14.Australia’s Tame Impala tend to switch things up with each album, but we’d have to say that an infusion of house music and Philadelphia soul were not what we were expecting. Host Robin Hilton is joined by NPR Music's Bobby Carter, Marissa Lorusso and Stephen Thompson, along with contributors Jewly Hight, Nate Chinen of WBGO and Jazz Night in America and John Morrison, host of XPN's Culture Cypher Radio and the podcast Serious Rap S***, as they share their picks for the best new albums out on Feb. All that plus the country singer Carly Pearce, psychedelic soundscapes from The Heliocentrics, the garage rock of Beach Bunny and more. And the percussionist Moses Boyd has a staggering new work called Dark Matter that melds multiple musical worlds in mind-blowing ways. Nathaniel Rateliff returns, this time as a solo artist, with what may be his best batch of songs yet. We kick this week's show off with the song 'Is It True?' We've also got new music from the band Monsta X, a K-pop group that's making a big push for a global audience with its first-ever album in English. It's been five years since Tame Impala put out a new album, but the musical project of Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker is back, now with a groove-heavy but introspective banger called The Slow Rush. His latest release, The Slow Rush, is on our shortlist of the best new albums out on Feb. Beach Bunny - Honeymoon Featured Song: 'Colorblind' Other notable releases for Feb 14: Bambara - Stray Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity? DRAMA - Dance Without Me EDEN - No Future Habibi - Anywhere But Here Huey Lewis and the News - Weather Justin Bieber - Changes Katie Gately - Loom Noah Gundersen - A Raven and a Dove Puss N Boots - Sister Tami Neilson - Chickaboom! Tennis - Swimmer yMusic - Ecstatic Science. Moses Boyd - 'Dark Matter' Featured Songs: 'Dancing in the Dark' and 'Shades of You' 8.

Nathaniel Rateliff - 'And It's Still Alright' Featured Song: 'Mavis' 7. The Heliocentrics - 'Infinity of Now' Featured Song: 'People Wake Up!' 6. Carly Pearce - 'Carly Pearce' Featured Song: 'Call Me' 5. The Ballroom Thieves - 'Unlovely' Featured Song: 'Unlovely' 4. Monsta X - 'All About Luv' Featured Song: 'Someone's Someone' 3. Tame Impala - 'The Slow Rush' Featured Song: 'Is It True?' 2. 14 : All Songs Considered Tame Impala, the K-pop band Monsta X and a new solo album from Nathaniel Rateliff top our shortlist for this week's best new releases. New Music Friday: Our Top 8 Albums Out Feb.

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