Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Justin Robinson and Rhiannon Giddens teamed up for some old style string band tunes.
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It is Friday, and meaning there is a first rate probability a portion of your favourite band simply launched a brand new document. Members of TV on the Radio, Carolina Chocolate Drops, boygenius, even Bon Iver’s touring band all unleashed solo or duo albums on the stroke of midnight.
NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson welcomed Brian Burns of North Carolina public radio staton WUNC to our New Music Friday podcast to debate the most recent from Julien Baker, Tunde Adebimpe, and a few well-known Tar Heels: Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson.
Hearken to the episode or stream our really useful albums beneath.
The Beginning 5
Torres and Julien Baker.
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Stephen and Erin provide the backstory and greatest songs on the next albums:
💿 Julien Baker & Torres, Ship a Prayer My Manner
💿 Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow
- RIYL: Carolina Chocolate Drops
💿 Tunde Adebimpe, Thee Black Boltz
💿 Beirut, A Examine of Losses
- RIYL: The Magnetic Fields, Jens Lekman
💿 Sarah Siskind, Simplify
- RIYL: Alison Krauss, Bon Iver
New Music Friday is a function of NPR’s All Songs Thought-about podcast! Hear the dialogue on the NPR App, Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Lightning Spherical
5 extra albums we want we had time to debate on the podcast:
💿 Davido, 5ive
💿 Adrian Younge, One thing About April III
💿 Avery Friedman, New Factor
💿 Jess Sah Bi, Jesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas
💿 Neil Younger, Coastal: The Soundtrack
Hear to every album’s greatest songs on our New Music Friday playlists on Spotify and Apple.
The Lengthy Listing
Lucy Railton.
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For individuals who wish to dig even deeper, listed below are the week’s new albums sorted by style:
Digital/Out There
- Lucy Railton, Blue Veil
- Divide and Dissolve, Insatiable
- Gryphon Rue, I Preserve My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Glowing Water
- Hieroglyphic Being, Dance Music 4 Unhealthy Individuals
- jives, At Eternity’s Gate
- LDS, energy of two EP
- Olivia Belli, Intercosmia Vol. 2
- Quade, The Foel Tower
- Shell Firm & Older Brother, Shards
- Sieren, Emergence
Rock/Alt/Indie
- Arcy Drive, The Pit
- Batpiss, There’s A Place In My Thoughts The place We All Burn Alive
- Beddy Rays, Do What Ya Wanna
- Cumulus, We have Acquired It All
- Dallas Ugly, See Me Now
- Fotoform, Grief is a Backyard (Perpetually in Bloom)
- Funeral Business, lifeless earlier than i die
- Light Chief XIV, Joke within the Shadow
- Heavy Lungs, Caviar
- Iron Lung, Adapting//Crawling
- John Dwyer, CHIME OBLIVION
- Johnny Pores and skin, s/t
- Kinsella & Pulse, LLC, Open ing Evening
- Little Barrie, Electrical Battle
- Mamuthones, From Phrase To Flesh
- Melvins 1983, Thunderball
- Michael Marcagi, Midwest Child EP
- MIEN, MIIEN
- Thriller Dungeons, OPEN WORLD
- Pigeons Enjoying Ping Pong, Stay on the Capitol Theatre
- shortly, shortly, I Heard That Noise
- Sawyer Hill, Heartbreak Hysteria EP
- Scrounge, Nearly Like You Might
- Sunnbrella, gutter angel
- Swell, Too Many Days With out Pondering (Reissue)
- The Concrete Boys, All the pieces’s Higher Than You
- The Comfort, Like Cartoon Vampires
- The Pale White, The Huge Unhappy
- TV Sundaze, Plastic Baggage / Packing Tape
- Witch Submit, Beast EP
International
- Legado 7, L7X
- Wolfgang Pérez, Memorias Fantasmas EP
- Yzoula and Louis Fontaine, Des Animaux Pires Que Moi
Nation/Folks/Americana
- Ally Venable, Cash & Energy
- Chaparelle, Western Pleasure
- Henhouse Prowlers, Unravel
- Ian Munsick, Eagle Feather
- Taylor Rae, The Void
- Tony Vacation, Preserve Your Head Up
- Tony Kamel, We’re All Gonna Stay
Rap/Hip-Hop
- Blu, Forty
- Chip, Grime Scene Saviour
- G Perico, LA Gangster: Gangsta Grillz
- Kool Keith, Karpenters
- Millyz, Blanco 7
- Mozzy, Intrusive Ideas
- The Underachievers, Homecoming
- ThisisDA, Quick Life
- Trim, No Caller ID EP
- Wiz Khalifa, Kush+Orange Juice 2
R&B/Soul
- Keri Hilson, WE NEED TO TALK: LOVE
- Alex Isley, WHEN EP
Classical
- Stewart Copeland, Wild Concerto
Jazz
- Ikue Mori, The Bagatelles Vol. 4
- Mark de Clive-Lowe, previous current (tone poems throughout time)
- Rindert Lammers, Thank You Kirin Kiki
- Zeitgeist Freedom Power Alternate, Encourage // Radicalise
Credit
- Host: Stephen Thompson
- Visitor: Brian Burns, WUNC
- Producer: Simon Rentner
- Editor: Otis Hart
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins