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The two brothers describe their first-ever album together as a kind of art project — Roger composed the music and Brian added all the color. "Roger is a landscape painter," says Brian, "and I'm an abstract expressionist."

Finally, some good news! J Balvin's Colores is here, along with The Weeknd's mysterious After Hours, dance therapy from TOKiMONSTA and more, all on our shortlist of the week's best new albums.

Featured Albums:
1. J Balvin — Colores
Featured Song: "Amarillo"
2. The Weeknd — After Hours
Featured Song: "After Hours"
3. TOKiMONSTA — Oasis Nocturno
Featured Song: "Get Me Some"
4. Ian William Craig — Red Sun Through Smoke
Featured Songs: "Weight" and "Condx QRN"
5. Becca Stevens — Wonderbloom
Featured Song: "I Wish"
6. Yael Naim — nightsongs
7. Kelsea Ballerini — Kelsea
Featured Song: "Half of my Hometown"

Other notable releases for March 20: Adam Lambert — Velvet; Brian and Roger Eno — Mixing Colours; Conan Gray — Kid Krow; Delta Rae — The Light; Gordon Lightfoot — SOLO; The Legendary Ingramettes — Take a Look in the Book; Låpsley — Through Water; Mapache — From Liberty Street; Moaning -- Uneasy Laughter; Sea Wolf — Through a Dark Wood; Tower of Power — Step Up.

For the first time in more than 30 years ago, SXSW isn't happening. But we still listened to hundreds of bands that were supposed to play in Austin this week and made some great discoveries.On this episode of All Songs Considered we share just a fraction of our favorite discoveries, including the German electro-pop band, Cosby, the UK singer-songwriter Luke De-Sciscio and the Nigerian singer and rapper known as Rema.Playlist:1. Cosby: "Follow the Leader"2. Luke De-Sciscio: "I'm A Dream Fighting Out Of A Man"3. Katie Malco: "Creatures"4. Akineymi: "Seaworld"5. Höröyá: "Dogon"6. Black Country, New Road: "Sunglasses"7. S.G. Goodman: "The Way I Talk"8. Totemo: "Origami"9. Chelsea Williams: "Red Flag"10. Boyo: "Backseat Driver"11. Shards: "Summer Sickness"12. Rema: "Lady"

One Direction singer Niall Horan is back with a new solo album, Big Freedia gets 'Louder' and The Flaming Lips team up with Deap Valley for a gritty new psych-rock project.

Featured Albums:
1. Niall Horan — Heartbreak Weather
Featured Song: "Nice to Meet Ya"
2. Big Freedia — Louder
Featured Song: "Chasing Rainbows"
3. JFDR — New Dreams
Featured Song: "Think Too Fast"
4. Dogleg — Melee
Featured Song: "Fox"
5. Caitlyn Smith — Supernova
Featured Song: "I Don't Want To Love You Anymore"
6. Porridge Radio — Every Bad
Featured Songs: "Sweet" and "Lilac"
7. Deap Lips — Deap Lips
Featured Song: "Hope Hell High"
8. Hilary Woods — Birthmarks
Featured Songs: "Through the Dark, Love" and "Mud and Stones"
9. Shabaka and the Ancestors — We Are Sent Here by History
Featured Song: "You've Been Called"
10. Code Orange — Underneath
Featured Song: "The Easy Way"

Other notable albums out on March 13: The Bombpops — Death in Venice Beach; The Boomtown Rats — Citizens of Boomtown; The Districts — You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere; Four Tet — Sixteen Oceans; Grouplove — Healer; Honeycutt — Coasting; Peter Bjorn and John — Endless Dream; Sam Doores — Sam Doores; Ultraista — Sister; Yumi Zouma — Truth or Consequence.

This week's must-hear mix includes the veteran English art-rock group Wire, singer Anna Calvi's reworking of "Don't Beat the Girl out of My Boy, the return of Car Seat Headrest and more.

Playlist:
1. Anna Calvi: "Don't Beat the Girl out of My Boy" (feat. Courtney Barnett) from Hunted
2. Ohmme: "3 2 4 3" from Fantasize Your Ghost
3. Wire: "Cactused" from Mind Hive
4. Car Seat Headrest: "Can't Cool Me Down" (Single)
5. Alex the Astronaut: "I Think You're Great" (Single)
6. Beatuty Pill: "J.T.S. Study No. 1" from Sorry You're Here

Our sprint through the best albums out this week includes the latest from R&B singer Jhené Aiko, Phantogram, singer Mandy Moore's first new music in a decade, Swamp Dogg, Cornershop and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Phantogram — Ceremony
Featured Song: "Love Me Now"
2. Pantha Du Prince — Conference of Trees
Featured Song: "Transparent Tickle Shining Glace"
3. Mandy Moore — Silver Landings
Featured Song: "Forgiveness"
4. Jhené Aiko — Chilombo
Featured Song: "Happiness Over Everything"
5. Nadia Reid — Out of My Province
Featured Song: "Get the Devil Out"
6. Stephen Malkmus — Traditional Techniques
Featured Song: "Xian Man"
7. Caroline Rose — Superstar
Featured Song: "Do You Think We'll Last Forever"
8. Swamp Dogg — Sorry You Couldn't Make It
Featured Song: "Please Let Me Go 'Round Again"
9. Cornershop — England is a Garden
Featured Song: "No Rock: Save In Roll"
10. THICK — 5 Years Behind
Featured Song: "Mansplain"

Other notable releases for March 6: Anna Calvi — Hunted; CocoRosie — Put the Shine On; Disq — Collector; Esmé Patterson — There Will Come Soft Rains; Grafh — The Oracle III; José James — No Beginning No End 2; Noel Gallagher's High-Flying Birds — Blue Moon Rising; Overcoats — The Fight; Riz Ahmed — The Long Goodbye; U.S. Girls — Heavy Light; Worriers — You Or Someone You Know.

This week's must-hear mix of songs includes a sunny new track from Dirty Projectors, new solo music from Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and several curiosities from NPR Music's striking Viking, Lars Gotrich.

Playlist:
1. Coriky: "Clean Kill" from Coriky
2. Azusa: "Detach" from Loop of Yesterdays
3. African Head Charge: "Dub Some More" (Single)
4. Ricardo Richaid: "Largado Nu" from Travesseiro Feliz
5. Dirty Projectors: "Overlord" (Single)
6. Big Blood: "Providence" from Do You Wanna Have A Skeleton Dream?
7. Ed O'Brien: "Shangri-La" from Earth

Our shortlist of the best albums out this week includes Caribou's first new full-length in five years, the rapper G Herbo's PTSD, a career-spanning celebration from Brazilian legend Sergio Mendes and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Carbiou — Suddenly
Featured Songs: "Home" and "Lime"
2. Real Estate — The Main Thing
Featured Song: "You"
3. G Herbo — PTSD
Featured Song: "Gangsta's Cry"
4. Kyshona Armstrong — Listen
Featured Song: "Fear"
5. Hailey Whitters — The Dream
Featured Song: "10 Year Town"
6. Sérgio Mendes — In the Key of Joy
Featured Song: "Bora Lá"
7. Kassa Overall — I Think I'm Good
Featured Song: "Darkness In Mind"
8. Ratboys — Printer's Devil
Featured Song: "Look To"
9. Thomas Adès — Adès Conducts Adès (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra)
Featured Songs: Excerpts from the third and second movements

Other notable releases for Feb. 28: Angelica Garcia — Cha Cha Palace; Ellen Fullman — In the Sea; Sierra Hull — 25 Trips; Soccer Mommy — Color Theory

This week's must-hear mix includes the mind-blowing sax band Moon Hooch, guitarist-singer Jay Som, whose latest builds to a fever pitch, and new discoveries from Wednesday, Momma and more.

Playlist:
1. Wednesday: "Fate Is"
2. Momma: "Double Dare"
3. Moon Hooch: "Candlelight"
4. Ellis: "Fall Apart"
5. Jay Som: "A Thousand Words"
6. Ada Lea: "woman, here"
7. Shabaka & the Ancestors: "Go My Heart, Go To Heaven"

New albums from the K-pop band BTS, Grimes and Best Coast are among our picks for this week's best new releases.

Featured Albums:
1. BTS — 'Map of the Soul: 7'
Featured Song: "On"
2. Grimes — 'Miss_Anthrop0cene)'
Featured Song: "You'll Miss Me When I'm Not Around"
3. Best Coast — 'Always Tomorrow'
Featured Song: "Rollercoaster"
4. Royce da 5'9" — 'The Allegory'
Featured Songs: "Overcomer" and "Mr. Grace"
5. Katie Pruitt — 'Expectations'
Featured Song: "Normal"
6. Moses Sumney — 'græ: Part 1'
Featured Songs: "Conveyor" and "Gagarin"
7. Agnes Obel — 'Myopia'
Featured Song: "Camera's Rolling"
8. King Krule — 'Man Alive!'
Featured Song: "Stoned Again"
9. Klangstof — 'The Noise You Make is Silent'
Featured Song: "Blank Page"

Other notable releases for Feb. 21: Banoffee — Look at Us Now Dad; Greg Dulli — Random Desire; Guided by Voices — Surrender Your Poppy Field; MILCK: Into Gold; Ozzy Osbourne — Ordinary Man; Sarah Harmer — Are You Gone; Six Organs of Admittance — Companion Rises; Wilsen — Ruiner.