New Music Friday: The best albums out May 24

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

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On our survey of the week's most exciting new albums, WRTI's Nate Chinen and NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce get all wrapped up in the amniotic embrace of a new album by a guru of the L.A. ambient-jazz scene.

The new album by Carlos Niño & Friends is called Placenta. If you know anything about Niño, you'll probably be able to guess that the subject that title suggests — pregancy and childbirth — are taken very seriously. Those "Friends" are crucial too: Niño has become a central figure in a scene whose reverberations are starting to be felt well beyond the community itself, and are drawing more artists in. You can hear Niño on André 3000's flute album New Blue Sun, and André returns the favor here.

Also this week: The fourth album by DIIV sees the indie rock group leaning into shoegaze-inspired sounds, and Andrew Bird creates an album in tribute to the "Golden Era" jazz tunes of the 1930s and '40s he heard on Sunday morning radio shows as a young adult in Chicago.

Featured Albums:
• Carlos Niño & Friends, Placenta
• DIIV, Frog in Boiling Water
• Andrew Bird Trio, Sunday Morning Put-On

Other notable albums out May 24:
• Tiny Habits, All For Something
• Vince Staples, Dark Times
• Alex Sipiagin, Horizons
• Machinedrum, 3FOR82
• Joshua Moshier, semipermanence
• Nathy Peluso, Grasa

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0:00.0	On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
0:11.0	I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular, and I will say, but it is.
0:18.0	The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
0:22.1	That's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.
0:24.4	Just a heads up that this podcast includes some explicit language. Hey, happy Friday Sheldon. It is May 24th and I don't know about you, but for me,
0:40.0	all I can think about is the fact that tomorrow one of my heroes Marshall Allen is turning a hundred years old
0:48.9	Man what a life what a career he What a career.
0:54.0	I mean it feels like he maximized every single one of those hundred in all that he accomplished with his work with Sunra.
1:03.2	Oh my gosh.
1:04.4	Yeah, so Marshall Allen is an alto saxophonist.
1:07.2	He has been playing with the Sunra Orchestra
1:09.7	since the 1950s.
1:12.2	He took over leadership of the band when Sunra the and he has been wildly prolific in his late 90s.
1:25.0	And if you are listening to this on Friday,
1:27.0	tonight he will be on stage at Union Transfer in Philadelphia
1:31.0	with the Sunra Orchestra, making a big noise with what I dare say is
1:36.3	undiminished energy so man happy centennial to the great Marshall Allen someone that we can all look up to. On the show today
1:46.6	we've got some more Celestial Music. I'm Nate Chenin from WRTI in Philadelphia
1:52.1	and I'm Sheldon Pierce and editor at MPR Music.
1:55.1	And this is New Music Friday for May 24.
1:57.8	Today we're going to talk about Placenta by the percussionist Carlos Nino.
2:07.0	We're also going to touch on new albums by the band Dive and the Andrew Burr Trio.
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