On this week's edition of New Music Friday, NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce discuss Faye Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony and a handful of the week's other brand new albums on which a musician's personality seems to be embodied by their voice — even when the music is completely instrumental.
Featured albums
- 1. Faye Webster, Underdressed at the Symphony
- 2. ScHoolboy Q, Blue Lips
- 3. Julian Lage, Speak To Me
- 4. Sheer Mag, Playing Favorites
Other notable releases for March 1
- Paula Cole, Lo
- Jacob Collier, Djesse Vol. 4
- Everything Everything, Mountainhead
- Nils Frahm, Day
- Hannah Frances, Keeper of the Shepherd
- Ben Frost, Scope Neglect
- Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Liam Gallagher & John Squire
- Albert Hammond, Body of Work
- Jahari Massamba Unit, Karriem Riggins & Madlib, YHWH is LOVE
- Kaiser Chiefs, Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album
- Lang Lang, Saint-Saëns
- Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven
- Ministry, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
- Pissed Jeans, Half Divorced
- That Mexican OT, Texas Technician
- Uranium Club, Infants Under the Bulb
- Yard Act, Where's My Utopia?
- De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising (35th Anniversary Edition)
- Linda Smith, Nothing Else Matters and So I Liked Spring (reissues)