New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 3

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

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Summary

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include RAYE's long-awaited debut, My 21st Century Blues, SYML's stirring The Day My Father Died, the return of Shania Twain and more.

Featured Albums:
1. SYML — The Day My Father Died
Featured Songs: "Chariot," "Howling (feat. Lucius)," "Lost Myself (feat. Guy Garvey)," "The Day My Father Died"
2. RAYE — My 21st Century Blues
Featured Songs: "The Thrill Is Gone," "Oscar Winning Tears," "Hard Out Here"
3. Joe Chambers — Dance Kobina
Featured Songs: "Gazelle Suite," "Caravanserai"
4. Young Fathers — Heavy Heavy
Featured Songs: "Geronimo," "I Saw," "Tell Somebody"
5. Shania Twain — Queen of Me
Featured Song: "Pretty Liar"

Lightning Round Picks:
Epik High — Strawberry
The Go! Team — Get Up Sequences Part Two
James Brandon Lewis — Eye of I
Robert Forster — The Candle and the Flame

Other notable releases for Feb. 3:
Ben Wolfe — Unjust
Best Fern — Earth Then Air
Fantastic Negrito — Grandfather Courage
Hamish Hawk — Angel Numbers
Loscil & Lawrence English — Colours of Air
M(h)aol — Attachment Style
The Psychotic Monks — Pink Colour Surgery
Somebody's Child — Somebody's Child
Sunny War — Anarchist Gospel
Tropical F*** Storm — SUBMERSIVE BEHAVIOR
Various — Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from InFear Music and All Songs considered.
0:02.6	I'm Robin Hilton.
0:03.4	I am here with WBZ in Vocalo Radio's Ayanna Contreras.
0:07.0	Hey, Robin.
0:08.4	Contributors Serena Turos.
0:10.3	Hey, Robin.
0:11.9	An editorial director for Member Station WRTI Nate Chinn.
0:15.7	Hey, Robin.
0:16.8	It's new music Friday and we're looking at the best releases out now on February 3rd,
0:20.9	starting with the artist known as Simmel.
0:23.3	His new album is called The Day My Father Died.
0:25.9	This is the song, Cheriet.
0:55.9	I didn't know.
1:02.9	In a soft electric life, in a soft electric life, I think it's like a door.
1:10.9	Don't soar, I'll skip it.
1:13.9	I'm afraid I'm not okay.
1:16.9	I'm afraid of my life today, whether it's in her.
1:21.9	I put my heart all in it.
1:24.9	I didn't know how to get back home.
1:27.9	I'm still running.
1:30.9	I didn't know.
1:31.9	So, Simmel is interesting for me because I wasn't really familiar with the project or his
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