New Music Friday: The best albums out April 4

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

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Summary

The Hold Steady's Craig Finn. Momma. Newcomers Lily Seabird and duendita. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson teamed up with Zach McCormick of Minnesota Public Radio's The Current to highlight their favorite albums out April 4.

Featured albums:

• Craig Finn, 'Always Been' (Stream)

• Momma, 'Welcome to My Blue Sky' (Stream)

• Lily Seabird, 'Trash Mountain' (Stream)

• duendita, 'a strong desire to survive' (Stream)

• Dumb Things, 'Self Help' (Stream)

Check out our long list of albums out April 4 and listen to our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

Credits:
Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Zach McCormick, MPR's The Current
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:17.7	Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music.
0:20.4	It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson, and I'm here with Zach McCormick from Minnesota Public Radio's The Current. Welcome to the show, Zach.
0:27.6	Thank you so much for having me, Steven. We love what you folks do here, the national stage, NPR Music. So excited to be here with you.
0:34.6	Well, we love what you do at The Current. When we were starting NPR Music in 2007,
0:39.3	the Current was one of the stations we looked to
0:41.3	as somebody who was really, really getting it right.
0:44.3	And you guys have just continued to do phenomenal work
0:47.3	for years and years now.
0:48.3	We're going to kick off the show with an artist very familiar
0:51.3	to Minnesotans.
0:53.3	Craig Finn of the Hold Steady and Lifterpuller,
0:56.0	he has a new solo record called Always Ben.
1:00.0	She met him after summer school.
1:03.0	Ohio off the bus stop
1:07.0	in a knockoff Celtics jacket. said his crew they call him Shamrock.
1:15.1	His mother died when he was five and his dad's some sort of drug cop.
1:21.6	But the apple sometimes rolls the way down the hill.
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