New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out On Oct. 18 : All Songs Considered It's a packed release week, with new albums from Chairlift's Caroline Polachek, the rapper Gucci Mane, warped hip-hop from clipping., the electronic artist Floating Points and more.

1. Foals - 'Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2'
2. Patrick Watson - 'Wave'
3. Caroline Polachek - 'Pang'
4. clipping. - 'There Existed an Addiction to Blood'
5. Vagabon - 'Vagabon'
6. Gucci Mane - 'Woptober II'
7. Floating Points - 'Crush'
8. Common Holly - 'When I Say to You Black Lightning'
9. Hovvdy - 'Heavy Lifter'
10. Walrus - 'Cool to Who'

Other Notable Releases For Oct. 18: Anna Wise — As if it Were Forever; Battles — Juice B Crypts; Corridor — Junior; Jim James — The Order of Nature; Jimmy Eat World — Surviving; Mark Lanegan — Somebody's Knocking; Milk Carton Kids — The Only Ones (ep); The Muffs — No Holiday; Sufjan Stevens — The Decalogue; Tamino — Amir; Third Eye Blind — Screamer; White Reaper — You Deserve Love.

New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out On Oct. 18

New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out On Oct. 18

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Caroline Polachek. Her new solo album, Pang is on our shortlist for the best new releases out on Oct. 18. Nedda Afsari hide caption

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Every year around this time we see a mad dash to drop as many albums as possible, before the holidays hit and another calendar fades into the history books. On this episode of New Music Friday, we're sprinting through our top ten just from Oct. 18 alone (along with a lightning round with a whole bunch of other notable releases), including the first solo record under her own name from Chairlift's Caroline Polachek, the warped hip-hop of clipping., rapper and trap pioneer Gucci Mane (his third album in the past year), electronic artist Floating Points, the Cameroon-born singer-songwriter Vagabon and more.

Featured Albums:

  1. Foals — Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2
    Featured Song: "The Runner"
  2. Patrick Watson — Wave
    Featured Song: "Look At You"
  3. Caroline Polachek — Pang
    Featured Song: "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings"
  4. clipping. — There Existed an Addiction to Blood
    Featured Song: "Run For Your Life"
  5. Vagabon — Vagabon
    Featured Song: "Secret Medicine"
  6. Gucci Mane — Woptober II
    Featured Song: "Highly Recommended"
  7. Floating Points — Crush
    Featured Song: "Anasickmodular"
  8. Common Holly — When I Say to You Black Lightning
    Featured Song: "Joshua Snakes"
  9. Hovvdy — Heavy Lifter
    Featured Song: "Cathedral"
  10. Walrus — Cool to Who
    Featured Song: "Mr. Insecure"

Other Notable Releases For Oct. 18: Anna Wise — As if it Were Forever; Battles — Juice B Crypts; Corridor — Junior; Jim James — The Order of Nature; Jimmy Eat World — Surviving; Mark Lanegan — Somebody's Knocking; Milk Carton Kids — The Only Ones (ep); The Muffs — No Holiday; Sufjan Stevens — The Decalogue; Tamino — Amir; Third Eye Blind — Screamer; White Reaper — You Deserve Love.