NPR: Music Podcast

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

February's best new music includes a double album by Big Thief, Raveena's ambitious sophomore effort, Pusha T's old-school polish, Joyce DiDonato's wordless wondering and caroline's calming, crazy quilt of sound.

Featured Tracks And Artists:

1. Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Featured songs: "Spud Infinity" and "Dried Roses"
2. Raveena — Asha's Awakening
Featured song: "Mystery"
3. Pusha T, "Diet Coke"
4. Joyce DiDonato — EDEN
Featured song: "The Unanswered Question"
5. caroline — caroline
Featured song: "Dark blue"

Other notable releases for February:

• Hurray for the Riff Raff — LIFE ON EARTH
• Mitski -- Laurel Hell
• Erin Rae — Lighten Up
• Chris Farren — Death Don't Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Los Bitchos — Let the Festivities Begin!
• Saba — Few Good Things

Robert Glasper returns this week with Black Radio III , the latest in his ongoing fusion of jazz, rap, hip-hop and R&B. Other notable albums this week include new ones from SASMI, EARTHGANG and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Robert Glasper — Black Radio III
Featured Tracks: "Why We Speak" and "In Tune"
2. SASAMI — Squeeze
Featured Track: "Say It"
3. Sevdaliza — Raving Dahlia
Featured Track: "Everything Is Everything"
4. EARTHGANG — Ghetto Gods
Featured Track — "Amen"
5. Emily Wells — Regards to the End
Featured Tracks: "All Burn, No Bridge" and "David's Got A Problem"

Other notable releases for Feb. 25:
Aspidistrafly — Altar of Dreams
Avishai Cohen — Naked Truth
Avril Lavigne — Love Sux
Bambara — Love on My Mind
Basia Bulat — The Garden
caroline — caroline
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few: "Lift Every Voice" (single)
King Hannah — I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
Superchunk — Wild Loneliness
Tears for Fears — The Tipping Point

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks this week, including the "femmenoid" sounds of Sevdaliza, Tiny Desk contest winner Fantastic Negrito Porridge Radio and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Porridge Radio: "Back To The Radio," From Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
2. Sevdaliza: "High Alone," From Raving Dahlia (EP)
3. Fantastic Negrito: "Highest Bidder," From White Jesus Black Problems
4. Daniel Rossen: "Unpeopled Space," From You Belong There
5. Roedelius & Story: "Nurzu," From 4 Hands
6. Charbonneau / Amato: "Évaporations," From Synth Works Vol. 2

The week's best new music includes the deep grooves and heady soul of Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, an epic tale in sound from Beach House, the return of queer country pioneers Lavender Country and more.

Featured Albums
1. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges — Texas Moon
Featured songs: "B-Side" and "Doris"
2. Beach House — Once Twice Melody
Featured song: "Modern Love Stories"
3. Hurray for the Riff Raff — LIFE ON EARTH
Featured song: "POINTED AT THE SUN"
4. Kendra Morris — Nine Lives
Featured song: "Dry"
5. Lavender Country — Blackberry Rose
Featured song: "All Disillusions Behind"

Other notable releases for Feb. 18:
Anwar HighSign — Live N*gga Prophecy
Big K.R.I.T. — Digital Roses Don't Die
MAITA — I Just Want to Be Wild For You
Metronomy — Small World
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee — Bamanan
Sally Shapiro — Sad Cities
The Shout Out Louds — House
Shovels & Rope — Manticore
Tennyson — Rot

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Hazel Cills share their favorite new tracks of the week, including the soulful sounds of The Suffers, the frenetic electronica of Whatever The Weather and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:

1. Lady Dan: "Not In Love" (Single)
2. Maria BC: "The Only Thing," from Hyaline
3. Maylee Todd: "Show Me," from Maloo
4. Whatever The Weather: "17°C," from Whatever The Weather
5. S. Carey: "Break Me Open," from Break Me Open
6. Yungchen Lhamo: "Awakening," from Awakening
7. The Suffers: "How Do We Heal (ft. Bryce The Third and Son Little" (Single)

NPR Music's picks for the week's best albums include Mary J. Blige's Good Morning Gorgeous , the sonic wonders of alt-j, spiritual guidance from Raveena, a new solo record from Eddie Vedder and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Mary J. Blige — Good Morning Gorgeous
Featured Track: "On Top"
2. alt-J — The Dream
Featured Track: "Bane"
3. Raveena — Asha's Awakening
Featured Tracks: "Kathy Left 4 Khatmandu" and "The Internet Is Like Eating Plastic"
4. Shamir — Heterosexuality
Featured Track: "Caught Up"
5. Eddie Vedder — Earthling
Featured Track: "Power of Right"

Other notable releases for Feb. 11:
Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Buke and Gase & Rahrah Gabor — Buke and Gase & Rahrah Gabor
Claire Rousay & More Eaze — Never Stop Texting Me
Empath — Visitor
Frank Turner - FTHC
Joss Stone — Never Forget My Love
Moonchild — Starfruit
Priscilla Block — Welcome to the Block Party
Spoon — Lucifer on the Sofa
Trupa Trupa — B Flat A
Voivod — Synchro Anarchy
Zeal & Ardor — Zeal & Ardor

In this special episode, our friends at the It's Been A Minute podcast talk with musician and filmmaker Questlove about the recently released soundtrack to his 2001 documentary Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) . Host Sam Sanders chats with Questlove about the long history of Black erasure and the memorable performances from The 5th Dimension, Stevie Wonder (playing the drums!), Mavis Staples, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone and many more.

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Madi Diaz and Waxahatchee, "Kissing Lessons" from Lucy Dacus and more.

Featured Artist and Songs:
1. Lucy Dacus: "Kissing Lessons" (Single)
2. Madi Diaz w/ Waxahatchee: "Resentment (New Feelings Version)" (Single)
3. illuminati hotties: "Sandwich Sharer" (Single)
4. Luna Li (ft. beabadoobee): "Silver Into Rain," from Duality
5. River Whyless: "Heaven and Light," from Monoflora
6. Norma Waterson: "Bright Shiny Morning," from Bright Shiny Morning

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the final trap album from Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz, '80s-flavored pop from Mitski, Animal Collective's return to form and more.

Featured Albums:
1. 2 Chainz — Dope Don't Sell Itself
Featured tracks: "10 Bracelets" and "Million Dollars Worth Of Game"
2. Mitski — Laurel Hell
Featured track: "Stay Soft"
3. Animal Collective — Time Skiffs
Featured track: "Strung With Everything"
4. Saba — Few Good Things
Featured tracks: "Survivor's Guilt" and "2012"
5. Erin Rae — Lighten Up
Featured track: "California Belongs to You"

Other notable releases for Feb. 4:
Black Country, New Road — Ants From Up There
Cate Le Bon — Pompeii
Lord Kayso — More Chores
Los Bitchos — Let The Festivities Begin!
The Reds, Pinks and Purples — Summer at Land's End
Tank — R&B MONEY

The Summer of Soul soundtrack is finally here, along with a breathtaking debut from singer Amber Mark, a mind-bender from jazz saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Various — The Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Featured Song: "Don'tcha Hear Me Callin' to Ya?"
2. Lady Wray — Piece of Me
Featured Song: "Where Were You"
3. Samm Henshaw — Untidy Soul
Featured Songs: "Thoughts and Prayers," "Chicken Wings," "Keyon (Interlude)"
4. Amber Mark — Three Dimensions Deep
Featured Song: "One"
5. Immanuel Wilkins — The 7th Hand
Featured Song: "Don't Break"

Other notable releases for Jan. 28:
Anaïs Mitchell — Anaïs Mitchell
Babyface Ray — Face
Beirut — Artifacts
Greg Spero — The Chicago Experiment
St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Alien Coast

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Marissa Lorusso share their favorite new music of the week, including the latest from PUP and the curious and beautiful sounds of Isik Kural.

Featured artists and tracks:

1. PUP: "Robot Writes A Love Song," from THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
2. MAITA: "Loneliness," from I Just Want To Be Wild For You
3. KAINA: "Apple," from It Was a Home
4. Uwade: "Do You See The Light Around Me?" (Single)
5. Imarhan: "Achinkad," from Aboogi
6. Isik Kural: "paperhat," from in february

Emo rapper and singer iann dior, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, Americana singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan and more land on this week's shortlist for the best new releases out on Jan. 21.

Featured Albums:
1. iann dior — on to better things
Featured Songs: "V12" and "hopeless romantic"
2. Che Noir — Food For Thought
Featured Song: "Communion"
3. Simone Dinnerstein — Undersong
Featured Songs: Erik Satie's "Gnossienne No. 3" and Philip Glass' "Mad Rush"
4. Aoife O'Donovan — Age of Apathy
Featured Song: "Sister Starling"
5. Jana Horn — Optimism
Featured Song: "Optimism"
6. Tanya Tagaq — Tongues
Featured Songs: "Earth Monster" and "Colonizer"

Other notable releases for Jan. 21:
Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch
Boris — W
Boy Harsher — The Runner (Original Soundtrack)
Jake Xerxes Fussell — Good and Green Again
Janis Ian — The Light at the End of the Line
Pedro the Lion — Havasu
Young T & Bugsey — Truth Be Told

All Songs Considered' s Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks, including one from Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell, Frank Turner's dream-inspired ode to his late friend, Scott Hutchison and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Frank Turner: "A Wave Across A Bay," from FTHC
2. Anaïs Mitchell: "On Your Way (Felix Song)," from Anaïs Mitchell
3. Janis Ian: "Better Times Will Come," from The Light at the End of the Line
4. Midlake: "Bethel Woods," from For The Sake of Bethel Woods
5. Shamir: "Reproductive," from Heterosexuality
6. Keeley Forsyth: "I Stand Alone," from Limbs

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include FKA Twigs' CAPRISONGS , SICK! from Earl Sweatshirt, joyful singalongs from The Lumineers and more.

Featured Albums:
1. FKA Twigs — CAPRISONGS
Featured Songs: "papi bones" and "track girl interlude"
2. Earl Sweatshirt — SICK!
Featured Song: "God Laughs"
3. The Lumineers — Brightside
Featured Song: "Where We Are"
4. Bonobo — Fragments
Featured Song: "Rosewood"
5. Cordae — From A Birds Eye View
Featured Song: "Champagne Glasses"
6. Linying — There Could Be Wreckage Here
Featured Song: "Faith"

Other notable releases for Jan. 14: Blood Red Shoes — GHOSTS ON TAPE ; Broken Social Scene — Old Dead Young ; Cat Power — Covers ; Elvis Costello and The Imposters — The Boy Named If.

All Songs Considered' s Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, along with NPR Music's curator of the weird and loud, Lars Gotrich.

Featured Artists And Tracks:
1. Kae Tempest: "More Pressure," from The Line Is A Curve
2. Pigeon Pit: "Empties," from Feather River Canyon Blues
3. Souk: "Sooner or Later," from Souk Demo
4. Basia Bulat: "The Garden," from The Garden
5. Barrie: "Quarry," from Barbara
6. The Smile: "You Will Never Work In Television Again" (Single)
7. Yard Act: "Rich," from The Overload

NPR Music's Lars Gotrich offers a tribute to the Peruvian punk, chiptuned black metal and Brazilian dub that soundtracked his home office in 2021, cranked on a trusty tape machine.

Music heard on this episode:

• Morbo: "En el cubil" from ¿A Quién Le Echamos La Culpa?
• Cara Neir: "Damnation" from Phase Out
• Felinto: "Chroma" from Futuro Antigo Perpétuo
• Wendy Eisenberg: "Don't move" from Bent Ring
• Lucy Liyou: "Uncle" from Practice
• Neo Geodesia: "Fanta Rouge" from 2562 Neon Flames
• Maraudeur: "TWYWYS" from Puissance 4
• Myriam Gendron: "C'est dans les vieux pays" from Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found
• Bacon Grease: "What Do You Know" from The Slow Burn
• Znous: "El-Mansiette" from Znousland 3

Members of the NPR Music team share their personal picks for the best songs or albums from 2021 that didn't make our final lists.

1. dodie: "Hate Myself," from Build a Problem
2. Tōth: "Turnaround (Cocaine Song)," from You And Me And Everything
3. Flock of Dimes: "Price of Blue," from Head of Roses
4. Blu DeTiger: "Vintage," from How Did We Get Here?
5. doechii: "TRUTH," From Bra-Less
6. girl in red: "Did You Come?" from if i could make it go quiet
7. Moin: "Crappy Dreams Count," from Moot!
8. Limp Bizkit: "Dad Vibes," from STILL SUCKS
9. Madi Diaz: "Nervous," from History of a Feeling
10. Tré Burt: "Funny Story (Song for Eva)," from You, Yeah, You
11. Normani (feat. Cardi B): "Wild Side" (Single)
12. Sarah Kinsley: "The King," from The King (EP)
13. NIKARA: "Thick Girls," from NIKARA presents Black Wall Street
14. Draco Rosa: "El Amor de Borikén," from Sound Healing 1:11
15. Morgen Wurde feat. Maria Estrella: "Weiht," from Pop Ambient 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Licorice Pizza , Turkish funk from El Michels Affair, Julie Doiron and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Various — Licorice Pizza
Featured Songs: "Peace Frog" (The Doors) and "Licorice Pizza" (Jonny Greenwood)
2. El Michels Affair — Abominable
Featured Song: "Cham Cham"
3. Julie Doiron — I Thought of You
Featured Song: "Cancel the Party"
4. Cynic — Ascension Codes
Featured Song: "Mythical Serpents"
5. Spectacular Diagnostics — Ancient Methods
Featured Song: "The Wall"

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new songs of the week including Beach House's "Once Twice Melody," "Haunted House" from the actress Mckenna Grace, Medium Build and more.

Featured Tracks:
1. Beach House: "Once Twice Melody," from Once Twice Melody
2. Medium Build: "Rabbit" (Single)
3. Semler: "Prodigal Girl," from Late Bloomer EP
4. Mckenna Grace: "Haunted House" (Single)
5. Jasmyn: "Find the Light" (Single)
6. Lizzy McAlpine: "doomsday" (Single)

Adele's long-awaited 30 tops NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week, along with new ones from Snoop Dogg, Makaya McCraven, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Adele — 30
Featured track: "Oh My God"
2. Snoop Dogg — Algorithm
Featured tracks: "Big Subwoofer" and "Anxiety"
3. Makaya McCraven — Deciphering the Message
Featured track: "Black Rhythm Happening"
4. Ben LaMar Gay — Open Arms to Open Us
Featured track: "Aunt Lola and the Quail"
5. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss — Raise the Roof
Featured track: "Go Your Way"
6. Apollo Brown & Stalley — Blacklight
Featured track: "Breathe"
7. Coldcut — @0
Featured track: "Star Ray" (performed by Julianna Barwick)

Other notable releases for Nov. 19: Brian Wilson — At My Piano ; Elbow — Flying Dream 1 ; Khemmis — Deceiver ; Sting — The Bridge .

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new songs of the week, including a just-announced track from Big Thief, the London-based Somali artist known as FACESOUL, Pinegrove and more.

Featured Tracks:
1. Big Thief: "Time Escaping," from Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
2. Maia Friedman: "Where the Rocks Are," from Under the New Light
3. Mirrors: "Una Rosa," from Mirrors
4. Pinegrove: "Alaska," from 11-11
5. Why Bonnie: "Galveston" (Single)
6. FACESOUL: "The Path," from YSRA

The Bruno Mars-Anderson .Paak collab as Silk Sonic tops NPR Music's shortlist of the best albums out this week, along with new ones from Courtney Barnett, Aesop Rock, Jon Hopkins and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Silk Sonic — An Evening with Silk Sonic
Featured Songs: "Fly As Me" and "Blast Off"
2. Atarashii Gakko — Snacktime!
Featured Song: "Free Your Mind"
3. Jon Hopkins — Music for Psychedelic Therapy
Featured Songs: "Love Flows over Us in Prismatic Waves" and "Sit Around the Fire"
4. Courtney Barnett — Things Take Time, Take Time
Featured Song: "Turning Green"
5. Aesop Rock & Blockhead — Garbology
Featured Song: "The Sea"
6. Joell Ortiz — Autograph
Featured Songs: "Uncle Chris Car" and "OG"

Other notable releases for Nov. 12: Bill Charlap — Street of Dreams ; IDLES — Crawler ; Nirvana — Nevermind (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe) ; Taylor Swift — Red (Taylor's Version) ; They Might Be Giants — Book .

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the stunning voice of West African singer Rokia Koné, new solo work from Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi and more.

Featured Tracks:
1. Julie Doiron: "You Gave Me The Key," from I Thought Of You
2. Cola: "Blank Curtain" (Single)
3. David Keenan: "What Then Cried Jo Soap," from WHAT THEN?
4. Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee: "N'yanyan," from BAMANAN
5. Jónsi: "Pyralone," from Obsidian
6. Sóley: "Desert," from Mother Melancholia

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include ones from the Portland rapper Aminé, Snail Mail, composer and saxophonist Terrace Martin, the string ensemble Attacca Quartet and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Aminé — TWOPOINTFIVE
Featured Song: "OKWME"
2. Attacca Quartet — Of All Joys
Featured Songs: "Mishima, 1957: Award Montage," "Miserere," "Fratres"
3. Tasha — Tell Me What You Miss The Most
Featured Song: "Bed Song 1"
4. Snail Mail — Valentine
Featured Song: "Mia"
5. Terrace Martin — Drones
Featured Song: "Leave Us Be"
6. Sloppy Jane — Madison
Featured Songs: "Judy's Bedroom," "Overture" and "Lullaby Formica"
7. Curtis Harding — If Words Were Flowers
Featured Song: "Hopeful"
8. Remy Le Boeuf — Architecture of Storms
Featured Song: "The Melancholy Architecture of Storms"

Other notable releases for Nov. 5: ABBA — Voyage ; Diana Ross — Thank You ; Hana Vu — Public Storage; Joan As Police Woman — The Solution is Restless ; Radiohead — Kid A Mnesia ; serpentwithfeet — DEACON'S GROVE ; Summer Walker — Still Over It .

Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year? In October, we fell far into the music of Helado Negro and Jordan Peters, screamed along to Illuminati Hotties and Cerce, and meditated on the voices of Buffalo Nichols and Emily D'Angelo.

Music featured on this episode:
• Buffalo Nichols: "Another Man" from Buffalo Nichols
• Jordan Peters, "Float (feat. Obed Calvaire)"
• Emily D'Angelo: "Nausicaa" from enargeia
• Helado Negro: "Aguas Frías" from Far In
• Illuminati Hotties: "MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA" from Let Me Do One More
• Cerce: "Fate" from Cowboy Music

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NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new releases by Tori Amos, Mick Jenkins, Mon Laferte, The War on Drugs and more.

Featured Albums
1. The War on Drugs — I Don't Live Here Anymore
Featured Song: "Change"
2. Mick Jenkins — Elephant in the Room
Featured Song: "Stiff Arm"
3. Tori Amos — Ocean to Ocean
Featured Song: "Speaking With Trees"
4. Emily Scott Robinson — American Siren
Featured Song: "Let 'Em Burn"
5. Lily Konigsberg — Lily We Need to Talk Now
Featured Song: "Alone"
6. Eris Drew — Quivering in Time
Featured Song: "Show U Love"
7. Mon Laferte — 1940 Carmen
Featured Song: "Algo Es Mejor"
8. Theon Cross — Intra-I
Featured Song: "40Tude"
9. Lilli Lewis — Americana
Featured Song: "Wrecking Ball"
10. Johnathan Blake — Homeward Bound
Featured Song: "Homeward Bound (For Ana Grace)"

Other notable releases for October 29:Ed Sheeran — =; Migos — Culture III ; Jónsi — Obsidian ; Death Cab for Cutie — The Photo Album (20th Anniversary Edition); R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition); Spice Girls — Spice (25th Anniversary Edition); Johnny Cash — Bear's Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968 ; Maya Jane Coles — Night Creature ; They Might Be Giants — BOOK ; Charlotte Cornfield — Highs in the Minuses ; Hayes Carll — You Get It All ; Sam Evian — Time to Melt ; Marissa Nadler — The Path of the Clouds ; Mastodon — Hushed and Grim

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new one from Tiny Desk contest winner Quinn Christopherson, the English punk group IDLES and more.

Featured Tracks:
1. IDLES: "The Beachland Ballroom," from Crawler
2. Quinn Christopherson: "Bubblegum," from I Am Bubblegum (EP)
3. Anjimile: "Stranger" (Single)
4. mehro: "howling" (Single)
5. Anna Leone: "Still I Wait," from I've Felt All These Things
6. Scout LaRue Willis: "Love Without Possession"(Single)
7. Chloe Lilac: "19" (Single)

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out today include new ones from the K-pop singer CL, rapper and producer Wale, a new project from Tricky called Lonely Guest, Grouper and more.

Featured Albums:
1. CL — ALPHA
Featured song: "Chuck"
2. Wale — Folarin II
Featured song: "Name Ring Bells"
3. Grouper — Shade
Featured song: "Pale Interior"
4. Helado Negro — Far In
Featured song: "Wake Up Tomorrow"
5. angel du$t — Yak: A Collection of Truck Songs
Featured song: "Love is the Greatest" and "All the Way Dumb"
6. Lonely Guest — Lonely Guest
Featured songs: "Atmosphere" and "Move Me"
7. John Forté — Vessels, Angels & Ancestors
Featured song: "88"
8. Circuit des Yeux — -io
Featured song: "Sculpting the Exodus"

Other notable releases for Oct. 22: Bedouine — Waysides ; Jackson + Sellers — Breaking Point ; John Coltrane — A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle ; Lana Del Rey — Blue Banisters; My Morning Jacket — My Morning Jacket .

This is the third and final installment in a special series from NPR's 'It's Been A Minute' podcast looking at important moments in the history of pop-music crossover. On this episode, Sam and his guests look at the so-called "Latin Explosion" of the late 1990s and ask who this historic if calculated moment was actually for, and what were the business considerations behind it? And what does "Livin La Vida Loca" have to do with all of it? You'll find all that out and more in this episode.

Atlanta rapper Young Thug's Punk , Coldplay's Music of the Spheres , solo debuts from Finneas, Remi Wolf and more are among NPR Music's picks for the week's best new albums.

Featured Albums:
1. Remi Wolf — Juno
Featured Song: "Anthony Kiedis"
2. Coldplay — Music of the Spheres
Featured Song: "People of the Pride"
3. Young Thug — Punk
Featured Song: "Tick Tock"
4. Joy Crookes — Skin
Song: "Poison"
5. Finneas — Optimist
Featured Song: "The Kids Are All Dying"
6. Pinkpantheress — to hell with it
Featured Song: "Noticed I cried"

Other notable releases for Oct. 15: The Beatles — Let It Be (50th Anniversary Ed.); Dos Santos — City of Mirrors ; Le Ren — Leftovers ; Pokey LaFarge — In the Blossom of Their Shade ; Xenia Rubinos — Una Rosa .

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new music of the week, including a reflection on the cost of fame from Mitski, Shamir's "Gay Agenda," sweet "Change" from Big Thief and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Mitski: "Working for the Knife" (Single)
2. Cate Le Bon: "Running Away," from Pompeii
3. Big Thief: "Change," from Change EP
4. Doran: "Old Moon," from Doran
5. Kevin Morby & Hamilton Leithauser: "Virginia Beach" (Single)
6. Shamir: "Gay Agenda" (Single)

This year marks the 35th anniversary of Janet Jackson's Control . That album was her first real commercial hit and, looking back, helped redefine all of pop music. In the late '80s and '90s, Jackson was one of the biggest stars of our time — right up there with her brother, Michael and Madonna. And yet, Jackson isn't always given her due. In this special episode from NPR's It's Been A Minute podcast, host Sam Sanders explores why that is, how she made the album Control , and the incident — that lasted all but a second — that changed the course of her career.

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include James Blake's Friends That Break Your Heart , new ones from Cimafunk, the underground hip-hop duo Atmosphere, Reba McEntire, and more.

Featured Albums:
1. James Blake — Friends That Break Your Heart
Featured Songs: "Foot Forward" and "Frozen"
2. BadBadNotGood — Talk Memory
Featured Song: "Beside April"
3. Susana Baca — Palabras Urgentes
Featured Song: "Cambalache"
4. Natalie Hemby — Pins and Needles
Featured Song: "Banshee"
5. Various — Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows Vol. 2 (John Prine tribute album)
Featured Song: "Summer's End" (Performed by Valerie June)
6. Cimafunk — El Alimento
Featured Song: "Sal De Lo Malo"
7. Various — It's A Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records
Featured Song: "Soul Drummers" (Performed by Ray Baretto)
8. Joshua Crumbly — ForEver
Featured Song: "KOLKATA"
9. Atmosphere — WORD?
Featured Song: "Fleetwood"
10. Reba McEntire — Revived, Remixed, Revisited
Featured Song: "Fancy"

Fifty years ago this month, the TV show Soul Train was first broadcast nationally. It brought Black music, dance, fashion and performance into viewers' homes every weekend and continued for more than 30 years. There was nothing like it on TV, and all these years later, there's been nothing like it since. On this special episode from the NPR podcast, It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders, we look at the lasting impact of Soul Train and why it mattered.

Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year?

Songs featured in this episode:

• Ada Lea: "hurt" from one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
• MUNA (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers), "Silk Chiffon"
• Little Simz: "Standing Ovation" from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
• Mon Laferte: "Nothing Else Matters" from The Metallica Blacklist
• Sun-El Musician (Feat. Simmy), "Higher"
• Jon Hopkins: "Sit Around the Fire (Feat. Ram Dass & East Forest)" from Music for Psychedelic Therapy

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NPR Music's picks for the best new releases out this week include the long-awaited studio album from Philly rapper Meek Mill, a stunning record from Brandi Carlile, country singer Miko Marks and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Meek Mill — Expensive Pain
Featured Song: "Blue Notes 2"
2. Brandi Carlile — In These Silent Days
Featured Song: "Broken Horses"
3. Ben Marc — Breathe Suite
Featured Song: "Breathe Suite A"
4. Tirzah — Colourgrade
Featured Song: "Hive Mind"
5. Illuminati Hotties — Let Me Do One More
Featured Song: "Knead"
6. Shad — Tao
Featured Song: "Black Averageness"
7. Miko Marks — Race Records
Featured Song: "Hard Times"

Other notable releases for Oct. 1: Dar Williams — I'll Meet You Here ; Hovvdy — True Love ; Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett — Love For Sale ; Strand of Oaks — In Heaven .

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite new songs of the week include the funny, uplifting music of Wet Leg, a prayer for peace from 77-year-old Pakistani artist Ustad Saami and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Wet Leg: "Wet Dream" (Single)
2. NoSo: "Suburbia" (Single)
3. Nynke Laverman: "Stoarm" from Plant
4. Nora Brown: "The Very Day I'm Gone" from Sidetrack My Engine
5. Jane Fontana: "Untitled, No. 1" from In Situ EP
6. Grace Cummings: "Heaven" from Storm Queen
7. Le Ren: "I Already Love You" from Leftovers
8. Ustad Saami: "Prayer for Peace" from east Pakistan sky

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from R&B singer Anthony Hamilton, a Sufjan Stevens collaboration with Angelo De Augustine, country singer Mickey Guyton and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Anthony Hamilton — Love is the New Black
Featured Song: "Love Is The New Black"
2. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine — A Beginner's Mind
Featured Song: "Lady Macbeth In Chains"
3. Kari Faux — Lowkey Superstar Deluxe
Featured Song: "While God Was Sleeping"
4. Hayden Pedigo — Letting Go
Featured Song: "Some Kind of Shepherd"
5. Mickey Guyton — Remember Her Name
Featured Song: "Different"
6. Solemn Brigham — South Sinner Street
Featured Songs: "Keep The Hope" and "Vice North"
7. Japanese Breakfast — Sable
Featured Songs: "Glider" and "Cartographer's Theme"
8. Ada Lea — One Hand on the Steering Wheel The Other Sewing A Garden
Featured Song: "Oranges"

Other notable releases for Sept. 24: Alessia Cara — In The Meantime ; Andy Shauf — Wilds ; Arturo O'Farrill — Dreaming in Lions ; Caleb Landry Jones — Gadzooks Vol. 1 ; Laura Jane Grace — At War With Silverfish ; NAO — And Then Life Was Beautiful ; Poppy — Flux .

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new songs of the week, including a new one from the Leeds rock band alt-J, Swedish singer-songwriter Loney Dear, Amythyst Kiah and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. alt-J: "U&ME," from The Dream
2. Hyd: "Skin 2 Skin," from Hyd (EP)
3. Amythyst Kiah: "Black Myself (Moby Remix)" (Single)
4. La Luz: "Lazy Eyes and Dune," from La Luz
5. Bnny: "Sure," from Everything
6. Loney Dear: "Go Easy On Me Now (Sirens + emergencies)," from A Lantern and a Bell

The debut album from singer and rapper Lil Nas X tops our list of the week's best releases, along with the 25th anniversary of Buena Vista Social Club, new ones from José González, Carly Pearce and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Lil Nas X — Montero
Featured Song: "Dead Right Now"
2. Carly Pearce — 29: Written In Stone
Featured Song: "Diamondback"
3. Charley Crockett — Music City USA
Featured Song: "Honest Fight"
4. Adia Victoria — A Southern Gothic
Featured Song: "Troubled Mind"
5. Buena Vista Social Club — Buena Vista Social Club
Featured Songs: "Chan Chan" and "El Diablo Suelto"
6. José González — Local Valley
Featured Song: "Visions"
7. Sheila Jordan — Comes Love: Lost Session 1960
Featured Song: "Ballad of the Sad Young Men"
8. Moor Mother — Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Featured Song: "Vera Hall"

Other notable releases for Sept. 17: Bob Dylan — Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 ; Cory Henry — Best of Me ; James Vincent McMorrow — Grapefruit Season ; Lindsey Buckingham — Lindsey Buckingham ; Melissa Ethridge — One Way Out.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including the Tiny Desk Contest-winning song from the singer, Neffy, new ones from Snail Mail, My Morning Jacket and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Neffy: "Wait Up" (Single)
2. Aisha Badru: "Rebirth," from The Way Back Home EP
3. Lily Konigsberg: "Sweat Forever," from Lily We Need To Talk Now
4. Sloppy Jane: "Party Anthem," from Madison
5. My Morning Jacket: "Love Love Love," from My Morning Jacket
6. Snail Mail: "Valentine," from Valentine

It's a packed release day, with new albums from the prince of reggaeton J Balvin, Kendrick Lamar collaborator and rising rapper Baby Keem, Kacey Musgraves, Andrew W.K. and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Common — A Beautiful Revolution Pt 2
Featured Song: "A Beautiful Chicago Kid"
2. Kacey Musgraves — Star-Crossed
Featured Songs: "Cherry Blossom" and "Gracias A La Vida"
3. J Balvin — JOSE
Featured Song: "La Familia"
4. Yebba — Dawn
Featured Song: "Boomerang"
5. Andrew W.K. — God Is Partying
Featured Songs: "Babalon" and "Goddess Partying"
6. AZ — Doe or Die II
Featured Song: "Check Me Out"
7. Park Hye Jin — Before I Die
Featured Song: "Me Trust Me"
8. Low — Hey What
Featured Song: "White Horses"
9. Deb Never — Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Featured Song: "Stupid"
10. Bomba Estéreo — Deja
Featured Song: "Agua"
11. Baby Keem — The Melodic Blue
Featured Song: "Range Brothers"

Other notable releases for Sept. 10: Heartless Bastards — A Beautiful Life; Matthew E. White — K Bay; Sleigh Bells — Texis; We Were Promised Jetpacks — Enjoy The View.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tunes of the week, including a profoundly moving reflection on Hurricane Katrina, a new story-song from Andy Shauf and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. 79rs Gang: "Stop The Water" (Single)
2. Andrea von Kampen: "Water Flowing Downward," from That Spell
3. Opium Moon: "Night," from Night + Day
4. Claire Cronin: "Bloodless," from Bloodless
5. Andy Shauf: "Spanish On The Beach" (Single)
6. Marc Farre: "Prayer Flags," (Single)

Our picks for the best new albums out this week come from the British rapper LIttle Simz, jazz pianist Kirk Lightsey, rising reggaeton singer Jhay Cortez, metal veterans Iron Maiden and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Little Simz — Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Featured Songs: "Introvert" and "The Rapper That Came To Tea"
2. Jhay Cortez — Timelezz
Featured Song: "Los Bandoleros"
3. Kirk Lightsey — I Will Never Stop Loving You
Featured Song: "I Will Never Stop Loving You"
4. Iron Maiden — Senjutsu
Featured Song: "Days Of Future Past"
5. Lady Blackbird — Black Acid Soul
Featured Songs: "Five Feet Tall" and "Blackbird"
6. Baby Queen — The Yearbook
Featured Song: "Raw Thoughts"
7. L'Orange — The World Is Still Chaos, But I Feel Better
Featured Song: "Talk To Friendly Walls"

Other notable releases for Sept. 3: Damu The Fudgemunk — Conversation Peace ; Imagine Dragons — Mercury, Act I ; Lady Gaga — Dawn Of Chromatica (remix album)

Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year? In August, we got vulnerable with James Blake, leveled up with Foxing, cooed with PinkPantheress, discovered an obscure Polish composer via pianist Lucas Debargue, memorialized a member of Injury Reserve and went back in time to Lee Morgan's weekend residency at the Lighthouse.

Songs heard on this episode:
• James Blake: "Life is Not the Same" from Friends That Break Your Heart
• Foxing: "Beacons" from Draw Down the Moon
• PinkPantheress, "Just for me"
• Lucas Debargue: "Nostalgie du pays" from Zal — The Music of Miłosz Magin
• Injury Reserve: "Knees" from By the Time I Get to Phoenix
• Lee Morgan: "Absolutions (Friday, Set 2)" from The Complete Live at the Lighthouse

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out on Aug. 27 include new ones from CHVRCHES, Indigo De Souza, Terence Blanchard and more.

Featured Albums
1. CHVRCHES — Screen Violence
Featured Song: "Final Girl"
2. Madi Diaz — History Of A Feeling
Featured Song: "Woman In My Heart"
3. Chapel Hart — The Girls Are Back In Town
Featured Song: "You Can Have Him Jolene"
4. Tré Burt — You, Yeah, You
Featured Song: "Sweet Misery"
5. GRIP — I Died For This?!
Featured Song: "The Lox! (feat. Tate 228)"
6. Indigo De Souza — Any Shape You Take
Featured Song: "Way Out"
7. Terence Blanchard — Absence
Featured Song: "The Elders"
8. Andrew Cyrille Quartet — The News
Featured Song: "Go Happy Lucky"

Notable releases for Aug. 27: Halsey — If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power ; Big Red Machine — How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? ; Steve Gunn — Other You ; Marisa Anderson & William Tyler — Lost Futures ; The Bug — Fire ; Yann Tiersen — Kerber ; Mouse Rat — The Awesome Album ; Nite Jewel — No Sun ; Southern Avenue — Be The Love You Want ; Carlos Henriquez — The South Bronx Story ; Kenny Garrett — Sounds From The Ancestors

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite songs of the week, including a 50th anniversary edition of George Harrison's "Isn't It A Pity."

1. George Harrison: "Isn't It A Pity," from All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary)
2. Immersion, (feat. Laetitia Sadier): "Riding The Wave," from Nanocluster Vol. 1
3. Circuit des Yeux: "Dogma," from -Io
4. Hand Habits: "Aquamarine," from Fun House
5. Coco: "Knots," from Coco
6. Big Thief: "Sparrow" (Single)

Black Thought guests on a new one from the British duo Jungle, The Killers' Pressure Machine documents the hopes and horrors of rural America, Boldy James & The Alchemist team up again and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Jungle — Loving in Stereo
Featured Songs: "Talk About It" and "Romeo"
2. The Killers — Pressure Machine
Featured Songs: "Terrible Thing" and "West Hills"
3. Boldy James & The Alchemist — Bo Jackson
Featured Song: "E.P.M.D."
4. Falkner Evans — Invisible Words
Featured Song: "Made Visible"
5. Meet Me @ The Altar — Model Citizen
Featured Song: "Feel A Thing"
6. El Michels Affair Meets Liam Bailey — Ekundayo Inversions
Featured Songs: "Conquer & Divide" and "Intro"
7. Wednesday — Twin Plagues
Featured Songs: "Toothache" and "Twin Plagues"

Other notable releases for Aug. 13: Dan + Shay — Good Things ; Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson — Refuge ; Jade Bird — Different Kinds of Light ; Joy Orbison — Still Slipping Vol. 1 ; $uicideboy$ — Long Term Effects of SUFFERING.

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from the R&B singer Tinashe, composer Max Richter and the greatest rap duo you've never heard of, Abstract Mindstate.

Featured Albums:
1. Abstract Mindstate — Dreams Still Inspire
Featured Track: "I Feel Good"
2. Max Richter — Exiles
Featured Tracks: "Flowers Of Herself" and "Exiles"
3. Laura Stevenson — Laura Stevenson
Featured Tracks: "State" and "Mary"
4. Tinashe — 333
Featured Track: "333"
5. Fuubutsushi — Natsukashii
Featured Track: "Suzushii Kaze"
6. Lingua Ignota — Sinner Get Ready
Featured Tracks: "Pennsylvania Furnace" and "The Order of Spiritual Virgins"

Other notable releases for Aug. 6: Barbra Streisand — Release Me 2 ; Eluvium — Virga II ; Moritz Von Oswald Trio — Dissent ; Ty Segal — Harmonizer .

In July, we found solace in veterans (Billy Bragg) and newcomers (Canary Room), witnessed personal transformations from IDK and WILLOW, hit funky grooves with William Parker and heard angels become mortal in a collaboration between Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine.

Songs heard in this episode:
• Billy Bragg: "I Will Be Your Shield" from The Million Things That Never Happened
• Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine: "Reach Out" from A Beginner's Mind
• Canary Room: "Christine" from Christine
• WILLOW: "don't SAVE ME" from lately I feel EVERYTHING
• IDK: "Hey Auntie" from USEE4YOURSELF
• William Parker: "Tabasco" from Mayan Space Station

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The sophomore full-length from Billie Eilish tops our shortlist of the best new albums out this week, along with a posthumous Prince record, Jack Antonoff's Bleachers, the singer Yola and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Billie Eilish — Happier Than Ever
Featured Song: "NDA"
2. Isaiah Rashad — The House Is Burning
Featured Songs: "True Story" and "HB2U"
3. Bleachers — Take the Sadness Out Of Saturday Night
Featured Songs: "Stop Making This Hurt" and "91"
4. Los Lobos — Native Sons
Featured Song: "The World Is A Ghetto"
5. Prince — Welcome 2 America
Featured Song: "One Day We Will All Be Free"
6. Torres — Thirstier
Featured Song: "Are You Sleep Walking?"
7. Yola — Stand For Myself
Featured Song: "If I Had To Do It All Again"
8. Skirts — Great Big Wild Oak
Featured Song: "Easy"

Other notable releases for July 30: Leela James — See Me ; LUMP — Animal ; Naia Izumi — A Residency in the Los Angeles Area ; Poise — Vestiges ; Son Volt — Electro Melodier.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite new tracks of the week include an amped-up Steady Holiday, late-'70s, post-punk sounds from Gustaf and Wet Leg, the calming guitar of Lanterna and more.

Featured Songs:
1. Steady Holiday: "Love Me 2" (Single)
2. Gustaf: "Book," from Audio Drag For Ego Slobs
3. Wet Leg: "Chaise Longue" (Single)
4. Ada Lea: "damn," from one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
5. The Colorist Orchestra & Howe Gelb (feat. Pieta Brown): "Sweet Pretender," from Not On The Map
6. AHI: "Danger," from Prospect
7. Lanterna: "Aix," from Hidden Drives

Kanye West's long-awaited (and much-hyped), DONDA tops our list of the best albums out this week, along with new ones from Leon Bridges, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Ledisi and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Kanye — DONDA
2. Leon Bridges — Gold Diggers Sound
Featured Song: "Motorbike"
3. Chiiild — Hope For Sale
Featured Song: "Wasting Time"
4. Samia — Scout
Featured Song: "As You Are"
5. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram — 662
Featured Song: "Too Young To Remember"
6. Bardo — Everywhere Reminds Me Of Space
Featured Song: "Neon Light"
7. Emma-Jean Thackray — Yellow
Featured Song: "Venus"
8. Ledisi — Ledisi Sings Nina
Featured Song: "Feeling Good"

Other notable releases for July 23: Brittany Howard — Jaime Re-imagined ; Dave — We're All Alone In This Together ; Mega Bog — Life, And Another.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite tracks of the week include a classic murder ballad reimagined by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, a new collaboration with Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm, Soccer Mommy and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Soccer Mommy: "rom com 2004" (Single)
2. My Idea: "Stay Away Still," from That's My Idea EP
3. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Nathan Salzburg: "Stagger Lee" (Single)
4. Hana Vu: "Maker" (Single)
5. Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson: "In A Cistern," from Refuge
6. F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm: "Desert Mule," from 2X1=4

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Willow's Lately I Feel Everything , new ones from Clairo and John Mayer, a posthumous release from Alice Coltrane and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Willow — Lately I Feel Everything
Featured Songs: "Breakout" and "Xtra"
2. Clairo — Sling
Featured Song: "Zinnias"
3. Rodrigo Amarante — Drama
Featured Song: "Tao"
4. John Mayer — Sob Rock
Featured Song: "Guess I Just Feel Like"
5. Cakes da Killa — MUVALAND Vol. 2
Featured Song: "Lite Werk"
6. Alice Coltrane — Kirtan: Turiya Sings
Featured Song: "Jagadishwar"
7. John Vanderslice — I Can't Believe Civilization Is Still Going Here In 2021! Congratulations To All Of Us, Love DCB
Featured Song: "I Get A Strange Kind Of Pleasure From Just Hanging On"
8. John Vanderslice — Ethical Jute Mouse: Lost Songs from Tiny Telephone 2001-2021
Featured Song: "Advancing Army Clip"

Other notable releases for July 16: Charlie Worsham — Sugarcane; Ida Mae — Click Click Domino ; Jodi — Blue Heron ; Karen Black — Dreaming Of You: 1971-1976 ; Pop Smoke — FAITH .

All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite songs of the week, including a long-overdue celebration of Sparks, a Ben Gibbard collaboration with Tycho, the return of Courtney Barnett and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion Cotillard: "So May We Start (feat. Simon Helberg)," From Annette
2. Courtney Barnett: "Rae Street," From Things Take Time, Take Time
3. Indigo De Souza: "Kill Me," From Any Shape You Take
4. Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard: "Only Love" (Single)
5. Lala Lala: "DIVER," From I Want The Door To Open
6. Mega Bog: "Station to Station," From Life, And Another

The best albums out this week include a revealing, self-titled release from rapper Vince Staples, Snoh Aalegra's Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies , Half Waif's Mythopoetics and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Vince Staples — Vince Staples
Featured Song: "Are You With That?"
2. Attacca Quartet — Real Life
Featured Songs: "Real Life" and "Drifting Circles"
3. Snoh Aalegra — Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies
Featured Songs: "Tangerine Dream" and "Indecisive"
4. Half Waif — Mythopoetics
Featured Song: "Horse Racing"
5. The Goon Sax — Mirror II
Featured Song: "In The Stone"
6. Les Filles de Illighadad — At Pioneer Works
Featured Song: "Eghaas Malan"

Other notable releases out on July 9: The Alchemist — Rapper's Best Friend 6 ; Rejjie Snow — Baw Baw Black Sheep ; Royal Canoe — Sidelining ; The Wallflowers — Exit Wounds .

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tunes of the week, including one with The National's Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, a Jack Antonoff-produced song from Clairo and more.

Featured Songs:
1. Orla Gartland: "You're Not Special Babe," from Woman on the Internet
2. Aldous Harding: "Old Peel" (Single)
3. Matthew E. White: "Genuine Hesitation," from K Bay
4. Big Red Machine: "Latter Days (feat. Anaïs Mitchell)," from How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
5. Dos Santos: "A Shot in the Dark" (Single)
6. Clairo: "Blouse," from Sling
7. jess joy: "her0," from PATREEARCHY

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out now include Chicago rapper G Herbo's 25 , the wild euphoria of The Go! Team, singer Laura Mvula's first new music in five years and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The Go! Team — Get Up Sequences Part One
Featured Song: "Let The Seasons Work"
2. G Herbo — 25
Featured Song: "Demands"
3. Laura Mvula — Pink Noise
Featured Song: "Conditional"
4. Declaime and Madlib — In The Beginning Vol. 1
Featured Song: "Cool Ways"
5. boyband — Never Knows Best
Featured Song: "IRL"
6. Izzy Johnson — Earth Tones
Featured Song: "Existing"

Doja Cat, SAULT and Tyler, The Creator lead a crazy-packed day for new releases, along with Lucy Dacus, Cautious Clay and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Doja Cat — Planet Her
Featured Song: "Payday (feat. Yung Thug)"
2. Tyler, The Creator — Call Me If You Get Lost
Featured Song: "Lumberjack"
3. SAULT — NINE
Featured Songs: "London Gangs" and "9"
4. Hiatus Kaiyote — Mood Valiant
Featured Song: "Chivalry Is Not Dead"
5. Lucy Dacus — Home Video
Featured Song: "Hot & Heavy"
6. Squirrel Flower — Planet (i)
Featured Song: "Roadkill"
7. Cautious Clay — Deadpan Love
Featured Song: "Whoa"
8. Faye Webster — I Know I'm Funny haha
Featured Song: "Sometimes"
9. Pom Pom Squad — Death of a Cheerleader
Featured Song: "Drunk Voicemail"
10. Lightning Bug — A Color Of The Sky
Featured Song: "September Song, Pt. ii"

Other notable releases for June 25: Cedric Burnside — I Be Trying; Hiss Golden Messenger — Quietly Blowing It; L'Rain — Fatigue; Matthew Dear — Preacher's Sigh And Potion: Lost Album; Modest Mouse — The Golden Casket; The Mountain Goats — Dark In Here.

Our favorite new artists of 2021 (so far) include Jay Som and Palehound together as Bachelor, the queer pop celebrations of girl in red, Olivia Rodrigo, the warped rap duo Paris Texas and more.

1. Bachelor (Jay Som & Palehound): "Back Of My Hand," from Doomin' Sun
2. girl in red: "Serotonin," from if i could make it go quiet
3. Arlo Parks: "Hurt," from Collapsed in Sunbeams
4. Celeste: "Strange," from Not Your Muse
5. mehro: "lightning," from SKY ON FIRE
6. dodie: "Hate Myself," from Build A Problem
7. Olivia Rodrigo: "brutal," from SOUR
8. Paris Texas: "A QUICK DEATH," from BOY ANONYMOUS

The best albums out this week include GoldLink's Haram! , H.E.R.'s Back of My Mind, a comic book soundtrack called Dark Nights: Death Metal , a debut album from trans punk Cher Strauberry and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Goldlink — Haram!
Featured Songs: "Terrordome" and "Evian"
2. Various — Dark Nights: Death Metal
Featured Song: "Diana" by Chelsea Wolfe
3. H.E.R. — Back of My Mind
Featured Song: "We Made It"
4. Amythyst Kiah — Wary + Strange
Featured Song: "Wild Turkey"
5. Donnie — The Colored Section (20th Anniv.)
Featured Song: "Beautiful Me"
6. Ambar Lucid — Get Lost In The Music
Featured Song: "The Door"
7. Mykki Blanco — Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep
Featured Song: "Free Ride"
8. Cher Strauberry — Chering Is Caring
Featured Song: "Swish And Spit"

Other notable releases for June 18: Angelique Kidjo — Mother Nature ; Azure Ray — Remedy ; Francis Lung — Miracle ; Hania Rani — Music For Film And Theater ; Joan Armatrading — Consequences.

Lorde talks about her new song, we get an update on the Tiny Desk contest, Pokey LaFarge recalibrates his sound, Illuminati Hotties go "Pool Hopping" and other great new songs to fall in love with.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Lorde: "Solar Power" (Single)
2. Illuminati Hotties: "Pool Hopping," from Let Me Do One More
3. Azure Ray: "Bad Dream," from Remedy
4. The Go! Team: "A Bee Without Its Sting," from Get Up Sequences Part One
5. The Goon Sax: "Psychic," from Mirror II
6. Lea Thomas: "Howl," from Mirrors To The Sun
7. Pokey LaFarge: "Get It 'Fore It's Gone," from In The Blossom of Their Shade

Sleater-Kinney's Path of Wellness , the thundering pop of Marina, Brooklyn rapper Skyzoo and the blood-slowing sounds of Dustin O'Halloran are among NPR Music's picks for the best music out on June 11.

Featured Albums:
1. Marina — Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
Featured Songs: "Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land" and "Goodbye"
2. Skyzoo — All The Brilliant Things
Featured Song: "St. James Liquors"
3. Sleater-Kinney — Path of Wellness
Featured Song: "Path of Wellness"
4. Jesse Markin — Noir
Featured Song: "This Is A Testament"
5. Dustin O'Halloran — Silfur
Featured Song: "Opus 17"
6. Ches Smith & We All Break — Path of Seven Colors
Featured Song: "Here's The Light"

Other notable releases for June 11: Dean Blunt — Black Metal 2; Garbage — No Gods, No Monsters; Migos — Culture III; Mind Maintenance — S/T; Polo G — Hall of Fame.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, featuring former Tiny Desk contest winner Naia Izumi, West African art-folk group The Narcotix, Laura Stevenson and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Laura Stevenson: "State," from Laura Stevenson
2. Jomoro: "Nest," from Blue Marble Sky
3. The Narcotix: "Lilith," from Mommy Issues EP
4. Gone to Color: ""The 606" (feat. Jessie Stein,) from Gone To Colo r
5. Naia Izumi: "Voodoo," from A Residency in the Los Angeles Area
6. Maddie Jay: "Spiral," from CMYK EP