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Our picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Nashville singer Maren Morris, the Jamaican rapper and singer Koffee, London's Afro-funk group Ibibio Sound Machine, Barrie and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Maren Morris — Humble Quest
Featured Tracks: "Humble Quest" and "Nervous"
2. Koffee — Gifted
Featured Track: "Shine"
3. Ornette Coleman — Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums
Featured Track: "Lorraine"
4. Barrie — Barbara
Featured Track: "Jersey"
5. Ibibio Sound Machine — Electricity
Featured Tracks: "Protection from Evil" and "Truth No Lie"

Other notable releases for March 25:
Aldous Harding — Warm Chris
Buddy — Superghetto
Camp Cope — Running with the Hurricane
Denzel Curry — Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Destroyer — Labyrinthitis
Machine Gun Kelly — mainstream sellout
Rema — Rave & Roses
Walter Martin — The Bear

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What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

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All Songs host Bob Boilen's mix this week includes the joy of Valerie June, a new project from Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, with Sons Of Kemet's Tom Skinner, called The Smile, and more.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Brittany Davis: "I Choose to Live," from I Choose to Live EP
2. Valerie June: "Use Me" (Single)
3. Arcade Fire: "Lightning I, II," from WE
4. The Smile: "Skrting On the Surface" (Single)
5. Congotronics International: "Where's The One?," from Where's The One?
6. Andrew Bird: "Atomized" (Single)
7. Typhoon: "New Wife," from Underground Complex EP

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Two of the year's most anticipated albums — Rosalía's MOTOMAMI and Charli XCX's CRASH — drop today, along with Johann Johannsson's posthumous Drone Mass, Yumi Zouma's Present Tense and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Rosalía — MOTOMAMI
Featured tracks: "CUUUUuuuuuute," "BULERÍAS," "SAOKO"
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson — Drone Mass
Featured tracks: "Two is Apocryphal," "Take the Night Air"
3. Raw Poetic & Damu The Fudgemunk — Laminated Skies
Featured Tracks: "Open Roads," "Chewing Gum"
4. Charli XCX — CRASH
Featured Tracks: "Crash," "Yuck"
5. Yumi Zouma — Present Tense
Featured Track: "Astral Projections"

Other notable releases for March 18:
Bladee & Ecco2K — Crest
Broadcast — Microtronics, Mother is the Milky Way, Maida Vale Sessions
Cypress Hill — Back in Black
Mattiel — Georgia Gothic
Midlake — For the Sake of Bethel Woods
Ruth Slenczynska — My Life in Music
Sonic Youth — In/Out/In

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All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including some powerful story-songs, from a drug-filled fling to lies learned about a lost father, an underwater journey and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:

1. Curse Of Lono: "So Damned Beautiful (feat. Tess Parks)," from People In Cars
2. Gang of Youths: "you in everything," from angel in realtime
3. Belle and Sebastian: "Unnecessary Drama," from A Bit of Previous
4. Niia: "Forward," from OFFAIR:Mouthful of Salt
5. Deer Scout: "Peace with the Damage," from Woodpecker
6. Scout laRue Willis: "Shouldn't I Be" (Single)


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Our shortlist for the best albums out this week includes Rex Orange County's WHO CARES?, the immediately transfixing Getaway from singer Orion Sun, the genre-hopping sounds of Jenny Hval and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Orion Sun — Getaway
Featured Tracks: "intro" and "without you"
2. Rex Orange County — WHO CARES?
Featured Tracks: "SHOOT ME DOWN" and "KEEP IT UP"
3. Fly Anakin — Frank
Featured Tracks: "Love Song (Come Back)" and "Bread"
4. Jenny Hval — Classic Objects
Featured Track: "Cemetery of Splendor"
5. Irma Thomas — Full Time Woman, The Lost Cotillion Album (on vinyl)
Featured Track: "Adam and Eve"

Other notable releases for March 11:
Alex Cameron — Oxy Music
Benny the Butcher — Tana Talk 4
The Boo Radleys — Keep On With Falling
BOYO — Echoes Like Memories
Drug Church — Hygiene
Fatboi Sharif & LoneSword — Cyber City Society
Loop — Sonancy
Lucky Daye — CANDYDRIP

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Mitski, David Byrne and Son Lux, the return of Regina Spektor and more.

Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne: "This Is A Life," from Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Regina Spektor: "Becoming All Alone," from Home, before and after
3. Suz Slezak: "Loneliness Is Measured," from Our Wings May Be Featherless
4. Kevin Morby: "This Is A Photograph," from This Is A Photograph
5. Sharon Van Etten: "Used To It" (Single)
6. Superorganism: "Teenager (feat. CHAI & Pi Ja Ma)," from World Wide Pop


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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Belgian singer and rapper Stromae's first new music in nearly a decade, the blood-slowing sounds of The Weather Station and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Stromae — Multitude
Featured Tracks: "L'enfer," "Santé" and "Déclaration"
2. Nilüfer Yanya — Painless
Featured Tracks: "the dealer," "L/R" and "midnight sun"
3. RZA & DJ Scratch — Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater
Featured Track: "Pugilism"
4. Kojey Radical — Reason to Smile
Featured Track: "Silk"
5. The Weather Station — How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars?
Featured Track: "Ignorance"

Other notable releases for March 4:
Band of Horses — Things Are Great
Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song
Dolly Parton — Run, Rose, Run
Jordan Rakei — Bruises
KAINA — It Was A Home
Madi Diaz — Same History, New Feelings
Peach Pit — From 2 to 3
Roy Montgomery — Audiotherapy
Tom Caruana — Strange Planet


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