New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 12

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

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Summary

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include debuts from singer Madison McFerrin, the U.K. electronic duo Overmono, deep grooves from Rahill, Céline Dion, Belinda Carlisle and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Overmono — Good Lies
Featured Songs: "Good Lies," "Is U," "Skulled"
2. Madison McFerrin — I Hope You Can Forgive Me
Featured Songs: "Fleeting Melodies," "Utah," "God Herself," "Run"
3. Belinda Carlisle — Kismet
Featured Songs: "Sanity," "If U Go"
4. Rahill — Flowers At Your Feet
Featured Songs: "Fables (feat. Beck)," "I Smile for E," "Tell Me," "Gone Astray," "Ode to Dad"
5. Céline Dion — Love Again (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Featured Songs: "Love Again (from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)," "Love of My Life," "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"

Lightning Round:
Aespa — MY WORLD - The 3rd Mini Album - EP
BOKANI DYER — RADIO SECHABA
RP Boo — Legacy Volume 2
Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya — Orbweaving

Other notable releases for May 12:
Alison Goldfrapp — The Love Invention
BC Camplight — The Last Rotation of Earth
Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer — As We Speak (feat. Rakesh Chaurasia)
Bruce Cockburn — O Sun O Moon
Daisies — Great Big Open Sky
Eluvium — (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality
The Jonas Brothers — The Album
Moby — Resound NYC
Sexmob — The Hard Way
Various — KPOP (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
War — The Remixes

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, happy Friday, I'm Robin Hilton from NPR Music.
0:02.8	I am here with contributor Serena Turro, say Serena.
0:05.5	Hey, me, Robin.
0:06.5	WBGO's Nicole Sweeney.
0:08.5	Hey, Robin.
0:09.3	And from Radio Milwaukee, Treek Moody.
0:11.3	Howdy, Robin.
0:12.3	All right, it's new music Friday, which means that a ton of albums and EPs are out today.
0:16.5	We've sorted through a whole bunch of them to find the best ones for you to hear now.
0:20.7	On this episode, we're looking at May 12th releases.
0:23.8	That includes new ones from Celine Dion and Belinda Carlyle.
0:27.4	There's also a debut album from Madison McFarron that's out today.
0:31.4	But we start with a big release in the electronic world.
0:33.8	This is the UK duo known as Over Mono.
0:36.6	That's all one word, Over Mono.
0:38.6	Their debut album is called Good Lies.
0:41.4	This is the title cut.
1:27.4	Yeah, this album is everything I love about electronic music, and why I love it so much.
1:48.7	It rings on influences from everything from the UK electronic scenes and sub-genres of
1:53.0	dubstep from artists like Barrel to even UK games.
1:57.4	There is your two-step from artists like MJ Cole to Chicago House techno, Juan Atkins.
2:03.4	It brings it all together and a lovely well-produced project.
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