New Music Friday: The best albums out June 6

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Pulp. Turnstile. Little Simz. It's a packed release week, and NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is here to walk you through it, along with friend of the program Izzi Bavis of WTMD in Baltimore.

Featured albums:

• Turnstile, 'NEVER ENOUGH' (Stream)
• Pulp, 'More' (Stream)
• Little Simz, 'Lotus' (Stream)
• McKinley Dixon, 'Magic, Alive!' (Stream)
• Lifeguard, 'Ripped and Torn' (Stream)

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

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Izzi Bavis, WTMD
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editors: Otis Hart and Elle Mannion
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:00.0	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:06.4	Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Izzy Bavis from WTMD in Baltimore.
0:15.3	Welcome, Izzy. Hi, I'm so happy to be back.
0:18.2	You're back and you're back for Turnstile Day.
0:22.2	Yes, oh my goodness.
0:25.0	I am so excited about the new album and I feel like so special to be like in Baltimore
0:29.2	while it's happening.
0:30.4	June 6th is a wild release day
0:32.1	because there are any number of records
0:33.8	we could have used to lead this week's show.
0:35.5	Pulp, their first new album in 24 years,
0:38.9	is out today.
0:43.7	Little Sims, you know, one of the biggest kind of rising stars in hip-hop, has a new album out,
0:49.8	TikTok star Addison Ray. But this turnstile record is big enough that there is an accompanying movie?
0:57.0	There's a lot of hype and excitement around this record.
1:00.7	Yeah, this is going to be a big record.
1:01.9	Well, let's get to it.
1:03.7	Turnstile's new album is called Never Enough.
1:06.4	Running from your sales now.
1:09.0	Get in what you're so.
1:12.6	Never let you go down
1:14.6	Anywhere you go
	...

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