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All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the return of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus as boygenius, The National and more.

Featured Songs and Artists:
1. boygenius: "$20," from the record
2. The National: "Tropic Morning News," from First Two Pages of Frankenstein
3. Niklas Paschburg & lùisa: "Darkside of the Hill," from Panta Rhei
4. Miss Grit: "Lain (phone clone)," from Follow the Cyborg
5. Baaba Maal: "Agreement (AADI)," from Being
6. The Hackles: "Damn the word," from What a beautiful thing I have made

New music from Peter Gabriel's first album of all new songs in 20 years. Also, Daughter has their first album of all new songs; it's been seven years for them. Plus, a heavy beat from Vagabon, wisdom from Steady Holiday and more.

Featured Artists and Songs:
1. Peter Gabriel: "Panopticom," from i/o
2. Daughter: "Be On Your Way," from Stereo Mind Game
3. Vagabon: "Carpenter," (Single)
4. Steady Holiday: "The Balance," from Newfound Oxygen
5. Gina Birch: "I Play My Bass Loud," from I Play My Bass Loud
6. The Trials of Cato: "Aberdaron," from Gog Magog

The week's best new albums include a genre-spanning masterpiece from singer Margo Price, a tribute to the '80s from Seven Davis Jr., Belle and Sebastian, jazz trumpeter Derrick Gardner and more.

Featured Albums :
1. Margo Price — Strays
Featured Songs: "Light Me Up," "Time Machine," "Radio," "Anytime You Call"
2. Seven Davis Jr. — savedbythebell
Featured Songs: "zero press," "wendy & lisa," "savedbythebell"
3. poolblood — mole
Featured Songs: "my little room," "wfy," "beam"
4. Belle & Sebastian — Late Developers
Featured Songs: "So In the Moment," "When You're Not With Me," "Late Developers"
5. Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets — Pan Africa
Featured Songs: "The Sixth Village," "Djemba Kan," "Highlife Suite"

Lightning Round :
Jamee Cornelia — Art School Dropout
Joesef — Permanent Damage
Lusillón — Pensando mucho y mal
Obituary — Dying of Everything
Whitehorse — I'm Not Crying, You're Crying

Other notable releases for Jan. 13 :
BabyTron — Bin Reaper 3: New Testament
Declaime & Madlib — In the Beginning Vol. 3
Gaz Coombes — Turn the Car Around
Julia Wolf — Good Thing We Stayed
Lincoln — Everything Is Wrong
Skyzoo — The Mind of a Saint
Stile Antico — The Golden Renaissance: William Byrd

NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso join host Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks of the week, including the jagged sounds of Dublin's M(h)aol, former jazz prodigy and singer Kate Davis and more.

Featured Artists and Songs :
1. Decisive Pink: "Haffmilch Holiday" (Single)
2. Artist: "Friendship Is Frequency," from Mind Palace Music
3. Kate Davis: "Consequences," from Fish Bowl
4. Fievel Is Glauque: "Days of Pleasure," from Flaming Swords
5. Rozi Plain: "Help," from Prize
6. M(h)aol: "THERAPY," from Attachment Styles

On this year-end episode, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Bob Boilen around the globe to experience Vietnamese ambient, Chilean speed metal and auto-tune'd Ghanaian gospel music.

Featured Tracks and Artists:

• BKO: "Sadiona" from Djine Bora
• Cheba Wahida: "Jrouli Jrouli" from Jrouli
• Sơn FM: "Go Into the Mountains" from Points of Light (ST​๐​๐​๗​)
• Switchblade: "夜に踊る" from Blue Matter
• Romperayo: "El Borracho" from Así No Se Puede Muchaches
• La Colonie de Vacances: "L'amour universel" from ECHT
• No Home: "Emerald Green Mirror" from Young Professional
• Vórtize: "Mundo Bipolar" from ¡Tienes Que Luchar!
• Linda Ayupuka: "Yine Faamam" from God Created Everything

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All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen joins NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso to count down NPR Music's top 10 rock albums of 2022.

Featured songs and artists:

10. Kevin Morby: "This Is a Photograph," from This Is a Photograph
9. Soul Glo: "Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the future))," from Diaspora Problems
8. Special Interest: "Foul," from Endure
7. caroline: "Dark blue," from caroline
6. Hurray for the Riff Raff: "PRECIOUS CARGO," from LIFE ON EARTH
5. Alvvays: "Pharmacist," from Blue Rev
4. Wet Leg: "Angelica," from Wet Leg
3. Nilüfer Yanya: "stabilise," from PAINLESS
2. Alex G: "No Bitterness," from God Save the Animals
1. Big Thief: "Spud Infinity," from Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

Read the ranked list the year's most essential rock music , along with a short list of personal favorites, by NPR Music staff and contributors.

Our friends at Planet Money are trying something we thought All Songs listeners might find as fascinating as we do: They're trying to start their own record label to release a single song. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released until now.

(This episode is part two of a series)
Listen to "Inflation" on Apple Music , Spotify , YouTube Music , Tidal , Amazon Music & Pandora .
Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney

Our friends at Planet Money are trying something we thought All Songs listeners might find as fascinating as we do: They're trying to start their own record label to release a single song. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released until now.

(This episode is part one of a series)
Listen to "Inflation" on Apple Music , Spotify , YouTube Music , Tidal , Amazon Music & Pandora .
Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney

The best albums out this week include rapper Roddy Ricch's emotional Feed Tha Streets III , Weyes Blood's majestic And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow , Honey Dijon's Black Girl Magic and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Roddy Ricch — Feed Tha Streets III
Featured Songs: "King Size," "Fade Away," "Letter 2 My Son"
2. Weyes Blood — And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Featured Songs: "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody," "The Worst Is Done," "God Turn Me Into a Flower," "In Holy Flux"
3. Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries III
Featured Songs: "The Night (feat. Alison Goldfrapp)," "Just Wanted To Know (feat. Astrid S)," "The Next Day (feat. Jamie Irrepressible)"
4. Honey Dijon — Black Girl Magic
Featured Songs: "Downtown (feat. Annette Brown & Nikki-O)," "Work (feat. Cor.Ece, Dave Giles II & Mike Dunn)," "Love Is A State Of Mind (feat. Ramona Renea)," "Drama (feat. Rimarkable & Dope Earth Alien)"
5. Cautious Clay — Thin Ice On The Cake
Featured Songs: "Burning Up Slow," "Camp Anonymous," "Sarah Tonin"

Lightning Round:
Daniel Bachman — Almanac Behind
dumhi — Uncle Miles
Fousheé — softCORE

Other notable releases for Nov. 18:
-(16)- — Into Dust
Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound
Billy Strings — Me/And/Dad
Brockhampton — The Family
Caitlin Rose — CAZIMI
Icewear Vezzo — Paint the City
Krill — Alarm No Hris (vinyl reissue)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — World Record
Peggy Lee — Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota (50th Anniv. Ed.)
Phony Ppl — Euphonyus
The Wombats — Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new solo release from Radiohead drummer Philip Selway, a new project with R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry and more.

Featured Songs and Artists:
1. Philip Selway: "Check For Signs Of Life," from Strange Dance
2. Among Authors: "Fears We Hold" (Single)
3. Lisa O'Neill: "Old Note," from All Of This Is Chance
4. The Bad Ends: "Thanksgiving 1915," from The Power and The Glory
5. Yo La Tengo: "Fallout," from This Stupid World

Our picks for the best albums out this week include the Spanish-language remix of Run The Jewels' RTJ4 , Bruce Springsteen's tribute to classic soul, the debut from Memphis rapper GloRilla and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Run The Jewels — RTJCU4TRO
Featured Songs: "JU$T," "santa calamif***"
2. Bruce Springsteen — Only the Strong Survive
Featured Songs: "Soul Days," "I Forgot To Be Your Lover," "Turn Back the Hands of Time"
3. Christine And The Queens (as Redcar) — les adorables étoiles (prologue)
Featured Songs: "Ma bien aimee bye bye," "My birdman"
4. GloRilla — Anyways, Life's Great...
Featured Songs: "Blessed," "F.N.F. (Let's Go)," "PHATNALL"
5. Bill Frisell — Four
Featured Songs: "Claude Utley," "Waltz For Hal Wilner"

Lightning Round:
claire rousay — a heavenly touch (vinyl reissue)
Duval Timothy — Meeting with a Judas Tree
Ernest Hood — Back to the Woodlands
Morris Day — Last Call

Other notable releases for Nov. 11:
Actress — Dummy Corporation
Ben LaMar Gay — Certain Reveries
Gold Panda — The Work
Heather Trost — Desert Flowers
Homeboy Sandman — Still Champion
Illogic — The Transition
Jordana — I'm Doing Well, Thanks For Asking
Lyrics Born — Vision Board
Nas — King's Disease III
Puck — Best Friend
Sharon Van Etten — We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Deluxe Edition)
The Sonora Pine — II (vinyl reissue)
Tyondai Braxton — Telekinesis
Wizkid — More Love, Less Ego

Our picks for the best albums out this week include a droll, sometimes comical, sometimes graphic debut from the Atlanta duo Coco & Clair Clair, five new and totally different records from SAULT and more.

Featured Albums :
1. Coco & Clair Clair — Sexy
Featured Songs: "8 AM," "Bad Lil Vibe," "The Hills," "Love Me"
2. R.A.P. Ferreira — 5 to the Eye with Stars
Featured Songs: "fighting back," "mythsysizer instinct," "ours," "tennessee farmer jutsu"
3. Phoenix — Alpha Zulu
Featured Songs: "Season 2," "Winter Solstice," "Artefact"
4. Big Joanie — Back Home
Featured Songs: "In My Arms," "Cactus Tree"
5. SAULT — AIIR , Earth , Today & Tomorrow , UNTITLED (God) , 11
Featured Songs: "4am," "Heal The World," "Valley of the Ocean," "Together," "Life We Rent But Love Is Rent Free," "Love Is All I Know"

Lightning Round :
Connie Constance — Miss Power
First Aid Kit — Palomino
Marvin Tate's D-Settlement — Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
Surya Botofasina — Everyone's Children

Other notable releases for Nov. 4 :
Ami Dang — The Living World Demands
Caleb Landry Jones — Gadzooks Vol. 2
Daniel Avery — Ultra Truth
Drake — Her Loss
Tropical Gothclub — Tropical Gothclub
Ezra Collective — Where I'm Meant To Be
h. Pruz — again, there
Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano — Once Around the Room
Lecrae — Church Clothes 4
The Lone Bellow — Love Songs For Losers
Okay Kaya — SAP
Rayland Baxter — If I Were A Butterfly
Special Interest — Endure
Teddy Swims — Sleep Is Exhausting
The Welcome Wagon — Esther

Open Mike Eagle confronted the past, Natalia Lafourcade returned to original songwriting, Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson collaborated as Plains, Víkingur Ólafsson intimately played piano and Maral deconstructed an ancestral groove.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Open Mike Eagle: "Burner Account" and "For DOOM" from Component System with the Auto Reverse
2. Natalia Lafourcade: "María la Curandera" from De Todas las Flores
3. Plains: "Hurricane" and "Abilene" from I Walked With You A Ways
4. Víkingur Ólafsson: Robert Schumann's Study in Canonic Form, Op. 56, No. 1 and Béla Bartók's 3 Hungarian Folks Songs from Csík, III. 'White Lily' via From Afar
5. Maral: "Mari's Groove" from Ground Groove

Our panel's additional recommendations for October:
• Palm, Nicks and Grazes
• Loyle Carner, hugo
• Moin, Paste

More from NPR Music:
• Interview: Open Mike Eagle
• Review: Plains, I Walked With You A Ways
• Víkingur Ólafsson: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The best albums out this week include Smino's Luv 4 Rent , Icelandic singer Ásgeir's Time On My Hands , a staggering new work from Benjamin Clementine and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Smino — Luv 4 Rent
Featured Tracks: "Pro Freak," "Blu Billy," "Pudgy"
2. Nosaj Thing — Continua
Featured Tracks: "We Are," "Look Both Ways"
3. Ásgeir — Time on My Hands
Featured Tracks: "Time on My Hands," "Borderland," "Limitless"
4. Benjamin Clementine — And I Have Been
Featured Tracks: "Residue," "Lovelustreman," "Delighted"
5. Ghost Funk Orchestra — A New Kind Of Love
Featured Tracks: "Your Man's No Good," "Quiet Places"

Lightning Round:
Cakes da Killa — Svengali
Fatboi Sharif & Noface — Preaching in Havana
Field Guide — Field Guide
Junior Boys — Waiting Game

Other Notable Releases:
Babehoven — Light Moving Time
The Beatles — Revolver (Super Deluxe)
Dear Nora — human futures
DIGAWOLF — INI (Spirit)
Lee Fields — Sentimental Fool
Martha — Please Don't Take Me Back
Show Me The Body — Trouble The Water
Trampled By Turtles — Alpenglow
Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 with Greg Osby — The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Live)
Yung Gravy - Marvelous

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird, John Cale's first new album in a decade and more.

Featured Songs and Artists:
1. Sunny War: "No Reason," from Anarchist Gospel
2. Andrew Bird & Phoebe Bridgers: "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (Single)
3. Seán Barna: "Everyone's a Queen on Halloween" (Single)
4. John Cale: "STORY OF BLOOD (feat. Weyes Blood)," from MERCY
5. Weyes Blood: "Grapevine," from And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
6. Micah Frank & Chet Doxas: "Ave Maria (Featuring Mary Lattimore)," from The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part One

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

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a song for oppressed women worldwide from Sevdaliza, the experimental cellist Mabe Fratti, Billy Strings performing with his dad and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. The Arcs: "Keep On Dreamin'," from Electrophonic Chronic
2. Sevdaliza: "Woman Life Freedom" (Single)
3. Pearla: "The Place With No Weather," from Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming
4. Eszter Balint: "The First Day," from I HATE MEMORY!
5. Billy Strings: "Long Journey Home," from Me/and/Dad
6. Mabe Fratti: "Esta Vez," from Se Ve Desde Aquí

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the long-awaited return of M.I.A., plus new records from Tove Lo, The 1975, Mykki Blanco and more.

Featured Albums :
1. M.I.A. — Mata
Featured Songs: "The One," "Popular"
2. Tove Lo — Dirt Femme
Featured Songs: "2 Die 4," "Suburbia"
3. Mykki Blanco — Stay Close to Music
Featured Songs: "Trust A Little Bit," "Family Ties," "French Lessons," "Carry On"
4. The 1975 — Being Funny in a Foreign Language
Featured Songs: "I'm In Love With You," "When We Are Together"
5. Ryuichi Sakamoto — Exception (Original Soundtrack)
Featured Songs: "Opening For Exception," "Collusion," "Operating The Drone"

Lightning Round :
Lil Baby — It's Only Me
Mavi — Laughing So Hard It Hurts
AO Gerber — Meet Me at the Gloaming
Plains — I Walked With You a Ways
Betty Who — Big!

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares gorgeous new music from the Ghana-born artist Okaidja Afroso, a spare reflection from the singer Samia, the 20th anniversary edition of the Sigur Rós album ( ) and more.

1. Okaidja Afroso: "Gidi Gidi," from Jaku Mumor
2. Lydia Ramsey: "Revival," from Like A Dream
3. Samia: "Kill Her Freak Out" (Single)
4. JFDR: "The Orchid" (Single)
5. Sigur Rós: "Untitled #7 (Jacobs Studio Sessions)," from ( ) Remastered

WILLOW's first single, "Whip My Hair," came out just shy of the singer's 10th birthday. Now 21, she's returned with her fifth full-length album, titled . The record has big arena-rock vibes to go with its spiky pop-punk songcraft, and it effectively captures WILLOW's gift for conveying deeply felt emotions and the thrum of anxiety. We've also got new albums from genre-smashing singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ, arty rapper Open Mike Eagle, dance-music producer TSHA and the venerated space-jazz ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra.

Featured Albums:

1. WILLOW —
Featured Songs: "WHY?," "ur a "
2. NNAMDÏ — Please Have a Seat
Featured Songs: "Armoire," "ANXIOUS EATER," "Careful"
3. Open Mike Eagle — Component System With the Auto Reverse
Featured Songs: "79th and Stony Island," "I Retired Then I Changed My Mind," "Peak Lockdown Raps"
4. TSHA — Capricorn Sun
Featured Songs: "OnlyL (feat. Nimmo)," "Giving Up (feat. Mafro)," "Running," "Sister," "Anxious Mind (feat. Clementine Douglas)"
5. Sun Ra Arkestra — Living Sky
Featured Songs: "Somebody Else's Idea," "Marshall's Groove," "Night of the Living Sky," "Firefly"

Lightning Round:

Quavo & Takeoff — Only Built for Infinity Links
Fatnice — Vanglorious
Say She She — Prism
Collapsing Stars — Chapter

Tyler Childers went to church, Makaya McCraven sampled himself, Sudan Archives got silly and sexy, Alex G distilled his production quirks and Björk stuck her toes in the earth.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Tyler Childers: "Old Country Church (Jubilee Version)" from Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
2. Makaya McCraven: "Seventh String" from In These Times
3. Sudan Archives: "Selfish Soul" from Natural Brown Prom Queen
4. Alex G: "Miracles" from God Save the Animals
5. Björk: "Fungal City" from Fossora

Our panel's additional recommendations for August:
• Lou Turner, Microcosmos
• SiR, "Nothing Even Matters"
• Sonja, Loud Arriver

Read the NPR Music review:
• Makaya McCraven, In These Times
• Sudan Archives, Natural Brown Prom Queen
• Alex G, God Save the Animals

It's been five years since Björk last released an album, but now the Icelandic icon is back with a deeply inventive set called Fossora . Every sound on the record feels as if it's springing into the mix from a different direction, as her vibrant voice shares space with everything from bass clarinets to the voices of Björk's own offspring. Fossora was inspired, at least in part, by the death of the singer's mother, but joy also abounds.

We've also got the star-packed major-label debut of veteran rapper Freddie Gibbs, a reinvention for the long-running jazz group The Bad Plus, the return of U.K. pop star Craig David and a wild electro-pop record from Shygirl.

Featured Albums:

1. Björk — Fossora
Featured Songs: "Fossora," "Mycelia," "Sorrowful Soil"
2. Freddie Gibbs — $oul $old $eparately
Featured Songs: "Pain and Strife (feat. Offset)," "CIA"
3. The Bad Plus — The Bad Plus
Featured Songs: "Sun Wall," "Stygian Pools," "In the Bright Future"
4. Craig David — 22
Featured Songs: "DNA," "My Heart's Been Waiting for You," "Teardrops"
5. Shygirl — Nymph
Featured Songs: "Firefly," "Coochie (a bedtime story)," "Nike," Missin u"

Lightning Round:

Kid Cudi — Entergalactic
Various Artists — The Birdsong Project Vol. V
Adam Blackstone — Legacy (out Sept. 23)
Various Artists — Blue Note Re:imagined II
Ashley McBryde — Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville
Tyler Childers — Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen samples a massive, 20th anniversary edition of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and shares his favorite new tracks of the week, from Brian Eno, Julia Jacklin and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Wilco: "Ashes of American Flags (Stravinsky mix)," from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)
2. Brian Eno: "We Let It In," from FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
3. Luke Sital-Singh: "Blind Missiles," from Dressing Like a Stranger
4. JEAN DAWSON: "PIRATE RADIO*," from CHAOS NOW*
5. Julia Jacklin: "Moviegoer," from PRE PLEASURE
6. Steady Holiday & Bedouine: "People Take Pictures of Each Other" (Single)

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include veteran folksinger Beth Orton, Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Peter Matthew Bauer — Flowers
Featured Songs: "Chiyoda, Arkansas, Manila," "Flowers"
2. Beth Orton — Weather Alive
Featured Songs: "Lonely," "Fractals"
3. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin — Ali
Featured Songs: "Mahine Me," "Savanne"
4. Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet — Evergreen
Featured Songs: "Other Song," "The Evergreen Stem"
5. Makaya McCraven — In These Times
Featured Songs: "Dream Another," "The Title"

Lightning Round:

The Comet Is Coming — Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Young RJ — World Tour
Angelica Sanchez Trio — Sparkle Beings
Alex G — God Save the Animals
Nils Frahm — Music for Animals

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the return of Beth Orton, a solo debut from Okkervil River's Will Sheff, Miya Folick and more.

Featured songs and artists:
1. Courtney Marie Andrews: "These Are The Good Old Days," from Loose Future
2. Beth Orton: "Forever Young," from Weather Alive
3. Miya Folick: "Oh God," from 2007 - EP
4. Hand Habits & Amelia Meath: "Under The Water" (Single)
5. Will Sheff (feat. Cassandra Jenkins): "In the Thick of It," from Nothing Special
6. Hammered Hulls: "Boilermaker's Notch," from Careening

The superstar K-pop girl group BLACKPINK is one of the biggest pop juggernauts in the world, with billions of streams and massive world tours to its name. Born Pink , its second full-length album — and "full-length" is relative here, since we're talking about eight songs in under 25 minutes — promises to further expedite BLACKPINK's domination of the U.S. charts.

We've also got new projects from Brazilian-born electro-pop artist LYZZA, Afropop-inspired R&B singer-songwriter Miloe, Tiny Desk Contest-winning singer-songwriter Quinn Christopherson and dance-pop star Rina Sawayama. On this week's New Music Friday , Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody and NPR Music contributors Christina Lee and Cyrena Touros join guest host Stephen Thompson.

Featured Albums:

BLACKPINK — Born Pink
Featured Songs: "Typa Girl," "Pink Venom," "Hard to Love"
LYZZA — Mosquito
Featured Songs: "Lucky You," "Hold Me," "Heathens Call (feat. Backxwash)"
Miloe — gaps
Featured Songs: "elastic," "rewind (feat. PawPaw Rod)"
Quinn Christopherson — Write Your Name In Pink
Featured Songs: "Uptown," "Evelene"
Rina Sawayama — Hold the Girl
Featured Songs: "Catch Me in the Air," "Hold the Girl," "Forgiveness"

Lightning Round:

Mura Masa — Demon Time
Pink Siifu & Real Bad Man — Real Bad Flights
The Beths — Expert in a Dying Field
Jesca Hoop — Order of Romance
Death Cab for Cutie — Asphalt Meadows
Wilco — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Super Deluxe Edition)
Gogol Bordello — Solidaritine

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen returns with some of his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from the groundbreaking reggae artist Horace Andy, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.

Featured Songs And Artists :
1. Horace Andy: "Feverish," from Midnight Scorchers
2. The Comet is Coming: "TECHNICOLOUR," from Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
3. Very Very: "Strange Occasion" (Single)
4. Anna Tivel: "Outsiders," from Outsiders
5. Winter: "good," from What Kind of Blue Are You?
6. Mama's Broke: "How It Ends," from Narrow Line

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include genre-straddling polymaths Santigold and Sudan Archives, R&B sensation Ari Lennox and more.

Featured Albums:

Ari Lennox — age/sex/location
Featured Songs: "Queen Space (feat. Summer Walker)," "Hoodie"
Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen
Featured Songs: "Copycat (Broken Notions)," "Chevy S10," "Yellow Brick Road, TDLY (Homegrown Land)"
The Paranoyds — Talk Talk Talk
Featured Songs: "Freak Out," "Single Origin Experience," "Sunburn"
Sampa the Great — As Above, So Below
Featured Songs: "Lane (feat. Denzel Curry)," "Can I Live"
Santigold — Spirituals
Featured Songs: "High Priestess," "Ain't Ready," "My Horror," "Shake"

Lightning Round:

Son Little — Like Neptune
Jackson Wang — Magic Man
Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard
Built To Spill — When the Wind Forgets Your Name
Madison Cunningham — Revealer

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include rapper Psalm One, the veteran metal band Megadeth, English singer Yungblud and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Yungblud — Yungblud
Featured Songs: "Memories (feat. WILLOW)," "Tissues"
2. Psalm One X Custom Made — Bigg Perrm
Featured Songs: "Cristalle Jr.," "Pitchfork Score"
3. Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!
Featured Songs: "Night Stalkers (feat. Ice-T)"
4. Living Hour — Someday Is Today
Featured Songs: "Feelings Meeting (feat. Jay Som)," "Hump"
5. Stereolab — Pulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5)
Featured Songs: "Laissez Faire," "ABC," "Symbolic Logic of Now!"

Punches flew from the Mountain Goats, Roc Marciano and The Alchemist teamed up, Tomu DJ took unexpected turns, Julia Jacklin looked deep within, Eli Winter opened up and Tommy McLain returned.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. The Mountain Goats: "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" from Bleed Out
2. Roc Marciano & The Alchemist: "JJ Flash" from The Elephant Man's Bones
3. Tomu DJ: "Optimistic" from Half Moon Bay
4. Julia Jacklin, "Ignore Tenderness" from Pre Pleasure
5. Eli Winter: "Dayenu" from Eli Winter
6. Tommy McLain: "Somebody" from I Ran Down Every Dream

Our panel's additional recommendations for August:
Young Nudy, EA Monster
Diamanda Galás, Broken Gargoyles
Quinn Christopherson, "Celine"
Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Cheat Codes
Eight, Delight in Eight

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week, including the highly anticipated third album by Atlanta rapper J.I.D. and a massive Blondie box set.

Featured Albums:
1. J.I.D — The Forever Story
Featured Songs: "Dance Now," "Better Days," "Raydar"

2. Stella Donnelly — Flood
Featured Songs: "Lungs," "Morning Silence," "How Was Your Day?"

3. Miguel Zenón — Müsica De Las Americas
Featured Songs: "Opresion Y Revolucion," "Tainos Y Caribes"

4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — Let's Turn It Into Sound
Featured Songs: "Locate," "Have You Felt Lately?"

5. Blondie — Against the Odds: 1974-1982
Featured Songs: "Rapture" "The Tide Is High (Demo Version)," "Heart of Glass"

Lightning Round:

Carolyn Malachi — Counter Narratives
Julia Jacklin — Pre Pleasure
Regina Spektor — 11:11 + Papa's Bootlegs
Valerie June — Under Cover
Meechy Darko — Gothic Luxury

Other notable releases for August 26:
blackbear — In Loving Memory
Bret McKenzie — Songs Without Jokes
Chris Forsyth — Evolution Here We Come
Diamanda Galás — Broken Gargoyles
Embrace — How To Be a Person Like Other People
Eyedress — Full Time Lover
Ezra Furman — All of Us Flames
Ingrid Andress — Good Person
Marcus King — Young Blood
Muse — Will Of The People
Pantha du Prince — Garden Gaia
Pianos Become the Teeth — Drift
Sélébéyone — Xaybu: The Unseen
Spice — Emancipated
William Orbit — The Painter
Yellowjackets — Parallel Motion

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Hot Chip, the R&B singer Tink, Shemekia Copeland, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.

Featured Albums :
1. Hot Chip — Freakout/Release
Featured Songs: "Down," "Freakout/Release," "Miss the Bliss," "The Evil That Men Do"
2. Terence Etc. — Vortex
Featured Songs: "In Contemplation of Clair's Scent," "Infinence or Infinity," "The Merchant of Flatbush"
3. Anna Tivel — Outsiders
Featured Songs: "Outsiders, "Black Umbrella," "The Basement"
4. Tink — Pillow Talk
Featured Songs: "Mine," "Drunk Text'n"
5. Shemekia Copeland — Done Come Too Far
Featured Songs: "Too Far To Be Gone," "The Talk," "Fell in Love with a Honky," "Gullah Geechee," "The Dolls are Sleeping"

Lightning Round :
Andrew Combs — Sundays
Internet Money — We All We Got
Muna Ileiwat — Twenty-Seven
THICK — Happy Now

Other notable releases for Aug. 19 :
AITCH — Close to Home
Cass McCombs — Heartmind
Demi Lovato — HOLY FVCK
Eli Winter — Eli Winter
Kim Myhr — Sympathetic Magic
Loudon Wainwright III — Lifetime Achievement
Madonna — Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones
Marketa Irglova — Lila
The Mountain Goats — Bleed Out
Panic! At The Disco — Viva Las Vengeance
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries II
Silversun Pickups — Physical Thrills
The Soft Pink Truth — Was It Ever Real?

The best new albums out this week include Cheat Codes from Danger Mouse and Black Thought, a stunning debut from singer and TikTok phenom Bella Poarch, Hudson Mohawke's Cry Sugar and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Danger Mouse & Black Thought — Cheat Codes
Featured Songs: "Strangers," "Aquamarine"
2. Bella Poarch — Dolls
Featured Songs: "Dolls," "Build a Bitch"
3. Hudson Mohawke — Cry Sugar
Featured Songs: "Rain Shadow," "Ingle Nook," "Stump," "Behold"
4. Beastie Boys — Check Your Head (Deluxe Edition)
Featured Songs: "Jimmy James," "Gratitude," "So What'Cha Want (Butt Naked Version)," "Pass the Mic (Pt. 2, Skills To Pay The Bills)"
5. NIKI — Nicole
Featured Songs: "Keeping Tabs," "Take A Chance With Me," "Facebook Friends"

Lightning Round:
Andy Bey — Experience and Judgment
Peter Mulvey & SistaSrings — Love is the Only Thing
Sylvan Esso — No Rules Sandy
Tomu DJ — Half Moon Bay

Other notable releases for Aug. 12:
Boris — Heavy Rocks (2022)
Pale Waves — Unwanted
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom — Reset
Pavement — Slanted and Enchanted (30th Anniversary Edition)
Rat Tally — In My Car

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new project from Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson, a Vieux Farka Touré--Khruangbin collaboration and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Plains: "Problem With It," from I Walked With You A Ways
2. dodie: "Got Weird" (Single)
3. Spring Summer: "Mountaineer," from T.E.A.R.S
4. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin: "Savanne," from Ali
5. Hermanos Gutiérrez: "El Bueno Y El Malo," from El Bueno Y El Malo
6. Young Jesus: "Ocean (feat. Tomberlin)," from Shepherd Head

NPR Music's picks for the best releases out this week include a potent new EP from the rapper Doechii, hyper-pop from Pussy Riot, roots salsa from Colombia's Meridian Brothers and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Doechii — she / her / black bitch
Featured Tracks: "Bitches Be," "Swamp Bitches," "Persuasive"
2. Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento — Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
Featured Tracks: "Bomba Atómica," "Metamorfosis"
3. AJ Suede — Oil On Canvas
Featured Tracks: "Growing Diamonds," "Wonder," "Monochrome"
4. Pussy Riot — MATRIARCHY NOW
Featured Tracks: "PRINCESS CHARMING," "PLASTIC," "POOF BITCH"
5. Planet Drum — In The Groove
Featured Track: "King Clave"

Lightning Round:
Alexia Bomtempo — DOCE CARNAVAL
Araceli Poma — "Agua de Olvido"
Art Moore — Art Moore
Various — Rise Jamaica!

Other notable releases for Aug. 5:
Bobby Shmurda — BodBoy
Calvin Harris — Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2
Fireboy DML — Playboy
Kokoroko — Could We Be More
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires — Old-Time Folks
Mall Grab — What I Breathe
Neil Young — Noise & Flowers
T Bone Burnett — The Invisible Light: Spells

Maggie Rogers leveled up and Beyoncé dropped another album we'll think about all year. But Johnny Gandelsman also took us across America, Bear1Boss super-smashed rap and Caterina Barbieri found immanence in synths.

Featured Tracks and Artists :

1. Maggie Rogers: "Shatter" from Surrender
2. Beyoncé: "PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA" from RENAISSANCE
3. Johnny Gandelsman: "Surrender to the Adventure for Musician & Tape: 1. Blossom / American Dream" and "O for Violin & Voices" from This is America: An Anthology 2020-2021
4. Bear1Boss: "$$$" from Bear1Boss
5. Caterina Barbieri: "Canticle of Cryo" from Spirit Exit

Our panel's additional recommendations for July :

• Adam Kent, Tania León: Teclas de mi piano
• Gwenno: Tresor
• Kali Malone: Living Torch

See also:

• Maggie Rogers' summer mixtape sweats with sweetness
• Caterina Barbieri's rapturous electronica was forged in deep solitude

Beyoncé's Renaissance isn't the only big release out now. NPR Music's other picks for the week's best new albums include Maggie Rogers' Surrender , the debut from DOMI & JD Beck and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Beyoncé — Renaissance
Featured Tracks: "PURE/HONEY"
2. Maggie Rogers — Surrender
Featured Tracks: "Want Want," "Horses," "Shatter," Different Kind of World"
3. DOMI & JD Beck — NOT TiGHT
Featured Tracks: "BOWLING," TAKE A CHANCE," "WHATUP," "PILOT"
4. Lava La Rue — Hi-Fidelity
Featured Tracks: "Don't Trip," "Motel," "Cry Baby," "Don't Come Back"
5. Florist — Florist
Featured Tracks: "Red Bird Pt 2 (Morning)," "Spring in Hours"

Lightning Round:
King Princess — Hold On Baby
Snarky Puppy — "Bet" (single)
Tems — "No Woman No Cry" (single)
Wilder Maker — Male Models

Other notable releases for July 29:
Amanda Shires — Take It Like A Man
Chat Pile — God's Country
Deaton Chris Anthony — Sid the Kid
Hayley Kiyoko — PANORAMA
Josh Rouse — Going Places
Obijuan & YUNGMORPHEUS — Slang Casino
Of Montreal — Freewave Lucifer fck
Phony — AT SOME POINT YOU STOP
$uicideboy$ — Sing Me a Lullaby My Sweet Temptation
Tedeschi Trucks Band — I Am The Moon: III, The Fall

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Flo Milli, Jack White, Rico Nasty, Joey Bada$$, The Sea And Cake's Sam Prekop and John McEntire, and more.

Featured Albums :
1. Flo Milli — You Still Here, Ho?
Featured Tracks: "Conceited," "Pay Day," "On My Nerves"
2. Jack White — Entering Heaven Alive
Featured Tracks: "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)," "A Tip from You to Me," "Taking Me Back (Gently)," "Queen of the Bees"
3. Rico Nasty — Las Ruinas
Featured Tracks: "Skullflower," "Messy," "Gotsta Get Paid," "Easy"
4. Joey Bada$$ — 2000
Featured Tracks: " Eulogy," "Show Me"
5. Sam Prekop & John McEntire — Sons Of
Featured Tracks: "A Ghost At Noon," "A Yellow Robe"

Lightning Round :
Beach Bunny — Emotional Creature
Jitwam — Third
The Koreatown Oddity — ISTHISFORREAL?

Other notable releases for July 22 :
Ben Harper — Bloodline Maintenance
Channelers — Time, Space and Thought
Dawes — Misadventures Of Doomscroller
Imperial Triumphant — Spirit of Ecstasy
The Kooks — 10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark
Nina Nastasia — Riderless Horse
Oceans of Slumber — Starlight and Ash
ODESZA — The Last Goodbye
Pool Kids — Pool Kids
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Agitas Al Sol
RZA & Bobby Digital — RZA Presents: Bobby Digital and the Pit of Snakes
The Sadies — Colder Streams
She & Him — Melt Away: A Tribute To Brian Wilson
Tanya Tagaq — Tongues North Star Remixes
Thor Harris — Doom Dub II
Ty Segall — "Hello, Hi"

See more of the best new music out now via NPR Music's #Nowplaying

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from The 1975, Tiny Desk Contest contestant Danielle Ponder, The Black Angels and more.

Featured Songs And Artists :

1. Madi Diaz: "Hangover" (Single)
2. Danielle Ponder: "So Long," from Some of Us Are Brave
3. King Princess: "Cursed," from Hold On Baby
4. The Beths: "Expert in a Dying Field," from Expert in a Dying Field
5. The 1975: "Part of the Band," from Being Funny In a Foreign Language
6. The Black Angels: "Firefly," from Wilderness of Mirrors

Watch videos for each track and more at the All Songs Considered website .

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Lizzo's Special , the ramshackle pop of Superorganism, beabadoobee, a genre-defying solo release from The Internet's Steve Lacy and more.

Featured Albums :
1. Lizzo — Special
Featured Songs: "About Damn Time," "Grrrls"
2. beabadoobee — Beatopia
Featured Songs: "10:36," "See You Soon," "Ripples," "Talk"
3. Steve Lacy — Gemini Rights
Featured Songs: "Mercury," "Helmet," "2geteher (Enterlude)"
4. Superorganism — World Wide Pop
Featured Songs: "Flying," "Teenager," "Black Hole Baby"
5. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad with Katalyst — JID 013
Featured Songs: "Juneteenth," "Summer Solstice"

Lightning Round :
Attia Taylor — Space Ghost
black midi — Hellfire
Lil Silva — Yesterday is Heavy
Interpol — The Other Side of Make-Believe

Other notable releases for July 15 :
The A's — Fruit
Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart — Zenith/Nadir
Arp — New Pleasures
Elf Power — Artificial Countrysides
j-hope — jack in the box
JoVia Armstrong — The Antidote Suite
M. Geddes Gengras — Expressed, I Noticed Silence
Ozomatli — Marching On
Ronnie Foster — Reboot

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite new tracks of the week include a stirring collaboration with Margo Price, Mavis Staples and Adia Victoria, a "training montage" from The Mountain Goats and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Margo Price: "Fight to Make It (feat. Mavis Staples & Adia Victoria)" (Single)
2. The Mountain Goats: "Training Montage," from Bleed Out
3. Tianna Esperanza: "Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince" (Single)
4. renforshort: "i miss myself," from dear amelia
5. Wilder Maker: "Against Numbers (feat. Katie Von Schleicher)," from Male Models
6. Indigo Sparke: "Pressure in My Chest," from Hysteria

R&B singer Brent Faiyaz's reflective Wasteland , Metric's epic Formentera , a meditative instrumental record from producer Apollo Brown and more make our shortlist for the best albums out this week.

Featured Albums:
1. Brent Faiyaz — WASTELAND
Featured songs: "PRICE OF FAME," "GRAVITY," "DEAD MAN WALKING"
2. Metric — Formentera
Featured songs: "Doomscroller"
3. Apollo Brown — This Must Be The Place
Featured songs: "Catching Moments"
4. Anna Butterss — Activities
Featured songs: "Doo Wop"
5. renforshort — dear amelia
Featured songs: "better off"

Lightning Round:
Burna Boy — Love, Damini
NoSo — Stay Proud of Me
rei brown — Xeno
Wu-Lu — LOGGERHEAD

Other notable releases for July 8:
Delicate Steve — After Hours
Emmanuel Jal — Shangah
The Faim — Talk Talk
Katy J Pearson — Sound of the Morning
Laura Veirs — Found Light
Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying... and the Dead!
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Toast
Rae Morris — Rachel@Fairyland
Rapport — Floating Through the Wonderwave
Tye Tribbett — All Things New
Tyshawn Sorey Trio — Mesmerism
Vancouver Sleep Clinic — Fallen Paradise
Wet — Pink Room

All Songs Considered' s Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including a surprising new single from Sylvan Esso, the L.A. rock duo known as Momma, the singer-songwriter Ondara and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Sylvan Esso: "Your Reality" (Single)
2. Nora Brown: "Little Satchel," from Long Time To Be Gone
3. Lindsay Clark: "Evening Star," from Carpe Noctem
4. Yard Act & Elton John: "100% Endurance" (Single)
5. Momma: "Motorbike," from Household Name
6. Ondara: "An Alien In Minneapolis," from Spanish Villager No. 3

June brought us The Suffers' socially conscious party music, Saya Gray's headphones-worthy debut, GIVĒON's R&B ballads, Regina Spektor's elaborate songwriting and Petrol Girls' amped-up punk.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. The Suffers: "Don't Bother Me" and "Yada Yada" from It Starts with Love
2. Saya Gray: "I FOUND A FLOORBOARD UNDER THE SOIL!" from 19 Masters
3. GIVĒON: "Scarred" from Give Or Take
4. Regina Spektor "One Man's Prayer" from Home, before and after
5. Petrol Girls: "Preachers" from Baby

Our panel's additional recommendations for June:
• S.G. Goodman, Teeth Marks
• Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, For All Our Days That Tear the Heart
• Beyoncé, "BREAK MY SOUL"
• SZA, "Jodie"
• Linda Ayupuka, God Created Everything

Discover NPR Music's favorite albums and songs of 2022 (so far).

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from the electro-pop band MUNA, R&B singer GIVĒON, country star Jimmie Allen, Soccer Mommy and more.

Featured Albums:

1. MUNA — MUNA
Featured Song: "What I Want"
2. GIVĒON — Give or Take
Featured Song: "Lost Me"
3. Soccer Mommy — Sometimes, Forever
Featured Song: "Don't Ask Me"
4. Jimmie Allen — Tulip Drive
Featured Song: "what i'm talkin' 'bout"
5. Lupe Fiasco — DRILL MUSIC IN ZION
Featured Song: "AUTOBOTO (feat. Nayirah)"

Lightning Round
• Ella Fitzgerald — Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook
• Katie Alice Greer — Barbarism
• Dear Silas — It's Giving SELF LOVE!
• Regina Spektor — Home, before and after
• Luke Combs — Growin' Up
• Arooj Aftab — Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)
• Zola Jesus — Arkhon
• Various Artists — Elvis (OST)
• Joan Shelley — The Spur

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares an anthemic call to action from Jesca Hoop, a song for a stressed-out brain from Dry Cleaning, and two tunes inspired by television shows.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Jesca Hoop: "Hatred Has a Mother," from Order of Romance
2. Jake Blount: "Didn't It Rain," from The New Faith
3. Alex G: "Runner," from God Save the Animals
4. Rubblebucket: "Morning in the Sun" (Single)
5. Marlon Williams: "Thinking of Nina," from My Boy
6. Dry Cleaning: "Don't Press Me," from Stumpwork

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from R&B singer Yaya Bey, the shape-shifting rock of Bartees Strange, Perfume Genius, DJ and producer J. Rocc and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Yaya Bey — Remember Your North Star
Featured Songs: "alright," "rolling stoner," "meet me in brooklyn"
2. Bartees Strange — Farm to Table
Featured Songs: "Mulholland Dr.," "Hold the Line," "Hennessy," "Cosigns"
3. Wild Up — Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy
Featured Songs: "Stay On It," "Touch Him When (Heavy)," "Joy Boy"
4. J. Rocc — A Wonderful Letter
Featured Songs: "Keep On (Yeah)," "Pajama Party," "Dancing With the Best"
5. Perfume Genius — Ugly Season
Featured Songs: "Teeth," "Cenote," "Scherzo"

Lightning Round:
Erica Banks — Diary of The Flow Queen
Harkin — Honeymoon Suite
Kevin Gates — Khaza
RY X — Blood Moon

Other notable releases for June 17:
Alanis Morissette — The Storm Before the Calm
Carlos Simon & Marco Pave' — Requiem for the Enslaved
Flasher — Love is Yours
Foals — Life is Yours
Hercules & Love Affair — In Amber
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals — King Cobra
Logic — Vinyl Days
Mt. Joy — Orange Blood
Sound of Ceres — Emerald Sea

All Songs Considered' s Bob Boilen shares new tracks from Belgian-Egyptian singer Tamino, Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Daughter of Sword's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig together as The A's and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. The A's: "He Needs Me," from Fruit
2. S.G. Goodman: "Dead Soldiers," from Teeth Marks
3. The Beths: "Silence Is Golden," from Expert In A Dying Field
4. Madison Cunningham: "Hospital," from Revealer
5. Katie Bejsiuk: "Olive, Ny" from The Woman on the Moon
6. Tamino: "The First Disciple," from Sahar

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Nature's World from the Chicago hip-hop duo Mother Nature, FKJ's VINCENT , a meditative album from Japanese composer Midori Takada and more.

Featured Albums :
1. FKJ — VINCENT
Featured Songs: "Let's Live," "Greener"
2. ELUCID — I Told Bessie
Featured Songs: "Ghoulie," "Smile Lines"
3. Nick Mulvey — New Mythology
Featured Songs: "Mecca," "Star Nation"
4. Mother Nature & Renzell — Nature's World
Featured Song: "Midnight Garden"
5. Midori Takada — You Who are Leaving to Nirvana and Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter
Featured Songs: "Kannon Daiji," "Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter (In the Morning)"

Lightning Round :
BTS — Proof
Flora Purim — If You Will (physical release)
Julius Rodriguez — Let Sound Tell All
Shearwater — The Great Awakening

Other notable releases for June 10 :
Bloomsday — Place to Land
Carrie Underwood — Denim & Rhinestones
Free the Robots — Kaduwa
George Ezra — Gold Rush Kid
Joyce Manor — 40 Oz. to Fresno
Judah & The Lion — Revival
Mapache — Roscoe's Dream
Max Richter — The New Four Seasons
Moonchild Sanelly — Phases
Vance Joy — In Our Own Sweet Time
Yann Tiersen — 11 5 18 25 18

All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week including the return of Death Cab for Cutie, a rare demo from Lou Reed, the singer-songwriter known as NoSo, Sylvan Esso and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Sylvan Esso: "Sunburn" (Single)
2. Annie Hamilton: "Exist," from the future is here but it feels kinda like the past
3. Death Cab for Cutie: "Roman Candles," from Asphalt Meadows
4. NoSo: "Parasites," from Stay Proud of Me
5. Tess Parks: "Wow," from And Those Who Were Seen Dancing
6. Lou Reed: "I'm Waiting for the Man - May 1965 Demo," from Words & Music, May 1965

The week's best new albums include Fantastic Negrito's White Jesus Black Problems , Angel Olsen's Big Time , rapper Namir Blade's sci-fi-inspired Metropolis , 070 Shake's You Can't Kill Me and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Fantastic Negrito — White Jesus Black Problems
Featured Songs: "Venomous Dogma," "In My Head"
2. Angel Olsen — Big Time
Featured Songs: "All The Flowers," "Big Time"
3. 070 Shake — You Can't Kill Me
Featured Songs: "Cocoon," "The Body," "Wine And Spirits"
4. Namir Blade — Metropolis
Featured Song: "BoA"
5. Editrix — Editrix II: Editrix Goes To Hell
Featured Song: "Cowboy"

Lightning Round:
700 Bliss — Nothing to Declare (released May 27)
Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance
S.G. Goodman — Teeth Marks
Post Malone — Twelve Carat Toothache

Other notable releases for June 3:
Andrew Bird — Inside Problems
Chronophage — Chronophage
GWAR — The New Dark Ages
Jasmyn — In the Wild (former Weaves lead singer)
Merzbow & Lawrence English — Eternal Stalker
Michael Franti & Spearhead — Follow Your Heart
Purity Ring — Graves
Queen of Jeans — Hiding in Place
Remi Wolf — Juno Deluxe
The Suffers — It Starts with Love
Tash Sultana — MTV Unplugged (Live In Melbourne)

May brought us Bad Bunny's stacked summer album, Kendrick Lamar's unsettled opus, Ravyn Lenae's otherworldly debut, Julia Reidy's microtonal guitar dissonance and Ethel Cain's haunted pop.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Bad Bunny: "Después de la Playa" and "Otro Atardecer" from Un Verano Sin Ti
2. Kendrick Lamar: "N95" and "Mother I Sober" from Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
3. Ravyn Lenae: "Where I'm From (feat. Mereba)" from Hypnos
4. Julia Reidy: "World in World" from World in World
5. Ethel Cain: "Family Tree" from Preacher's Daughter

Our panel's additional recommendations for May:
• My Chemical Romance, "The Foundations of Decay"
• Flores, The Lives They Left
• Leikeli47, Shape Up

The best albums out this week include Wilco's double-length Cruel Country , a debut from the singer UMI, the latest installment in Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge's Jazz Is Dead series and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Jean Carne, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge — JID012
Featured Songs: "Black Love," "Visions"
2. Wilco — Cruel Country
Featured Songs: "I Am My Mother," "The Plains," "A Lifetime To Find"
3. X Alfonso — Ancestros Sinfonicos
Featured Song: "Yakuma Kareré"
4. UMI — Forest in the City
Featuared Song: "what would u do?"
5. Nduduzo Makhathini — In the Spirit of NTU
Featured Songs: "Mama," "Emlilweni"

Other notable releases for May 27:
Brian Jackson — This Is Brian Jackson
Bright Eyes — A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off the Happiness and Fevers and Mirrors
Dehd — Blue Skies
HAAi — Baby, We're Ascending
Isaac Dunbar — Banish the Banshee
Jonny Greenwood — The Power of the Dog OST (physical release)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon
Liam Gallagher — C'MON YOU KNOW
Maria BC — Hyaline
Rosie Carney — I Wanna Feel Happy
Sean Paul — Scorcha
Sofie Birch — Holotropica
Stars — From Capelton Hill
Steve Earle & The Dukes — Jerry Jeff

In this special episode from our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour , host Stephen Thompson talks with critics Christina Lee and Marcus J. Moore about Kendrick Lamar's new double album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.

It's been five years since Lamar released his previous album, DAMN . Since then, he's won a Pulitzer Prize, been nominated for an Oscar, and become a parent. But Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers , is anything but a breezy victory lap. Lamar examines generational trauma, sexual politics, and his own attempts to grow amid high expectations and heavy introspection.

The best albums out this week include Harry's House from Harry Styles, jazz pianist Joey Alexander's Origin, new ones from R&B singer Ravyn Lenae, rapper Boldy James, Porridge Radio and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Harry Styles — Harry's House
Featured Tracks: "Music for a Sushi Restaurant," "Grapejuice"
2. Joey Alexander — Origin
Featured Tracks: "Remembering," "Summer Rising"
3. Ravyn Lenae — Hypnos
Featured Tracks: "3D," "Inside Out," "Xtasy"
4. Porridge Radio — Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
Featured Tracks: "Back to the Radio," "End of Last Year"
5. Boldy James & Real Bad Man — Killing Nothing
Featured Track: "Game Time"

Other notable releases for May 20:
Charlie Hickey — Nervous At Night
Craig Finn — A Legacy of Rentals
Flume — Palaces
Hanson — Red Green Blue
Joe Rainey — Niineta
Kronos Quartet — Mỹ Lai
Lykke Li — EYEYE
Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena — West Kensington
mxmtoon — rising
SOAK — If I never know you like this again
Uffie — Sunshine Factory

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen introduces this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner, Alisa Amador, plus new music from SOAK, the identical twins duo Companion, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Alisa Amador: "Milonga accidental" (Single)
2. Jens Lekman: "The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom," from The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom
3. Companion: "If I Were a Ghost," from Second Day of Spring
4. SOAK: "purgatory," from If I never know you like this again
5. Jasmyn: "Cruel Moon," from In The Wild

Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers , Leikeli47's Shape Up , Florence + the Machine's Dance Fever and more are on our shortlist of the week's best new albums.

Featured Albums:
1. Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
2. Leikeli47 — Shape Up
Featured Track: "Chitty Bang"
3. Florence + the Machine — Dance Fever
Featured Track: "Choreomania"
4. Quelle Chris — DEATHFAME
Featured Track: "King in Black"
5. Tank and the Bangas — Red Balloon
Featured Track: "Communion in My Cup"
6. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davis — Firestarter
Featured Track: "Charlie's Rampage"

Other notable releases for May 13:
The Black Keys — Dropout Boogie
Kevin Morby — This Is A Photograph
Mandy Moore — In Real Life
Mary Halvorson — Amaryllis and Belladonna
Monophonics — Sage Motel
Pkew Pkew Pkew — Open Bar
Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz — Live a Little
Say Sue Me — The Last Thing Left
The Smile — A Light For Attracting Attention
They Hate Change — Finally, New

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares the "most astonishing song" he's heard this year: Regina Spektor's "Up The Mountain," plus Stella Donnelly's "Lungs," the many colors of MABUTA and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Regina Spektor: "Up The Mountain," from Home, before and after
2. Rachel Bobbitt: "More" (Single)
3. Shane Cooper & MABUTA: "Finish The Sun," from Finish The Sun
4. Tomberlin: "idkwntht," from i don't know who needs to hear this...
5. Kathryn Joseph: "The Burning of Us All," from For You Who Are the Wronged
6. Stella Donnelly: "Lungs," from Flood

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Sharon Van Etten's We've Been Going About This All Wrong , Jack Harlow's Come Home The Kids Miss You , Arcade Fire's WE and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Jack Harlow — Come Home The Kids Miss You
Featured Tracks: "Nail Tech," "First Class"
2. Ibeyi — Spell 31
Featured Tracks: "Made of Gold," "Sister 2 Sister"
3. Arcade Fire — WE
Featured Tracks: "Age of Anxiety I," "End of the Empire"
4. IDK & KAYTRANADA — Simple.
Featured Track: "Dog Food"
5. Sharon Van Etten — We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Featured Tracks: "Headspace," "Born"

Other notable releases for May 6:
!!! — Let It Be Blue
Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti
Belle And Sebastian — A Bit of Previous
Bryan Ferry — Love Letters
Ella Mai — Heart On My Sleeve
Emile Sandé — Let's Say For Instance
Jermiside & The Expert — The Overview Effect
JOYFULTALK — Familiar Science
Kikagaku Moyo — Kumoyo Island
Midland — The Last Resort: Greetings From
Otoboke Beaver — Super Champon
Suki Waterhouse — I Can't Let Go
Sunflower Bean — Headful of Sugar

April brought us albums from a re-energized Pusha T, reggae legend Horace Andy, Myra Melford's improvised suite, Syd's broken-hearted R&B ballads and Straw Man Army's paranoid-but-expansive post-punk.

Featured Albums:
1. Horace Andy: "Watch Over Them" from Midnight Rocker
2. Pusha T: "Dreamin of the Past" from It's Almost Dry
3. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: "VII" from For the Love of Fire and Water
4. Syd: "CYBAH" from Broken Hearts Club
5. Straw Man Army: "Human Kind" from SOS

Other notable releases for April:

• Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
• Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder — Get On Board
• Joel Ross — The Parable of the Poet
• Miles Okazaki's Trickster Quartet — Thisness
• Albert Ayler — Revelations
• Vince Staples — Ramona Park Broke My Heart
• Omar Apollo — Ivory
• Bonnie Raitt — Just Like That...
• The Linda Lindas — Growing Up
• Wet Leg — Wet Leg

The week's best new albums include Toro y Moi's spectacular MAHAL , hard-hitting rap from the New Jersey hip-hop duo Dälek's Precipice , R&B singer Kehlani's blue water road and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Toro y Moi — MAHAL
Featured Tracks: "Magazine," "The Medium"
2. Girlpool — Forgiveness
Featured Track: "Nothing Gives Me Pleasure"
3. Dälek — Precipice
Featured Tracks: "Devotion (When I Cry The Wind Disappears)," "Boycott"
4. Kehlani — blue water road
Featured Tracks: "wish i never" and "wondering/wandering"
5. Let's Eat Grandma — Two Ribbons
Featured Tracks: "Watching You Go," "Strange Conversations"
6. Girl Ultra — El Sur
Featured Tracks: "Bombay," "Nade Que Hacer"

Other notable release for April 29:
Bloc Party — Alpha Games
Burnt Pink — Afterlife Dub
Congotronics International — Where's The One?
Corb Lund — Songs My Friends Wrote
Diane Coffee — With People
Ebi Soda — Honk If You're Sad
The Head and the Heart — Every Shade Of Blue
Kelly Lee Owens — LP8
Melody's Echo Chamber — Emotional Eternal
Miranda Lambert — Palomino
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer — ...On Reflection

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a live recording for the 20th anniversary of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot , a new single from Phoebe Bridgers and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Lizzy McAlpine: "weird (ft. Laura Elliot)," from five seconds flat
2. Flasher: "Love Is Yours," from Love Is Yours
3. Fontaines D.C.: "Roman Holiday," from Skinty Fia
4. Phoebe Bridgers: "Sidelines" (Single for Hulu's Conversations with Friends )
5. Quinn Christopherson: "2005" (Single)
6. Wilco: "Reservations (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)," from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)

The best albums out this week include It's Almost Dry from Pusha T, space rock from Spiritualized, a gorgeous ambient record from OHYUNG, a rediscovered Charles Mingus live recording and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Pusha T — It's Almost Dry
Featured Tracks "Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes," "Dreaming of the Past," "Just So You Remember," "I Pray For You"
2. Jorge Drexler — Tinta y Tiempo
Featured Tracks: "El Plan Maestro," "¡Oh, Algoritmo!"
3. Ben Marc — Glass Effect
Featured Track: "Way We Are"
4. Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful
Featured Tracks: "Always Together With You," "Crazy"
5. Charles Mingus — The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's
Featured Track: "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues"
6. OHYUNG — imagine naked!
Featured Track: "symphonies sweeping"

Other notable releases for April 22:

• Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet — Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet
• Bill Evans — Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires
• Bonnie Raitt — Just Like That...
• Charles Mingus — Mingus Three (Deluxe Edition)
• claire rousay — everything perfect is already here
• Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
• Hatchie — Giving the World Away
• Jason Aldean — GEORGIA
• King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard — Omnium Gatherum
• Mister Goblin — Bunny
• Patrick Watson — Better in the Shade
• Roger Eno — The Turning Year
• S. Carey — Break Me Open

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including a surprise return from Pink Floyd and uplifting songs from Sonny Singh, Patrick Watson and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Pink Floyd: "Hey, Hey, Rise Up (featuring Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox)" (Single)
2. Sonny Singh: "Aisee Preet," from Chardi Kala
3. Tuba Skinny: "Trickster's Rag," from Magnolia Stroll
4. Charlie Hickey: "Dandelions," from Nervous At Night
5. Patrick Watson & La Force: "Height of the Feeling," from Better in the Shade
6. The Good Ones: "I Dream Someday To Have a Home," from Rwanda...You See Ghosts, I See Sky

NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new releases by Kaitlin Butts, Samora Pinderhughes, Mal Blum and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Kaitlin Butts — what else can she do
Featured Song: "it won't always be this way"
2. Samora Pinderhughes — GRIEF
Featured Song: "Masculinity"
3. Mal Blum — Ain't It Nice
Featured Song: "Everybody Loves You"
4. Jerry Paper — Free Time
Featured Song: "Just Say Play"
5. Dave Brubeck Trio — Live From Vienna 1967
Featured Song: "St. Louis Blues"

Other notable releases for April 15:
• Joel Ross — The Parable of the Poet
• Flock of Dimes — Head of Roses (Phantom Limb
• Digga D — Noughty By Nature
• Kurt Vile — (watch my moves)
• Spanish Love Songs — Brave Faces, Etc.

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from singer Joan Shelley, Florist, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Florist: "Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning)," from Florist
2. Joan Shelley: "The Spur," from The Spur
3. Sadurn: "snake," from Radiator
4. Dana Gavanski: "I Kiss The Night," from When It Comes
5. Craig Finn: "Messing With the Settings," from A Legacy of Rentals
6. dani mack: "Someday"
7. Medicine Singers: "Daybreak," from Medicine Singers

It's a crazy-packed release day with new albums from Camila Cabello, Omar Apollo, an all-star collaboration with Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., Girl Talk and Smoke DZA, Syd's Broken Hearts Club and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Omar Apollo — Ivory
Featured Songs: "Talk," "En El Ovido"
2. Syd — Broken Hearts Club
Featured Song: "BMHWDY"
3. Girl Talk, Big K.R.I.T., Wiz Khalifa, Smoke DZA — Full Court Press
Featured Song: "Fly the Coop"
4. Camila Cabello — Familia
Featured Song: "Psychofreak"
5. BANKS — Serpentina
Featured Song: "Meteorite"

Other notable releases for April 8:
Calexico — El Mirador
Coi Leray — Trendsetter
Deer Scout — Woodpecker
Father John Misty — Chloe and the Next 20th Century
Fivio Foreign — B.I.B.L.E.
Hiatus Kaiyote — Mood Variant (The Remixes)
Jack White — Fear of the Dawn
Johnnyswim — Johnnyswim
Kae Tempest — The Line Is A Curve
The Linda Lindas — Growing Up
Orville Peck — Bronco
Son Lux — Everything Everywhere All At Once (OST)
Vince Staples — Ramona Park Broke My Heart
Wet Leg — Wet Leg

March's best new music includes Kilo Kish's pop treatise on this game called life, Jenny Hval's philosophy on art-making, Soul Glo's punk rage and more.

Featured Music:

1. Kilo Kish: "DISTRACTIONS III: SPOILED ROTTEN" from AMERICAN GURL
2. Jenny Hval: "American Coffee" from Classic Objects
3. Soul Glo: "Jump! (Or Get Jumped!!!) ((by the future))" from Diaspora Problems
4. rusowsky, "pikito"
5. Jóhann Jóhannsson: "The Mountain View, the Majesty of the Snow-Clad Peaks, from a Place of Contemplation and Reflection" from Drone Mass

Other notable releases for March:

• Lous and The Yakuza, "Kisé"
• Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song
• Charli XCX — Crash
• Rosalia — MOTOMAMI
• Emmanuelle Parrenin — Targala, la maison qui n'en est pas une

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from the Bronx rapper T-Shyne, Sondre Lerche, the Canadian pop singer known as LIGHTS and more.

Featured Albums:
1. T-Shyne — Confetti Nights
Featured Track: "Feed the Fam"
2. Pillow Queens — Leave the Light On
Featured Track: "Be By Your Side"
3. Sondre Lerche — Avatars of Love
Featured Track: "Summer in Reverse"
4. LIGHTS — PEP
Featured Track: "Money in the Bag"
5. GGGOLDDD — This Shame Should Not Be Mine
Featured Track: "Spring"

Other notable releases for April 1:
Big Cheeko — Block Barry White
Carpenter Brut — Leather Terror
Christian Lee Hutson — Quitters
Duster — Together
Field Works — Stations
Meshuggah — Immutable
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway — Crooked Tree
Night Palace — Diving Rings
PUP — THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Unlimited Love

All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including songs of love from Angel Olsen and Soccer Mommy, a new one from the upcoming Perfume Genius album Ugly Season and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Perfume Genius: "Pop Song," from Ugly Season
2. Zola Jesus: "Lost," from Arkhon
3. Arooj Aftab: "Udhero Na (feat. Anoushka Shankar)," from Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)
4. Angel Olsen: "All The Good Times," from Big Time
5. Saya Gray: "IF THERE'S NO SEAT IN THE SKY (WILL YOU FORGIVE ME???)," from 19 MASTERS
6. Soccer Mommy: "Shotgun," from Sometimes, Forever

Our picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Nashville singer Maren Morris, the Jamaican rapper and singer Koffee, London's Afro-funk group Ibibio Sound Machine, Barrie and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Maren Morris — Humble Quest
Featured Tracks: "Humble Quest" and "Nervous"
2. Koffee — Gifted
Featured Track: "Shine"
3. Ornette Coleman — Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums
Featured Track: "Lorraine"
4. Barrie — Barbara
Featured Track: "Jersey"
5. Ibibio Sound Machine — Electricity
Featured Tracks: "Protection from Evil" and "Truth No Lie"

Other notable releases for March 25:
Aldous Harding — Warm Chris
Buddy — Superghetto
Camp Cope — Running with the Hurricane
Denzel Curry — Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Destroyer — Labyrinthitis
Machine Gun Kelly — mainstream sellout
Rema — Rave & Roses
Walter Martin — The Bear

All Songs host Bob Boilen's mix this week includes the joy of Valerie June, a new project from Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, with Sons Of Kemet's Tom Skinner, called The Smile, and more.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Brittany Davis: "I Choose to Live," from I Choose to Live EP
2. Valerie June: "Use Me" (Single)
3. Arcade Fire: "Lightning I, II," from WE
4. The Smile: "Skrting On the Surface" (Single)
5. Congotronics International: "Where's The One?," from Where's The One?
6. Andrew Bird: "Atomized" (Single)
7. Typhoon: "New Wife," from Underground Complex EP

Two of the year's most anticipated albums — Rosalía's MOTOMAMI and Charli XCX's CRASH — drop today, along with Johann Johannsson's posthumous Drone Mass , Yumi Zouma's Present Tense and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Rosalía — MOTOMAMI
Featured tracks: "CUUUUuuuuuute," "BULERÍAS," "SAOKO"
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson — Drone Mass
Featured tracks: "Two is Apocryphal," "Take the Night Air"
3. Raw Poetic & Damu The Fudgemunk — Laminated Skies
Featured Tracks: "Open Roads," "Chewing Gum"
4. Charli XCX — CRASH
Featured Tracks: "Crash," "Yuck"
5. Yumi Zouma — Present Tense
Featured Track: "Astral Projections"

Other notable releases for March 18:
Bladee & Ecco2K — Crest
Broadcast — Microtronics, Mother is the Milky Way, Maida Vale Sessions
Cypress Hill — Back in Black
Mattiel — Georgia Gothic
Midlake — For the Sake of Bethel Woods
Ruth Slenczynska — My Life in Music
Sonic Youth — In/Out/In

All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including some powerful story-songs, from a drug-filled fling to lies learned about a lost father, an underwater journey and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:

1. Curse Of Lono: "So Damned Beautiful (feat. Tess Parks)," from People In Cars
2. Gang of Youths: "you in everything," from angel in realtime
3. Belle and Sebastian: "Unnecessary Drama," from A Bit of Previous
4. Niia: "Forward," from OFFAIR:Mouthful of Salt
5. Deer Scout: "Peace with the Damage," from Woodpecker
6. Scout laRue Willis: "Shouldn't I Be" (Single)

Our shortlist for the best albums out this week includes Rex Orange County's WHO CARES? , the immediately transfixing Getaway from singer Orion Sun, the genre-hopping sounds of Jenny Hval and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Orion Sun — Getaway
Featured Tracks: "intro" and "without you"
2. Rex Orange County — WHO CARES?
Featured Tracks: "SHOOT ME DOWN" and "KEEP IT UP"
3. Fly Anakin — Frank
Featured Tracks: "Love Song (Come Back)" and "Bread"
4. Jenny Hval — Classic Objects
Featured Track: "Cemetery of Splendor"
5. Irma Thomas — Full Time Woman, The Lost Cotillion Album (on vinyl)
Featured Track: "Adam and Eve"

Other notable releases for March 11:
Alex Cameron — Oxy Music
Benny the Butcher — Tana Talk 4
The Boo Radleys — Keep On With Falling
BOYO — Echoes Like Memories
Drug Church — Hygiene
Fatboi Sharif & LoneSword — Cyber City Society
Loop — Sonancy
Lucky Daye — CANDYDRIP

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Mitski, David Byrne and Son Lux, the return of Regina Spektor and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne: "This Is A Life," from Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Regina Spektor: "Becoming All Alone," from Home, before and after
3. Suz Slezak: "Loneliness Is Measured," from Our Wings May Be Featherless
4. Kevin Morby: "This Is A Photograph," from This Is A Photograph
5. Sharon Van Etten: "Used To It" (Single)
6. Superorganism: "Teenager (feat. CHAI & Pi Ja Ma)," from World Wide Pop

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Belgian singer and rapper Stromae's first new music in nearly a decade, the blood-slowing sounds of The Weather Station and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Stromae — Multitude
Featured Tracks: "L'enfer," "Santé" and "Déclaration"
2. Nilüfer Yanya — Painless
Featured Tracks: "the dealer," "L/R" and "midnight sun"
3. RZA & DJ Scratch — Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater
Featured Track: "Pugilism"
4. Kojey Radical — Reason to Smile
Featured Track: "Silk"
5. The Weather Station — How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars?
Featured Track: "Ignorance"

Other notable releases for March 4:
Band of Horses — Things Are Great
Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song
Dolly Parton — Run, Rose, Run
Jordan Rakei — Bruises
KAINA — It Was A Home
Madi Diaz — Same History, New Feelings
Peach Pit — From 2 to 3
Roy Montgomery — Audiotherapy
Tom Caruana — Strange Planet