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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Caroline Polachek, UK producer, rapper and filmmaker Wesley Joseph, P!NK, the Boston rock group Pile and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Featured Songs: "Pretty In Possible," "Fly To You (feat. Grimes and Dido)"
2. Wesley Joseph — GLOW
Featured Songs: "COLD SUMMER," "SUGAR DRIVE (feat. Dean)"
3. Pile — All Fiction
Featured Songs: "Loops," "Poisons," "Blood," "Gardening Hours"
4. P!NK — TRUSTFALL
Featured Songs: "TRUSTFALL," "Just Say I'm Sorry (feat. Chris Stapleton)," "Kids In Love (feat. First Aid Kit)," "When I Get There"
5. Tianna Esperanza — Terror
Featured Songs: "Terror," "Lewis," "Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince," "Granada"

Lightning Round:
crushed — extra life
Lisel — Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices and Delay
Jaimee Harris — Boomerang Town
Skrillex — Quest for Fire

Other notable releases for Feb. 17:
@ — Mind Palace Music
Anna B Savage — in|FLUX
Avey Tare — 7s
Free Range — Practice
Leon Lee Dorsey & Mike Clark — Cantaloupe Island
Lowly — Keep Up The Good Work
Ron Sexsmith — The Vivian Line
Screaming Females — Desire Pathway
Simona Premazzi — Wave In Gravity
Various Artists — Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre


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Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras from NPR's Alt.Latino sit down with prolific producer and creator Adrian Quesada to discuss his experimental approach to border-driven, sonic expression.

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including re-imagined acoustic music from Fantastic Negrito, new Death Cab for Cutie and more.

Featured Songs And Artist:
1. Miya Folick: "Get Out Of My House," from Roach
2. Fantastic Negrito: "Drifting Away," from Grandfather Courage
3. Death Cab for Cutie: "The Plan," from Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic)
4. Cinder Well: "Two Heads, Grey Mare," from Cadence
5. Indigo De Souza: "Younger & Dumber," from All of This Will End
6. Samana: "Two Wrongs," (Single)


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The best albums out this week include Paramore's first new full-length in nearly six years, mind-blowing sonic explorations from Kelela and Liv.e, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Yo La Tengo and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Paramore — This Is Why
Featured Songs: "You First," "C'est Comme Ca," "This Is Why"
2. Liv.e — Girl in the Half Pearl
Featured Songs: "Ghost," "A Slumber Party?," "Our Father," "Snowing!"
3. Kelela — Raven
Featured Songs: "On the Run," "Contact," "Happy Ending"
4. Black Belt Eagle Scout — The Land, The Water, The Sky
Featured Songs: "Fancy Dance," "Blue," "My Blood Runs Through This Land"
5. Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World
Featured Songs: "This Stupid World," "Sinatra Drive Breakdown"

Lightning Round:
Andy Shauf — Norm
Brainorchestra — It Means A Lot
KING VISION ULTRA — SHOOK WORLD
Pearla — Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming

Other notable releases for Feb. 10:
Amber Arcades — Barefoot on Diamond Road
The Brian Jonestown Massacre — The Future is Your Past
Lisa O'Neil — All Of This Is Chance
Tennis — Pollen
You Me At Six — Truth Decay

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a reflection on lost youth from The Tallest Man On Earth, the debut solo album from Of Monsters And Men singer Nanna and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. The Tallest Man on Earth: "Every Little Heart," from Henry St.
2. Fenne Lily: "Lights Light Up" (Single)
3. Yo La Tengo: "Tonight's Episode," from This Stupid World
4. Youth in a Roman Field: "It'll Pass," from Get Caught Trying
5. Nanna: "Godzilla" (Single)
6. Juni Habel: "Rhythm of the Tides," from Carvings


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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include RAYE's long-awaited debut, My 21st Century Blues, SYML's stirring The Day My Father Died, the return of Shania Twain and more.

Featured Albums:
1. SYML — The Day My Father Died
Featured Songs: "Chariot," "Howling (feat. Lucius)," "Lost Myself (feat. Guy Garvey)," "The Day My Father Died"
2. RAYE — My 21st Century Blues
Featured Songs: "The Thrill Is Gone," "Oscar Winning Tears," "Hard Out Here"
3. Joe Chambers — Dance Kobina
Featured Songs: "Gazelle Suite," "Caravanserai"
4. Young Fathers — Heavy Heavy
Featured Songs: "Geronimo," "I Saw," "Tell Somebody"
5. Shania Twain — Queen of Me
Featured Song: "Pretty Liar"

Lightning Round Picks:
Epik High — Strawberry
The Go! Team — Get Up Sequences Part Two
James Brandon Lewis — Eye of I
Robert Forster — The Candle and the Flame

Other notable releases for Feb. 3:
Ben Wolfe — Unjust
Best Fern — Earth Then Air
Fantastic Negrito — Grandfather Courage
Hamish Hawk — Angel Numbers
Loscil & Lawrence English — Colours of Air
M(h)aol — Attachment Style
The Psychotic Monks — Pink Colour Surgery
Somebody's Child — Somebody's Child
Sunny War — Anarchist Gospel
Tropical F*** Storm — SUBMERSIVE BEHAVIOR
Various — Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia


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Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Erik Rodríguez of Cimafunk to talk about how he's created his singular sound, the complex African lineage of his music and why his band is his "tribe."

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NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich joins Bob Boilen for a show full of sonic adventures in hopes of stretching your musical boundaries, including three songs that are over eight minutes long.

Featured Songs and Artists:
1. Jana Horn: "After All This Time," from The Window is the Dream
2. Anna Mieke: "Go Away from My Window," from Theatre
3. Nabalayo: "mtwapa siren," from INSHA
4. Lankum: "Go Dig My Grave," from False Lankum
5. PoiL Ueda: "Dan No Ura - Part 1," from PoiL Ueda
6. Debashish Bhattacharya: "The Sound of the Soul," from The Sound of the Soul

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Tom Verlaine spins everything from Charles Mingus to The Day the Earth Stood Still soundtrack.

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The best albums out this week include A Reckoning from Kimbra, Sam Smith's deeply personal and powerful Gloria, jazz saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin's Phoenix and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Kimbra — A Reckoning
Featured Songs: "la type (feat. Pink Siifu & Tommy Raps)," "save me," "foolish thinking (feat. Ryan Lott)"
2. Sam Smith — Gloria
Featured Songs: "Unholy (feat. Kim Petras)," "I'm Not Here To Make Friends," "Love Me More," "Gloria"
3. Lakecia Benjamin — Phoenix
Featured Songs: "Amerikkan Skin (feat. Angela Davis)," "Supernova (feat. Wayne Shorter)"
4. Samia — Honey
Featured Songs: "Amelia," "Pink Balloon," "Sea Lions," "Breathing Song"
5. Jonah Yano — Portrait of a Dog
Featured Songs: "Always," "So Sweet"

Lightning Round:
Bob Dylan — Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997 The Bootleg Series Vol. 17
Joe Henry — All the Eye Can See
Nite Bjuti — "Mood (Liberation Walk)" (single)
Popcaan — Great Is He

Other notable releases for Jan. 27:
The Arcs — Electrophonic Chronic
Ava Max — Diamonds & Dancefloors
Bass Drum of Death — Say I Won't
Elle King — Come Get Your Wife
F***** Up — One Day
Hammock — Love in the Void
Meg Baird — Furling
SG Lewis — AudioLust & HigherLove


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