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This week's All Songs Considered features Angel Olsen's first album made without a backing band in eight years, 85-year old British folk legend Shirley Collins and a bunch of wonderful new discoveries.

1. Angel Olsen: "Whole New Mess" from Whole New Mess
2. Chrissy Stewart: "House of Christina" from House of Christina
3. Le Ren: "The Day I Lose My Mind" from Morning & Melancholia
4. Saadi: "Pearl" from Saadi
5. Shirley Collins: "Barbara Allen" from Heart's Ease
6. Cinder Well: "Our Lady's" from No Summer

Taylor Swift's surprise new album, Folklore tops our list of the week's best releases, along with new ones from Lupe Fiasco, a 50th anniversary edition of Roberta Flack's debut album and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Taylor Swift — Folklore
Featured Song: "Seven"
2. Lupe Fiasco and Kaelin Ellis — House
Featured Song: "Shoes"
3. Lord Finesse — Motown State of Mind
Featured Song: "I Wanna Be Where You Are"
4. Roberta Flack — First Take (50th Anniversary Edition)
Featured Song: "Trade Winds"
5. Sparkle Division — To Feel Embraced
Featured Song: "You Go Girl!"
6. Jaguar Sun — This Empty Town
Featured Song: "Red"
7. Jess Cornelius — Distance
Featured Song: "Banging My Head"
8. Courtney Marie Andrews — Old Flowers
Featured Song: "Together or Alone"
9. Kamaal Williams — Wu Hen
Featured Song: "Mr. Wu"
10. Maria Schneider — Data Lords
Featured Songs: "Data Lords" and "Bluebird"

Other notable releases for July 24: Katie Dey — Mydata; Liza Anne — Bad Vacation; Logic — No Pressure; Lori McKenna — The Balladeer; The Naked And The Famous — Recover; PJ Harvey — Dry Demos; Shirley Collins — Heart's Ease; Thin Lear — Wooden Cave; Thomas Bartlett — Shelter.

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On this edition of All Songs Considered, Sylvan Esso share and talk about their new song "Ferris Wheel," plus the first new album from The Psychedelic Furs in 29 years and more.

1. TRISHES: "Gaslight"
2. The Psychedelic Furs: "Come All Ye Faithful" from Made Of Rain
3. Gordon Koang: "South Sudan" from Unity
4. Madeline Kenney: "Picture Of You" from Sucker's Lunch
5. Sylvan Esso: "Ferris Wheel" from Free Love
6. Barker: "Paradise Engineering" from Utility

The week's best new albums include old-school hip-hop from Blu & Exile, a transformative record from singer Lianne La Havas, the existential rock of Protomartyr, pop singer Ellie Goulding and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The Chicks — Gaslighter
Featured Song: "Sleep at Night"
2. Lianne La Havas — Lianne La Havas
Featured Song: "Seven Times"
3. Blu & Exile — Miles: From an Interlude Called Life
Featured Song: "True and Livin'"
4. JARV IS — Beyond the Pale
Featured Song: "Sometimes I Am Pharaoh"
5. Protomartyr — Ultimate Success Today
Featured Song: "Processed by the Boys"
6. Ellie Goulding — Brightest Blue
Featured Song: "How Deep is Too Deep?"
7. Zara McFarlane — Songs of An Unknown Tongue
Featured Song: "State of Mind"
8. KLLO — Maybe We Could
Featured Song: "Still Here"

Other notable released for July 17: Alice Ivy — Don't Sleep; Bing & Ruth — Species; Christian Sands — Be Water; Crickets — Crickets; David Ramirez — My Love Is A Hurricane; Dehd — Flower of Devotion; Illuminati Hotties — Free IH: This is Not the One You've Been Waiting For; Laraaji — Sun Piano; Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards — Bitter Better; Nicolas Jaar — Telas; S.G. Goodman — Old Time Feeling

This week's All Songs Considered mix features the extraordinary voice of Golda May, the cello music of Diana Burgess, the soul-filled sounds of Snoh Aalegra and more.

1. Golda May: "Hear Me Out"
2. Lomelda: "Wonder" from Hannah
3. Knot: "Foam" from Knot
4. Diana Burgess: "You Run" from You Run
5. Snoh Aalegra: "Dying 4 Your Love"
6. MXXWLL: "Light Turn Green" from Sheeesh

The best new albums out this week include the first posthumous full-length from the late rapper Juice Wrld, singer Margo Price's best record yet, the return of Rufus Wainwright and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Juice WRLD — Legends Never Die
Featured Song: "Life's A Mess"
2. Rufus Wainwright — Unfollow the Rules
Featured Song: "Damsel In Distress"
3. Apollo Brown & Ché Noir — As God Intended
Featured Song: "Money Oriented"
4. Margo Price — That's How Rumors Get Started
Featured Song: "What Happened To Our Love"
5. Sharhabil Ahmed — The King of Sudanese Jazz
Featured Song: "Argos Farfish"
6. The Beths — Jump Rope Gazers
Featured Song: "I'm Not Getting Excited"
7. My Morning Jacket — The Waterfall II
Featured Song: "Spinning My Wheels"
8. Jimmie Allen — Bettie James
Featured Song: "When This Is Over"
9. Julianna Barwick — Healing Is a Miracle
Featured Song: "In Light (feat. Jónsi)
10. Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade — RoundAgain
Featured Song: "Right Back Round Again"

Other notable releases for July 10: Brett Eldredge — Sunday Drive; Dinner Party — Dinner Party; DMA's — The Glow; The Jayhawks — XOXO; Joshua Ray Walker — Glad You Made It; Kacy Hill — Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again?; Kestrels — Dream or Don't Dream; Ray Wylie Hubbard — Co-Starring; Sahbabii — Barnacles; The Streets — None of Us Are Getting Out of This Alive; Summer Walker — Life On Earth.

This week's All Songs Considered features an epic new song from Sufjan Stevens, a piano nocturne from Thomas Bartlett, a surprise release from Bill Callahan and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:

1. Bill Callahan "Pigeons" from Gold Record
2. Fenne Lily "Alapathy" from Breach
3. Lonnie Holley "Like Hell Broke Away" from National Freedom
4. Thomas Bartlett "Lucida" from Shelter
5. Sufjan Stevens "America" from The Ascension

The best new albums out this week include the posthumous debut studio release from the rapper Pop Smoke, Willie Nelson's 70th solo album, a surprise release from the Japanese experimental band Boris and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Keleketla! — Keleketla!
Featured Songs: "Future Toyi Toyi" and "Freedom Groove"
2. Denai Moore — Modern Dread
Featured Song: "Don't Close the Door"
3. Willie Nelson — First Rose of Spring
Featured Song: "Don't Let the Old Man In"
4. Pop Smoke — Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
Featured Song: "Got It On Me"
5. Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience — To Know Without Knowing
Featured Song: "To Know Without Knowing"
6. Boris — NO
Featured Songs: "Temple of Hatred" and "Interlude"

Other notable releases for July 3: Cuddle Magic — Bath; Dream Wife — So When You Gonna; Gucci Mane — So Icy Summer; Lamin Fofana — Blues; Paul Weller — On Sunset; Too Much — Club Emotion.

From Run The Jewels' RTJ4 to pianist Jenny Lin's heart-soothing Philip Glass performance, hear the voices of the NPR Music staff share their picks.

This week's "best new albums" shortlist includes the genre-defying sounds of Arca, Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's transporting improvisations, HAIM, sacred soul and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Bad Moves — Untenable
Featured Song: "Local Radio"
2. Arca — KiCk i
Featured Song: "Riquiqui"
3. Becca Mancari — The Greatest Part
Featured Song: "The First Time"
4. Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson — Chicago Waves
Featured Song: "Part VI-Into Eternity"
5. HAIM — Women in Music Pt. III
Featured Songs: "Los Angeles" and "Man From the Magazine"
6. Dedicated Men of Zion — Can't Turn Me Around
Featured Song: "Down Here Lord"
7. Khruangbin — Mordechai
Featured Song: "Time (You and I)"
8. Derrick Hodge — Color of Noize
Featured Song: "You Could Have Stayed"

Other notable releases for June 26: Angela Muñoz & Adrian Younge — Introspection; BOYO — Where Have All My Friends Gone?; Brian McKnight — Exodus; Gabriel Olafs — Piano Works; Gordi — Our Two Skins; HUM — Inlet; Japandroids — Massey F****** Hall; Jessie Ware — What's Your Pleasure?; Maceo Parker — Soul Food Cooking With Maceo; Nana Grizol — South Somewhere Else; Ray LaMontagne — Monovision; Tenille Townes — The Lemonade Stand.