New Music Friday: Sept. 18

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out on Sep. 18 include a long-awaited, self-titled release from Alicia Keys, PC Music's A.G. Cook, a rediscovered Thelonious Monk recording and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Alicia Keys — ALICIA
Featured Song: "Me x 7"
2. A.G. Cook — Apple
Featured Song: "Airhead"
3. Anjimile — Giver Taker
Featured Song: "To Meet You There"
4. Butcher Brown — #kingbutch
Featured Song: "Cabbage"
5. Thelonious Monk — Palo Alto
Featured Song: "Blue Monk"
6. Jealous of the Birds — Peninsula
Featured Song: "Pendulum"
7. Sly5thAve — What It Is
Featured Song: "What It Is"
8. Fenne Lily — Breach
Featured Song: "Elliott"
9. Steve Arrington — Down to the Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions
Featured Songs: "Make A Difference" and "Soulful I Need That In My Life"

Other notable releases for Sept. 18: Ava Max — Heaven & Hell; Body Double — Milk Fed; Cults — Host; Daniel Romano — How Ill Thy World Is Ordered; Deradoorian — Find the Sun; Dig Nitty — Reverse of Mastery; Eastwood — It Never Gets Easy; Eivør — Segl; Elderbrook — Why Do We Shake in the Cold?; Gracie & Rachel — Hello, Weakness, You Make Me Strong; Handsome Ghost — Some Still Morning; Joan Osborne — Trouble and Strife; Johann Johannsson — Retrospective II; Nate Rocket Wonder & Roman GianArthur – Antebellum (Soundtrack); Sarah Davachi — Cantus, Descant; Saunder Jurriaans — Beasts; Semisonic — You're Not Alone; Yusuf Cat Stevens — Tea for the Tillerman; Ziggy Marley — More Family Time.

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0:00.0	On Facebook, there are these three brothers who love guns.
0:04.0	Say guns are over-regulated.
0:06.8	Say the NRA is too quick to compromise.
0:10.3	And they're gaining more followers every day.
0:13.0	They're very in your face and offensive, and by God, I love them for it.
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0:21.9	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs considered.
0:25.0	I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with Ann Powers. Hey Ann.
0:28.0	Hello Robin.
0:29.0	It's new music Friday and we're looking at the best albums out on September 18th.
0:32.8	We've got a lot this week, including a new AG Quick Record and a previously unreleased
0:37.8	Thelonious Monk album. But we start with the long awaited release from Alicia Keys.
0:42.8	It's called Alicia.
1:28.8	So, sometimes, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
1:40.2	So let it be.
1:43.3	This is Alicia Keys. The singer, Alicia Keys, back with a self-titled album called Alicia.
1:48.8	The song we're listening to is called Me Times 7.
1:52.4	Safe to say it's been one of the years.
1:54.1	Most anticipated releases, we kept getting different dates for when it was going to drop
1:59.0	originally scheduled to come out in March and then May.
2:02.1	It's out now and after finally hearing it, I understand why she wanted to treat it with,
2:07.0	you know, so much care and thought. I mean, it's a real labor of love.
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