New Music Friday: The best albums out June 21

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

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The first half of 2024 has been stuffed with blockbuster albums, and as we reach the midpoint of the year, we've got one more to add to the list. On this week's episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered, Hazel Cills and Anamaria Sayre discuss the new album from the breakout star of the Mexican Regional movement. Peso Pluma's new Éxodo sees the singer branching out with new sounds and new collaborators.

Also out this week: the always captivating Kehlani gets adventurous on Crash and the Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini fashions an album of songs out of letters written to a friend's mother.

Featured Albums:
• Peso Pluma, 'Éxodo'
• Kehlani, 'Crash'
• Emiliana Torrini, 'Miss Flower'

Other notable albums out June 21:
• Wild Up, 'Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence'
• Gracie Abrams, 'The Secret of Us'
• Lake Street Dive, 'Good Together'
• Linda Thompson, 'Proxy Music'
• Various Artists, 'Miles Away: One'
• Been Stellar, 'Scream from New York, NY'
• Daryl Hall, 'D'
• Jim Lauderdale, 'My Favorite Place'
• Kate Nash, '9 Sad Symphonies'
• Sumac, 'The Healer'
• Various Artists, 'Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty'

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0:24.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:28.0	I did have something that I actually wanted to ask you about okay. I don't want to blow up your spot but were you recently salsa dancing in the office in front of the tiny desk?
0:42.0	Did I see that on your Instagram?
0:43.8	I'm actually quite frequently salsa dancing
0:46.8	in the office in front of the tiny desk,
0:48.4	which is this is the first time someone captured it.
0:50.8	Okay, that was my question.
0:52.2	And I have this idea in my head that like your salsa dancing everywhere?
0:56.5	So kind of.
0:58.4	So if you're listening at home and you don't know I'm Hazel Sills, I work at NPR out of New York and I'm talking to
1:04.5	on Maria Serre who works out of DC so we're not often together in spaces where I
1:09.3	can witness the beauty of her salsa dancing in person. The beauty on the on the record the beauty of my dancing. Thanks Hazel
1:17.0	appreciate it. This is my critical opinion but we're not here to talk about
1:21.4	salsa dancing as much as I wish this was a podcast just us talking about salsa dancing
1:25.7	It is new music Friday for June 21st 2024
1:29.4	We are talking about some of the best albums out this week.
1:33.8	Just to remind you, I'm Hazel Sills.
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