New Music Friday: The best albums out Jan. 10

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

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Summary

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by KCRW's Travis Holcombe to run down their four favorite albums out today, as well as the revamped version of SZA's 'LANA' project.

Featured Albums:

• SZA, 'SOS Deluxe: LANA'
• Franz Ferdinand, 'The Human Fear'
• Ethel Cain, 'Perverts'
• zzzahara, 'Spiral Your Way Out'
• Moonchild Sanelly, 'Full Moon'

See the long list of albums out January 10 and stream our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org/music.

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:06.2	All right, Travis, let's make some magic.
0:08.6	It's new music Friday, from KCRW in Los Angeles.
0:22.1	Hey, Travis.
0:23.0	Hey, Stephen. Thanks for having me.
0:24.9	It's a pleasure to have you. I know these are trying times in Los Angeles, so I appreciate you being here.
0:31.0	But since we're here to talk music, you host a show on KCRW called Freaks Only. Tell me about it.
0:39.5	It's a show every Monday through Friday,
0:46.1	8 to 10 p.m. Pacific Time, try to highlight what I consider the best of music every night. And yeah, I feel very fortunate to have a platform to be able to do that. Wonderful. That is the dream.
0:52.8	Get to geek out and everyone listens,
0:54.9	which is what we're doing.
0:57.0	We've got a ton of great music on this week's show,
1:00.1	including new music from Ethel Cain, Franz Ferdinand, Zahara, and more.
1:04.8	But first, there is one record that we're actually not talking about this week.
1:09.1	Bad Bunny has a new album called DeBi Tirar
1:12.3	Most Photos, and it dropped this past Sunday. The reason we're not talking about it is that
1:17.4	Alt Latino has us covered, so you can head on over to the NPR music feed to hear more.
1:23.3	Sometime after the pandemic, Bad Bunny supplanted hip-hop is the most requested thing that you'll get as a DJ,
1:30.0	to the point where it's almost become a cliche where you just have to be ready with the 22 record, Unverano Sinti,
1:36.6	just in case somebody comes at you with a request for Bad Bunny.
1:40.3	Yeah, that record is all bangers.
1:43.0	You can absolutely is.
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