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b'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 \\u2014 Midnights
Featured Songs: "Lavender Haze," "Vigilante S***," "Karma," "Sweet Nothing"
2. Loyle Carner \\u2014 hugo
Featured Songs: "Hate," "Nobody Knows," "Georgetown"
3. Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn \\u2014 Pigments
Featured Songs: "Cerulean," "Vantablack" "Sandstone"
4. iLe \\u2014 Nacarile
Featured Songs: "Ning\\xfan Lugar," "traguito"
5. Nick Hakim \\u2014 COMETA
Featured Songs: "Feeling Myself," "Something," "Ani"

Lightning Round:
Bibio \\u2014 BIB10
Frankie Cosmos \\u2014 Inner World Peace
Tegan & Sara \\u2014 Crybaby

Other Notable Releases:
a-ha \\u2014 True North
Alice Boman \\u2014 The Space Between
Archers of Loaf \\u2014 Reason in Decline
Arctic Monkeys \\u2014 The Car
Babyface \\u2014 Girls Night Out
Carly Rae Jepsen \\u2014 The Loneliest Time
Dry Cleaning \\u2014 Stumpwork
Goat \\u2014 Oh Death
Jesse Harris \\u2014 Silver Balloon
Jeezy & DJ Drama \\u2014 Snofall
Meghan Trainor \\u2014 Takin\' It Back
Rubblebucket \\u2014 Earth Worship
Simple Minds \\u2014 Direction of the Heart
Sloan \\u2014 Steady
Takuya Kuroda \\u2014 Midnight Crisp
Wiki & subjxct 5 \\u2014 Cold Cuts

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