Checking out this week's new music releases (all subject to change)...



Album of the Week: After celebrating Christmas with "My Gift," Carrie Underwood keeps the faith with "My Savior" (Capitol Nashville), the "American Idol" champion's first-ever set of gospel standards. In addition to staples such as "How Great Thou Art," "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Amazing Grace," the album includes a duet with gospel great CeCe Winans on "Great Is They Faithfulness."



Album Title of the Week: Natalie D-Napoleon, "You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea" (self-released);



Did Ya Know?: Neil Young's latest archival release, "Young Shakespeare" (Warner) -- comes from a 1971 solo concert in Stratford, Conn. -- contains the earliest known footage of Young in concert as well as pre-release performances of songs from his then- upcoming "Harvest" album.



New & Noteworthy:



Badfinger, "No Matter What -- Revisiting the Hits" (Cleopatra);



Evanescence, "The Bitter Truth" (BMG);



Fitz, "Head Up High" (Elektra);



Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra, "Promises" (Luaka Bop);



Polo Frost, "Vaccine" (self-released);



Suzi Quatro, "The Devil In Me" (SPV/Steamhammer);



Scarypoolparty, "Los Angeles" (Hollywood);



Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen, "Smith/Kotzen" (BMG);



Tune-Yards, "Sketchy" (4AD);



Sara Watkins, "Under the Pepper Tree" (New West)



Also Out:



Adult Books, "Grecian Urn" (Taxi Gauche);



AJR, "OK Orchestra" (S-Curve);



Ziggy Alberts, "In His Own Words" (Commonfolk);



Alex Leach Band, "I'm the Happiest When I'm Moving" (Crossroads);



The Antlers, "Green To Gold" (Transgressive/Anti-Epitaph);



The Armadillo Paradox, "Out of Gas in Oil Country" (self-released);



As Everything Unfolds, "Within Each Lies the Other" (Long Branch);



Aziola Cry, "The Iconic Divide" (Sensory);



Beams, "Ego Death" (Be My Sibling);



Benny the Butcher, "The Plugs I Met 2" (Griselda/Empire);



Black Spiders, "Black Spiders" (Dark Riders);



Budderside, "Spiritual Violence" (Motorhead Music/Silver Lining);



Caleborate, "Light Hit My Skin" (TBKTR/AWAL);



Cavetown, "Sleepyhead (Extras)" (Sire);



Citizen, "Life in Your Glass World" (Run For Cover);



Clark, "Playground in a Lake" (Deutsche Grammophon);



Cosmograf, "Rattrapante" (Gravity Dream Music);



Death From Above 1979, "Is 4 Lovers" (Spinefarm);



Brigitte DeMeyer, "Seeker" (Proper/BDM);



DDG X OG Parker, "Die 4 Respect" (Epic);



Kris Delmhorst, "Light Breaks Through" (Bandcamp);



District 97, "Screenplay" (Cherry Red);



Dog Trainer, "Scrolling to feel better...part one" (self-released);



Mike Doughty, "Ghosts of Vroom" (Mod y Vi);



El Michels Affair, "Yeti Season" (Big Crown);



First Aid Kit, "Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen" (Columbia);



Nick Fletcher, "Cycles of Behaviour" (self-released);



Damon Fowler, "Alafia Moon" (Landslide);



Freestylers, "Other Worlds" (Mama's Pie);



Fretland, "Could Have Loved You" (Soundly Music);



AJ Fullerton, "The Forgiver and the Runaway" (VizzTone);



Gallant, "Neptune" (self-released);



Ali Gatie, "The Idea of Her" (Warner);



Genghis Tron, "Dream Weapon" (Relapse);



Greenleaf, "Echoes From a Mass" (Napalm);



Luke Haines, "Luke Haines In...Setting the Dogs on the Post Punk Postman" (Cherry Red);



Ben Howard, "Collections From the Whiteout" (Island);



The Imaginaries, "The Imaginaries" (ONErpm);



Imminence, "Live in S:t Nicolai (Sweden)" (Arising Empire);



IU, "Lilac" (self-released);



The Juliana Theory, "A Dream Away" (Equal Vision);



Kanga, "You and I will Never Die" (Artoffact);



L'Imperatrice, "Tako Tsubo" (Gold Atlas);



Daniel Lanois, "Heavy Sun" (eOne);



SG Lewis, "times" (Casablanca/Republic);



Liquid Tension Experiment, "LTE3" (InsideOutMusic);



Tate McRae, "too young to be sad" (RCA);



Adam Melchor, "Melchor Lullaby Hotline, Vol. 1 (R&R/Warner);



Memoriam, "To The End" (Reaper Entertainment);



Jason Charles Miller, "From the Wreckage -- Part One"



MyKey, "Welcome to the Witching Hour" (Warner);



Emma Negrete, "Algorithms" (Business);



New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, "Vol. 2" (Stony Plain);



Nogo Erez, "Kids" (City Slang);



David Olney and Anana Kaye, "Whisper and Sighs" (Schoolkids);



Sylvan Paul, "America" (Wolf + Lamb);



George Porter Jr. & the Runnin' Pardners, "Crying For Hope" (Controlled Substance Sound Labs/Color Red);



Joey Porter, "Waterways" (Rare Rock);



Real Estate, "Half a Human" (Domino);



Esther Rose, "How Many Times" (Father/Daughter);



serpentwithfeet, "DEACON" (Secretly Canadian);



Chevel Shepherd, "Everybody's Got a Story" (Country Sweetheart);



'68, "Give One Take One" (Cooking Vinyl);



Dr. Lonnie Smith, "Breathe" (Blue Note);



Sam Smith, "Love Goes: Live at Abbey Road Studios" (Capitol);



John Smith, "The Fray" (Commoner/Thirty Tigers);



Stepson, "Help Me, Help You" (SharpTone);



Julia Stone, "Sixty Summers" (BMG);



String Noise, "Alien Stories" (Infrequent Seams);



Sunny War, "Simple Syrup" (Hen House Studios);



Sweet, "Isolation Boulevard" (Prudential);



Jack Symes, "Tompkins Park"



Tomahawk, "Tonic Immobility" (Ipecac);



Tower of Power, "50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater, Oakland, CA, June 2018" (Artistry/Mack Avenue);



Various Artists, "New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Vol. 2" (Stony Plain);



Sunny War, "Simple Syrup" (self-released);



Rod Wave, "SoulFly" (Alamo/Geffen);



Rita Wilson, "Trilogy 1" (self-released/The Orchard);



Donovan Woods, "Without People Deluxe" (Meant Well);



Xiu Xiu, "Oh No" (Polyvinyl);



Young Dolph and Key Block, "Dum & Dummer II" (Empire)



From The Vaults:



Allman Brothers Band, "Down in Texas '71" (Allman Brothers Band Recording Co.);



Jon Anderson, "Olias of Sunhillow: Remastered and Expanded Edition" (Esoteric);



Justin Bieber, "Justice: Triple Chucks Deluxe Edition" (Def Jam);



Flesh & Blood, "Blues For Daze" (DEKO Entertainment);



For King & Country, "Burn the Ships (Deluxe Edition: Remixes & Collaborations)" (Curb/Word);



Global Village Trucking Company, "Smiling Revolution" (Esoteric/Cherry Red);



Harpers Bizarre, "Come to the Sunshine: The Complete Warner Brothers Recordings" (El/Cherry Red);



The Jacksons, "The Jackson Live!" (Epic/Legacy);



Bren Joy, "Twenties (Deluxe Edition)" (Warner);



Lamb Of God, "Lamb of God: Deluxe Edition" (Epic);



Level 42, "The Complete Polydor Years Volume 1 1980-1984" (Robinsongs/Cherry Red);



L7, "Wargasm: The Slash Years 1992-1997" (HNE/Cherry Red);



Teena Marie, "John Morales Presents Teena Marie" (BBE);



Residents, Freak Show (3CD reissue)



Shura, "Forevher (Deluxe Edition)" (Secretly Canadian);



Nancy Sinatra, "Start Walkin" 1965-1976" (Boots Enterprises/Light in the Attic);



Joe Strummer, "Assembly" (Dark Horse);



Tame Impala, "InnerSpeaker: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" (Modular Recordings/Interscope);



3 Doors Down, "The Better Life (20th Anniversary Edition)" (Republic/UMe);



Various Artists, "Directions in Music 1969 to 1973" (Ace);



Various Artists, "Everybody Makes a Mistake: Stax Southern Soul Volume 2" (Kent/Ace);



Various Artists, "Jon Savage's 1972-1976: All Our Times Have Come" (Ace);



Donovan Woods, "Without People Deluxe" (Meant Well);



Neil Young, "Young Shakespeare" (Reprise);



Soundtracks:



"Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" (ABKCO)



New Music Video:



Lamb of God, "Live in Richmond, VA" (Epic)