New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 20

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

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NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Lars Gotrich provide a guide the most exciting new releases out today. This week, the selections include some recordings that are new and some that are as much as a half-century old, verging on mythological.

The producer Jamie xx began his career as a teenager making beats for the moody electronic band The xx. His solo recordings, including the new album In Waves, have tapped into a higher energy and a wider range of sounds. The saxophonist Nubya Garcia's new album, Odyssey, is as adventurous as the title sounds. And the Kansas City-based Blackstarkids swing between electronic pop, hip-hop and indie rock sounds that feel like they stepped off a time machine directly from the 1990s.

Plus: A pair of releases that package previously unreleased material by Bob Dylan and Galaxie 500 sparks a conversation about bootlegs, alternate versions and other rare and unreleased favorites.

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0:00.0	Just a quick heads up, this podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.3	Lars, do you want to describe your t-shirt?
0:07.9	I can't stop looking at it.
0:11.6	Okay, all right, so we got Mariah Carey down on the corner, not in the corner, but you know on the side and then old dirty
0:18.1	bastard.
0:19.2	Mariah's in black and white and old dirty's got like got some color. We got the names that Mariah Carey is in a what
0:28.8	what would you call this font? I would call that the sort of like a sort of a simulated version of like an airbrush
0:34.1	font yes like you went to the ocean city boardwalk and you wanted a a t-shirt and
0:38.8	your name was Mariah it would it might look like that.
0:41.0	I was like an old O. D.
0:43.0	It's just gotten like, you know, some tough looking font.
0:45.8	Looks like the black flag font.
0:47.0	Oh, yeah, it is kind of the black flag font.
0:48.7	And then it says fantasy and it, you know, it's a reference to the remix.
0:52.4	The remix. Where he and Mariah went back like babies and pacifiers.
0:57.4	In fact I wonder what is the what is the back of this shirt say?
1:04.0	Keep your fantasy hot like fire.
1:09.0	Now, I'm going to guess that you did not get this from
1:15.3	Maria Carey's website.
1:16.8	No it is not an official
1:18.4	Mariah Carey.com merch, although I do have official
1:21.8	Maria carry merch. Yeah, no, no, no, I know you official Cary merch.
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