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Happy Friday, everyone, and happy New Year from NPR Music, it's New Music Friday.

I'm your host, Stephen Thompson, and for today, January 2nd, we are doing a special, short-form,

oops, all-lightening round edition of New Music Friday.

January 2nd isn't a big release date,

but we also don't want to skimp on a few of the albums we missed in December when we weren't

doing our normal episodes, so I'm just going to run through a few December titles that deserve

our attention. Now, the music you're hearing is from an album that turned 50 this past fall, and just got the latest of many deluxe reissues.

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is now available as a box set with fresh tracks, a fancy new mix, and even a hardcover book if you're into that sort of thing.

Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail

A smile from a veil

Do you think you can tell

Did they get you to train?

As I said, we're going to do this episode

Lightning Round Style, but before we get started for real, let's take a quick break.

From NPR Music, it's New Music Friday.

I'm your host, Stephen Thompson.

Let's kick off this shorter- usual episode. So the DJ and producer known as Fred Again has been rolling

out updates to his latest project. It's kind of an album, kind of a playlist, and kind of a

data dump. It's been updated multiple times so it's ever evolving.

Loads of guests pop up throughout, including Danny Brown and floating points.

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