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All Songs Considered

New Music Friday: The best albums out April 25

All Songs Considered

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Coco Jones. Samia. Fly Anakin. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Ayana Contreras from Denver public radio stations KUVO Jazz and The Drop to discuss the best new albums they heard this week.

Featured albums:

• Coco Jones, 'Why Not More' (Stream)

• Samia, 'Bloodless' (Stream)

• Emma-Jean Thackray, 'Weirdo' (Stream)

• David Murray, 'Birdly Serenade' (Stream)

• Fly Anakin, '(The) Forever Dream' (Stream)

Check out our long list of albums out April 25 and sample more 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

To learn more about the Tiny Desk Contest artists you heard in this episode, check out Ayana Contreras' Top Shelf special on YouTube.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Ayana Contreras, KUVO Jazz & The Drop
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:00.0

A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.

0:06.5

Happy Friday from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Ayanna Contreras from KUVO Jazz and The Drop in Denver, Colorado. Hey, Ayanna.

0:17.0

Hey, how are you doing? I am doing well. It is great to have you here.

0:21.2

Absolutely. It's been a minute. It has. You and I have done this show in past iterations,

0:25.6

but this is the first time in kind of our new era where you and I get to chop it up and talk about great new music out today. April 25th.

0:34.4

First, you may notice you're hearing a little bit of prints. Today is the drop date

0:39.2

for a new Dolby Atmos, Blu-ray spectacular of Purple Rain. If you have a high-tech

0:46.2

home theater system, you can experience Purple Rain in, I guess, the most high-tech

0:52.0

iteration yet?

1:04.7

So there's like, apparently with the atmos, it's got like over a hundred different sound points, so spaces where a different configuration of sound will hit you differently.

1:10.5

Like surround sound on steroids, right?

1:13.9

And I'm at most agnostic, right?

1:16.4

Like, it sounds like a good idea, but I don't know about that.

1:20.3

Like, it is one of those things that, like, years from now, it'll be, like, quaint.

1:23.9

Eventually, we're going to be watching prints via hologram and thinking it's so, this

1:27.5

atmos is so primitive. Right, exactly. We can't even represent what you would be getting in this

1:33.8

Blu-ray DVD, so you just have to imagine that it sounds great. Right. If you believe, are you a

1:39.6

believer? All right, well, we've got a ton of great records out today.

1:46.1

We're going to start with Coco Jones.

1:48.5

Coco Jones's new album is called Why Not More?

1:57.9

Send me on the counter, neighbors need a preview.

2:08.6

You go on me. I'm a jewelry jewelry that you bet you want to make me your wife that you got a big appetite. Fresh up at the shower, boy, it's getting filthy, using all my vows, legs up on the ceiling, talking about it, yeah, e, e, oh my God, it, it, it, it oh my it's never too much never too

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