New Music Friday: The best albums out June 20

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

HAIM. Hotline TNT. Yaya Bey. World Cafe's Raina Douris joins Stephen Thompson to give you a quick tour through the best records out this week.

Featured albums:

• HAIM, 'I quit' (Stream)

• Hotline TNT, 'Raspberry Moon' (Stream)

• Yaya Bey, 'do it afraid' (Stream)

• Kelsey Waldon, 'Every Ghost' (Stream)

• S.G. Goodman, 'Planting by the Signs' (Stream)

Check out the long list of albums out June 20 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on NPR.org.

Credits
• Host: Stephen Thompson
• Guest: Raina Douris, WXPN
• Producer: Simon Rentner
• Editor: Otis Hart
• Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

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0:23.6	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:31.7	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here
0:36.9	with Raina Duras from World Cafe in Philadelphia.
0:39.6	Hey, Raina. Hey, what's up? It is such a pleasure to have you here. Before we start, I actually
0:44.7	just up front want to do a quick public service announcement. Many of you, if you listen to this show,
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1:12.8	Raina, have you signed up yet?
1:14.4	Yes.
1:15.3	Yes, I have.
1:16.6	I'm trying to remember how I have.
1:18.6	And if I haven't, I'm doing it right now.
1:20.8	Awesome.
1:21.5	Thank you, Raina.
1:22.3	We're going to kick things off with the new album by Heim.
1:25.2	Heim has a new album called, I Quit. Don't tell me that you're in love.
1:30.3	Because I'm not trying to walk the line.
1:34.3	And whoever you see I'm saying is fine with me, because I won't say what I'm doing tonight
1:46.2	you know I've always
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