NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include genre-straddling polymaths Santigold and Sudan Archives, R&B sensation Ari Lennox and more.

Featured Albums:

Ari Lennox — age/sex/location
Featured Songs: "Queen Space (feat. Summer Walker)," "Hoodie"
Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen
Featured Songs: "Copycat (Broken Notions)," "Chevy S10," "Yellow Brick Road, TDLY (Homegrown Land)"
The Paranoyds — Talk Talk Talk
Featured Songs: "Freak Out," "Single Origin Experience," "Sunburn"
Sampa the Great — As Above, So Below
Featured Songs: "Lane (feat. Denzel Curry)," "Can I Live"
Santigold — Spirituals
Featured Songs: "High Priestess," "Ain't Ready," "My Horror," "Shake"

Lightning Round:

Son Little — Like Neptune
Jackson Wang — Magic Man
Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard
Built To Spill — When the Wind Forgets Your Name
Madison Cunningham — Revealer

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