New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 17
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. T-Pain — On Top of the Covers
Featured Songs: "War Pigs," "Tennessee Whiskey," "Don't Stop Believin'," "A Change Is Gonna Come"
2. Hozier — Eat Your Young
Featured Songs: "Eat Your Young," "All Things End," "Through Me (The Flood)"
3. Princess Nokia — i love you but this is goodbye
Featured Songs: "The Fool," "Happy," "Closure"
4. 100 gecs — 10,000 gecs
Featured Songs: "Dumbest Girl Alive," "Frog On The Floor," "Billy Knows Jamie"
5. Yves Tumor — Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Featured Songs: "Echolalia," "Meteora Blues," "Heaven Surrounds Us Like A Hood"
Lightning Round:
Genevieve Artadi — Forever Forever
Niklas Paschburg — Panta Rhei
So!YoON! — Episode1: Love
Unknown Mortal Orchestra — V
Other notable releases for March 17:
All Time Low — Tell Me I'm Alive
The Band of Heathens — Simple Things
FIDLAR — That's Life
Gideon — More Power, More Pain
Moderat — Even More D4ta
Tei Shi — Badd Premonition
U2 — Songs of Surrender
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday. I'm Robin Hilton from NPR Music. I'm here with Contributor Serena Turoz. |
| 0:05.1 | Hey Serena. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:07.0 | Beaming to us all the way from Colombia. We've got Latisha Harris. Latisha. |
| 0:11.6 | Hi Robin. |
| 0:12.7 | And from Radio Milwaukee, Tariq Moody. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:16.0 | It's new music Friday that day of the week when most EPs and albums come out. |
| 0:20.5 | As always, we sort through a massive pile of releases and find the best ones to share here on the program. |
| 0:26.1 | We've got new ones this week from Hozier. Hozier's back with an EP ahead of a full length due later this year. |
| 0:31.9 | We've also got new music from Princess Nokia, 100 Dex and more. |
| 0:36.2 | But we start this week's show off with something completely unexpected. It's the rapper T-Pain. |
| 0:41.9 | Like you've never heard him before. He's got this wild new collection of cover songs out today called On Top of the Covers. |
| 0:48.8 | This is his version of the Black Sabbath song Warpigs. |
| 0:56.1 | Oh, |
| 1:01.1 | the generals gathered in their message. |
| 1:06.1 | Just like which is said, Black Massive. |
| 1:11.1 | Even by his that plan destruction. |
| 1:16.1 | The threat of death construction. |
| 1:22.1 | And the fields the bodies burn in. |
| 1:27.1 | There's the warm, a sinking sturn in. |
| 1:32.1 | The nature to mankind. |
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