New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 8
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Brent Faiyaz — WASTELAND
Featured songs: "PRICE OF FAME," "GRAVITY," "DEAD MAN WALKING"
2. Metric — Formentera
Featured songs: "Doomscroller"
3. Apollo Brown — This Must Be The Place
Featured songs: "Catching Moments"
4. Anna Butterss — Activities
Featured songs: "Doo Wop"
5. renforshort — dear amelia
Featured songs: "better off"
Lightning Round:
Burna Boy — Love, Damini
NoSo — Stay Proud of Me
rei brown — Xeno
Wu-Lu — LOGGERHEAD
Other notable releases for July 8:
Delicate Steve — After Hours
Emmanuel Jal — Shangah
The Faim — Talk Talk
Katy J Pearson — Sound of the Morning
Laura Veirs — Found Light
Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying... and the Dead!
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Toast
Rae Morris — Rachel@Fairyland
Rapport — Floating Through the Wonderwave
Tye Tribbett — All Things New
Tyshawn Sorey Trio — Mesmerism
Vancouver Sleep Clinic — Fallen Paradise
Wet — Pink Room
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday from InPear Music and all songs considered. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Robin Hilton, I'm here with WB, EZ and Vocalo Radio's Iyana Contreras. |
| 0:07.1 | Hey Iyana. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey what's going on? |
| 0:09.1 | Cristina Lee. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi Robin. |
| 0:12.1 | Serena Turos. |
| 0:13.5 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:14.7 | And Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody. |
| 0:16.9 | Howdy Robin. |
| 0:18.2 | Howdy, it's new music Friday. |
| 0:20.2 | And we're taking a quick look at the best releases out now on July 8th. |
| 0:23.4 | Starting with the singer Brent Fias, his new album is called Wasteland. |
| 0:27.4 | This is the song Price of Fame. |
| 1:27.4 | One thing I like about Brent Fias, he's done this independently. |
| 1:36.8 | He's really built up his brand, his music, his following all independently, which is, it's |
| 1:42.6 | hard to do especially in this day and there. |
| 1:44.9 | I don't think he gets much play on commercial radio, but he is his following, it's huge. |
| 1:51.0 | This is definitely, I think, will be his breakout album into the mainstream. |
| 1:55.4 | He's big in New Zealand. |
| 1:57.4 | He is. |
| 1:58.4 | I never hear anyone say, oh, they're big in New Zealand. |
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