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I'm here with Stephen Thompson. Hello, Robin. It is New Music Friday that Dave the week when

most new albums come out. On this episode, we're doing a quick run through the best releases out

on February 5th, including a surprise album from Paramore's Haley Williams. But we start with

Food Fighters. Their latest is called Medicine at Midnight.

I'll be the one with the tongue that will swallow you.

I know this blitzer won't do the scale, but now this season of how we miss. I've no reason to bury that.

There ain't been much in the emptiness.

This is Food Fighters. Their new album is called Medicine at Midnight. The song is Shame, Shame.

This is the band's tenth full-length album that they originally finished it around this time

last year, but they've been sitting on it because of the pandemic. But now it's here and Stephen,

I think you can tell just with the song that we're featuring that the band is trying to push itself

into some new territory. I think there's some more nuance to some of these songs. A lot of these

songs kind of like Chamshame that we just heard that have more texture to them, but at the same time,

Dave Grohl and his band have lost absolutely nothing off their fastball. This album bursts out

of the gate with a song called Making a Fire, and it is blistering. They're calling this album,

they're party album, the band's party album. But I honestly, it felt a whole lot more inward

looking to me than that. They do have big anthems that could fill a stadium, but they explored new

sounds on this. Making fire, there's actually a little bit of gospel in that song, too, towards the

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