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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 29

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The week's best new albums include Toro y Moi's spectacular MAHAL, hard-hitting rap from the New Jersey hip-hop duo Dälek's Precipice, R&B singer Kehlani's blue water road and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Toro y Moi — MAHAL
Featured Tracks: "Magazine," "The Medium"
2. Girlpool — Forgiveness
Featured Track: "Nothing Gives Me Pleasure"
3. Dälek — Precipice
Featured Tracks: "Devotion (When I Cry The Wind Disappears)," "Boycott"
4. Kehlani — blue water road
Featured Tracks: "wish i never" and "wondering/wandering"
5. Let's Eat Grandma — Two Ribbons
Featured Tracks: "Watching You Go," "Strange Conversations"
6. Girl Ultra — El Sur
Featured Tracks: "Bombay," "Nade Que Hacer"

Other notable release for April 29:
Bloc Party — Alpha Games
Burnt Pink — Afterlife Dub
Congotronics International — Where's The One?
Corb Lund — Songs My Friends Wrote
Diane Coffee — With People
Ebi Soda — Honk If You're Sad
The Head and the Heart — Every Shade Of Blue
Kelly Lee Owens — LP8
Melody's Echo Chamber — Emotional Eternal
Miranda Lambert — Palomino
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer — ...On Reflection

Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy Friday everyone from InPear Music and all songs considered.

0:04.4

I'm Robin Hilton.

0:05.4

I'm here with WXP and John Morrison.

0:07.8

Hey, what's up, Robin?

0:09.1

Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody.

0:11.2

Howdy, howdy.

0:12.3

And from InPear Music, Hazel Sills.

0:14.8

Hi, everyone.

0:16.0

It's new music Friday and we're looking at the best albums out now on April 29th,

0:20.2

starting with Toro Imoiz Mahal.

0:22.8

This song is called Magazine.

0:24.8

Nothing here to see, factories overseas.

0:29.6

Cut down all these trees with both their modities.

0:33.6

No more drama, please, no more drama, me.

0:37.6

I'm gonna throw it up all over all the seats.

0:42.0

This man in the magazine.

0:46.0

It's just us we want to see.

0:50.0

This man in the magazine.

0:54.0

It's just us we want to see.

0:56.8

I don't know how to get out of here.

1:02.8

The clouds are what you said on my head.

1:06.8

I don't want to be a little bit of me.

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