New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 8

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ethel Cain. Charley Crockett. J.I.D. Plug in to the week's top new releases with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and guest DeShun Nance of WJSU's The Sipp in Jackson, Miss.

The Starting 5:

• J.I.D, 'God Does Like Ugly'

• Ethel Cain, 'Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You'

• Amaarae, 'Black Star'

• Charley Crockett, 'Dollar a Day'

• Gordi, 'Like Plasticine'

The Lightning Round:

• Hayes Carll, 'We're Only Human'

• Big Freedia, 'Pressing Onward'

• Ashley Monroe, 'Tennessee Lightning'

• Bryson Tiller, 'The Vices'

• Ada Lea, 'when i paint my masterpiece'

See our long list of albums out Aug. 8 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on the All Songs Considered blog.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson

Guest: DeShun Nance (WJSU's The Sipp)

Audio Producer: Noah Caldwell

Digital Producer: Elle Mannion

Production Assistant: Dora Levite

Editor: Otis Hart

Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.9	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:08.5	It's New Music Friday.
0:09.9	I'm Stephen Thompson here with Deshaun Nance of WJSU's The SIP in Jackson, Mississippi.
0:15.0	Hey, Deshawn, welcome to the show.
0:16.3	Thank you. Glad to be here.
0:17.6	It is a pleasure to have you.
0:18.9	You know, we're going to go right into some music this week with J.D.
0:23.3	The rapper J.I.D.
0:24.3	has a new album called God Does Like Ugly.
0:27.9	Touching, let me fall in a walk in.
0:31.2	It's crushing.
0:33.6	Still, geeking about your love for about that time that got me weak.
0:36.8	Shout out of in the club last night and it took me on my feet. Took a dose up. Took a dose of. But the toast up, that, do you know. Hit in my peak. She hit in my line. Thought that I was tied up with a freak. That's a lie. I was probably high shouting because the loud got me on a leash. Try to call back, but you didn't respond to me. Let me know so.
0:57.0	Let me know so while I'm trying to call back, but you didn't respond to me. Let me know some while I'm crazy. J.I.D. is a rapper from East Atlanta.
1:00.0	This is his fifth studio album.
1:02.0	He's also collaborated with a ton of other artists.
1:05.0	I have to say, for those who aren't familiar with him,
1:08.0	check out his tiny desk concert.
1:09.0	You really get a sense of this
1:11.0	kind of explosive charisma. And when I think of J.I.D., I really think of like your favorite
1:16.1	rapper's favorite rapper. If you just look at the list of features on this record, West Side Gun
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