New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 26
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🗓️ 26 August 2022
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. J.I.D — The Forever Story
Featured Songs: "Dance Now," "Better Days," "Raydar"
2. Stella Donnelly — Flood
Featured Songs: "Lungs," "Morning Silence," "How Was Your Day?"
3. Miguel Zenón — Müsica De Las Americas
Featured Songs: "Opresion Y Revolucion," "Tainos Y Caribes"
4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — Let's Turn It Into Sound
Featured Songs: "Locate," "Have You Felt Lately?"
5. Blondie — Against the Odds: 1974-1982
Featured Songs: "Rapture" "The Tide Is High (Demo Version)," "Heart of Glass"
Lightning Round:
Carolyn Malachi — Counter Narratives
Julia Jacklin — Pre Pleasure
Regina Spektor — 11:11 + Papa's Bootlegs
Valerie June — Under Cover
Meechy Darko — Gothic Luxury
Other notable releases for August 26:
blackbear — In Loving Memory
Bret McKenzie — Songs Without Jokes
Chris Forsyth — Evolution Here We Come
Diamanda Galás — Broken Gargoyles
Embrace — How To Be a Person Like Other People
Eyedress — Full Time Lover
Ezra Furman — All of Us Flames
Ingrid Andress — Good Person
Marcus King — Young Blood
Muse — Will Of The People
Pantha du Prince — Garden Gaia
Pianos Become the Teeth — Drift
Sélébéyone — Xaybu: The Unseen
Spice — Emancipated
William Orbit — The Painter
Yellowjackets — Parallel Motion
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm here with NPR Music contributor, Christina Lee. |
| 0:07.1 | Hey, Stephen. |
| 0:08.2 | Host of the Artemacy Podcast, Keana Faircloth. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, Stephen. |
| 0:12.2 | And NPR Music's own Hazel Sills. |
| 0:14.9 | Hi, Stephen. |
| 0:16.0 | We are talking about the best new albums out today, |
| 0:18.4 | starting with the rapper J.I.D. and his new record, |
| 0:21.5 | The Forever Story. |
| 0:22.6 | This song is called Dance Now. |
| 0:24.7 | Hello, Stephanie. |
| 0:39.3 | I just told them they saw the patrol with Tynero |
| 0:41.8 | I saw the patrol with Tynero |
| 0:43.8 | Motor running on my moral drive |
| 0:45.3 | Got a country cousin cruising with the black man Savannah |
| 0:47.6 | At the Florida Georgia line |
| 0:48.8 | Got a couple family members in the land of Nought Atlanta |
| 0:51.1 | We let on my redder decide |
| 0:52.6 | They'd you go let them redden fly |
| 0:54.1 | Cause you niggas bugger spray pesticides |
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