New Music Friday: The best albums out March 8
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
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Summary
Featured albums:
1. Kim Gordon, The Collective
2. Bleachers, Bleachers
3. Norah Jones, Visions
4. Moor Mother, The Great Bailout
Other notable releases for March 8:
• Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine
• Bolis Pupul, Letter to Yu
• Judas Priest, Invincible Shield
• YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Compliments of Gravedigger Mountain
• Oisin Leech, Cold Sea
• Cyrille Aimée, à Fleur de Peau
• Dion, Girl Friends
• Chris Potter, Eagle's Point
• Torrey, Torrey
• Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff, In the wind now
• homeshake, CD Wallet
• Pixies, At the BBC
• Meatbodies, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom
• Ronnie Lion, Spanish Town
• Vanessa Bedoret, Eyes
• Charles Moothart, Black Holes Don't Choke
• Anja Huwe, Codes
• Erika Angell, The Obsession With Her Voice
• The Rhythm Method, Peachy
• The Hanging Stars, On A Golden Shore
• astrel k, The Foreign Department
• Observers, The Age of the Machine Entities
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| 0:15.3 | concur.com. Just a quick note this podcast contains some explicit language. Hey Hazel, are you excited that one of my very favorite pop divas and one that I know you |
| 0:30.4 | love too has a new record coming out this week. I am very excited. You have your |
| 0:35.6 | prosthetic ponytail on right now as we're talking in the studio? I do. I have my 16 inch |
| 0:42.4 | synthetic clip-in ponytail tied tight on my skull |
| 0:47.6 | ready for this album. |
| 0:48.9 | Ariana Grande, we do it all for you and we're very excited about your new record Eternal Sunshine. |
| 0:56.0 | But we have to say for all those listening, we have not heard this record. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to the life of the music critic in 2024. Mainstream major pop artists just don't give us our records in advance, so all we really have to judge by for this new release which is out right now as you're |
| 1:15.2 | listening to this but which time traveling back is not out when we're |
| 1:20.2 | recording this podcast is one song. |
| 1:23.2 | But that one song is kind of a banger. Come on and walk this way through the fight. |
| 1:33.0 | To be a scene and life. |
| 1:35.0 | I find just up in a dark situation |
| 1:38.0 | just to know you like and be light. |
| 1:42.0 | Yes. and it's like a |
| 1:45.0 | like a delicate banger it's like a popcorn banging against the side of the |
| 1:49.7 | popcorn maker banger that's what I mean by banger maybe Maybe a popper. A bopper, a bopper. A bopper, a popper. Yeah, I mean yes and is definitely, it's like a light kind of house song. It feels very much like the little sister to Madonna's |
| 2:06.0 | vogue and that's a good description I like yeah little sister don't get your |
| 2:12.4 | expectations up it's not nothing going to be both. But yeah, I think like, you know, obviously we don't know recording this now what the musical direction of the album is going to be overall but I think |
| 2:24.9 | that this song makes me excited for you know what she is going to be doing in the next |
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