New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 18

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new releases from Jon Batiste, Hozier, Rhiannon Giddens, Cautious Clay and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Jon Batiste — World Music Radio
Featured Songs: "BOOM FOR REAL," "Hello, Billy Bob," "Be Who You Are (feat. JID, NewJeans & Camilo)," "Uneasy (feat. Lil Wayne)"
2. Hozier — Unreal Unearth
Featured Songs: "Anything But," "De Selby (Part 1)," "Eat Your Young," "Butchered Tongue," "Who We Are"
3. Genesis Owusu — Struggler
Featured Songs: "Leaving The Light," "Stay Blessed," "Freak Boy," "That's Life (A Swamp)"
4. Rhiannon Giddens — You're the One
Featured Songs: "Way Over Yonder," "You Louisiana Man," "If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is"
5. Cautious Clay — KARPEH
Featured Songs: "Fishtown," "102 Years of Comedy (Intro)," "Karpehs Don't Flinch"

Lightning Round:
DeYarmond Edison — EPOCH
Quavo — Rocket Power
Reneé Rapp — Snow Angel
Talking Heads — Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)

Other notable releases for Aug. 18:
Alana Springsteen — Twenty Something
Birdy — Portraits
Bobby Rush — All My Love For You
Fiddlehead — Death is Nothing To Us
Grace Potter — Mother Road
Margaret Glaspy — Echo The Diamond
Mick Jenkins — The Patience
Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood — Reset In Dub
Russ — SANTIAGO
Shamir — Homo Anxietatem
Tash Sultana — Sugar EP.
Teddy Thompson — My Love of Country

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Happy Friday. I'm Robin Hilton from NPR Music. It's August 18th,
0:04.4	and here with me to talk about our picks for the best releases out today,
0:07.6	so very own Ann Powers. Hey, Ann. Hey, y'all.
0:10.4	Atlanta-based culture journalist Gavin Gottfried. What's going on, y'all?
0:14.4	And writer and critic, Latisha Harris. What's up, everybody?
0:18.0	We got a lot we want to talk about today. There's a new hosier album now.
0:21.1	Rianne and Giddens has a new one. There's also a new cautious clay that we're loving.
0:25.0	But we start with John Batiste. His new album out today is called World Music Radio.
0:29.9	This is the song Boom for Real.
0:59.9	Hey, in the night away, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:29.9	yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:59.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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2:59.9	and Billy Bob Bob is guiding listeners through different genres, voices and musical movements and as Jonathan
3:20.6	has said before, this album is definitely a pop album but he wanted to kind of disrupt our notions of what
3:27.3	like world music is and what pop music is.
3:30.4	So you hear that on a cut like say,
3:32.6	be who you are, which features Jid,
3:35.0	New Jeans and Latin pop artist Camilo
3:37.3	and has verses in English, Korean, and Spanish.
3:40.9	And I can't go in until I need the leechy.
3:44.0	They are the taco way, there's nothing better in this.
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