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

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