New Music Friday: The best albums out May 16

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

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Summary

Tune-Yards. Aminé. Lido Pimienta. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and KCRW's Ro "Wyldeflower" Contreras give you a quick roundup of the most exciting albums out May 16.

Featured albums:

• Aminé, '13 Months of Sunshine' (Stream)

• Guitarricadelafuente, 'Spanish Leather' (Stream)

• Tune-Yards, 'Better Dreaming' (Stream)

• Rico Nasty, 'LETHAL' (Stream)

• Lido Pimienta, 'La Belleza' (Stream)

See our long list of albums out May 16 and sample more than 80 albums via our New Music Friday playlists on npr.org.

Credits
Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Ro "Wyldeflower" Contreras, KCRW
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.
0:09.1	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson here with Roe Wildflower of KCRW in Los Angeles.
0:17.4	Hey, Roe. Hey, how's going? It is going well. I am excited to talk to you about many,
0:23.2	many great new albums this week, including new records from Amine, tune yards, RICO nasty, many,
0:29.6	many more.
0:35.6	First, I did want to acknowledge up front that probably commercially speaking, the biggest
0:42.0	album of the year is out today.
0:44.7	We are not going to talk about it because we didn't get an advanced copy in time, but the
0:48.5	country star Morgan Wallen has a new record called I'm the Problem.
0:53.5	It has so many songs on it.
0:56.7	Oh my goodness.
0:57.2	How many songs are on that thing?
0:59.1	Don't quote me.
0:59.8	It's like 37 or 38.
1:01.6	He's put out eight songs from this album already.
1:04.9	Yeah.
1:05.4	And I mean, look, you're not going to be lonely on your road trip.
1:08.5	Let me tell you.
1:09.4	It's a whole experience. This is going to be
1:12.8	one of the best selling, best, most played, most streamed albums of the year. He is a gigantic
1:20.2	star. I write a column about the Billboard charts every week. For me, the question is, will he
1:25.3	have the song of the summer? Don't you back down, don't you run.
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