The best albums out this week include Taylor Swift's Midnights, powerful meditations on race and identity from U.K. rapper Loyle Carner, the transfixing sounds of singer iLe and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Taylor Swift — Midnights
Featured Songs: "Lavender Haze," "Vigilante S***," "Karma," "Sweet Nothing"
2. Loyle Carner — hugo
Featured Songs: "Hate," "Nobody Knows," "Georgetown"
3. Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn — Pigments
Featured Songs: "Cerulean," "Vantablack" "Sandstone"
4. iLe — Nacarile
Featured Songs: "Ningún Lugar," "traguito"
5. Nick Hakim — COMETA
Featured Songs: "Feeling Myself," "Something," "Ani"

Lightning Round:
Bibio — BIB10
Frankie Cosmos — Inner World Peace
Tegan & Sara — Crybaby

Other Notable Releases:
a-ha — True North
Alice Boman — The Space Between
Archers of Loaf — Reason in Decline
Arctic Monkeys — The Car
Babyface — Girls Night Out
Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loneliest Time
Dry Cleaning — Stumpwork
Goat — Oh Death
Jesse Harris — Silver Balloon
Jeezy & DJ Drama — Snofall
Meghan Trainor — Takin' It Back
Rubblebucket — Earth Worship
Simple Minds — Direction of the Heart
Sloan — Steady
Takuya Kuroda — Midnight Crisp
Wiki & subjxct 5 — Cold Cuts

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