New Music Friday: The best albums out May 9

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes WXPN's John Morrison to discuss billy woods, Thom Yorke, PinkPantheress and more.

Featured albums:

• billy woods, GOLLIWOG (Stream)

• Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Tall Tales (Stream)

• PinkPantheress, Fancy That (Stream)

• MIKE & Tony Seltzer, Pinball II (Stream)

• mclusky, the world is still here and so are we (Stream)

See our long list of records out May 9 and sample more than 40 new albums via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org/music.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson

Guest: John Morrison, WXPN

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	This message comes from Song Exploder, a podcast where artists talk about the making and meaning of one of their songs, taking you layer by layer through the instruments and sounds in the recording.
0:10.9	Find Song Exploder wherever you listen to podcasts. It'll change the way you listen to music.
0:16.5	A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:26.3	Music A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language. Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson, here with
0:32.2	John Morrison from Culture Cipher Radio on WXPN in Philadelphia. How you doing, John? I'm good, Stephen. How you been?
0:38.8	I've been doing all right.
0:40.4	We are getting into a stretch of the release calendar
0:43.1	where it is very hard to narrow down
0:45.5	just a handful of albums to talk about.
0:47.8	Yeah, around this time,
0:48.8	it's always a nice wave of records that I enjoy.
0:53.7	We're going to kick things off with the record, record Billy Woods and it's called Goliwale.
0:58.0	Dumb luck if they ask me how, when I'm go ahead and cash me out.
1:02.0	You already know I need my now.
1:04.0	When my father came home, they slaughtered a cow.
1:07.0	I come home, the house falling down.
1:09.0	Everything boarded up in town. Everyone live in South Africa now.
1:12.6	Talk about it's hard all around.
1:14.6	While when it's my turn to eat, it's always ashes in my mouth.
1:17.6	Romantic sight to be in the streets, Negroes is clowns.
1:20.6	Or maybe it really is hard all around.
1:23.6	Way to the world on your shoulders, keep a couple pounds.
	...

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