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New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 17 : All Songs Considered Our shortlist of the week's best new releases includes an incredible collection of cover songs from the rapper T-Pain, an EP from Hozier, labyrinthine surprises from Princess Nokia and more.

Featured Albums:
1. T-Pain — On Top of the Covers
Featured Songs: "War Pigs," "Tennessee Whiskey," "Don't Stop Believin'," "A Change Is Gonna Come"
2. Hozier — Eat Your Young
Featured Songs: "Eat Your Young," "All Things End," "Through Me (The Flood)"
3. Princess Nokia — i love you but this is goodbye
Featured Songs: "The Fool," "Happy," "Closure"
4. 100 gecs — 10,000 gecs
Featured Songs: "Dumbest Girl Alive," "Frog On The Floor," "Billy Knows Jamie"
5. Yves Tumor — Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Featured Songs: "Echolalia," "Meteora Blues," "Heaven Surrounds Us Like A Hood"

Lightning Round:
Genevieve Artadi — Forever Forever
Niklas Paschburg — Panta Rhei
So!YoON! — Episode1: Love
Unknown Mortal Orchestra — V

Other notable releases for March 17:
All Time Low — Tell Me I'm Alive
The Band of Heathens — Simple Things
FIDLAR — That's Life
Gideon — More Power, More Pain
Moderat — Even More D4ta
Tei Shi — Badd Premonition
U2 — Songs of Surrender

All Songs Considered

New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 17

New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 17

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T-Pain's On Top of the Covers is on our shortlist of the best albums out on March 17. Giles Williams/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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We've known since at least his 2014 Tiny Desk concert that T-Pain doesn't need auto-tune to sing. But he takes it to a whole new level on his incredible new collection of cover songs called On Top of the Covers, with surprising takes on everything from Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and Chris Stapleton's "Tennessee Whiskey." But we open this week's show with T-Pain's version of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" and talk about why the album is one of the most joyful releases of the year.

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We've also got a new EP from Hozier ahead of a full-length due out late this year, Princess Nokia's ever-changing i love you but this is goodbye, 100 gecs and more. Contributors Cyrena Touros and LaTesha Harris join Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody and host Robin Hilton as they share their picks for the best releases out on March 17.

Featured Albums:

  1. T-Pain — On Top of the Covers
    Featured Songs: "War Pigs," "Tennessee Whiskey," "Don't Stop Believin'," "A Change Is Gonna Come"
  2. Hozier — Eat Your Young
    Featured Songs: "Eat Your Young," "All Things End," "Through Me (The Flood)"
  3. Princess Nokia — i love you but this is goodbye
    Featured Songs: "The Fool," "Happy," "Closure"
  4. 100 gecs — 10,000 gecs
    Featured Songs: "Dumbest Girl Alive," "Frog On The Floor," "Billy Knows Jamie"
  5. Yves Tumor — Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Featured Songs: "Echolalia," "Meteora Blues," "Heaven Surrounds Us Like A Hood"

Lightning Round:

  • Genevieve Artadi — Forever Forever
  • Niklas Paschburg — Panta Rhei
  • So!YoON! — Episode1: Love
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra — V

Other notable releases for March 17:

  • All Time Low — Tell Me I'm Alive
  • The Band of Heathens — Simple Things
  • Doug Paisley — Say What You Like
  • FIDLAR — That's Life
  • Gideon — MORE POWER. MORE PAIN.
  • M83 — Fantasy
  • Moderat — Even More D4ta
  • U2 — Songs of Surrender