New Music Friday: March 26
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🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. AJR — OK ORCHESTRA
Featured Song: "Joe"
2. Noga Erez — KIDS
Featured Song: "End of the Road"
3. Clark — Playground In A Lake
Featured Songs: "Lambent Rag," "Forever Chemicals," "Earth Systems"
4. Miko Marks — Our Country
Featured Song: "Ancestors"
5. Tune-Yards — Sketchy
Featured Song: "Make It Right"
6. Dr. Lonnie Smith — Breathe
Featured Song: "Track 9"
7. serpentwithfeet — Deacon
Featured Song: "Sailor's Superstition"
Other notable releases for Mar. 26: Armand Hammer & The Alchemist — HARAM; Dntel — The Seas Trees See; El Michels Affair — Yeti Season; First Aid Kit — Who By Fire; Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/London Symphony Orchestra — Promises; Rod Wave — Soulfly.
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| 0:00.0 | On NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast, we talk about what we're watching, listening to, or just trying to figure out. |
| 0:08.0 | Like what concert films you should watch if you miss live music, and great books to read, alone, or in your book club. |
| 0:15.0 | All of that in around 20 minutes, every weekday. |
| 0:18.0 | Listen now to the Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast from NPR. |
| 0:22.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello Robin. |
| 0:30.0 | It's new music Friday that day of the week when most new albums and EPs come out, and we're doing a quick run through NPR's picks for the best ones released now on March 26th. |
| 0:39.0 | Starting with the band AJR and their new one called OK Orchestra. |
| 0:44.0 | I believe to God back in eighth grade, he could smoke an eighth on a school day. |
| 0:50.0 | Remember when you left at my last name, now I go by met is that last slate of a last name. |
| 1:08.0 | I believe to God back in no night, always down to hang here at no time. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, but in a couple of years I'll be so out of here, I'll have a lot of new friends and I won't even care. |
| 1:22.0 | I don't ever think of you, I got too much stuff to do. |
| 1:28.0 | Should I left you back in school? Joseph, do you think? |
| 1:34.0 | I don't ever think of you, look at all this stuff I do. |
| 1:40.0 | I've been chosen by lovers now you do you think. |
| 1:58.0 | Good lord. This is insanely catchy. |
| 2:01.0 | AJR, the album is OK Orchestra, the song we're hearing from it is called Joe which is pretty indicative of the entire record. |
| 2:10.0 | When I came across this album in the span I thought, these are catchy little diddies. |
| 2:15.0 | I wonder who they are. |
| 2:17.0 | And I don't know if anyone's heard of them. |
| 2:19.0 | Of course they have billions of streams, billions. They're huge. |
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