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British saxophonist Nubya Garcia released her new album, Odyssey, on Sept. 20.

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British saxophonist Nubya Garcia released her new album, Odyssey, on Sept. 20.

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NPR Music’s Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Lars Gotrich provide a guide the most exciting new releases out today. This week, the selections include some recordings that are new and some that are as much as a half-century old, verging on mythological.

The producer Jamie xx began his career as a teenager making beats for the moody electronic band The xx. His solo recordings, including the new album In Waves, have tapped into a higher energy and a wider range of sounds. The saxophonist Nubya Garcia’s new album, Odyssey, is as adventurous as the title sounds. And the Kansas City-based Blackstarkids swing between electronic pop, hip-hop and indie rock sounds that feel like they stepped off a time machine directly from the 1990s.

Plus: A pair of releases that package previously unreleased material by Bob Dylan and Galaxie 500 sparks a conversation about bootlegs, alternate versions and other rare and unreleased favorites.

Featured albums:
• Jamie xx, In Waves
• Nubya Garcia, Odyssey
• BLACKSTARKIDS, Saturn Dayz
• Bob Dylan and The Band, The 1974 Live Recordings
• Galaxie 500, Uncollected Noise New York ’88​-​’​90

Other notable albums out Sept. 20:
• The Alchemist, The Genuine Articulate
• Alien Nosejob, Turns the Colour of Bad S***
• Trey Anastasio, Atriums
• Kassi Ashton, Made from the Dirt
• The Black Dog, Seclusion EP
• Blossoms, Gary
• Axel Boman, Space Drag
• Blu & Exile, Love (the) Ominous World
• Bright Eyes, Five Dice, All Threes
• Manu Chao, Viva Tu
• Cher, Forever Fan
• CLIFFDIVER, Birdwatching
• Depeche Mode, Spirit: The 12″ Singles box set
• Kirk Degiorgio, The Statement
• Jerry Douglas, The Set
• Noga Erez, The Vandalist
• Fidlar, Surviving the Dream
• Fleetwood Mac, Mirage Tour ’82
• Nelly Furtado, 7
• Future, Mixtape Pluto
• Sophie Gault, Baltic Street Hotel
• Hippo Campus, Flood
• Honeyglaze, The Real Deal
• Joan as Police Woman, Lemons, Limes And Orchids
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Chain of Light
• The Kills, Happier Girls Sessions
• Lampen, Halogen
• Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook, Psychonavigation box set
• Gábor Lázár, Reflex
• Lice, Third Time at the Beach
• Alan Licht, Havens
• Lil Tecca, PLAN A
• Louis the Child, The Sun Comes Up
• MC Lyte, 1 of 1
• Max McNown, Willfully Blind EP
• Midland, Barely Blue
• Thurston Moore, Flow Critical Lucidity
• More Eaze, lacuna and parlor
• Neon Trees, Sink Your Teeth
• Nonpareils, Rhetoric & Terror
• Office Dog, Doggerland
• Orion Sun, Orion
• Katy J Pearson, Someday, Now
• Perfume, Nebula Romance Part 1
• Katy Perry, 143
• Photay, Windswept
• Kate Pierson (of The B-52s), Radios & Rainbows
• Prairiewolf, Deep Time
• Purple Disco Machine, Paradise
• Cassie Ramone, Sweetheart
• Mason Ramsey, I’ll See You In My Dreams
• Tim Reaper & Kloke, In Full Effect
• Regional Justice Center, Freedom Sweet Freedom
• Chase Rice, Go Down Singin’
• Rrose & Polygonia, Dermatology
• Nina Ryser, Water Giants
• Patrick Shiroishi, Glass House EP
• Sunset Rubdown, Always Happy to Explode
• Tasha, All This and So Much More
• Tennyson & Leslie, Dolphin EP
• Mitchell Tenpenny, The 3rd
• Molly Tuttle, Into the Wild EP
• Keith Urban, HIGH
• Marcos Valle, T​ú​nel Ac​ú​stico
• The Voidz, Like All Before You
• The WAEVE, City Lights
• Drake White, Low Country High Road