Our picks for this week's best new albums include the latest from Thundercat, M. Ward, country singers Ashley McBryde and Sam Hunt, ambient cello tunes from Clarice Jensen and more.

Featured Albums:
1. M. Ward — Migration Stories
Featured Song: "Unreal City"
2. Ashley McBryde — Never Will
Featured Song: "Martha Divine"
3. NNAMDÏ — BRAT
Featured Song: "Salut"
4. Wilma Archer — A Western Circular
Featured Songs: "Last Sniff" and "Killing Crab"
5. Thundercat — It Is What It Is
Featured Song: "Fair Chance"
6. Clarice Jensen — The Experience of Repetition as Death
Featured Song: "Day Tonight:
7. Anna Burch — If You're Dreaming
Featured Song: "Can't Sleep"
8. Sam Hunt — Southside
Featured Song: "Hard to Forget"

Other notable albums out on April 3: All Time Low — Wake Up Sunshine; Born Ruffians — JUICE; Caleb Caudle — Better Hurry Up; Ellis — Born Again; The Lovely Eggs — I Am Moron; Nina Simone — Fodder On My Wings; Peel Dream Magazine — Agitprop Alterna; Purity Ring — Womb; Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn — Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn; Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind.

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