New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 23

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

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NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to seven anticipated albums out Aug. 23. During the second half of the episode, the two dig into the mercurial nature of the album format in 2024.

Featured albums:
- Sabrina Carpenter, 'Short n' Sweet'
- Lainey Wilson, 'Whirlwind'
- Illuminati hotties, 'POWER'
- Fontaines D.C., 'Romance'
- Heems, 'Veena'
- Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, 'Woodland'
- Magdalena Bay, 'Imaginal Disk'

See the longer list of albums out August 23 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.

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0:00.0	Just a quick note, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, it's New Music Friday from NPR Music, here to talk about the best and most
0:10.6	discussion-worthy albums out today, August 23rd.
0:14.4	I'm Stephen Thompson here with NPR Music Editor and columnist Sheldon Pierce.
0:18.7	Hey Sheldon.
0:19.7	Hey Stephen.
0:20.7	So the kind of biggest album release of the week is Sabrina Carpenter's short and sweet.
0:28.0	Sabrina Carpenter has been one of the big stories of music in 2024.
0:32.0	She's had these two gigantic hits with Espresso and Please Please
0:36.0	In case those songs aren't already stuck in your head let's hear a little bit of
0:41.6	Espresso. a little bit of espresso. So Espresso was this gigantic hit starting in the spring. That led into
1:01.6	please please which had a very notable video
1:05.0	starring Sabrina Carpenter's partner Barry Kiogan. Please don't prove I'm right.
1:13.0	Please, please don't prove I'm right.
1:14.0	Please, please,
1:20.0	don't bring me to tears when I just do my makeup so nice.
1:26.0	So now Short and Sweet is out. We were not sent advance copies of this album,
1:31.0	but I think it's safe to say Sheldon that there is a fair bit of interest in what Sabrina Carpenter does next.
1:36.4	Yeah, just a little bit of excitement behind this artist.
1:41.0	Perhaps, yeah, it feels like she has sort of stepped into her moment right now.
1:47.8	It'll be interesting to see if this record can capitalize on that. I've seen a lot of people sort of there are
1:56.6	narrative reasons to pit her directly against Olivia Rodrigo, but there is also this sort of funny thing where people have,
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