New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 13

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

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Summary

Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Leikeli47's Shape Up, Florence + the Machine's Dance Fever and more are on our shortlist of the week's best new albums.

Featured Albums:
1. Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
2. Leikeli47 — Shape Up
Featured Track: "Chitty Bang"
3. Florence + the Machine — Dance Fever
Featured Track: "Choreomania"
4. Quelle Chris — DEATHFAME
Featured Track: "King in Black"
5. Tank and the Bangas — Red Balloon
Featured Track: "Communion in My Cup"
6. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davis — Firestarter
Featured Track: "Charlie's Rampage"

Other notable releases for May 13:
The Black Keys — Dropout Boogie
Kevin Morby — This Is A Photograph
Mandy Moore — In Real Life
Mary Halvorson — Amaryllis and Belladonna
Monophonics — Sage Motel
Pkew Pkew Pkew — Open Bar
Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz — Live a Little
Say Sue Me — The Last Thing Left
The Smile — A Light For Attracting Attention
They Hate Change — Finally, New

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from Inkyour Music and All Songs considered.
0:02.9	I'm Robin Hilton.
0:03.8	I'm here with Christina Lee.
0:05.8	Hey, Robin.
0:06.7	Serena Turos.
0:08.1	Hey, Robin.
0:09.2	And Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody.
0:11.3	Oh, he robin.
0:12.2	It's new music Friday from May 13th.
0:15.0	We usually record this show a bit earlier in the week so we can have it ready to go out by 5 a.m.
0:19.6	every Friday morning and we're lucky that we can hear most albums ahead of their release.
0:23.9	But it's really hard to cover surprise drops in albums that are as closely guarded as Kendrick Lamar's
0:29.2	new and Mr. Moral and the big steppers do out today.
0:32.0	So we're going to have a big deep dive conversation all about that album from our friends at pop culture.
0:36.6	Happy hour next week in the All Songs considered feed.
0:39.6	But we do want to talk about the incredible single and video that Kendrick Lamar dropped this week ahead of the album.
0:45.1	It's called the heart part five.
0:47.2	As I get a little older,
0:51.7	I realize life is perspective.
0:53.4	And my perspective made different from yours.
0:58.4	I want to say thank you to everyone that's been down with me.
1:04.4	All my fans, all my beautiful fans.
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