New Music Friday: The best albums out June 27

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Madison McFerrin. Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas. Durand Jones & The Indications. KALW's Wonway Posibul joins NPR Music's Stephen Thompson to share their favorite new releases of the week.

Intro:
• Bruce Springsteen, 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' (Read our guide to the box set on npr.org)
• Lorde, 'Virgin' (Read our review on npr.org)

The Starting 5:
• Laura Stevenson, 'Late Great'
• Adrian Quesada, 'Boleros Psicodélicos II'
• Madison McFerrin, 'Scorpio'
• Durand Jones & The Indications, 'Flowers'
• Herbert & Momoko, 'Clay'

The Lightning Round:
• Frankie Cosmos, 'Different Talking'
• Dana and Alden, 'Speedo'
• Brighde Chaimbeul, 'Sunwise'
• Mocky, 'Music Will Explain (Choir Music Vol. 1)'
• Tim Barnes, 'Lost Words / Noumena'

Check out our Long List of new albums out June 27 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.

Credits
Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Wonway Posibul, KALW
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

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0:00.0	On Fridays, the 1A podcast is all about helping you cut through the info fog and get to what's important in the news.
0:07.6	Close out the week with us on our Friday News Roundup.
0:10.8	Here from reporters who've been embedded with the biggest news of the week.
0:14.9	Join us every week for the Friday News Roundup.
0:17.2	Listen to the 1A podcast from NPR and WANU.
0:27.6	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:30.5	It's New Music Friday.
0:31.8	I'm Stephen Thompson here with One Way Possible from KALW in the San Francisco Bay Area.
0:37.7	Hey Juan.
0:38.8	Hey, Stephen, how's it going?
0:40.3	It is a pleasure to have you.
0:42.0	There is so much good music out today, June 27th to talk about.
0:46.3	We didn't even get it all.
0:47.7	There are two really highly notable records out today
0:52.0	that we did not get an opportunity to listen to in advance.
0:55.0	Bruce Springsteen,
0:57.0	he's got this new box set.
1:00.0	It is called Tracks 2, The Lost Albums.
1:03.0	It is seven albums worth of unreleased Bruce Springsteen.
1:09.0	I know that the fans are going to be really happy about that, to have that many
1:13.4	tracks and hours of music from Bruce.
1:32.7	It's more than 70 completely unheard, unreleased songs.
	...

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