New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 15

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

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Summary

KAYTRANADA. Dijon. Molly Tuttle. We discuss the best new albums of the week with arts critic Amelia Mason from WBUR in Boston.

Intro:

• KAYTRANADA, 'AIN’T NO DAMN WAY!'

The Starting 5

• Dijon, 'Baby'

• Marissa Nadler, 'New Radiations'

• Molly Tuttle, 'So Long Little Miss Sunshine'

• Pile, 'Sunshine and Balance Beams'

• Joseph Decosimo, 'Fiery Gizzard'

The Lightning Round

• Cassandra Jenkins, 'My Light, My Massage Parlor'

• Cass McCombs, 'Interior Live Oak'

• Audrey Hobert, 'Who's The Clown'

(Read our feature on Audrey Hobert on NPR.org)

• Najee Janey, 'Royalty'

• Bret McKenzie, 'Freak Out City'

See our Long List of albums out Aug. 15 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.

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0:00.0	Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson. Each week on New
0:08.0	Music Friday, we speak to a member of the NPR Music Network, and today, August 15th, we are welcoming
0:13.7	Amelia Mason from WBWR in Boston. Hey, Amelia. Hello, thank you so much for having me on.
0:19.5	Thank you so much for being here. So the music
0:22.7	that you're hearing at the top of this show is from a late breaking album dropping today, August 15th.
0:28.6	That's the electronic dance music star K. Trinada. He is one of the most prolific collaborators in the
0:34.4	business, but his new record, Ain't damn way, is a solo showcase for his
0:38.9	vibe, timeless, R&B-inflicted, very distinctively Ketranata dance music.
0:48.9	Yeah, we just found out about it, which was very exciting.
0:55.1	Maybe less exciting for a pre-taped podcast, but it was very funny to be listening to this, like, in the offices here at WVR with my little headphones on and, like, an empty office with bright lights.
1:08.0	Because this is, like, nightclub music.
1:10.4	Did you feel like you were keeping an industry secret?
1:12.7	Like every time somebody walked by and saw you, you were like,
1:15.6	yeah.
1:16.9	I mean, I did do that.
1:18.9	I did feel special.
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:24.3	Well, let's kick off the show.
1:26.1	New album from Dijon.
1:27.8	His new album is called Baby.
1:29.8	And baby,
1:30.1	you look good to me.
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