Our picks for the best albums out this week include a droll, sometimes comical, sometimes graphic debut from the Atlanta duo Coco & Clair Clair, five new and totally different records from SAULT and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Coco & Clair Clair — Sexy
Featured Songs: "8 AM," "Bad Lil Vibe," "The Hills," "Love Me"
2. R.A.P. Ferreira — 5 to the Eye with Stars
Featured Songs: "fighting back," "mythsysizer instinct," "ours," "tennessee farmer jutsu"
3. Phoenix — Alpha Zulu
Featured Songs: "Season 2," "Winter Solstice," "Artefact"
4. Big Joanie — Back Home
Featured Songs: "In My Arms," "Cactus Tree"
5. SAULT — AIIR, Earth, Today & Tomorrow, UNTITLED (God), 11
Featured Songs: "4am," "Heal The World," "Valley of the Ocean," "Together," "Life We Rent But Love Is Rent Free," "Love Is All I Know"

Lightning Round:
Connie Constance — Miss Power
First Aid Kit — Palomino
Marvin Tate's D-Settlement — Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
Surya Botofasina — Everyone's Children

Other notable releases for Nov. 4:
Ami Dang — The Living World Demands
Caleb Landry Jones — Gadzooks Vol. 2
Daniel Avery — Ultra Truth
Drake — Her Loss
Tropical Gothclub — Tropical Gothclub
Ezra Collective — Where I'm Meant To Be
h. Pruz — again, there
Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano — Once Around the Room
Lecrae — Church Clothes 4
The Lone Bellow — Love Songs For Losers
Okay Kaya — SAP
Rayland Baxter — If I Were A Butterfly
Special Interest — Endure
Teddy Swims — Sleep Is Exhausting
The Welcome Wagon — Esther

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