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New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out Feb. 7

Singer Frazey Ford. Her latest full-length, U Kin Be the Sun, is on our shortlist for the week's best new releases. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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All Songs Considered

New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out Feb. 7

Our list of the best new albums out this week includes the "garage country" of Aubrie Sellers, former Belle and Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell's first solo album in 14 years, Frazey Ford and more.

New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out Feb. 7

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Song Of The Day

Campbell And Lanegan Sing A Seduction Song

Romance may or may not be dead, but song-based seduction thrives on in the music of Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan. In "Come on Over (Turn Me On)," Campbell and Lanegan coo and growl, respectively, waltzing around each other like two newly smitten neophytes with tractor beams for gazes. The resulting chemistry is both palpable and deep.

Come on Over (Turn Me On)

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New Mix: The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Sarah Blasko

All Songs Considered

New Mix: The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Sarah Blasko

On this episode of All Songs Considered, Queens of the Stone Age, Sean Lennon's new project, Sarah Blasko and the distinctive voices of Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan.

New Mix: The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger, Sarah Blasko

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World Cafe

Isobel Campbell's New Broken Sea Ballads

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Former Belle and Sebastian member Isobel Campbell has a new collaborator for her latest album. She teamed with occasional Queens of the Stone Age frontman Mark Lanegan for Ballad of the Broken Seas.

Isobel Campbell in Studio on World Cafe - 04/25/2006

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Pop Culture

Isobel Campbell: After Belle Comes 'Ballad'

They're an odd couple. Angel-voiced Scot Isobel Campbell and gravelly grunge rocker Mark Lanegan of Seattle combine their talents on the CD Ballad of the Broken Seas. Campbell tells Liane Hansen about life after Belle and Sebastian.

Isobel Campbell: After Belle Comes 'Ballad'

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