For Miranda Lambert’s 10th studio album, Postcards From Texas, the country star recorded in her home state for the first time since she was a teenager.

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For Miranda Lambert’s 10th studio album, Postcards From Texas, the country star recorded in her home state for the first time since she was a teenager.

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NPR Music’s Ann Powers and Hazel Cills are your guides to the best music out this Friday, Sept. 13, including the 10th studio album by Miranda Lambert. Postcards From Texas is a new chapter for the onetime Nashville Star contestant who has become one of that industry town’s most reliable songwriters and stars — and also a return to her home state.

There’s more, including a album by Robyn Hitchcock made up mostly of covers of songs from the year 1967, a year he describes as “a portal between childhood and the adult world.” Plus: three ambitious albums by indie faves stretching their sounds, and a consideration of the way the classic “outlaw” label applies to the careers of women who break the rules.

Featured albums:
• Miranda Lambert, Postcards from Texas
• Nilüfer Yanya, My Method Actor
• Foxing, Foxing
• Robyn Hitchcock, 1967: Vacations in the Past
• My Brightest Diamond, Fight the Real Terror

Other notable albums out Sept. 13

• Babyface Ray, The Kid That Did
• Bad Moves, Wearing Out The Refrain
• Chastity, Chastity
• Clark, In Camera
• Cursive, Devourer
• Sarah Davachi, The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir
• Dayglow, Dayglow
• DJ Plead & rRoxymore, Read Round City
• Dora Jar, No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire
• Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder
• ericdoa, Locked In
• Floating Points, Cascade
• Fousheé, Pointy Heights
• Ginger Root, SHINBANGUMI
• Hello Mary, Emita Ox
• Jay Worthy & MadeinTYO, Time After Time
• The Jesus Lizard, Rack
• julie, my anti-aircraft friend
• Kaito, Collection
• Talib Kweli & J. Rawls, The Confidence of Knowing
• Lady Blackbird, Slang Spirituals
• London Grammar, The Greatest Love
• Nick Lowe, Indoor Safari
• LSDXOXO, DOGMA
• Terrace Martin, Nintindo Soul
• Angie McMahon, Light Sides
• Nada Surf, Moon Mirror
• Porches, Shirt
• Snow Patrol, The Forest Is the Path
• Jordin Sparks, No Restrictions
• Colin Stetson, The love it took to leave you
• Tindersticks, Soft Tissue
• TR/ST, Performance
• Suki Waterhouse, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin
• Various Artists, We’re Gonna Miss it All (A Modern Baseball Cover Comp)