New Music Friday: The best records out March 28

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Dacus. Perfume Genius. Destroyer. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Colorado Public Radio's Alisha Sweeney of Indie 102.3 to guide you through a huge release day.

Featured albums:

• Lucy Dacus, 'Forever Is A Feeling' (Stream)

• Perfume Genius, 'Glory' (Stream)

• Great Grandpa, 'Patience, Moonbeam' (Stream)

• Destroyer, 'Dan's Boogie' (Stream)

• SPELLLING, 'Portrait Of My Heart' (Stream)

Check out the long list of albums out March 28 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.

Credits

Host: Stephen Thompson
Guest: Alisha Sweeney, Indie 102.3
Producer: Simon Rentner
Editor: Otis Hart
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Vice President, Music and Visuals: Keith Jenkins

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0:24.6	Hello. maybe within our lifetimes. You can find close all tabs wherever you listen to podcasts. Happy Friday, everyone from NPR Music.
0:27.4	It's New Music Friday.
0:28.7	I'm Stephen Thompson here with Alicia Sweeney from Colorado Public Radio Station, Indie 1023.
0:34.0	Hey, Alicia.
0:34.7	Hi.
0:35.8	Happy New Music Friday.
0:36.9	Awesome go. 2.3. Hey, Alicia. Hi. Happy New Music Friday. It is a pleasure to have you here on this fantastic
0:44.9	release day, March 28th. Alicia, I was struck by a question as I listened to this week's music.
0:52.4	And maybe you can help me with this. How on earth do I put together a top 10 list at the end of this year?
0:58.8	Because just this month on this show, we've gotten the Annie DeRuso record, the Jason
1:04.0	Isbell record, the Tomino record, and several of the records we are about to talk about
1:09.1	all feel like year-end top 10 records.
1:12.5	Absolutely. You know, I was just thinking about the season that it is right now, if this week was a music festival.
1:18.0	Oh, man, I'd be there.
1:19.5	VIP tickets, right?
1:21.2	This time of year is so exciting for new music releases. We're ushering in spring, and there's so many strong albums,
1:28.0	and there's a lot of contenders just for today. Yeah, we've got new records on this show from
1:33.6	Perfume Genius, Great Grandpa, Dan Behar, and more. But first, Lucy Dakis has a new record called
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