New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 3
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Kali Uchis — Red Moon in Venus
Featured Songs: "Hasta Cuando," "Como Te Quiero Yo," "Worth the Wait (feat. Omar Apollo)"
2. Masego — MASEGO
Featured Songs: "What You Wanna Try," "Afraid of Water," "Black Anime"
3. Yazmin Lacey — Voice Notes
Featured Songs: "Legacy," "Where Did You Go?"
4. Jen Cloher -- I Am the River, The River is Me
Featured Songs: "My Witch," "Mana Takatāpui," "The Wild," "Being Human"
5. Chiiild — Better Luck in the Next Life
Featured Songs: "(Running Out Of) Hallelujahs," "Good For Now (feat. Lucky Daye)"
Lightning Round:
Adi Oasis — Lotus Glow
Hello Mary — Hello Mary
Spektral Quartet & Julia Holter — Behind the Wallpaper
Other notable releases for March 3:
Kate NV — WOW
Macklemore — BEN
Object of Affection — Field of Appearances
Radio Supernova — Paratiisi
William Basinski — The Clocktower at the Beach
Xiu Xiu — Ignore Grief
Zulu — A New Tomororw
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from InPear Music and All Songs considered I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:04.1 | I am here with WB Easy and Vocalo Radio's Ionet Contreras. |
| 0:07.6 | Hi, how you doing? |
| 0:09.0 | InPear Music Contributor Serena Turos. |
| 0:11.3 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:12.6 | And from Radio Milwaukee to Rik Moody. |
| 0:15.1 | Howdy Robin. |
| 0:16.4 | It's new music Friday the day the week when most new albums and EPs drop on this episode. |
| 0:21.3 | We're looking at the best releases out now on March 3rd. |
| 0:24.1 | Starting with Kali Uchi's, her new one is called Red Moon and Venus. |
| 0:28.0 | This is the song Hosta Kwondo. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, Kali Uchi's is this Columbia and American singer. |
| 1:44.6 | This is her third album. |
| 1:47.0 | And I was really surprised to see that I think she is kind of having a mainstream moment |
| 1:51.8 | right now. |
| 1:53.2 | And she has made it to the mainstream, I think. |
| 1:56.3 | This by like staying in her lane. |
| 1:58.3 | She's always been a student of old school R&B. |
| 2:02.6 | And I feel like she just said, okay, well, when you guys are ready to recognize that dreamy |
| 2:07.1 | R&B is that girl. |
| 2:08.9 | I'm here. |
| 2:09.9 | And all throughout this album, you can hear classic Motown and that girl group, Stylings. |
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