New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 11
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Noname — Sundial
Featured Songs: "Oblivion (feat. Atyoni & Common)," "Beauty Supply," "Namesake"
2. Jungle — Volcano
Featured Songs: "Us Against the World," "Candle Flame (feat. Erick the Architect)," "Dominoes," Every Night"
3. Neil Young — Chrome Dreams
Featured Songs: "Will to Love," "Like a Hurricane," "Look Out for My Love"
4. Joell Ortiz & L'Orange — Signature
Featured Songs: "Uncle Chris Car," "Therapeutic," "OG," "One Day"
5. Son Lux — Alternate Forms
Featured Songs: "Ransom (All Innocence)," "Alternate Worlds (Alternate Life)," "Easy (Fight to Forget)," "No Crimes (New History)"
Lightning Round:
Bonnie "Prince" Billy — Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
G Flip — Drummer
Karol G — Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season)
Tash Sultana — "Bitter Lovers (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid)" (Single)
Other notable releases for Aug. 11:
K.A.A.N. — The Death of a Rapper
Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci — Chthonic
Les Imprimés — Rêverie
Louis Cato — Reflections
Peter McPoland — Piggy
Public Image Ltd. — End of World
Spencer Zahn — Statues I
$uicideboy$ — I No Longer Feel The Razor Guarding My Heel (V)
Suzi Quatro & KT Tunstall — Face to Face
Trippe Redd — A Love Letter To you 5
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday. |
| 0:01.5 | I'm Robin Hilton from NPR Music. |
| 0:03.4 | We're back this week from a short break to talk |
| 0:05.3 | about the best albums out now on August 11th |
| 0:07.6 | for New Music Friday. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm here with WBEZ and Vocalo Radio's Ayanna Contreras. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, how you doing? |
| 0:13.1 | Critic and reporter Serena Turos. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, Robin. |
| 0:16.6 | And writer Latisha Harris. |
| 0:18.4 | Hello. |
| 0:19.6 | So how this works is, we look at a really long list |
| 0:21.6 | of new albums coming out every week. |
| 0:23.1 | We put our heads together, picked the ones |
| 0:24.6 | that all of us are the most excited about. |
| 0:26.8 | This week, that includes new ones from Carol G, Sunlux. |
| 0:30.4 | There's a long-lost Neil Young album that's out today |
| 0:32.9 | and a whole bunch more. |
| 0:34.0 | But we start with a long-awaited new album |
| 0:36.0 | from the rapper No Name. |
| 0:37.2 | It's your first full length in five years. |
| 0:39.2 | It's called Sun Dial. |
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