NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new releases by The Flaming Lips, Rita Indiana, Waylon Payne and more.

On this week's All Songs Considered, hear new music from great unknowns and old favorites, including The Front Bottoms and Asaf Avidan.

1. Joe Wong: "Dreams Wash Away" from Nite Creatures
2. Frances Cone: "'93 Or '94" (single)
3. The Front Bottoms: "montgomery forever" from In Sickness & In Flames
4. Spacemoth: "Asking For You" (single)
5. Asaf Avidan: "Lost Horse" from Anagnorisis
6. Afel Bocoum: "Dakamana" from Lindé
7. Joe Wong: "Dreams Wash Away (Instrumental)" from Nite Creatures

NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new albums by Big Sean, Tricky, Lomelda, Bill Callahan and more.

We pick our favorite music released in August 2020, featuring everything from Bartees Strange and Victoria Monét to Bright Eyes and Kelly Lee Owens.

NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including unadorned records from Angel Olsen and The Avett Brothers, the genre-bending Georgia Anne Muldrow and more.

Fifteen years ago this week, All Songs Considered launched its first ever podcast episode. Hear how it sounded.

NPR Music's shortlist for the best new albums out this week includes the first full-length from Bright Eyes in nearly a decade, the rapper Lecrae, U.K. jazz wonder Nubya Garcia and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The Killers — Imploding the Mirage
Featured Song: "Dying Breed"
2. The Mavericks — En Español
Featured Song: "Recuerdos"
3. Nubya Garcia — Source
Featured Song: "Before Us In Demerara & Caura"
4. Cidny Bullens — Walking Through This World
Featured Song: "The Gender Line"
5. Bright Eyes — Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Featured Songs: "Dance and Sing" and "Pageturner's Rag"
6. Lecrae — Restoration
Featured Song: "Set Me Free"
7. L.A. Witch — Play With Fire
Featured Song: "Dark Horse"
8. Roomful of Teeth — The Ascendant & Just Constellations
Featured Songs: "The Beginning And..." and "The Magic Constellation - Winter"

Other notable releases for Aug. 21: Nas — King's Disease; Alex the Astronaut — The Theory of Absolutely Nothing; Bully — Sugaregg; Chuck Prophet — The Land That Time Forgot; Logan Farmer — Still No Mother; Matmos — The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form; The Front Bottoms — In Sickness & In Flames.

On this week's All Songs Considered, The Swedish duo First Aid Kit covers Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again," reminding host Bob Boilen of how long it's been since he's seen a live show (159 days).

1. First Aid Kit: "On The Road Again"
2. Blu DeTiger: "Figure It Out"
3. Pillow Queens: "Holy Show" from In Waiting
4. Anjimile: "Baby No More" from Giver Taker
5. AMAARA: "Desert Storm" from Heartspeak
6. Ólafur Arnalds: "Back to the Sky"
7. Sonny Singh: "Mitar Pyare Nu"

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include the latest from Afro-fusion singer Burna Boy, Fantastic Negrito, Jacob Collier, the queer country of Orville Peck and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Burna Boy — Twice As Tall
Featured Song: "Monsters You Made"
2. Jacob Collier — Djesse Vol. 3
Featured Song: "In My Bones"
3. Fantastic Negrito — Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Featured Song: "I'm So Happy I Cry"
4. Whitney — Candid
Featured Song: "Strange Overtones"
5. Son Lux — Tomorrows
Featured Song: "Plans We Made"
6. Kathleen Edwards — Total Freedom
Featured Song: "Birds on a Feeder"
7. Orville Peck — Show Pony
Featured Song: "No Glory In The West"
8. Ashley Ray — Pauline
Featured Song: "Pauline"
9. Gloria Estefan — Brazil305
Featured Song: "Samba"

Other notable releases for August 14: Poppy — I Disagree (More); Eleven7four — What's the 1174; Biffy Clyro — A Celebration of Endings; Caylee Hammack — If It Wasn't For You; Emma Swift — Blonde on the Tracks; Young Jesus — Welcome to Conceptual Beach.

The singer and author chats with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen about Jollett's incredible new memoir, Hollywood Park. It's also the title of his latest album with The Airborne Toxic Event.