New Music Friday: The best albums out March 21

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Japanese Breakfast. My Morning Jacket. Greentea Peng. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Izzi Bavis from Baltimore public radio station WTMD to run through their favorite albums out today.

Featured albums:

• Japanese Breakfast, 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' (Stream)

• Greentea Peng, 'TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY' (Stream)

• Tamino, 'Every Dawn's a Mountain' (Stream)

• My Morning Jacket, 'is' (Stream)

• YHWH Nailgun, '45 Pounds' (Stream)

Read our long list of albums out March 21 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

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

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0:38.3	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:39.6	It's New Music Friday.
0:44.7	I'm Stephen Thompson here with Izzy Bavis from WTMD in Baltimore.
0:45.3	Hi, Izzy.
0:46.2	Hi.
0:48.1	It is such a pleasure to have you here.
0:50.5	We've got a ton of great records we're going to talk about this week,
0:55.2	including new albums from My Morning Jacket, Yaway Nailgun, Tamino, and more.
1:00.3	Izzy, I don't want to bury the lead. You went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison,
1:05.6	and so did I. Yes, yes. Thank you so much for starting the college radio station that I like fell in love with and fell in love with radio, which is why I'm here at WTMD now.
1:09.7	Getting to talk to you, a radio professional who got her start at WSUM.
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