New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 19

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?

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