New Music Friday: April 30

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include girl in red's long-awaited debut, the Flying Lotus soundtrack for Yasuke and more.

Featured Albums:
1. girl in red — If I Could Make It Go Quiet
Featured Song: "Serotonin"
2. Dawn Richard — Second Line
Featured Song: "Bussifame"
3. Ashley Monroe — Rosegold
Featured Song: "Siren"
4. Shelley FKA Dram — S/T
Featured Song: "Rich And Famous"
5. Amy Shark — Cry Forever
Featured Songs: "The Wolves" and "Amy Shark"
6. Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy — Superwolves
Featured Song: "Make Worry For Me"
7. Flying Lotus — Yasuke
Featured Song: "African Samurai"

Other notable releases for April 30: Amy Speace & The Orphan Brigade — There Used To Be Horses; Gojira — Fortitude; Julia Stone — Sixty Summers; Manchester Orchestra — The Million Masks of God; Marianne Faithful & Warren Ellis — She Walks In Beauty; Rosie Tucker — Sucker Supreme; Teenage Fanclub — Endless Arcade; Tōth — You And Me And Everything.

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0:00.0	Today, it seems like everybody's got a bone to pick with the news.
0:03.9	So it happens when somebody stops talking smack
0:06.6	and just decides to wage all-out war.
0:08.9	First thing you do in an invasion,
0:10.9	you eliminate the communications of the enemy.
0:13.5	And what happens if they win?
0:15.6	Visit Stockton, California for a story about a revolt
0:18.8	against the mainstream media that's shaken up a city.
0:22.4	From MPRs and Visibility.
0:24.8	Happy Friday, everyone.
0:25.8	From MPR Music and All Songs considered I'm Robin Hilton.
0:28.5	I'm here with in PR Music's Alex Ramos.
0:30.6	Hey Alex.
0:31.4	Hi Robin, how are you?
0:32.8	All right, it's new music Friday,
0:34.5	and we're looking at the best releases out today on April 30th.
0:37.7	Starting with Girl in Red and Her debut album,
0:40.8	If I could make it go quiet.
1:40.8	This is Girl in Red, Her debut album,
2:01.5	If I could make it go quiet,
2:03.0	the song we're hearing from it is called Serotonin.
2:05.7	This is an artist otherwise known as Marie Olven.
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