a quick note before the show this podcast contains explicit language happy friday everyone from npr music it's new music

i'm stephen thompson here with john morrison from wxpn hey john. Hey, what's up, Stephen? Long time. No see.

Yeah, it's good to see you too. And I should congratulate you, WXPN, based in Philly. I know you to be a

Philadelphia Eagles fan going to the Super Bowl against the dreaded Kansas City Chiefs on a couple Sundays from now. Are you excited?

Yeah, I'm super excited. Last night, you know, a bunch of us was all out on Broad Street,

while and out. It was crazy. I was still bitter from you vanquishing my Green Bay Packers.

Yeah. Easy work.

Just a light tune-up.

Let's just run through a path of no resistance.

So we've got a bunch of new records we want to talk about this week.

We're going to get to some really interesting stuff by bands like Samande.

We got a new record from Ambrose, Akemusory, a whole bunch of great stuff. But first up,

we wanted to acknowledge a record that we haven't heard that is dropping the day this episode drops.

The weekend has a new record called Hurry Up Tomorrow. It's his sixth album. It's a double album.

And kind of the completion of this trilogy of records that he's been putting out,

starting with After Hours in 2020, which was this colossal hit.

And then Dawn FM in 2022, which is kind of this kind of interesting dreamy synth pop record.

Hurry Up Tomorrow is an epic. He's already dropped a few tracks from it.

I've gotten dancing in the flames stuck in my head a few times since it dropped.

So I'm going to be intrigued.

I mean, the fact that it's a double record, the fact that he is such a deeply reliable hitmaker,

he really is one of the biggest hitmakers of the 21st century.

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