New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 27

The best albums out this week include Wilco's double-length Cruel Country, a debut from the singer UMI, the latest installment in Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge's Jazz Is Dead series and more.

Featured Albums:

1. Jean Carne, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge — JID012

Featured Songs: "Black Love," "Visions"

2. Wilco — Cruel Country

Featured Songs: "I Am My Mother," "The Plains," "A Lifetime To Find"

3. X Alfonso — Ancestros Sinfonicos

Featured Song: "Yakuma Kareré"

4. UMI — Forest in the City

Featuared Song: "what would u do?"

5. Nduduzo Makhathini — In the Spirit of NTU

Featured Songs: "Mama," "Emlilweni"

Other notable releases for May 27:

Brian Jackson — This Is Brian Jackson

Bright Eyes — A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off the Happiness and Fevers and Mirrors

Dehd — Blue Skies

HAAi — Baby, We're Ascending

Isaac Dunbar — Banish the Banshee

Jonny Greenwood — The Power of the Dog OST (physical release)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon

Liam Gallagher — C'MON YOU KNOW

Maria BC — Hyaline

Rosie Carney — I Wanna Feel Happy

Sean Paul — Scorcha

Sofie Birch — Holotropica

Stars — From Capelton Hill

Steve Earle & The Dukes — Jerry Jeff

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