New Music Friday: August 21

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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NPR Music's shortlist for the best new albums out this week includes the first full-length from Bright Eyes in nearly a decade, the rapper Lecrae, U.K. jazz wonder Nubya Garcia and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The Killers — Imploding the Mirage
Featured Song: "Dying Breed"
2. The Mavericks — En Español
Featured Song: "Recuerdos"
3. Nubya Garcia — Source
Featured Song: "Before Us In Demerara & Caura"
4. Cidny Bullens — Walking Through This World
Featured Song: "The Gender Line"
5. Bright Eyes — Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Featured Songs: "Dance and Sing" and "Pageturner's Rag"
6. Lecrae — Restoration
Featured Song: "Set Me Free"
7. L.A. Witch — Play With Fire
Featured Song: "Dark Horse"
8. Roomful of Teeth — The Ascendant & Just Constellations
Featured Songs: "The Beginning And..." and "The Magic Constellation - Winter"

Other notable releases for Aug. 21: Nas — King's Disease; Alex the Astronaut — The Theory of Absolutely Nothing; Bully — Sugaregg; Chuck Prophet — The Land That Time Forgot; Logan Farmer — Still No Mother; Matmos — The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form; The Front Bottoms — In Sickness & In Flames.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, I'm Sam Sanders, host of It's Been A Minute.
0:03.0	On my show, we catch you up on all the things in news and culture.
0:07.2	The Space Force? I totally miss this. What is the Space Force?
0:10.8	Stop it. Stay still. I don't know about the Space Force.
0:13.4	No! What?
0:14.8	I've been in my apartment for four months.
0:18.7	Oh, man.
0:19.4	Crushing it, too. Thank you. Feeling good.
0:21.7	News without the despair.
0:23.7	Listen now to The It's Been A Minute Podcast from NPR.
0:27.6	Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music and all songs considered.
0:30.4	I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with Ann Powers. Hey, Ann.
0:33.2	Hey, Robin.
0:34.2	It's new music Friday that day of the week when most new albums and EPs drop.
0:38.4	On this episode, we're looking at the best releases out on August 21st.
0:42.5	Right off I'll say, Nas has a big one out today. We know all about it.
0:46.3	King's disease is the record. We weren't able to get the music in time to talk about it on this week's
0:50.8	episode. But even without playing the Nas record, it's still a big week for new music.
0:55.2	We've got the first new Bride Eyes record in nearly a decade.
0:58.3	The rapper and singer La Cray has a new one and a whole lot more.
1:01.0	But we start with the killers. And their latest, it's called,
1:03.9	imploding the Mirage.
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