Consumer Guide: October, 2021

Songwriters from Austin, Chattanooga, and Nashville. Rappers from London by way of Nigeria and Belgium by way of the Congo. Also: a worldly sophisticate, a genuine adult, and a Wolf who howls.

Thomas Anderson: Ladies and Germs (Out There) Not for nothing does this perpetually undefeated Austin singer-songwriter’s BMI handle remain Angry Young Grad Student Music. On this 13-track item with a pandemic title no one will ever top, his mild voice and deft multitracking delivers his best set of songs since his 1990 debut “Alright It Was Frank—And H…