New Music Friday: Feb. 12
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ποΈ 12 February 2021
β±οΈ 37 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. slowthai β Tyron
Featured Songs: "45 Smoke," "Push" and "ADHD"
2. Pink Sweat$ β Pink Planet
Featured Song: "Pink Money"
3. R+R=Now β R+R=Now Live
Featured Song: "Change of Tone"
4. Jakob Bro β Uma Elmo
Featured Song: "Beautiful Day"
5. Various β Cuba: Music And Revolution
Featured Song: "Chequere Son"
6. Dominique Fils-AimΓ© β Three Little Words
Featured Song: "While We Wait"
7. Anika Pyle β Wild River
Featured Songs: "Failure II" and "June"
8. His Name Is Alive β Hope Is A Candle
Featured Songs: "Still" and "Halo"
Other notable releases for Feb. 12: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah β New Fragility; Claud β Super Monster; Death by Unga Bunga β Heavy Male Insecurity; Django Django β Glowing in the Dark; Jillette Johnson β It's A Beautiful Day And I Love You; Pale Waves β Who Am I?; Sports β Get A Good Look Pt. 1; Various β Judas and the Black Messiah OST
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| 0:00.0 | Here at Planet Money Industries we've manufactured T-shirts, we've bought oil, we've even gone to space. |
| 0:07.0 | But our next Planet Money Series, well, let's just say a superhero is born. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming to a podcast feed near you from NPO. |
| 0:19.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPO Music and all songs considered. I'm Robin Chilton. I'm here with Christina Lee. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:26.0 | It's new music Friday and we're doing a quick run through the best albums out now on February 12th. |
| 0:31.0 | Starting with the rapper Slow Ty, his new one is called Tyron. |
| 1:01.0 | Yo Kilo Composy Size, Jimmy Neh-Option, I call this sad. |
| 1:04.0 | Always got smiling crucial times and I always wrong while confined my trap. |
| 1:08.0 | I used to walk line and score, value come from the eastern sides, double into the day I die. |
| 1:13.0 | Keep double in trying to multiply, money to me like shit for a flash, so I stay gay and beat cause the world is mine. |
| 1:19.0 | This is Slow Ty, his new album is called Tyron. This is the opening cut from the record. It's called 45 Smoke. |
| 1:40.0 | He's an English rapper. This is a second full length album. |
| 1:44.0 | Christina, when this record starts off with this first cut, it really sets the mood that this is going to be a very kind of creepy and unsettling record and it is at times. |
| 1:54.0 | But it ends up being so much more nuanced and layered and multi-dimensional than that. |
| 2:00.0 | Absolutely. Cause the first half is the Slow Ty that we've all come to know. The sound is very much rooted in grime, punk and 3.6 mafia. |
| 2:09.0 | But the second half is much more paired back as if to kind of strip himself down of that persona. |
| 2:15.0 | And part of that is because he is responding to some criticism that he received after the 2020 Enemio Awards. |
| 2:22.0 | He was accused of leering on the co-host of the evening, Catherine Ryan. |
| 2:27.0 | And as a result, he fought with a spectator who called him a misogynist. |
| 2:30.0 | So this album is coming after he took some time to reflect on those very events and what you end up getting is a very human response. |
| 2:39.0 | Yeah, I was very surprised, you know, that first half of the record, like you said, it's kind of sinister. |
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