New Music Friday: The best albums out May 30

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

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Summary

The National's Matt Berninger. Low's Alan Sparhawk. yuele. KXT's Jackson Wisdorf joins NPR Music's Stephen Thompson to talk about their favorite records out May 30.

Featured albums:

• Matt Berninger, 'Get Sunk' (Stream)
• yeule, 'Evangelic Girl is a Gun' (Stream)
• Ben Kweller, 'Cover the Mirrors' (Stream)
• Alan Sparhawk, 'With Trampled by Turtles' (Stream)
• Amy Millan, 'I Went To Find You' (Stream)

Check out our long list of albums out May 30 and sample more than 50 records out today via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Jackson Wisdorf, KXT
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:00.0	Oh, be my rest, be my fantasy.
0:04.6	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:07.4	It's New Music Friday.
0:08.7	I'm Stephen Thompson here with Jackson Wisdorf from KXT in North Texas.
0:13.1	Welcome to the show, Jackson.
0:14.5	Hey, thanks so much for having me, Stephen.
0:16.1	Glad to be here.
0:17.0	I'm so glad to have you.
0:18.4	Now, if you're listening to the music behind me, you are, of course, hearing the sounds of Sufion Stevens' album, Carrie and Lowell.
0:30.9	I don't know how that's already been 10 years, but if you're interested in that record, you should definitely check out Robin Hilton's
0:38.7	interview with Sufion Stevens, which we just published in this podcast feed.
0:43.8	Sufion Stevens really opened up about the album.
0:46.3	As a huge fan of that record, I was surprised to hear how critical he was.
0:51.4	I'm excited to listen to that interview.
0:56.0	The only. I'm excited to listen to that interview. This week has a lot of my feelings, the only thing I want to believe.
1:01.0	This week has a lot of records about embracing hard things head on.
1:07.0	And the Sufian Stevens record, you know, it's reflecting on really poignant things,
1:11.8	whether he likes it or not. And Jackson, you've heard obviously all the records we're talking about
1:15.9	this week. It's remarkable how many are about just like dealing with hardships in your life.
1:24.4	Some trauma being worked out, certainly, on a lot of them.
1:28.9	But also some nice themes of hope I've come to find on a lot of these.
1:33.6	Yeah, well, let's get it started.
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