New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 28
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🗓️ 28 April 2023
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Labrinth — Ends & Begins
Featured Songs: "Kill For Your Love," "Everything," "Power Couple"
2. Jessie Ware — That! Feels Good!
Featured Songs: "Freak Me Now," "Beautiful People"
3. Joy Oladokun — Proof of Life
Featured Songs: "Spotlight (available only on CD and vinyl)," "Changes," "Taking Things For Granted," "We're All Gonna Die"
4. Baby Rose — Through And Through
Featured Songs: "Fight Club (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow)," "Stop the Bleeding," "I Won't Tell (feat. Smino)"
5. Smokey Robinson — Gasms
Featured Songs: "How You Make Me Feel," "Beside You," "Gasms"
Lightning Round:
Dreamer Isioma — Princess Forever
Indigo De Souza — All of This Will End
The National — First Two Pages of Frankenstein
Tony Shhnow — Love Streak
Other notable releases for April 28:
Arturo O'Farrill — Legacies
Avalon Emerson — & the Charm
Bebe Rexha — Bebe
Diplo — Thomas Wesley: Chapter 2, Swamp Savant
Great Lake Swimmers — Uncertain Country
JFDR — Museum
Jim Legxacy — homeless n**** pop music
Josh Ritter — Spectral Lines
Joseph — The Sun
Neil Gaiman & Fourplay String Quartet — Signs of Life
New Breed Brass Band — Made in New Orleans
Peach PRC — Manic Dream Pixie
Skinny Pelembe — Hardly the Same Snake
Taj Mahal — Savoy
Y La Bamba — Lucha
YUNGMORPHEUS — From Whence It Came
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday, I'm Robin Hilton from NPR Music, I'm here with WVZ and |
| 0:07.4 | Vocalo Radio's Ionic Contreras. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, how you doing? |
| 0:10.6 | Contributor, Christina Lee. |
| 0:12.2 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:13.2 | And NPR Music Editor, Hazel Sills. |
| 0:15.8 | Hey. |
| 0:16.8 | It's new music Friday that day or the week when just a bonkers amount of new albums and |
| 0:21.0 | EPs come out, we sort through a staggering amount of music and find the best releases for |
| 0:26.0 | you to check out. |
| 0:27.0 | It's April 28th and we're going to start this week's show off with the new and from |
| 0:29.6 | the singer and rapper Labyrinth, his new album is called Inns and Begins. |
| 0:34.7 | This is one of the early singles from it, it's called Kill for Your Love. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah, Labyrinth has been someone to watch for, I mean, it's been more than a decade now |
| 1:19.6 | since he first emerged as a sign-e to Simon Cowell's sickle label and you may have also |
| 1:27.6 | just recently caught him at Coachella where he brought out surprise guest, Billy Eilish. |
| 1:33.4 | He in an interview with Gentleman's Journal described this album as Natural Board Killers |
| 1:39.6 | in Space and while the plot is so obvious, natural-born killer in Space. |
| 1:46.4 | It's so obvious. |
| 1:48.2 | And so just to make the distinction, a thousand percent clear, I would say the plot of this |
| 1:52.4 | album isn't nearly as murderous. |
| 1:55.8 | He is creating a lot of drama and intrigue. |
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