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All Songs Considered

New Music Friday: Oct. 9

All Songs Considered

NPR

Music

4.4 β€’ 3.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's shortlist of the best new albums out this week includes the soaring synth-pop of Future Islands, the country duo Brothers Osborne, remixed classics from John Lennon and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Future Islands β€” As Long As You Are
Featured Song: "Waking"
2. Carla Bruni β€” Carla Bruni
Featured Song: "Partir dans la nuit"
3. The Budos Band β€” Long in the Tooth
Featured Song: "Long in the Tooth"
4. Machinedrum β€” A View Of U
Featured Song: "Wait For U"
5. Brothers Osborne β€” Skeletons
Featured Song: "Lighten Up"
6. METZ β€” Atlas Vending
Featured Song: "Pulse"
7. John Lennon β€” Gimme Some Truth
Featured Song: "Angela"
8. Laraaji β€” Moon Piano
Featured Song: "Stillness"
9. The Goodbye Party β€” Beautiful Motors
Featured Song: "Unlucky Stars"
10. Mary Lattimore β€” Silver Ladders
Featured Song: "Silver Ladders"

Other notable releases for Oct. 9: Cut Worms β€” Nobody Lives Here Anymore; JEEN β€” JEEN; Kronos Quartet β€” Long Time Passing; Loudon Wainwright III β€” I'd Rather Lead A Band; Ron Miles β€” Rainbow Sign; Touche Amore β€” Lament; Travis β€” 10 Songs; Yo La Tengo β€” Sleepless Night (ep).

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0:00.0

I'm Rodney Carmichael.

0:01.5

I'm Sydney Madden.

0:02.9

And on our new podcast, louder than a riot, we traced the collision of rhyme and punishment

0:09.6

in America.

0:11.3

We were hunted by police.

0:12.6

We were literally physically hunted.

0:14.5

You'd be standing on the corner, drug squad pull up, everybody around.

0:18.6

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0:21.7

Listen to louder than a riot.

0:26.6

Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered.

0:29.5

I'm Robin Hilton.

0:30.5

I'm here with Ann Powers.

0:31.5

Hello, Robin.

0:33.1

It's new music Friday, that glorious day of the week when most new albums come out.

0:37.3

It's October 9th.

0:38.3

And we've got new music this week from the band Metz, some remixed classics from John

0:43.0

Lennon, who we would or not be 80 years old today.

0:46.5

And we've got a whole bunch more, but we start our look at October 9th albums with future

0:50.7

islands.

0:51.7

They're back with a new and called as long as you are.

0:54.2

I've been sitting here thinking what's my purpose.

0:59.2

What's the meaning?

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