NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Hot Chip, the R&B singer Tink, Shemekia Copeland, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Hot Chip — Freakout/Release
Featured Songs: "Down," "Freakout/Release," "Miss the Bliss," "The Evil That Men Do"
2. Terence Etc. — Vortex
Featured Songs: "In Contemplation of Clair's Scent," "Infinence or Infinity," "The Merchant of Flatbush"
3. Anna Tivel — Outsiders
Featured Songs: "Outsiders, "Black Umbrella," "The Basement"
4. Tink — Pillow Talk
Featured Songs: "Mine," "Drunk Text'n"
5. Shemekia Copeland — Done Come Too Far
Featured Songs: "Too Far To Be Gone," "The Talk," "Fell in Love with a Honky," "Gullah Geechee," "The Dolls are Sleeping"

Lightning Round:
Andrew Combs — Sundays
Internet Money — We All We Got
Muna Ileiwat — Twenty-Seven
THICK — Happy Now

Other notable releases for Aug. 19:
AITCH — Close to Home
Cass McCombs — Heartmind
Demi Lovato — HOLY FVCK
Eli Winter — Eli Winter
Kim Myhr — Sympathetic Magic
Loudon Wainwright III — Lifetime Achievement
Madonna — Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones
Marketa Irglova — Lila
The Mountain Goats — Bleed Out
Panic! At The Disco — Viva Las Vengeance
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries II
Silversun Pickups — Physical Thrills
The Soft Pink Truth — Was It Ever Real?

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 19

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