New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 24
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
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Featured Albums:
1. Gorillaz — Cracker Island
Featured Songs: "Oil (feat. Stevie Nicks)," "Tormernta (feat. Bad Bunny)," "Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo)"
2. Naughty By Nature — 19 Naughty III - 30th Anniversary
Featured Songs: "Hip Hop Hooray," "Daddy Was A Street Corner," "It's On (Beatnuts Remix)"
3. quinnie — flounder
Featured Songs: "emblem," "touch tank," "man"
4. Gracie Abrams — Good Riddance
Featured Songs: "Where do we go now?," "I should hate you"
5. Christian McBride's New Jawn — Prime
Featured Songs: "East Broadway Rundown," "Head Bedlam"
Lightning Round:
Buster Williams — Unalome
Kate Fagan — I Don't Want to Be Too Cool [Expanded Ed.]
Laraaji — Segue to Infinity
Neutral Milk Hotel — The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel
Other notable releases for Feb. 24:
Adam Lambert — High Drama
Algiers — Shook
The Church — The Hypnogogue
Dierks Bentley — Gravel & Gold
Gruff Rhys — The Almond and the Seahorse
Iris DeMent — Workin' on a World
Logic — College Park
Miss Grit — Follow the Cyborg
Philip Selway — Strange Dance
Shame — Food for Worms
Russ Millions — One Of A Kind
The Strokes — Singles, Vol. 1
U.S. Girls — Bless This Mess
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from InPear Music and All Songs considered. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:03.5 | I am here with InPear Music Editor, Hazel Sills, from WXPN, John Morrison, |
| 0:09.0 | Yo, what's up, Robin? |
| 0:10.1 | And from WBGO, Nicole Sweeney. |
| 0:12.8 | Hi there. |
| 0:13.5 | It's new music Friday that glorious time of the week |
| 0:16.3 | when a whole bunch of new albums and EPs come out. |
| 0:19.2 | We sort through a massive pile of releases. |
| 0:22.0 | And on the show, we share our picks for the best of the bunch. |
| 0:24.8 | It's February 24th, and we've got new ones from Gracie Abrams, |
| 0:28.6 | Christian McBride and more. |
| 0:30.9 | But we start with Gorillas in the album Cracker Island. |
| 0:34.1 | This is the song, Oil, It Features Stevie Nicks. |
| 2:04.1 | This is their first album. |
| 2:12.5 | Gorillas have been known for making this pop music with a little edge to it. |
| 2:18.2 | That's also coupled with this macro, cultural, and political commentary. |
| 2:23.7 | And also a lot of guest appearances on their records. |
| 2:27.5 | That's their thing. |
| 2:28.8 | And this album Cracker Island is more of that. |
| 2:32.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 2:34.2 | The production is very modern. |
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