New Music Friday: Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' and the best albums out April 19

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

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NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills dig into Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department,' which hit streaming services last night, and share a handful of other new albums out Friday, April 19.

Featured Albums:
• Taylor Swift, 'The Tortured Poets Department'
• Bbymutha, 'Sleep Paralysis'
• claire rousay, 'sentiment'
• Pearl Jam, 'Dark Matter'

Other notable albums out April 19:
• Stephanie Lambring, 'Hypocrite'
• Cadence Weapon, 'ROLLERCOASTER'
• Tei Shi, 'Valerie'
• Ekko Astral, 'pink balloons'
• Bill Frisell, 'Orchestras'
• BIG|BRAVE, 'A Chaos of Flowers'
• Blue Lab Beats, 'Blue Eclipse'
• Chanel Beads, 'Your Day Will Come'
• Local Natives, 'But I'll Wait For You'
• Gangrene (The Alchemist & Oh No), 'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose'
• Brian Eno, 'Eno'
• Cloud Nothings, 'Final Summer'
• Melvins, 'Tarantula Heart'
• Mozzy, 'CHILDREN OF THE SLUMS'
• Lucy Rose, 'This Ain't The Way You Go Out'
• Pillow Queens, 'Name Your Sorrow'
• A Certain Ratio, 'It All Comes Down To This'
• Cavalier, 'Different Type Time'
• Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, 'That Delicious Vice'
• T Bone Burnett, 'The Other Side'

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR's sponsor, Organic Valley, the farmer-owned cooperative dedicated to providing ethically sourced food from small organic family farms.
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0:17.0	Just a quick note, this podcast contains some explicit language.
0:21.0	Hey everybody, I'm Anne Powers, critic and correspondent for MPR Music.
0:27.0	And I'm Hazel Sills, an editor at MPR Music.
0:30.0	It's New Music Friday, April 19th, and we're here to talk about the best albums out this week,
0:35.6	including the rapper Baby Mother, the experimental electronic artist Claire Rousse,
0:42.2	and one of my favorite bands ever, Pearl Jam.
0:45.0	But first Hazel, we have some very important business to get to.
0:52.0	So important. Because it is a national holiday it is the release
0:59.1	International holiday. What am I saying I have my hand on my heart. I'm ready to pledge
1:03.8	allegiance. It is the release date for Taylor Swift's new album. It's called
1:09.2	The Tortured Poets Department and you and I have both been eagerly listening to this since we received
1:16.0	a stream not too long ago. smoked them eight seven bars of chocolate we declared Charlie pooth should be a bigger
1:27.2	artist I scratch your head you fall asleep like a tattooed golden retriever
1:36.0	But you awakened with dread pounding nails in your head
1:41.0	But I've read this one way you've come on done I chose this cyclone with you
1:48.5	And who is going to hold you like me What's the verdict? What do you think? I was really pleasantly surprised by this album. I really did not know what to expect, but I feel like
2:05.8	this is an album of Taylor in one of her best modes. I feel like it's a mode that a lot of
2:11.2	people resent her for. I feel like it's a mode that she's tried to shake off.
2:15.1	But this is Taylor Swift returning to sharp personal songwriting
2:20.8	about breakups and bad lovers. I'm really all about it. What did you feel?
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