New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 13
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
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Summary
There's more, including a album by Robyn Hitchcock made up mostly of covers of songs from 1967, a year he describes as "a portal between childhood and the adult world." Plus: three ambitious albums by indie faves stretching their sounds, and a consideration of the way the classic "outlaw" label applies to the careers of women who break the rules.
Featured albums:
• Miranda Lambert, Postcards from Texas
• Nilüfer Yanya, My Method Actor
• Foxing, Foxing
• Robyn Hitchcock, 1967: Vacations in the Past
• My Brightest Diamond, Fight the Real Terror
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| 0:23.6 | Just a heads up, this episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:26.7 | Well, Hazel, there's a lot of big releases this week, huh? |
| 0:33.1 | So many big releases. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm thinking of one in particular. |
| 0:36.8 | One special one, special to our hearts here at NPR Music. |
| 0:41.3 | Yes, there is one album coming out today that is definitely very, very |
| 0:47.0 | special to people at NPR Music. And that would be by the band Bad Moves and it's called Wearing Out the Refrain and our own beloved |
| 0:57.4 | that Tyler Amin is in this band. Hazel you've seen this band tell us all about |
| 1:01.9 | it. Yeah bad moves are an incredible group like |
| 1:05.7 | just like nervy kind of like post-punky energy you know I know people who |
| 1:12.1 | listen to the show regularly hear |
| 1:15.0 | Daude often on this show talking about new music, but to hear him play in |
| 1:20.1 | this band and to see him live is just a whole other experience. |
| 1:24.3 | How can we embarrass him the most? |
| 1:26.9 | Let's talk about that transformation |
| 1:28.8 | that he goes through when he goes from mild matter, |
| 1:32.1 | gentle, intellectual, dialed, Tyler, and me. goes from mild matter gentle intellectual |
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