New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 17
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Featured Songs: "Pretty In Possible," "Fly To You (feat. Grimes and Dido)"
2. Wesley Joseph — GLOW
Featured Songs: "COLD SUMMER," "SUGAR DRIVE (feat. Dean)"
3. Pile — All Fiction
Featured Songs: "Loops," "Poisons," "Blood," "Gardening Hours"
4. P!NK — TRUSTFALL
Featured Songs: "TRUSTFALL," "Just Say I'm Sorry (feat. Chris Stapleton)," "Kids In Love (feat. First Aid Kit)," "When I Get There"
5. Tianna Esperanza — Terror
Featured Songs: "Terror," "Lewis," "Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince," "Granada"
Lightning Round:
crushed — extra life
Lisel — Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices and Delay
Jaimee Harris — Boomerang Town
Skrillex — Quest for Fire
Other notable releases for Feb. 17:
@ — Mind Palace Music
Anna B Savage — in|FLUX
Avey Tare — 7s
Free Range — Practice
Leon Lee Dorsey & Mike Clark — Cantaloupe Island
Lowly — Keep Up The Good Work
Ron Sexsmith — The Vivian Line
Screaming Females — Desire Pathway
Simona Premazzi — Wave In Gravity
Various Artists — Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR music and all songs considered. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm here with NPR's and powers. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, Robin. |
| 0:07.5 | Marissa Larusso. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi. |
| 0:10.2 | And from Radio Milwaukee, |
| 0:11.5 | Tariq Moody. |
| 0:12.5 | Hello, Tariq Moody. |
| 0:16.3 | Robin is on steroids after reading Bano in the edge yesterday. |
| 0:20.5 | Not a bad, not a bad tiny desk. |
| 0:23.1 | It's new music Friday. |
| 0:24.7 | And we're doing a quick rundown of the best albums out now on February 17th. |
| 0:28.0 | First up is Caroline Paula Chex latest. |
| 0:30.2 | It's called Desire. |
| 0:31.2 | I want to turn into you. |
| 0:32.8 | This is the song, |
| 0:33.6 | Pretty in possible. |
| 0:35.6 | That's I in possible, |
| 0:36.9 | the ultimate songdress's on rock, |
| 0:59.1 | I'm just a drop in an avenue, you never tried |
| 1:02.6 | But you see it in my eyes and that is better, yeah |
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