NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Hot Chip, the R&B singer Tink, Shemekia Copeland, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Hot Chip \u2014 Freakout/Release
Featured Songs: "Down," "Freakout/Release," "Miss the Bliss," "The Evil That Men Do"
2. Terence Etc. \u2014 Vortex
Featured Songs: "In Contemplation of Clair's Scent," "Infinence or Infinity," "The Merchant of Flatbush"
3. Anna Tivel \u2014 Outsiders
Featured Songs: "Outsiders, "Black Umbrella," "The Basement"
4. Tink \u2014 Pillow Talk
Featured Songs: "Mine," "Drunk Text'n"
5. Shemekia Copeland \u2014 Done Come Too Far
Featured Songs: "Too Far To Be Gone," "The Talk," "Fell in Love with a Honky," "Gullah Geechee," "The Dolls are Sleeping"
Lightning Round:
Andrew Combs \u2014 Sundays
Internet Money \u2014 We All We Got
Muna Ileiwat \u2014 Twenty-Seven
THICK \u2014 Happy Now
Other notable releases for Aug. 19:
AITCH \u2014 Close to Home
Cass McCombs \u2014 Heartmind
Demi Lovato \u2014 HOLY FVCK
Eli Winter \u2014 Eli Winter
Kim Myhr \u2014 Sympathetic Magic
Loudon Wainwright III \u2014 Lifetime Achievement
Madonna \u2014 Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones
Marketa Irglova \u2014 Lila
The Mountain Goats \u2014 Bleed Out
Panic! At The Disco \u2014 Viva Las Vengeance
R\xf6yksopp \u2014 Profound Mysteries II
Silversun Pickups \u2014 Physical Thrills
The Soft Pink Truth \u2014 Was It Ever Real?
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