New Music Friday: The best albums out March 22

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

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Though it isn't quite as packed with huge names as last week, we're digging through another robust assortment of terrific albums. Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Stephen Thompson open by hailing Tigers Blood, the latest album from a singer-songwriter — Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee — who sounds more assured and potent than ever.

Plus: inescapably catchy global pop from South African singer Tyla, genre-straddling roots music from Sierra Ferrell, indescribable electronic compositions from Jlin and more.

Featured albums:
1. Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood
2. Tyla, Tyla
3. Sierra Ferrell, Trail of Flowers
4. Jlin, Akoma

Other notable releases for March 22:
• Rosie Tucker, 'Utopia Now!'
• Empress Of, 'For Your Consideration'
• Adrianne Lenker, 'Bright Future'
• The Jesus and Mary Chain, 'Glasgow Eyes'
• Future & Metro Boomin, 'We Don't Trust You'
• SiR, 'HEAVY'
• Good Morning, 'Seven'
• Tatyana, 'It's Over'
• Aoife O'Donovan, 'All My Friends'
• Brothers Osborne, 'Break Mine'
• Cakes da Killa, 'Black Sheep'
• Matt Champion (of Brockhampton), 'Mika's Laundry'
• Gary Clark Jr., 'JPEG RAW'
• Glass Beams, 'Mahal'
• Gossip, 'Real Power'
• Julia Holter, 'Something in the Room She Moves'
• Nourished by Time, 'Catching Chickens' EP
• Rosali, 'Bite Down'
• Shakira, 'Las Mujeres La No Lloran'

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0:26.0	Stephen, where are you doing most of your listening these days? Is it still in your car?
0:35.0	Well, pre-Pandemic, I listened a lot in the car, and as I'm doing less commuting and more
0:41.0	working from home, I've set up some Bluetooth speakers around my house so that I have kind of more ambient, not necessarily ambient music, though sometimes ambient music, but music kind of on the wind in my home trying not to distract the other people who live in my house so is it different songs going in different rooms of the house do you have like themed areas of your home?
1:03.6	You know that's a really good idea I like the idea of like this is the funk room.
1:09.2	I was gonna say it sounds listeners this may sound like a ridiculous idea but Stephen does have a home arcade.
1:15.1	I would not put it fast.
1:16.3	I do, I do.
1:17.4	I think that should be playing mostly the music of 1983 to 1986 when I was spending kind of when the most the biggest chunk of my life was spent in arcades.
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1:31.0	It is that it is My hair was absolutely massive.
1:35.0	I've seen the photos. It's a regular Richard Marks.
1:39.0	Yeah, Richard Marks was probably the most common comparison. if you watched the young and the
1:43.7	restless Michael Damien who played Danny Romilotti I got that I got that comparison a
1:49.0	lot though that may fall on some deaf ears from people born after 1978.
1:56.0	Well, why don't we jump ahead of the present then?
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