New Music Friday: The top 10 albums out on Oct. 8

Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 9 a.m.

b'NPR Music\'s picks for the best albums out this week include James Blake\'s Friends That Break Your Heart, new ones from Cimafunk, the underground hip-hop duo Atmosphere, Reba McEntire, and more.

Featured Albums:
1. James Blake \\u2014 Friends That Break Your Heart
Featured Songs: "Foot Forward" and "Frozen"
2. BadBadNotGood \\u2014 Talk Memory
Featured Song: "Beside April"
3. Susana Baca \\u2014 Palabras Urgentes
Featured Song: "Cambalache"
4. Natalie Hemby \\u2014 Pins and Needles
Featured Song: "Banshee"
5. Various \\u2014 Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows Vol. 2 (John Prine tribute album)
Featured Song: "Summer\'s End" (Performed by Valerie June)
6. Cimafunk \\u2014 El Alimento
Featured Song: "Sal De Lo Malo"
7. Various \\u2014 It\'s A Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records
Featured Song: "Soul Drummers" (Performed by Ray Baretto)
8. Joshua Crumbly \\u2014 ForEver
Featured Song: "KOLKATA"
9. Atmosphere \\u2014 WORD?
Featured Song: "Fleetwood"
10. Reba McEntire \\u2014 Revived, Remixed, Revisited
Featured Song: "Fancy"'