NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Amaarae, Janelle Monáe, King Krule, Keaton Henson and more.Featured Albums:1. Amaarae — Fountain BabyFeatured Songs: "Counterfeit," "Angels in Tibet," "Sex, Violence, Suicide Pt. 2," "Come Home to God"2. King Krule — Space HeavyFeatured Songs: "Hamburgerphobia," "That Is My Life, That Is Yours," "Pink Shell"3. Jenny Lewis — Joy'AllFeatured Songs: "Joy'All," "Chain of Tears," "Puppy and a Truck"4. Janelle Monáe — The Age of PleasureFeatured Songs: "Champagne Shit," "Black Sugar Beach," "Phenomenal (feat. Doechii)," "Lipstick Lover"5. Keaton Henson — House PartyFeatured Songs: "I'm Not There," "Holiday," "Envy," "Hooray"Lightning Round:Emile Mosseri — Heaven Hunters Feeble Little Horse — Girl With FishSquid — O Monolith Youth Lagoon — Heaven is a JunkyardOther notable releases for June 9:Andy Stack & Jay Hammond — Inter PersonalChristine and the Queens — Paranoia, Angels, True LoveThe Dead Milkmen — Quaker City Quiet PillsDream Wife — Social LubricationGabriel Ólafs — Lullabies For Piano And CelloJason Isbell and the 400 Unit — WeathervanesJayda G — GuyJess Williamson — Time Ain't AccidentalJonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa — Jarak QaribakThis Is The Kit — Careful Of Your Keepers

This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months, including new work from the prolific Eduardo Cabra, surprisingly straight-ahead regional from Santa Fe Klan and a premiere of a new song from Elsa y Elmar.

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music's Lars Gotrich share their favorite new tracks including new music from the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, the Swedish ambient rock artist SOLE and more.Featured Artists And Songs:1. Dorotheo: "Las Nubes," from Nada Escrito 2. Fatoumata Diawara: "Dambe," from London Ko 3. High Rise: "Outside Gentiles," from Dispersion 4. Anjimile: "The King," from The King5. Laure Boer: "Lapin," from Les cit​é​s englouties 6. SOLE: "nous (feat. Chamoon)," from våra liv

Hear the powerfully poetic Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? from McKinley Dixon, a scorcher from Bully, Aisha Badru's Learning to Love Again, the first new solo album in 15 years from Ben Folds and more.Featured Albums:1. McKinley Dixon — Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?Featured Songs: "Run, Run, Run," "Hanif Reads Toni," "Live! From the Kitchen Table (feat. Ghais Guevara)"2. Bully — Lucky For YouFeatured Songs: "Hard to Love," "Lose You (feat. Soccer Mommy)," "All I Do"3. Aisha Badru — Learning to Love AgainFeatured Songs: "Path of Least Resistance," "Inside," "Move"4. Ben Folds — What Matters MostFeatured Songs: "What Matters Most," "Clouds with Ellipses," "Kristine from the 7th Grade," "Moments (feat. Tall Heights)"5. W.I.T.C.H. — ZangoFeatured Songs: "Waile," "Avalanche of Love (feat. Sampa the Great)"Lightning Round:Foo Fighters — But Here We AreJuan Wauters — Wandering RebelLazy Salon — BellisToosii — NAUJOUROther notable releases for June 2:The Aquadolls — CharmedBob Dylan — Shadow KingdomCowboy Junkies — Such Ferocious BeautyJack Johnson — In Between DubKenny Rogers — Life is Like a SongLinda May Han Oh — The Glass HoursMoneybagg Yo — Hard to LoveNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds — Council SkiesProtomartyr — FormalRufus Wainwright — FolkocracyTanya Tucker — Sweet Western Sound

Over the last nine episodes, Louder Than A Riot has tackled the unwritten rules of rap that hold the whole culture back. For the show's finale, we dig into the root of all those rules: the scarcity mindset. It's the belief that access and resources are so limited for those marginalized in hip-hop that you have to fight tooth and nail for them, and that only one can make it to the top at a time.