New Music Friday: The best albums out Feb. 28

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Animal Collective's Panda Bear. Nicolás Jaar's DARKSIDE. Newcomer Hope Tala. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson discusses these albums and more with KCRW's Travis Holcombe.

Featured albums:

• Panda Bear, 'Sinister Grift'

• Mdou Moctar, 'Tears of Injustice'

• DARKSIDE, 'Nothing'

• Hope Tala, 'Hope Handwritten'

• Marie Davidson, 'City of Clowns'

Check out the longer list of albums out Feb. 28 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

Credits:

• Host: Stephen Thompson
• Guest: Travis Holcombe, KCRW
• Producer: Simon Rentner
• Editor: Otis Hart
• Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:10.9	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:17.7	It's New Music Friday.
0:19.4	I'm Stephen Thompson here with Travis Holcomb from KCRW. Hey Travis.
0:23.2	Hey, Steven. Very excited to be here with you today. It is a pleasure to have you back for the
0:28.3	second time this year. Yeah. And I think what makes it even sweeter, this is probably the biggest
0:33.6	release date of the year so far. So I'm honored to be here with you for this.
0:37.8	Well, one of the reasons we have you back so quickly is you came to us and said,
0:42.4	there's a ton of stuff I'm excited about this week. You know, we're going to talk about a bunch
0:46.6	of new records. We've got a new album from M. Do Moctar, Hope Tala, Marie Davidson. We've got
0:51.9	Darkside. But first, we're going to talk about the new record by Panda Bear.
0:59.7	Panda Bear has a new record called Sinister Rift.
1:08.0	In the beginning, silence I figured only here on It feels kind of Sirens are flingered
1:13.0	Only here and found that line
1:16.5	It feels kind of like we're in the midst of a panda bear renaissance
1:20.7	for the last few years
1:21.7	He's had guest features on a lot of really cool releases
1:24.9	Probably since 2022 or so from Brax and Falcons step by step.
1:29.7	He was on the last Jamie XX record.
1:31.7	He was on a Boolean single and he had the collaborative record with Sonic Boom that came out
1:36.2	a couple years back.
1:37.9	In some ways it does feel like Panda Bear, Noah Lennox, has sort of eclips the profile of
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