New Music Friday: The best albums out March 1

Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce discuss Faye Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony and a handful of the week's other brand new albums on which a musician's personality seems to be embodied by their voice — even when the music is completely instrumental.

Featured albums:

1. Faye Webster, Underdressed at the Symphony

2. ScHoolboy Q, Blue Lips

3. Julian Lage, Speak To Me

4. Sheer Mag, Playing Favorites

Other notable releases for March 1:

Paula Cole, Lo

Jacob Collier, Djesse Vol. 4

Everything Everything, Mountainhead

Nils Frahm, Day

Hannah Frances, Keeper of the Shepherd

Ben Frost, Scope Neglect

Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Liam Gallagher & John Squire

Albert Hammond, Body of Work

Jahari Massamba Unit, Karriem Riggins & Madlib, YHWH is LOVE

Kaiser Chiefs, Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album

Lang Lang, Saint-Saëns

Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven

Ministry, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES

Pissed Jeans, Half Divorced

That Mexican OT, Texas Technician

Uranium Club, Infants Under the Bulb

Yard Act, Where's My Utopia?

De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising (35th Anniversary Edition)

Linda Smith, Nothing Else Matters and So I Liked Spring (reissues)

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