New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 5
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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Doechii — she / her / black bitch
Featured Tracks: "Bitches Be," "Swamp Bitches," "Persuasive"
2. Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento — Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
Featured Tracks: "Bomba Atómica," "Metamorfosis"
3. AJ Suede — Oil On Canvas
Featured Tracks: "Growing Diamonds," "Wonder," "Monochrome"
4. Pussy Riot — MATRIARCHY NOW
Featured Tracks: "PRINCESS CHARMING," "PLASTIC," "POOF BITCH"
5. Planet Drum — In The Groove
Featured Track: "King Clave"
Lightning Round:
Alexia Bomtempo — DOCE CARNAVAL
Araceli Poma — "Agua de Olvido"
Art Moore — Art Moore
Various — Rise Jamaica!
Other notable releases for Aug. 5:
Bobby Shmurda — BodBoy
Calvin Harris — Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2
Fireboy DML — Playboy
Kokoroko — Could We Be More
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires — Old-Time Folks
Mall Grab — What I Breathe
Neil Young — Noise & Flowers
T Bone Burnett — The Invisible Light: Spells
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday from InPear Music and all songs considered, I'm Robin Hilton, |
| 0:03.8 | I'm here with NPR's and Powers. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello Robin. |
| 0:07.3 | All Latinos Felix Contreras. |
| 0:09.6 | What's up Robin? |
| 0:10.9 | NWXBians John Morrison. |
| 0:13.2 | Hey, what's going on Robin? |
| 0:14.8 | It's new music Friday and we're looking at the best releases out now on August 5th, |
| 0:18.5 | starting with Do Chi. |
| 0:20.1 | Her new EP is called She, Her Black Bitch. |
| 0:23.7 | This is the song Bitches Be. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm very excited to get this latest EP from Do Chi. |
| 1:15.9 | It's an incredible record and I was really knocked out by her performance at the 2022 |
| 1:22.1 | B.T. Awards. |
| 1:23.1 | That's what kind of started building up this excitement for this project for me. |
| 1:28.4 | You know how awards show performances and presentations did a little subdued? |
| 1:33.6 | She went the opposite way, right? |
| 1:36.0 | And her energy was even a little unhinged and borderline chaotic. |
| 1:40.9 | It got me excited for this record and hearing it. |
| 1:44.8 | She delivered absolutely as five songs but it's all killer, no filler. |
| 1:50.9 | Is that the performance where she whipped her wig off during it? |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah, she was like going in. |
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