New Music Friday: July 30
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🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Billie Eilish — Happier Than Ever
Featured Song: "NDA"
2. Isaiah Rashad — The House Is Burning
Featured Songs: "True Story" and "HB2U"
3. Bleachers — Take the Sadness Out Of Saturday Night
Featured Songs: "Stop Making This Hurt" and "91"
4. Los Lobos — Native Sons
Featured Song: "The World Is A Ghetto"
5. Prince — Welcome 2 America
Featured Song: "One Day We Will All Be Free"
6. Torres — Thirstier
Featured Song: "Are You Sleep Walking?"
7. Yola — Stand For Myself
Featured Song: "If I Had To Do It All Again"
8. Skirts — Great Big Wild Oak
Featured Song: "Easy"
Other notable releases for July 30: Leela James — See Me; LUMP — Animal; Naia Izumi — A Residency in the Los Angeles Area; Poise — Vestiges; Son Volt — Electro Melodier.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR's Planet Money Summer School is back. |
| 0:05.0 | This season is all about investing. |
| 0:07.0 | We've got stories of big bets, bubble spotting, and two animals too. |
| 0:11.0 | Everyone's stayed till Labor Day from NPR's Planet Money. |
| 0:15.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs. |
| 0:18.0 | Considered I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with Ann Powers and welcome back. |
| 0:22.0 | It's been a minute. I'm so happy to be back with you today, Robin. |
| 0:25.0 | And you're here for New Music Friday. |
| 0:27.0 | We're doing a quick rundown of the best albums out today on July 30th. |
| 0:30.0 | It's a pretty incredible week with new music from bleachers, prints, torres, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:35.0 | But we start with one of the years most anticipated releases. |
| 0:38.0 | Out now from Billie Eilish, the album is called Happier Than Ever. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm here on Sunday in the year. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm so scared. I don't want to make a shit to say. |
| 1:20.0 | You couldn't save me but you can let me go. |
| 1:35.0 | I can create a bitch that's all needs love. |
| 1:53.0 | Can anyone make music that is both as creepy and beautiful as she does? |
| 1:57.0 | And it's funny. I mean, this song is hilarious. |
| 2:00.0 | And this song is NDA from the album Happier Than Ever from Billie Eilish. |
| 2:04.0 | And Anne, if there is one recurring theme on this album for her, it seems to be, you don't know me. |
| 2:10.0 | You don't really know who I am. |
| 2:12.0 | Well, I would say the support beams of that theme are self-respect and agency. |
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