New Music Friday: March 12

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out on March 12 include Valerie June's magical meditations, a Blake Mills and Pino Palladino collaboration, Selena Gomez's first Spanish language record and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Valerie June — The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
Featured Songs: "You And I" and "Starlight Ethereal Silence"
2. Selena Gomez — Revelación
Featured Song: "Adios"
3. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills — Notes With Attachments
Featured Song: "Soundwalk"
4. Lushlife — Redamancy
Featured Song: "Depaysement"
5. LOUISAHHH — The Practice of Freedom
Featured Song: "Love Is A Punk"
6. Graham Lambkin — Solos
Featured Songs: "Ginkamix"

Other notable releases for March 12: Allie Crow Buckley — Moonlit and Devious; DJ Muggs — Dies Occidendum; Lake Street Dive — Obviously; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — Theory of Ice.

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0:22.7	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs. Considered I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with
0:27.2	WNXP's Julie Haite Julie. Hey! It's new music Friday and we're doing a quick run through
0:33.5	our picks for the best releases out now on March 12th. Starting with Valerie June,
0:38.3	her new one is called The Moon and Stars, Prescriptions for Dreamers.
1:08.3	We love just a friendship. As we found, I could ask you.
1:18.2	But a distance from perspective.
1:20.7	The answers come out to every extreme.
1:30.9	You were dying, so I'm happy to be left behind.
1:45.9	I hope you feel it too.
1:50.9	I hope you feel it too.
1:53.9	I hope you're alive.
1:59.9	This is Valerie June. Her new record is The Moon in Stars.
2:02.9	Prescriptions for Dreamers. This cut we're hearing from it is called You and I.
2:06.9	She's a singer from Tennessee, there where you are Julie.
2:09.9	And we've been loving and following her work for a good while now.
2:12.9	This is her fifth full-length album.
2:14.9	And man, I just think she takes such an enormous swing across this record.
2:19.9	She really does. I mean, I think a lot of people pegged her as doing something kind of primitive and naturalistic in a way.
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