New Music Friday: Aug. 6

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from the R&B singer Tinashe, composer Max Richter and the greatest rap duo you've never heard of, Abstract Mindstate.

Featured Albums:
1. Abstract Mindstate — Dreams Still Inspire
Featured Track: "I Feel Good"
2. Max Richter — Exiles
Featured Tracks: "Flowers Of Herself" and "Exiles"
3. Laura Stevenson — Laura Stevenson
Featured Tracks: "State" and "Mary"
4. Tinashe — 333
Featured Track: "333"
5. Fuubutsushi — Natsukashii
Featured Track: "Suzushii Kaze"
6. Lingua Ignota — Sinner Get Ready
Featured Tracks: "Pennsylvania Furnace" and "The Order of Spiritual Virgins"

Other notable releases for Aug. 6: Barbra Streisand — Release Me 2; Eluvium — Virga II; Moritz Von Oswald Trio — Dissent; Ty Segal — Harmonizer.

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0:00.0	There are arrowheads in the walls.
0:03.1	I'm Ramteen Arableui.
0:04.8	I'm Ramdaabdefateh and we're the hosts of ThruLine, NPR's History Podcast.
0:09.9	And for our special series this month, the best of ThruLine.
0:13.7	You know, if we carry on as we've had to, this is what we might wind up with.
0:17.1	Listen now to the ThruLine Podcast from NPR.
0:20.8	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs.
0:23.2	Considered, I'm Robin Hilton.
0:24.2	I'm here with WXFian's John Morrison.
0:26.5	Hey John.
0:27.5	Hey, what's up Robin.
0:28.5	It's New Music Friday and we're doing a quick rundown of the best albums out now in
0:32.3	August 6th.
0:33.6	We start with a new one produced by Kanye West.
0:35.8	It's from a duo known as Abstract Mind State.
0:38.7	Your new album is called Dream Still Inspired.
1:08.3	Tell more of NEWS Channel till log.
1:25.7	This is abstract mind state. The album is dream still inspired in the song we're hearing
1:43.2	from it is called I Feel Good. As I said this one was produced entirely by Kanye West.
1:48.2	It's the first release on Yeezy Sound which I think is maybe a label. It's not entirely
1:54.0	clear. But there's quite a story behind abstract mind state and how the album came to be.
1:59.2	Yeah, this is a very cool story. Throughout the 90s and early 2000s abstract mind state was a
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