New Music Friday: The best albums out March 1

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)


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