New Music Friday: July 17

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🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The week's best new albums include old-school hip-hop from Blu & Exile, a transformative record from singer Lianne La Havas, the existential rock of Protomartyr, pop singer Ellie Goulding and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The Chicks — Gaslighter
Featured Song: "Sleep at Night"
2. Lianne La Havas — Lianne La Havas
Featured Song: "Seven Times"
3. Blu & Exile — Miles: From an Interlude Called Life
Featured Song: "True and Livin'"
4. JARV IS — Beyond the Pale
Featured Song: "Sometimes I Am Pharaoh"
5. Protomartyr — Ultimate Success Today
Featured Song: "Processed by the Boys"
6. Ellie Goulding — Brightest Blue
Featured Song: "How Deep is Too Deep?"
7. Zara McFarlane — Songs of An Unknown Tongue
Featured Song: "State of Mind"
8. KLLO — Maybe We Could
Featured Song: "Still Here"

Other notable released for July 17: Alice Ivy — Don't Sleep; Bing & Ruth — Species; Christian Sands — Be Water; Crickets — Crickets; David Ramirez — My Love Is A Hurricane; Dehd — Flower of Devotion; Illuminati Hotties — Free IH: This is Not the One You've Been Waiting For; Laraaji — Sun Piano; Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards — Bitter Better; Nicolas Jaar — Telas; S.G. Goodman — Old Time Feeling

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0:18.5	Happy Friday everyone from NPR music and all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with Ann Powers.
0:23.7	Hi Robin.
0:24.7	Steven Thompson. Hello Robin. And Saraya Muhammad.
0:28.2	Hi Robin.
0:29.2	It's new music Friday which means we're looking at the best albums out today on July 17th.
0:33.8	We've got new ones from Ellie Golding, Leigh Ann LaHavis, Jarvis Cocker and a whole bunch more.
0:38.7	But we start with one of the most anticipated releases of the year from the chicks. It's called Gaslighter.
0:58.0	Just glad it's not a yesterday.
1:05.0	My husband's girlfriend's husband just called me up.
1:08.4	How messed up is that? It's so insane that I have to lie.
1:14.8	But then I think about our two boys trying to become man.
1:19.6	There's nothing funny about that. Howdy sleeping night.
1:28.0	Howdy a town of lies.
1:32.8	Looking me in the air.
1:35.1	Living a double lie.
1:37.3	So make howdy sleep at night.
1:40.1	Howdy sleep at night.
1:44.3	This is the chicks. The album is called Gaslighter. The song we're listening to is called Sleep at Night.
1:50.4	And of course until recently they were known as the Dixie Chicks. They dropped Dixie from their name
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