All Songs Considered

IDLES Ebru Yildiz/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Interpol Jamie James Medina/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Jon Hopkins' new album, Singularity, is out now. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Nipsey Hussle's Victory Lap is out now. Nicholas Watkin @NickWYNC/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

"There can be a natural conversational element to our music sometimes, because the songs usually are sort of a conversation between the three of us," Khruangbin says. Mary Kang/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

"With all the compassion in my heart, I just want to say to white people sampling others' music: what you're engaging in is colonialism," Merrill Garbus says. "Name it for what it is." Eliot Lee Hazel/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

"The Lick" was named for the "unnamed member of the band entered a strange state of drug-induced psychosis and for a good ten minutes could only seem to muster the words 'the... lick.'" Holly Whitaker/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

"We had certain adjectives that the two of us would discuss about the record: post-apocalyptic and urgent," Glassjaw guitarist Justin Beck (left) says of Material Control. Julian Gilbert/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Big K.R.I.T. leaves no stone unturned in the soulful exploration of 4EVA Is A Mighty Long Time. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

A mass of baby rats featured in Rat Film. MEMORY/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

Torres' third full-length, out now on 4AD, is Three Futures Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Protomartyr (left to right): Greg Ahee, Scott Davidson, Joe Casey, Alex Leonard Daniel Topete/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

"Oblivion is kind of like nirvana, where you become nothing and you don't have to suffer over and over again," Jhené Aiko says. "You're free to just be nothing." Courtesy of the artist/Def Jam hide caption