The best albums out Sept. 12

It’s Friday, and for some, today’s music headlines may feel right out of the 21st century. For the classic rock lovers among us, Led Zeppelin is celebrating 50 years of Physical Graffiti with the aptly named live release, Live E.P. And for the fictional rock lovers among us, Spinal Tap has returned with a second mockumentary and accompanying soundtrack, The End Continues.

Stephen Thompson welcomes Raina Douris from WXPN’s World Cafe for a nostalgia-filled discussion of these throwbacks, plus a few introductions to newer acts like the hard-rocking Die Spitz and sibling electronic duo Frost Children.

Listen to the show wherever you get your podcasts and then make sure to scroll down on this page and see the very best of today’s new music offerings.

The Starting Five

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Sub Pop

Guerilla Toss

Our hosts share the backstories and best songs from the following albums:

💿 Spinal Tap, The End Continues OST (Stream)

Recommended If You Like: Flight of the Conchords, The Clash at Demonhead

💿 Guerilla Toss, You’re Weird Now (Stream)

RIYL: Tropical F*** Storm, Pile

💿 Die Spitz, Something to Consume (Stream)

RIYL: Mannequin Pussy, The White Stripes

💿 Frost Children, Sister (Stream)

RIYL: Jane Remover, Danny L Harle

💿 Mark William Lewis, Mark William Lewis (Stream)

RIYL: bar italia, Chanel Beads

New Music Friday is a feature of NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast. Hear the discussion on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

The Lightning Round

Five more albums we wish we had time to discuss on the podcast:

💿 Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Perimenopop

💿 Asher White, 8 tips for full catastrophe living

💿 Jade, THAT’S SHOWBIZ BABY!

💿 Fruit Bats, Baby Man

💿 Kassa Overall, CREAM

Listen to each album’s best songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.

The Long List

For those who want to dig even deeper, here are the week’s new albums sorted by genre:

Rap/Hip-Hop

El Cousteau, Dirty Harry 2
Strandz, Diaspora Dance Music
Tony Shhnow and Mike & Keys, Self Portrait
Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer, PURITY
Liim, Liim Lasalle Loves You
Raq baby, I NEVER GAVE AF
King Iso, Ghetto Psycho
Ty Dolla $ign, TYCOON
4batz, Still Shinin
Ho99o9, Tomorrow We Escape

Country/Folk/Americana

Josh Ritter, I Believe in You, My Honeydew
Michael Hurley, Broken Homes and Gardens
John Prine, Lost Dogs + Mixes Blessings (30th Anniversary Reissue)
Ruston Kelly, Pale, Through the Window
Robbie Fulks, Now Then
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo, Vaquero
Carson McHone, Pentimento
Ellie Holcomb, Far Country
Emma Swift, The Resurrection Game
Hazlett, last night you said you missed me
Lauren Lovelle, Other Dreams EP
Shawn Camp, The Ghost of Sis Draper

Electronic/Out There

Kelman Duran, SCORPIO FALLING
Kara-Lis Coverdale, A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever
Jessy Lanza, Slapped By My Life EP
Verses GT (Nosaj Thing and Jacques Greene), Verses GT
Joe Milli, Deep Forest EP
Cazwell, HITS ALL OVER YOUR FACE [The Peace Bisquit Collection]
Holly Palmer, Metamorphosis
Jensen Interceptor, Interception
John Foxx, No-One Driving
Lord Spikeheart, REIGN EP
Public Circuit, Modern Church
Rezz, As The Pendulum Swings
Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie, Body Lapse
Sijya, Leather & Brass EP
Six Finger Satellite, Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition
V/A, Modeselektor DJ-Kicks
Venera (Korn guitarist Munky), Exinfinite

Global

Jazz

Rafiq Bhatia, Environments
Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up

Pop

Ed Sheeran, Play
King Princess, Girl Violence
LEISURE, Welcome to the Mood
Léna Bartels, The Brightest Silver Fish
Madilyn Mei, A Thousand Songs About It All: Act I
Matteo Bocelli, Falling In Love
Mimi Webb, Confessions
NEW YORK, Push EP
Parcels, LOVED
Phil Collins, No Jacket Required (Fully Tailored)

R&B/Soul

George Riley, More is More
Ayoni, ISOLA
Ali McGuirk, Watertop
Peyton, Au
ABIR, The Game

Classical

Ember, Birds of Paradise
HAUSER, CINEMA
Jordi Savall, Haydn: The Seasons
The Kanneh-Masons, River of Music

Rock/Alt/Indie

Algernon Cadwallader, Trying Not to Have a Thought
Liquid Mike, Hell Is an Airport
Swell Maps, The John Peel Sessions
Maruja, Pain to Power
snuggle, Goodbyehouse
Margaret Glaspy, The Golden Heart Protector
Dancer, More or Less
Gruff Rhys, Dim Probs
Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell, Making Good Time EP
Whitney K, Bubble
jasmine.4.t, You Are The Morning (YBT Deluxe)
Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Baxter Dury, Allbarone
Acopia, Blush Response
Adam Buxton, Buckle Up
Alex Bloom, Across the Country
Aug Stone, Stone Soup
Bass Drum of Death, SIX
Between the Buried and Me, The Blue Nowhere
Boyish, Gun
Cafuné, Bite Reality
Dazzling Killmen, Dig Out The Switch
Djo, The Crux Deluxe
Grateful Dead, Blues for Allah (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
hannah bahng, The Misunderstood EP
In The Pines, Sunbeam Dream
Jens Lekman, Songs For Other People’s Weddings
Joviale, Mount Crystal
Julia, Julia, Sugaring a Strawberry
Karate, If You Can Hold Your Breath (5 LPs)
Kyle Hollingsworth, All We Are
Laveda, Love, Darla
Legss, Unreal
Matt Bachmann, Compost Karaoke
Matt Maeson, A Quiet & Harmless Living
mei ehara, All About McGuffin
Mitch Rowland, Whistling Pie
Nevertel, Start Again
Paul Muldoon & Rogue Oliphant, Visible From Space
Robin Kester, Dark Sky Reserve
Silver Gore, Dogs in Heaven
Sydney Minsky Sargeant, Lunga
Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited Live at LOCKN’
Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Beethoven’s Last Night (25th Anniversary)
Twenty One Pilots, Breach
Umphrey’s McGee, Blueprints
Will Paquin, Hahaha
Your Smith, The Rub
Chloe Stroll , Bloom in the Break
Warren Haynes, The Whisper Sessions