New & Notable music: week of November 2

Friday, November 6 brings Lil Baby, Kings of Leon, Skepta, Shygirl, Sufjan Stevens and Alanis Morissette, plus Queens of the Stone Age and DIIV from October 30.

8 titles

1. Fresh (2026), Lil Baby
   The Atlanta rapper Lil Baby (My Turn) follows WHAM with his fifth album, seventeen tracks with Future, Young Thug and Rylo Rodriguez among the guests.
2. O My Beloved (2026), Kings of Leon
   Kings of Leon (Only by the Night) set their electric songs aside for a stripped, acoustic tenth album about family, childhood memories and the band's shared history.
3. The Fork and Knife (2026), Skepta
   The London grime star Skepta (Konnichiwa) makes his first solo album in seven years, a record about his Nigerian British roots named for a saying of his mother.
4. Swallow! (2026), Shygirl
   The London club singer Shygirl (Nymph) calls her second album a reintroduction, romantic songs written after Nymph and a new relationship.
5. Worst Christmas Ever! (2026), Sufjan Stevens
   Sufjan Stevens (Carrie & Lowell) gathers fifteen of the Christmas songs he recorded between 2001 and 2012 and adds his first new one in about fifteen years.
6. Good Weather for Immaculate Conception (2026), Alanis Morissette
   Alanis Morissette (Jagged Little Pill) makes her first Christmas album, with two new songs of her own and guests including Brandi Carlile, Steve Martin and Martin Short.
7. Perfecth (2026), Queens of the Stone Age
   Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age (Songs for the Deaf) follow In Times New Roman with a short ninth album whose title is a joke about nothing being perfect.
8. ZIRP! (2026), DIIV
   The Brooklyn shoegaze band DIIV (Frog in Boiling Water) name their fifth album for zero interest rate policy and write about the financial weight on a generation.