New Music Friday: The best albums out April 11

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

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Summary

Bon Iver returns. Valerie June branches out. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Erin Wolf of Radio Milwaukee's 88Nine to the show for a quick run-through of the best new albums out April 11.

Featured albums:

• Bon Iver, 'SABLE, fABLE' (Stream)

• Valerie June, 'Owls, Omens, and Oracles' (Stream)

• Gerald Clayton, 'Ones & Twos' (Stream)

• Real Lies, 'We Will Annihilate Our Enemies' (Stream the singles)

• Kills Birds, 'Crave' EP (Stream)

Check out our long list of albums out April 11 and stream our New Music Friday sampler playlist of more than 60 songs at npr.org/music.

Credits
• Host: Stephen Thompson
• Guest: Erin Wolf, Radio Milwakee's 88Nine
• Producer: Simon Rentner
• Editor: Otis Hart
• Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Vice President, Music & Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:00.0	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with
0:07.1	Aaron Wolfe from Radio Milwaukee's 88.9. Hey, Aaron. Hey, thanks so much for having me. I am delighted
0:13.7	to have you. We are going to talk about the glories of our shared, beloved home state of
0:18.7	Wisconsin later in this episode. But first, before we start
0:22.4	talking about new records, I did want to mention tomorrow, Saturday, April 12th is record
0:27.6	store day. Coast to coast, independent record stores all over the country are going to be selling
0:33.9	exclusive titles, rare, seven inches, live albums, reissues, kind of record store day
0:40.8	exclusives. And I was wondering, Erin, you like me are a music nerd. Is there anything that you
0:46.7	are specifically looking for? I have my eye on this soul slabs volume four from Coal Mine. They just always put out these
0:57.4	really good various artists compilations.
1:05.8	Got Delvon Lamar Organ Trio, you've got the monophonics, Aaron Frazier.
1:11.5	And also, I have to say, I have not yet been able to get my hands on a copy of George
1:17.8	Harrison's.
1:18.5	All things must pass.
1:20.4	And I really want that on vinyl.
1:22.4	And probably in my bag, it'll be Airs Moon Safari live in demos.
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:29.3	And the cures the head on the door, the picture disc.
1:32.3	Yesterday I've got so old I've felt like I could die.
1:38.3	Record Store Day is such a crapshoot.
1:40.3	You know, for every, like, really cool obscurity that you've been dying to get your hands on,
1:45.8	you get things like there's going to be a 12-inch picture disc of We Built This City by Starship.
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