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It is Friday, which suggests you is likely to be hoping to listen to Atlanta rapper Younger Thug’s first album because the conclusion of his year-long gang trial. That album, UY Scuti, was alleged to drop immediately, however the groundbreaking MC introduced this week that the venture had been postponed to someday in June.
However do not fret, as a result of if you happen to’re a hip-hop fan, immediately delivered what is likely to be one of the best rap album of the 12 months thus far: billy woods’ GOLLIWOG. NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson welcomed WXPN’s John Morrison to New Music Friday to go deep on the darkish, dramatic album, in addition to new albums by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Gen Z pop star PinkPantheress and rather more.
Take heed to the present beneath starting at 3 a.m. ET and scroll all the way down to see our lengthy record of albums out Might 9.
New Music Friday is a characteristic of NPR’s All Songs Thought-about podcast. Hear the dialogue on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Our hosts share the backstories and finest songs from the next albums:
💿 billy woods, GOLLIWOG
- Really useful If You Like: Saul Williams, Cannibal Ox
💿 Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Tall Tales
- RIYL: Radiohead, Candy Exorcist
💿 PinkPantheress, Fancy That
💿 MIKE & Tony Seltzer, Pinball II
- RIYL: Lex Luger, Earl Sweatshirt
💿 Mclusky, the world continues to be right here and so are we
The Lightning Spherical
André 3000
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5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
💿 The Head and the Coronary heart, Aperture
💿 Jazzanova, In Between Revisited: Jazzanova Dwell
💿 Cuco, Ridin’
💿 Andre 3000, 7 piano sketches
💿 Cole Pulice, Land’s Finish Everlasting
Pay attention to every album’s finest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple, or wherever you stream music.
The Lengthy Record
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For individuals who wish to dig even deeper, listed here are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Digital/Out There
- The Vernon Spring, Below a Acquainted Solar
- Kara-Lis Coverdale, From The place You Got here
- Joe Goddard, Kinetic EP
- Wilson Tanner, Legends
- Chaos within the CBD, A Deeper Life
- Nils Frahm, Night time
- M83, A Essential Escape OST
- V/A, Planet Mu 30
- Dinamarca and Ángel Ballesteros, pachamami
- QUINQUIS, eor
- Nicolas Bougaïeff, Prime Funktion EP
- Ransum, Highway Fever EP
Nation/Folks/Americana
- I am With Her, Wild and Clear and Blue
- Blake Shelton, For Leisure Use Solely
- Kristina Murray, Little Blue
- Jack Van Cleaf, JVC
Classical
- Barbara Hannigan, Electrical Fields
- Bomsori Kim, Bruch & Korngold
Pop
- Erika de Casier, Lifetime
- Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
- Maren Morris, D R E A M S I C L E
- Kaleo, Combined Feelings
- Kevin Olusola (Pentatonix), Daybreak of a Misfit
Jazz
- Brandon Woody, For The Love Of It All
R&B/Soul
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Little Feat, Strike Up The Band
- Ringdown (Caroline Shaw), Woman on the Bike
- Arcade Fireplace, Pink Elephant
- Deradoorian, Prepared for Heaven
- Sleep Token, Even in Arcadia
- Moon Rituals, Aura
- Preoccupations, Ailing At Ease
- Moin, Stomach Up
- Sunday (1994), Devotion EP
- Maia Friedman, Goodbye Lengthy Winter Shadow
- The Surprise Years, Burst & Decay (Quantity III)
- Npcede, s/t EP
- Spacey Jane, If That Makes Sense
- Unwed Sailor, Merciless Entertaiment
- Xmal Deutschland, Present: The 4AD Years
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: John Morrison, WXPN
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editors: Otis Hart and Elle Mannion
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins
