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New Music Friday: The best albums out Nov. 15

Ganavya's Daughter of a Temple is her second album of 2024, following like the sky i've been too quiet, released in March.
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Ganavya's Daughter of a Temple is her second album of 2024, following like the sky i've been too quiet, released in March.

NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling releases out on November 15.

This week, they dig into a wide assortment of great new albums, including the long-awaited debut album by a British trio reviving girl group sounds from the turn of the millennium; the first release in almost a decade from longtime country fave in a new, joyous phase of his life; a singer who has shown up on some of our favorite jazz albums of the year making an album inspired by traditional devotional music and Alice Coltrane and a crew of Cincinnati indie rock lifers coping with the loss of one of their own.

Plus, a conversation about how some of the biggest stars in pop history have navigated the tricky transition between teenage and adult stardom.

Featured albums

• FLO, Access All Areas
• Dwight Yoakam, Brighter Days
• Ganavya, Daughter of a Temple
• Wussy, Cincinnati Ohio

Other notable albums out Nov. 15

• Gwen Stefani, Bouquet
• Linkin Park, From Zero
• Poppy, Negative Spaces
• Shawn Mendes, Shawn
• Mary J. Blige, Gratitude
• Jin, Happy
• As I Lay Dying, Through Storms Ahead
• Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues: Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1
• St. Vincent, Todos Nacen Gritando
• Painkiller, Samsara
• 070 Shake, Petrichor
• Cordae, The Crossroads
• The Red Clay Strays, Live at the Ryman
• Rauw Alejandro, Cosa Nuestra
• Pa Salieu, Afrikan Alien
• MF Doom, Mm...Food (20th Anniversary Edition)
• Dolly Parton & Family, Smokey Mountain DNA: Family, Faith and Fables

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Daoud Tyler-Ameen
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Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. She writes for NPR's music news blog, The Record, and she can be heard on NPR's newsmagazines and music programs.
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