New Music Friday: The best new albums out June 13

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Brandee Younger. The Cure. Annahstasia. WRTI's Nate Chinen joins Stephen Thompson to discuss our favorite albums of the week.

Featured albums:

• Annahstasia, 'Tether' (Stream)

• Mary Halvorson, 'About Ghosts' (Stream)

• Brandee Younger, 'Gadabout Season' (Stream)

• Joe Armon-Jones, 'All The Quiet (Part II)' (Stream)

• The Cure, 'Mixes for a Lost World' (Stream)

See our long list of albums out June 13 and sample more than 50 of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.

Credits
Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Nate Chinen, WRTI
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:00.0	I shall
0:01.0	Proceed
0:02.0	and continue
0:03.0	to rock the mic
0:05.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music
0:08.0	It's New Music Friday.
0:10.0	I'm Steven Thompson here with Nate Chenen from WRTI in Philadelphia.
0:14.0	Hey Nate.
0:15.0	Hey, Steven.
0:16.0	It is a pleasure to have you here.
0:18.0	We've got a terrific roundup of new records,
0:20.0	including a remix album from The Cure,
0:23.1	new albums from Brandy Younger and Mary Halverson.
0:26.1	But first, Nate, I wanted to talk to you.
0:28.4	You were just at the Roots picnic?
0:31.0	That I was.
0:32.0	Tell me about that.
0:33.1	It's really this big tent kind of hip-hop and R&B festival.
0:37.8	This year, I was especially interested to go because they were celebrating the 30th anniversary
0:42.6	of Do You Want More?
0:47.9	The Roots major label debut and...
0:52.6	Anniversary is designed to make us feel old.
	...

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