New Music Friday: The best albums out Nov. 14

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

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Summary

FKA twigs. The Avett Brothers. Madi Diaz covering blink-182. Stephen Thompson from NPR Music is joined by Liz Warner from WDET in Detroit to chat about their favorite albums out Friday, Nov. 14.

The Starting 5:

- FKA twigs, 'EUSEXUA Afterglow' (Stream)
- The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton, 'AVTT/PTTN' (Stream)
- Gabriel Jacoby, 'gutta child' EP (Stream)
- K-LONE, 'sorry i thought you were someone else' (Stream)
- Sword II, 'Electric Hour' (Stream)

The Lightning Round:

- Summer Walker, 'Finally Over It'
- V/A, 'DJ-Kicks: Eris Drew'
- Austra, 'Chin Up Buttercup'
- Everything But the Girl, 'The Best of Everything But the Girl'
- Tony Molina, 'On This Day'

See the long list of albums out Nov. 14 and sample dozens of them via our New Music Friday playlist on NPR.org.

Credits:

Host: Stephen Thompson

Guest: Liz Warner, WDET

Audio Producer: Noah Caldwell

Digital Producer: Elle Mannion

Editor: Otis Hart

Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed

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0:00.0	All the small things to care, truth brings.
0:14.6	Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:17.2	It's New Music Friday.
0:18.3	I'm Stephen Thompson here with Liz Warner from WDET in Detroit.
0:22.6	Welcome back to the show, Liz. Hi, Steven. So glad to be here. It is a pleasure to have you back.
0:28.2	For those wondering about the music that we are hearing behind us, one of my favorite singer-songwriters is a woman named Maddie Diaz.
0:36.7	And just like a month ago, she put out this amazing record called Fatal Optimist. And a month later, she kind of sort of has a new record. You can find it on Bandcamp. It is an album-length cover of Blink 182's Enema of the State, those big, ferocious pop-punk songs.
0:55.5	Maddie Diaz kind of puts her own Maddie Diaz twist on them.
0:58.9	It is a benefit album for charity, and you can find it on Maddie Diaz's bandcamp page.
1:04.2	I like to start any given day with Maddie Diaz singing anything, and Blink 182 fits that bill.
1:10.8	You see it ain't so I will not call. singing anything and Blink 182 fits that bill.
1:27.3	All right, first up, we have a new album from FCA Twigs. FKA Twigs' new album is called Usexual Afterglow.
1:31.3	I have to let you go.
1:34.3	I have to let you go.
1:38.3	I have to let you go.
1:41.3	I have to let you go. I have to let you go I don't understand So Usex
1:45.0	Usex Afterglow is FKA Twigs' second album this year.
2:06.2	If you're at all familiar with FKA Twigs, she makes really dense and mysterious and creative kind of dance, pop, R&B.
2:16.0	She's extremely creative and no two records are the same. And, you know,
2:20.0	she put out this record in January called Usexual, which we talked about on this show, you know,
2:25.1	this like, you know, very sexy, danceable, but kind of weird and mysterious pop music.
2:31.2	And this record, she kind of originally intended to be part of a deluxe
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