In Stores Now 11/7

It's surely no coincidence that a couple of these new releases came out on the eve of the 2016 Presidential Election. Veteran Chicago rapper Common shares his 11th full-length, an album KEXP's Music Director Don Yates calls, "a powerful set of politically charged hip hop with gritty, cinematic, soul and jazz-steeped production courtesy of Karriem Riggins accompanying Common's limber delivery and trenchant lyrics addressing racism, police brutality and mass incarceration." Long-running Nashville band Lambchop share their twelfth studio album, FLOTUS, though their acronym translates to "For Love Often Turns Us Still." Yates notes, "the release finds the band heading in a more electronic-oriented direction with a beat-driven sound featuring warm, atmospheric synths, skeletal beats and intimate, often-vocodered vocals."

Other highlights this week include the latest from Portland band STRFKR, a "potent set of psych-tinged electro-pop with moody synths, sleek guitars, propulsive beats, smooth vocals and bittersweet melodies." Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions return with a "fine set of languid folk-pop combining a dark, atmospheric sound with her haunting vocals." Feral Ohms, an Oakland band led by Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain, Heron Oblivion), debut with a live EP, "a fierce 6-song live set of scuzzy, high-energy garage-punk recorded at the Chapel last year in San Francisco." St. Louis-based band American Wrestlers (led by Gary McClure, former frontman for the Scottish band Working For A Nuclear Free City) release their second LP, "an impressive set of anthemic indie-pop with buzzing guitars and soaring song hooks."

• Alicia Keys - "Holy War"
• from Here on RCA
• American Wrestlers - "Hello, Dear"
• from Goodbye Terrible Youth on Fat Possum
• Berwanger - "I Want You Bad"
• from Exorcism Rock on Doghouse
• Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra - "Blue In Green (Live en Belgique 2011)"
• from Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings) on Impulse!
• Common - "Joy And Peace"
• from Black America Again on Def Jam
• The Darcys - "San Diego, 1988"
• from Centerfold on Arts & Crafts
• Earwig - "Wasted On You (Ft. Lydia Loveless)"
• from Pause for the Jets on Anyway / Lizard Family
• Esben and the Witch - "The Wolf's Sun"
• from Older Terrors on Season of Mist
• Efterklang & the Happy Hopeless Orchestra - "The Colour Not of Love"
• from Leaves: The Colour of Falling on Tambourhinoceros
• Feral Ohms - "The Glow"
• from Live in San Francisco on Castle Face
• Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - "Let Me Get There ft. Kurt Vile"
• from Until the Hunter on Tendril Tales
• Jess Williamson - "See You in a Dream"
• from Heart Song on Brutal Honest
• Lambchop - "NIV"
• from FLOTUS on Merge
• Lee Fields & the Expressions - "Make The World"
• from Special Night on Big Crown
• Monomyth - "Puppet Creek"
• from Happy Pop Family on Mint Records
• Mother Love Bone
• from On Earth as It Is: The Complete Works on Universal
• Shirley Collins - "Death And The Lady"
• from Lodestar on Domino
• Skinny Girl Diet - "OKAY"
• from Heavy Flow on HHBTM
• STRFKR - "Tape Machine"
• from Being No One, Going Nowhere on Polyvinyl
• Surface to Air Missive - "Time Being"
• from A V on Leaving Records
• Tad - "Stumblin' Man"
• from 8-Way Santa [Deluxe Edition] reissue on Sub Pop
• Tad
• from God's Balls [Deluxe Edition] reissue on Sub Pop
• Tad - "Wood Goblins"
• from Salt Lick [Deluxe Edition] reissue on Sub Pop
• XAM Duo - "I Extend My Arms"
• from XAM Duo on Sonic Cathedral
• Yussef Kamaal - "Strings Of Light"
• from Black Focus on Brownswood