NPR Music's No. 1 Albums And Songs Of September

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 9 a.m.

We pick our favorite music released in September 2020, featuring Cuban hip-hop artist La Dame Blanche, Masego's summer wanderlust, Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker and a reimagined mass.

• Adrianne Lenker: "anything" from songs
• Waylon Payne: "Old Blue Eyes" from Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher and Me
• Masego, "Passport"
• La Dame Blanche: "La Maltratada" from Ella
• Theo Alexander: "re; Waiting" from Animadversions
• Sarah Kirkland Snider: "Kyrie" from Mass for the Endangered