New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 9
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🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Amaarae — Fountain Baby
Featured Songs: "Counterfeit," "Angels in Tibet," "Sex, Violence, Suicide Pt. 2," "Come Home to God"
2. King Krule — Space Heavy
Featured Songs: "Hamburgerphobia," "That Is My Life, That Is Yours," "Pink Shell"
3. Jenny Lewis — Joy'All
Featured Songs: "Joy'All," "Chain of Tears," "Puppy and a Truck"
4. Janelle Monáe — The Age of Pleasure
Featured Songs: "Champagne Shit," "Black Sugar Beach," "Phenomenal (feat. Doechii)," "Lipstick Lover"
5. Keaton Henson — House Party
Featured Songs: "I'm Not There," "Holiday," "Envy," "Hooray"
Lightning Round:
Emile Mosseri — Heaven Hunters
Feeble Little Horse — Girl With Fish
Squid — O Monolith
Youth Lagoon — Heaven is a Junkyard
Other notable releases for June 9:
Andy Stack & Jay Hammond — Inter Personal
Christine and the Queens — Paranoia, Angels, True Love
The Dead Milkmen — Quaker City Quiet Pills
Dream Wife — Social Lubrication
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit — Weathervanes
Jayda G — Guy
Jess Williamson — Time Ain't Accidental
Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa — Jarak Qaribak
Spoon — Memory Dust
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday from NPR Music. |
| 0:01.9 | I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm here with NPR Music Editor, Hazel Sills. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey Hazel. |
| 0:05.4 | Hey. |
| 0:06.4 | Contributor, Latisha Harris. |
| 0:08.3 | Hi. |
| 0:09.0 | And NPR Music Editor, Sheldon Pierce. |
| 0:11.6 | Let's get it. |
| 0:12.8 | Well, it's new music Friday. |
| 0:14.3 | That's good. |
| 0:15.2 | And we're doing a quick rundown of the best albums out now |
| 0:17.4 | on June 9th. |
| 0:18.1 | It's a super packed week. |
| 0:19.1 | Janelle Monet, King Cruele, Jenny Lewis, |
| 0:21.5 | whole bunch more all have new releases out today. |
| 0:24.0 | But we're going to start with Amarae. |
| 0:25.4 | She's back with the album Fountain Baby. |
| 0:27.7 | This is the song Counterfeit. |
| 0:30.0 | You bitch bitch, she's not a man, not a man. |
| 0:32.0 | Ching, Ching, Ching, Ching, Ching, not a man, not a man. |
| 0:34.8 | I need a big singing, not a man, not a man. |
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