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New Music Friday: The best albums out March 15 : All Songs Considered It feels like the first major springtime release week of 2024. Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss the hotly awaited album by Kacey Musgraves and the full-length debut by Tierra Whack, plus more.

Featured albums: 1. Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well 2. Tierra Whack, World Wide Whack 3. Justin Timberlake, Everything I Thought It Was 4. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, _The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis_Other notable releases for March 15 • Four Tet, Three • The Black Crowes, Happiness Bastards • Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow • The Dandy Warhols, Rockmaker • Holly Humberstone, work in progress EP • Flo Milli, Fine Ho, Stay • Elcamino, The Game Is The Game

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New Music Friday: The best albums out March 15

Kacey Musgraves' album Deeper Well is one of a number of anticipated releases out March 15, 2024. Kelly Christine Sutton/Courtesy of the artist **hide caption

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Kacey Musgraves' album Deeper Well is one of a number of anticipated releases out March 15, 2024.

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It feels like the first major springtime release week of 2024. On this week's episode of New Music Friday, NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss the hotly awaited album by the wry-country-storyteller-turned-Grammy-winning-vibes-purveyor-turned ... wellness guru (?) Kacey Musgraves and the full-length debut by unclassifiable rapper and visual innovator Tierra Whack.

Plus: a comeback effort from one of the 21st century's most consequential pop stars, a jazz-punk collaboration that somehow manages to avoid feeling like a mashup, and more.

Featured albums: 1. Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well
2. Tierra Whack, World Wide Whack
3. Justin Timberlake, Everything I Thought It Was
4. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, The Messthetics and James Brandon LewisOther notable releases for March 15 • Four Tet, Three • The Black Crowes, Happiness Bastards
• Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow • The Dandy Warhols, Rockmaker • Holly Humberstone, work in progress EP
• Flo Milli, Fine Ho, Stay • Elcamino, The Game Is The Game