New Music Friday: The best albums out May 17
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
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Featured albums:
- Billie Eilish, 'Hit Me Hard and Soft'
- Rapsody, 'Please Don't Cry'
- Beth Gibbons, 'Lives Outgrown'
Other notable albums out May 17:
- Shellac, 'To All Trains'
- The Avett Brothers, 'The Avett Brothers'
- V/A, 'Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense'
- Mach-Hommy, '#RICHAXXHAITIAN'
- Cage the Elephant, 'Neon Pill'
- of Montreal, 'Lady on the Cusp'
- Wu-Lu, 'Learning To Swim On Empty'
- Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, 'Loophole'
- The Lovely Eggs, 'Eggistentialism'
- Kaia Kater, 'Strange Medicine'
- Álvaro Díaz, 'SAYONARA'
- ZAYN, 'Room Under the Stairs'
- One Step Closer, 'All You Embrace'
- A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, 'Better Off Alone'
- Crumb, 'AMAMA'
- Lightheaded, 'Combustible Gems'
- Pallbearer, 'Mind Burns Alive'
- Joywave, 'Permanent Pleasure'
- Blitzen Trapper, '100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions'
- Payroll Giovanni, 'Have Money, Have Heart' EP
- UFOmammut, 'Hidden'
- SQÜRL, 'Music for Man Ray'
- pub, 'process the wise'
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| 0:30.0 | So Hazel, when I think about this year in music, I think of two things. I think one, grievance. |
| 0:40.0 | It's the year of the pop culture grievance, your Beyonce record, your Taylor Swift record, |
| 0:46.0 | your Kendrick Lamar versus Drake and all that stuff. |
| 0:49.8 | The other thing I think about is gigantic pop stars releasing new albums every few weeks. |
| 0:57.0 | Which did not happen in 2023. |
| 1:00.0 | No, we've got, you know, as you said Taylor, Beyonce, Duolipa just released an album recently. |
| 1:07.0 | It feels like all of our biggest players are like entering the ring again this year and it's a lot. |
| 1:15.2 | It's kind of like Whiplash. |
| 1:16.4 | There's just a huge release every few weeks. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah and I think if you're looking for a so it felt like a lot of people were keeping their powder dry and now we are |
| 1:34.4 | yielding the benefits slash the onslaught yeah the onslaught yeah and I also think like I |
| 1:41.6 | don't know a desire desire for spectacle, like maybe like in a post-Barbenheimer world, this sort of coming together for these big pop music moments is something that I feel like at least anecdotally in my world people are |
| 1:55.4 | craving a little bit more. A pop cultural event. Yeah. And a little piece of the monoculture. |
| 2:01.5 | Yeah. That we can all talk about. |
| 2:04.2 | If they can steal it from Taylor Swift. |
| 2:08.0 | If they can steal it from Taylor Swift, |
| 2:09.3 | who does not yield a moment to anyone else. |
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