New Music Friday: The best albums out July 25

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Childers. Patty Griffin. Indigo De Souza. Joe Kendrick of WNCW in North Carolina joins us to discuss the best albums out on July 25.

Intro:

• Tyler, The Creator, 'DON'T TAP THE GLASS'

The Starting 5:

• Tyler Childers, 'Snipe Hunter' (Stream)

• Patty Griffin, 'Crown of Roses' (Stream)

• Indigo De Souza, 'Precipice' (Stream)

• Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, 'New Threats from the Soul' (Stream)

• Yoshika Colwell, 'On The Wing' (Stream)

The Lightning Round:

• Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist, 'Alfredo 2'

• Cory Hanson, 'I Love People'

• quinnie, 'Paper Doll'

• Unspoken Tradition, 'Resilience'

• MC Yallah & Debmaster, 'Gaudencia'

See our long list of albums out July 25 and sample more than 50 albums via our New Music Friday on npr.org.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Joe Kendrick, WNCW
Producer: Simon Rentner
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.
0:05.2	I'll take care of you.
0:11.6	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson,
0:16.4	here with Joe Kendrick from WNCW. In Spindale, North Carolina Carolina. Hey Joe. Hey, Stephen. Welcome to the show.
0:24.0	It's great to be here. I've been looking forward to this. So before we start, we should
0:27.5	acknowledge the major album that dropped at the beginning of this week. Tyler, the creator,
0:32.7	just eight months after the release of Chromacopia, is back with a rowdy and upbeat new album called Don't Tap the Glass.
0:40.3	It's an uncharacteristically brisk and brief album for Tyler the creator.
0:45.3	It clocks in it just under half an hour.
0:47.3	And it's a real hairpin turn.
0:49.3	We just wanted to make sure we at least mention it in this roundup of the best new albums.
1:02.9	But we're going to kick off our show with the new album from Tyler Childers.
1:06.2	Tyler Childers has a new album called Snipe Hunter. I was embraced, kissed my face with the scope of my rifle.
1:13.6	I had shot it from a blind, as in you'd be blind not to see
1:21.6	that there's a man in the doorway of a motherfucking mansion aiming at the feeder where you sat to take a feast that's what i said
1:37.6	that's what i did and it did not cut one corner as I carved that fat neck mother right down to the bone.
1:50.6	I let him hang.
1:52.7	So Tyler Childers, a country singer from Kentucky, deep bluegrass and folk bent to his music.
1:59.7	He's been floating around kind of ever since a 2017
2:02.6	breakthrough with purgatory, but he has just kind of been putting out, you know, really
2:06.9	critically acclaimed album after critically acclaimed album. He put out a record in 2023 called Rustin
2:12.3	in the Rain. That was like seven songs in 28 minutes, kind of speaking of short albums by people named Tyler.
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