New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 24

The Atlanta rapper and singer 6LACK, Lana Del Rey, R&B singer Yaya Bey, the veteran rock group Depeche Mode and more are among the artists dropping our picks for the best new albums out this week.

Featured Albums:
1. 6LACK — Since I Have A Lover
Featured Songs: "Inwood Hill Park," "Cold Feet," "Talkback," "Chasing Feeling"
2. Lana Del Rey — Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Featured Songs: "Peppers (feat. Tommy Genesis)," "Jon Batiste Interlude," "Margaret (feat. Bleachers)," "Judah Smith Interlude," "A&W"
3. Yaya Bey — Exodus the North Star
Featured Songs: "when saturn returns," "exodus the north star"
4. Lankum — False Lankum
Featured Songs: "Clear Away in the Morning," "Fugue III," "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn"
5. Depeche Mode — Memento Mori
Featured Songs: "My Cosmos Is Mine," "Always You," "People Are Good," "My Favourite Stranger"

Lightning Round:
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily — Love in Exile
Benny Sings — Young Hearts
Caroline Rose — The Art of Forgetting
Fall Out Boy — So Much (For) Stardust
Kele — The Flames, Pt. 2
Lemar — Page In My Heart
Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary)
Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro — RR
Sophie B Hawkins — Free Myself

Other notable releases for March 24:
03 Greedo — Halfway There
Babymetal — The Other One
The HIRS Collective — We're Still Here
Jimin — FACE
Kate Davis — Fish Bowl
Meg Myers — TZIA
Nickel Creek — Celebrants
Purling Hiss — Drag on Girard
Spectacular Diagnostics — Raw Lessons

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