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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 22

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The best albums out this week include It's Almost Dry from Pusha T, space rock from Spiritualized, a gorgeous ambient record from OHYUNG, a rediscovered Charles Mingus live recording and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Pusha T — It's Almost Dry
Featured Tracks "Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes," "Dreaming of the Past," "Just So You Remember," "I Pray For You"
2. Jorge Drexler — Tinta y Tiempo
Featured Tracks: "El Plan Maestro," "¡Oh, Algoritmo!"
3. Ben Marc — Glass Effect
Featured Track: "Way We Are"
4. Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful
Featured Tracks: "Always Together With You," "Crazy"
5. Charles Mingus — The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's
Featured Track: "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues"
6. OHYUNG — imagine naked!
Featured Track: "symphonies sweeping"

Other notable releases for April 22:

• Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet — Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet
• Bill Evans — Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires
• Bonnie Raitt — Just Like That...
• Charles Mingus — Mingus Three (Deluxe Edition)
• claire rousay — everything perfect is already here
• Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
• Hatchie — Giving the World Away
• Jason Aldean — GEORGIA
• King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard — Omnium Gatherum
• Mister Goblin — Bunny
• Patrick Watson — Better in the Shade
• Roger Eno — The Turning Year
• S. Carey — Break Me Open

Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered.

0:02.9

I'm Robin Hilton.

0:03.7

I'm here with WB Easy and Vocalo Radio's Ayana Contreras.

0:07.4

Hey!

0:08.3

Alt Latinos Felix Contreras.

0:10.5

Hey, what's happening?

0:11.7

And from NPR Music, Rihanna Cruz.

0:13.8

Hi, Robin Harrier.

0:14.8

All right, and Lars Gokvitch.

0:16.6

What up, Bardock?

0:17.8

Well, it's new music Friday.

0:20.5

And we're looking at the best albums out now on April 22nd,

0:23.8

starting with Pusha T and his new one, It's Almost Dry.

0:27.6

And money at the evil room.

0:30.1

Let the smoke go shine at the coast.

0:32.6

Rich bitch that loved the bush.

0:35.0

I'm just here to find the truth.

0:37.2

And kilograms is the proof.

0:39.8

I'm throwing gold and goose.

0:42.0

I got a baby in Jim Purdue.

0:44.6

Cooke Kings Dr. Souss.

0:47.0

We sit eggs out the blues.

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