New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 4

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

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Summary

NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and Sheldon Pearce round up the most exciting albums out this Friday, and reflect on the history of instrumental music as protest.

Featured albums:
• The Smile, 'Cutouts'
• Blood Incantation, 'Absolute Elsewhere'
• Half Waif, 'See You At The Maypole'
• Darius Jones, 'Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)'
• Yasmin Williams, 'Acadia'
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD'

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0:00.0	This message comes from the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Foundation.
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0:16.0	Sheldon, do you like to get in the pit?
0:19.0	I do like to get in the pit.
0:21.0	Really?
0:22.0	When was the last pit you got into? Ooh, it's been many years. Okay. You know, back in the warp tour days, which you know, that's a while ago. That's a long time ago. I still get in the pit. When the spirit moves. Oh yeah, sometimes it just comes over you. You hear a really dumb but amazing riff. They are like, I gotta get in there.
0:45.9	And I did that recently for Soulglow and I woke up the next morning.
0:51.5	Like, why does my side hurt? Oh, my rants are probably bruised.
1:00.0	It's New Music Friday for October 4th. My name is Lars Gotrich. I am a producer, writer,
1:07.8	Viking of NPR Music and I am joined today by Sheldon Pierce.
1:12.1	Yes, hello.
1:14.0	I bring up the pit because we are going to discuss an album by a metal band today on the show that I am extremely excited about.
1:30.3	We're going to be telling you about five albums coming out today, October 4th.
1:36.0	I'm going to just going to throw it to you, Sheldon, for the first one.
1:40.0	Tell me a little about The Smile.
1:49.0	The Smile has returned for their second album of the year. It's called Cutouts.
1:51.0	The trio of Radio Heads Tom York, Johnny Greenwood, and then the drummer and
1:57.1	co-founder of Sons of Commit, Tom Skinner.
2:00.6	They debuted in 2022 with a light for attracting attention.
2:05.0	This new album cutouts was recorded in Oxford at Abbey Road
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