NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include a Madlib-Four Tet collaboration, stunning debuts from Celeste and Arlo Parks, the Malian artist Nahawa Doumbia and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Madlib & Four Tet — Sound Ancestors
Featured Song: "Hoprock"
2. Celeste — Not Your Muse
Featured Song: "Tonight Tonight"
3. Weezer — OK Human
Featured Song: "All My Favorite Songs"
4. Nahawa Doumbia — Kanawa
Featured Song: "Didadi"
5. Arlo Parks — Collapsed in Sunbeams
Featured Song: "Hope"
6. Ani DiFranco — Revolutionary Love
Featured Song: "Crocus"
7. Shai Maestro — Human
Featured Song: "Time"
8. Yasmin Williams — Urban Driftwood
Featured Song: "Juvenessence" and "Urban Driftwood"
Other notable releases for Jan. 29: Anna B Savage — A Common Turn; The Besnard Lakes — The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings; The Body — I've Seen All I Need To See; Buke & Gase With So Percussion — A Record Of...; Goat Girl — On All Fours; The Notwist — Vertigo Days; PJ Harvey — Is This Desire - Demos; Steven Wilson — The Future Bites; Tribulation — Where The Gloom Becomes Sound.