New Music Friday: The best albums out March 29
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
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Summary
But Queen Bey isn't the only artist with a new album worthy of discovery and dissection this week, and Sheldon is joined by Ann Powers to talk about a handful of other albums that deserve celebration. Those include a pair of albums — by Reyna Tropical and Kelly Moran — shaped by tragedy and its aftermath.
Featured albums:
1. Beyoncé, Act II: Cowboy Carter
2. Reyna Tropical: Malegría
3. Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field
4. Chastity Belt: Live, Laugh, Love
Other notable releases for March 29, 2024:
• Alejandro Escovedo, Echo Dancing
• Chicano Batman, Notebook Fantasy
• Dawn Landes, The Liberated Woman's Songbook
• Jim White, All Hits: Memories
• Kenny Chesney, BORN
• Rico Nasty & Boys Noize, HVRDC0RE DR3MZ EP
• Ride, Interplay
• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Revelations
• Shabazz Palaces, Exotic Birds of Prey
• Sheryl Crow, Evolution
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| 0:00.0 | You know the names of the primary players, Jimmy Carter. |
| 0:03.0 | Our country is not strong anymore. |
| 0:04.5 | Ronald Reagan. We have perverted our Constitution. |
| 0:07.1 | Gerald Ford. But how they acted, it's just about the opposite of their popular images. |
| 0:12.8 | Those are the seeds of the culture war. |
| 0:17.2 | Landslide, how a presidential race led to today's political divide. |
| 0:21.2 | Subscribe now to Landslide, part of the NPR Network. |
| 0:25.0 | It's New Music Friday for March 29th. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm NPR Music Editor Sheldon Pierce, |
| 0:31.0 | and this is a special episode because there's a new Beyoncé album out right now as I speak |
| 0:38.7 | cowboy Carter the second act of the artist proposed trilogy has just been delivered to the world and we are all |
| 0:45.2 | experiencing it for the first time together. |
| 0:51.1 | High ties in the city I'm in too deep |
| 0:56.0 | and I'm running no fear |
| 1:00.0 | Oh dear you and your alligator tears works me over. |
| 1:11.0 | It's just after 1.30 a.m. Friday morning, March 29th, and I am sitting at my desk after |
| 1:18.5 | hitting play at midnight. I just finished. We normally convene to talk about the best new albums before they release on Friday, |
| 1:25.8 | but Beyonce loves an event and so here I am now diving back in to give the Queen my full attention. |
| 1:35.0 | Something about those tears of yours. |
| 1:38.0 | How does it feel to be adored? |
| 1:41.0 | Do... I've been thinking a lot about this record in the lead up to its release. |
| 1:47.0 | I've been thinking a lot about this record in the lead up to its release. I have a column up on our website about |
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