New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 17
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Yaya Bey — Remember Your North Star
Featured Songs: "alright," "rolling stoner," "meet me in brooklyn"
2. Bartees Strange — Farm to Table
Featured Songs: "Mulholland Dr.," "Hold the Line," "Hennessy," "Cosigns"
3. Wild Up — Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy
Featured Songs: "Stay On It," "Touch Him When (Heavy)," "Joy Boy"
4. J. Rocc — A Wonderful Letter
Featured Songs: "Keep On (Yeah)," "Pajama Party," "Dancing With the Best"
5. Perfume Genius — Ugly Season
Featured Songs: "Teeth," "Cenote," "Scherzo"
Lightning Round:
Erica Banks — Diary of The Flow Queen
Harkin — Honeymoon Suite
Kevin Gates — Khaza
RY X — Blood Moon
Other notable releases for June 17:
Alanis Morissette — The Storm Before the Calm
Carlos Simon & Marco Pave' — Requiem for the Enslaved
Flasher — Love is Yours
Foals — Life is Yours
Hercules & Love Affair — In Amber
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals — King Cobra
Logic — Vinyl Days
Mt. Joy — Orange Blood
Sound of Ceres — Emerald Sea
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| 0:25.6 | Hey everybody, happy Friday from NPR Music and all songs considered. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with Christina Lee. |
| 0:31.1 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:32.3 | Marissa Larusso. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi Robin. |
| 0:35.4 | And Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody. |
| 0:37.6 | Howdy Robin. |
| 0:38.7 | It's new music Friday and we recorded this week's show before Drake announced his new album, honestly, never mind. |
| 0:47.3 | So we weren't able to include it on this week's episode, but we've got plenty of other great releases out now on June 17th. |
| 0:53.6 | Starting with the singer Yaya Bay, her new one is called Remember Your North Star. This is the song, All Right. |
| 1:00.8 | My old friends don't kick it like my new friends do. |
| 1:06.0 | My new friends don't know me like Leo wants to. |
| 1:10.8 | And it's all about proof that your girl could need. |
| 1:16.0 | As the seasons change, all this love is me. |
| 1:21.2 | Oh, you can go there. |
| 1:24.0 | We're not the ones that sing it. |
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