderland," "Limitless"
4. Benjamin Clementine — And I Have Been
Featured Tracks: "Residue," "Lovelustreman," "Delighted"
5. Ghost Funk Orchestra — A New Kind Of Love
Featured Tracks: "Your Man's No Good," "Quiet Places"

Lightning Round:
Cakes da Killa — Svengali
Fatboi Sharif & Noface — Preaching in Havana
Field Guide — Field Guide
Junior Boys — Waiting Game

Other Notable Releases:
Babehoven — Light Moving Time
The Beatles — Revolver (Super Deluxe)
Dear Nora — human futures
DIGAWOLF — INI (Spirit)
Lee Fields — Sentimental Fool
Martha — Please Don't Take Me Back
Show Me The Body — Trouble The Water
Trampled By Turtles — Alpenglow
Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 with Greg Osby — The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Live)
Yung Gravy - Marvelous

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Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre from NPR's Alt.Latino sit down with Carlos Santana to talk about nurturing his spirit, growing as an artist and 50 years of Caravanserai.

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All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird, John Cale's first new album in a decade and more.

Featured Songs and Artists:
1. Sunny War: "No Reason," from Anarchist Gospel
2. Andrew Bird & Phoebe Bridgers: "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (Single)
3. Seán Barna: "Everyone's a Queen on Halloween" (Single)
4. John Cale: "STORY OF BLOOD (feat. Weyes Blood)," from MERCY
5. Weyes Blood: "Grapevine," from And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
6. Micah Frank & Chet Doxas: "Ave Maria (Featuring Mary Lattimore)," from The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part One


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The best albums out this week include Taylor Swift's Midnights, powerful meditations on race and identity from U.K. rapper Loyle Carner, the transfixing sounds of singer iLe and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Taylor Swift — Midnights
Featured Songs: "Lavender Haze," "Vigilante S***," "Karma," "Sweet Nothing"
2. Loyle Carner — hugo
Featured Songs: "Hate," "Nobody Knows," "Georgetown"
3. Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn — Pigments
Featured Songs: "Cerulean," "Vantablack" "Sandstone"
4. iLe — Nacarile
Featured Songs: "Ningún Lugar," "traguito"
5. Nick Hakim — COMETA
Featured Songs: "Feeling Myself," "Something," "Ani"

Lightning Round:
Bibio — BIB10
Frankie Cosmos — Inner World Peace
Tegan & Sara — Crybaby

Other Notable Releases:
a-ha — True North
Alice Boman — The Space Between
Archers of Loaf — Reason in Decline
Arctic Monkeys — The Car
Babyface — Girls Night Out
Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loneliest Time
Dry Cleaning — Stumpwork
Goat — Oh Death
Jesse Harris — Silver Balloon
Jeezy & DJ Drama — Snofall
Meghan Trainor — Takin' It Back
Rubblebucket — Earth Worship
Simple Minds — Direction of the Heart
Sloan — Steady
Takuya Kuroda — Midnight Crisp
Wiki & subjxct 5 — Cold Cuts

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Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with iLe to talk about salsa music, Puerto Rico's role in her art and being la bebé of the family.

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All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a song for oppressed women worldwide from Sevdaliza, the experimental cellist Mabe Fratti, Billy Strings performing with his dad and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. The Arcs: "Keep On Dreamin'," from Electrophonic Chronic
2. Sevdaliza: "Woman Life Freedom" (Single)
3. Pearla: "The Place With No Weather," from Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming
4. Eszter Balint: "The First Day," from I HATE MEMORY!
5. Billy Strings: "Long Journey Home," from Me/and/Dad
6. Mabe Fratti: "Esta Vez," from Se Ve Desde Aquí

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the long-awaited return of M.I.A., plus new records from Tove Lo, The 1975, Mykki Blanco and more.

Featured Albums:
1. M.I.A. — Mata
Featured Songs: "The One," "Popular"
2. Tove Lo — Dirt Femme
Featured Songs: "2 Die 4," "Suburbia"
3. Mykki Blanco — Stay Close to Music
Featured Songs: "Trust A Little Bit," "Family Ties," "French Lessons," "Carry On"
4. The 1975 — Being Funny in a Foreign Language
Featured Songs: "I'm In Love With You," "When We Are Together"
5. Ryuichi Sakamoto — Exception (Original Soundtrack)
Featured Songs: "Opening For Exception," "Collusion," "Operating The Drone"

Lightning Round:
Lil Baby — It's Only Me
Mavi — Laughing So Hard It Hurts
AO Gerber — Meet Me at the Gloaming
Plains — I Walked With You a Ways
Betty Who — Big!

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From our friends at Alt.Latino, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado to talk about creating the character of Farruko, developing a relationship with God and spreading a message of love.

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares gorgeous new music from the Ghana-born artist Okaidja Afroso, a spare reflection from the singer Samia, the 20th anniversary edition of the Sigur Rós album ( ) and more.

1. Okaidja Afroso: "Gidi Gidi," from Jaku Mumor
2. Lydia Ramsey: "Revival," from Like A Dream
3. Samia: "Kill Her Freak Out" (Single)
4. JFDR: "The Orchid" (Single)
5. Sigur Rós: "Untitled #7 (Jacobs Studio Sessions)," from ( ) Remastered

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