New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 21
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Taylor Swift — Midnights
Featured Songs: "Lavender Haze," "Vigilante S***," "Karma," "Sweet Nothing"
2. Loyle Carner — hugo
Featured Songs: "Hate," "Nobody Knows," "Georgetown"
3. Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn — Pigments
Featured Songs: "Cerulean," "Vantablack" "Sandstone"
4. iLe — Nacarile
Featured Songs: "Ningún Lugar," "traguito"
5. Nick Hakim — COMETA
Featured Songs: "Feeling Myself," "Something," "Ani"
Lightning Round:
Bibio — BIB10
Frankie Cosmos — Inner World Peace
Tegan & Sara — Crybaby
Other Notable Releases:
a-ha — True North
Alice Boman — The Space Between
Archers of Loaf — Reason in Decline
Arctic Monkeys — The Car
Babyface — Girls Night Out
Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loneliest Time
Dry Cleaning — Stumpwork
Goat — Oh Death
Jesse Harris — Silver Balloon
Jeezy & DJ Drama — Snofall
Meghan Trainor — Takin' It Back
Rubblebucket — Earth Worship
Simple Minds — Direction of the Heart
Sloan — Steady
Takuya Kuroda — Midnight Crisp
Wiki & subjxct 5 — Cold Cuts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm back for new music Friday. |
| 0:05.2 | I've been out for the past several weeks helping NPR's |
| 0:07.1 | all Latino podcast relaunch. |
| 0:09.1 | In fact, one of their hosts, |
| 0:10.3 | Ana Maria Sayer is here with us this week. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey, Ana Maria. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey, how's it going, Robin? |
| 0:14.7 | It's going great. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm also here with contributors Serena Turos. |
| 0:17.8 | Hey, Robin. |
| 0:18.8 | And Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody. |
| 0:20.6 | What's up, Robin? |
| 0:21.5 | It's October 21st. |
| 0:22.6 | We're sharing the best releases out today starting with the new |
| 0:25.2 | Taylor Swift album. |
| 0:26.4 | It's called Midnight's. |
| 0:27.5 | This is the opening cut, Lavender Hayes. |
| 0:57.5 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:58.5 | I feel the lavender Hayes creepin' shut for me. |
| 1:05.5 | So real. |
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