New Music Friday: The best albums out July 19

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week on New Music Friday from All Songs Considered, NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Stephen Thompson listen to a grab bag of new releases out on July 19, including what's being called the last Childish Gambino album ever, returns by public radio faves Los Campesinos and Dr. Dog and a vibe-heavy follow-up made by the creators of one of the longest-running Billboard singles of all time, just in time to greet the the heat waves of summer 2024 (sorry).

Then, one of the week's biggest albums sends Daoud and Stephen down a rabbit hole in which they attempt to figure out what happened to the blockbuster soundtrack and why, in the aftermath of an exceptional example from 2023, there might be an opportunity to revive the form.

Featured albums
• Childish Gambino, 'Bando Stone & the New World'
• Los Campesinos, 'All Hell'
• Denzel Curry, 'King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2'
• Glass Animals, 'I Love You So F****** Much'
• Dr. Dog, 'Dr. Dog'
• Jimin, 'Muse'
• Various Artists, 'Twisters: The Album' OST

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0:23.6	Stephen, have you ever seen Valley Girl, the early Nicholas Cage movie from like 83?
0:29.2	Um, probably, wow, I think so, like on basic cable.
0:36.5	Yeah, but it would have been so long ago that I remember basically nothing.
0:41.0	It was a cable staple, I think.
0:42.4	I was thinking about this movie
0:43.7	because I knew we're going to be talking about soundtracks today and I
0:46.9	remembered that during the falling in love montage that you get in most
0:51.7	ROM comes from that era the song that they play is that you
0:55.0	by modern comes from that era. The song stop the world I'm there with you.
1:07.0	Great song, really emblematic new wave kit.
1:10.0	The thing that I'd forgotten is that they played the whole song.
1:13.9	It's like four minutes long.
1:15.8	That song has like two bridges, you know what I'm talking about?
1:18.4	The futures open wide part.
1:21.4	And you get...
1:22.4	So you're just watching the movie and like the song is just in full you're just watching a music video within it's nuts it's you get Nicholas Cage and Deborah Foreman who's the love interest going on what feels like a lifetime's worth of dates.
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