New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 13

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

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NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills are your guides to the best music out this Friday, Sept. 13, including the 10th studio album by Miranda Lambert. Postcards From Texas is a new chapter for the onetime Nashville Star contestant who has become one of that industry town's most reliable songwriters and stars — and also a return to her home state.

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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