New Music Friday: The best albums out April 10

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

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Ella Langley. Wesley Joseph. The spellbinding Juni Habel. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson chats with Chloe Kimes from WMOT in Nashville about their favorite albums out Friday, April 10. Plus, a handful of NPR Music writers and critics offer personal picks in our lightning round.

The Starting 5

(00:00) Ella Langley, 'Dandelion'
(08:24) Tenille Townes, 'The Acrobat'
(15:53) Wesley Joseph, 'Forever Ends Someday'
(21:22) Brown Horse, 'Total Dive'
(27:03) Juni Habel, 'Evergreen In Your Mind'

(32:31) The Lightning Round

- Gracie and Rachel, 'If We Could, Would We'
- Melanie Baker, 'Somebody Help Me, I'm Being Spontaneous!'
- upsammy & Valentina Magaletti, 'Seismo'
- Spirit Adrift, 'Infinite Illumination'
- Drivin N Cryin, 'Crushing Flowers'

Sample the albums via our New Music Friday playlist and see our Long List of notable releases on NPR.org

Credits:
Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Chloe Kimes, WMOT
Audio Producers: Noah Caldwell, Alina Edwards
Digital Producer: Dora Levite
Editors: Otis Hart, Elle Mannion
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Special thanks to Lars Gotrich, Ann Powers and Hazel Cills

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:12.4	Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Chloe Kimes from WMOT in Tennessee.
0:21.4	Welcome to the show, Chloe.
0:22.7	Hi, Stephen.
0:23.5	Happy Friday. I'm so glad to have you.
0:27.1	What an uneventful week it's been in America and the world.
0:31.8	I'm glad to just sit down with you and geek out about some new music, which ultimately that's all we can do.
0:38.6	Yeah, I can't think of a better place to be right now.
0:42.5	And as a special bonus, the first record we are talking about is the biggest record that is out this week.
0:50.8	And we don't always get to say that.
0:52.4	Sometimes, you know, the big pop record will come out,
0:55.4	the big hip hop record, the big R&B record. These records aren't always kind of screened for critics ahead of time. They'll sort of drop them. Maybe we've gotten to hear a single. Maybe we haven't. And so we sit here kind of having to acknowledge like, oh, Harry Stiles put out a record. We only know what this one song sounds like, but here we get to talk about the big record of the week
1:13.7	in its entirety.
1:15.0	I know. I was so excited when I got the call to be your guest this week, because I have been so
1:20.4	excited to hear this Ella record. Yeah, well, let's kick off the show with Ella Langley.
1:26.4	Ella Langley's new album is called Dandelion.
1:29.5	She's from Texas I can tell by the way he's two stepping round the room.
1:38.3	And judging by the smile that's written on his face, there's nothing I can do
1:44.8	It doesn't take a crystal ball
1:50.2	To see
1:51.1	A cowboy always finds a way to leave
1:55.5	Drinking Jack all by myself
	...

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