New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 30

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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You know that mind-expanding feeling when an album — even one that fits solidly in a familiar genre — gives you something that feels brand new? This week on New Music Friday from All Songs Considered, NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers find an abundance of brand new records that push boundaries.These ambitious albums, all out on August 30, 2024, represent a range of styles, energies and motivations, from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' sweeping rock epic Wild God to the irrepressible bounce of Doechii's shape-shifting Alligator Bites Never Heal to Laurie Anderson's Amelia, obsessed with the minutia of flight mechanics but capable of inducing swooning emotions as it puts the listener in the cockpit for the final flight of the album's namesake aviation pioneer.Plus: In the face of all these huge artistic swings, Ann and Daoud consider the state of art-rock, a musical category that has meant many different things to many different listeners over the years.Featured Albums:• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Wild God• Doechii, Alligator Bites Never Heal• Enumclaw, Home In Another Life• Ellen Reid, Big Majestic• Laurie Anderson, Amelia• Jon Hopkins, RitualOther notable albums out August 30:• Emily D'Angelo, Freezing• Big Sean, Better Me Than You• Shemekia Copeland, Blame It on Eve• Tycho, Infinite Health• Zedd, Telos• Tank & the Bangas, The Heart, The Mind, The Soul• Caleb Caudle, Sweet Critters• Amy Rigby, Hang in There With Me• Noah Kahan, Stick Season (Live From Fenway Park)

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0:21.0	And did I ever send you a video called The Broken Formula of Music BioPicks?
0:30.0	Have we talked about that?
0:31.0	No.
0:32.0	What is that? It's by a youtuber named Patrick H. Williams, who's great, who does a lot of great video essays
0:38.3	about film.
0:39.2	This one came out when Bohemian Rhapsody, the movie, was doing its Oscar run in like early 2019.
0:46.0	Yes.
0:47.0	People are more attuned to this problem now, but at the time I thought he did a really great job of pointing out something that was under
0:53.2	discussed then which is that even though biopics about musicians do good business and
0:59.2	win awards the problem with a lot of them is that they try to say everything about their
1:05.1	subject totally and they kind of wind up saying nothing it's that cinematic
1:08.4	Wikipedia problem yes right exactly so he goes through some of the main offenders,
1:13.4	and he talks about some notable exceptions,
1:15.5	the ones that he thinks are more focused,
1:17.0	and then at the end he pitches a biopick
1:19.4	that hasn't been made,
1:21.2	let me guess.
1:22.1	And says how he'd make it. Maybe you can guess, given the news this week.
1:26.0	Let's see.
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