All Songs Considered | The best releases out Oct. 13

We didn’t get a chance to hear Bad Bunny’s new album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana, prior to taping this week’s episode. But we did hit some of the other records that highlight a busy week of new releases.

Australian singer and actor Troye Sivan put out one of this year’s late-breaking Song Of The Summer contenders with “Rush,” a lean, sex-forward, dance-floor-friendly banger. That song kicks off Sivan’s new album, Something to Give Each Other, which packs 10 hedonistic bops into just 33 minutes — all while offering surprising sonic variations along the way.

We’ve also got new albums from singer-songwriter and poet Jamila Woods, whose new Water Made Us reflects on the patterns that have formed and challenged past relationships, and L’Rain, the experimental project of composer and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek. L’Rain’s new album is titled I Killed Your Dog.

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Featured Albums

• Troye Sivan — Something to Give Each Other
  Featured Song: “What’s the Time Where You Are?”
• Jamila Woods — Water Made Us
  Featured Song: “Boomerang”
• L’Rain — I Killed Your Dog
  Featured Song: “Knead Bee”

Lightning Round

• Bad Bunny — Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana
• Offset — Set It Off
• Land of Talk — Performances
• Haley — Hunca Munca

Other notable releases for Oct. 13

• Astral Swans & Chad VanGaalen — Split EP
• The Drums — Jonny
• Helena Deland — Goodnight Summerland
• Holly Humberstone — Paint My Bedroom Black
• Jenn Champion — The Last Night of Sadness
• The Menzingers — Some of It Was True
• Laura Misch — Sample the Sky
• Margo Price — Strays II
• Metric – Formentera II
• MIKE — Burning Desire
• Paul Wall & Termanology — Start Finish Repeat
• Rick Astley — Are We There Yet?
• Squirrel Flower — Tomorrow’s Fire

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