New Music Friday: The best albums out April 17
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
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Summary
The Starting 5
(00:00) Introduction & Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize, 'Nine Inch Noize'
(02:47) Honey Dijon, 'The Nightlife'
(09:05) Jessie Ware, 'Superbloom'
(16:22) Sofia Isella, 'Something is a shell' EP
(22:43) Eaves Wilder, 'Little Miss Sunshine'
(28:56) Yaya Bey, 'Fidelity'
(34:33) The Lightning Round
- Kathryn Mohr, 'Carve'
- Protoje, 'The Art of Acceptance'
- PPJ, 'Joker' EP
- Iceland Symphony Orchestra, 'Arvo Pärt: Complete Symphonies'
- Adrian Younge, 'Younge'
Sample the albums via our New Music Friday playlist and see our Long List of notable releases on NPR.org
Credits:
Host: Hazel Cills
Guest: Nastia Voynovskaya, KQED
Audio Producers: Noah Caldwell, Alina Edwards
Digital Producer: Dora Levite
Editors: Otis Hart, Elle Mannion
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
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| 0:00.0 | A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.3 | Happy Friday, everyone. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Hazel Sills, an editor at MPR Music, filling in for Stephen Thompson this week. |
| 0:16.3 | Each week on New Music Friday, we speak to a member of the MPR Music Network. |
| 0:22.4 | And today, April 17th, |
| 0:28.6 | I'm here with Nastia Voinovskaia from KQED in San Francisco. Nostia, I'm so happy that you're here. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, Hazel, I'm so happy to be here. I'm really excited to talk about a ton of great new music out today. |
| 0:38.1 | But I did want to talk to you a little bit about Coachella. Did you catch any of the Coachella live streams? Do you even care about Coachella? |
| 0:43.5 | I'm curious. Of course. Yeah. So this year, one of my faves, Carol G, was the first Latina |
| 0:50.6 | headliner, which is very exciting. And she had the super dynamic performance that really paid homage to her Colombian culture, |
| 0:58.0 | which I loved. |
| 0:59.0 | But a collaboration I was really thrilled about is 9-inch Nails and Boys Noise performing as 9-inch noise. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, I was not watching live streams as it was happening. |
| 1:11.8 | You know, there's a big time delay on the East Coast, so I can't stay up for everything. |
| 1:16.9 | But I was like getting clips, you know, after the weekend had happened, after the performances |
| 1:21.5 | had happened. |
| 1:22.3 | And my entire Instagram feed was honestly 9-inch noise clips. |
| 1:27.0 | It was like the algorithm was like you |
| 1:29.2 | absolutely need to see this performance. It looked so dark and twisted and like there were all of |
| 1:35.7 | these bald dancers like crawling around the stage. It was kind of giving like a mad max vibe in |
| 1:41.6 | the middle of the desert. Yeah, so fitting. And then the music just |
| 1:45.4 | works so well together. I love Nine-Aunch Nail is obviously giants of industrial music. And then |
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