The best new albums out this week include a scorcher from Lucinda Williams, a new joint from rapper Quelle Chris and Chris Keys, Sylvan Esso's first-ever live album, country singer Pam Tillis and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Brendan Benson — Dear Life
Featured Song: "I Can If You Want Me To"
2. Pam Tillis — Looking for a Feeling
Featured Song: "Looking for a Feeling"
3. Sylvan Esso — WITH
Featured Song: "Radio"
4. Quelle Chris & Chris Keys — Innocent Country 2
Featured Song: "Black Twitter"
5. Lucinda Williams — Good Souls Better Angels
Featured Song: "Waking Up"
6. Ian Chang — Belonging
Featured Songs: "Lion Dance" and "Comfort Me"
7. Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes — What Kinda Music
Featured Song: "Lift Off"
8. Whim — Abuzz in the Abyss
Featured Song: "Somebody Else's Tongue"

Other notable releases for April 24: Alice Bag — Sister Dynamite; BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff; Hazel English — Wake Up!; Luke De-Sciscio — Eucharist; Other Lives — For Their Love; Peter Oren — The Greener Pasture; Sweet Crude — Officiel//Artificiel Whitney Rose — We Still Go To Rodeos; Zsela — Ache of Victory.

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