New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 27
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Jean Carne, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge — JID012
Featured Songs: "Black Love," "Visions"
2. Wilco — Cruel Country
Featured Songs: "I Am My Mother," "The Plains," "A Lifetime To Find"
3. X Alfonso — Ancestros Sinfonicos
Featured Song: "Yakuma Kareré"
4. UMI — Forest in the City
Featuared Song: "what would u do?"
5. Nduduzo Makhathini — In the Spirit of NTU
Featured Songs: "Mama," "Emlilweni"
Other notable releases for May 27:
Brian Jackson — This Is Brian Jackson
Bright Eyes — A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off the Happiness and Fevers and Mirrors
Dehd — Blue Skies
HAAi — Baby, We're Ascending
Isaac Dunbar — Banish the Banshee
Jonny Greenwood — The Power of the Dog OST (physical release)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon
Liam Gallagher — C'MON YOU KNOW
Maria BC — Hyaline
Rosie Carney — I Wanna Feel Happy
Sean Paul — Scorcha
Sofie Birch — Holotropica
Stars — From Capelton Hill
Steve Earle & The Dukes — Jerry Jeff
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday from NPR Music and all songs considered. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm here with WB EZ and Vocalo Radio's Iyana Contreras. |
| 0:07.7 | Hey! |
| 0:08.7 | Alt Latinos Felix Contreras. |
| 0:10.7 | Hey, too. |
| 0:12.7 | And from WBGO and Jazz Night in America, Nate Chinn. |
| 0:17.0 | What's up, Robin? |
| 0:18.0 | It's new music Friday and we're looking at the best albums out now on May 27th. |
| 0:22.0 | There's a new Wilco record out today. |
| 0:23.4 | We've also got a debut full length from the singer Umi. |
| 0:26.4 | But we start with the latest in the Jazz Is Dead series from Ali Shahid Muhammad and |
| 0:31.0 | Adrian Young. |
| 0:32.6 | This one, Jazz Is Dead 12, it features Jean Karn. |
| 0:35.6 | This is the cut called Black Love. |
| 1:05.2 | This is salvation in heaven and all. |
| 1:08.5 | Let's not plutonimates. |
| 1:10.1 | Most happy days as we go. |
| 1:18.7 | Try not to lose hope. |
| 1:19.9 | The Jazz is Dead series has done a lot to become gateway drugs for younger listeners to |
| 1:44.7 | these pivotal 60s, 70s jazz icons, introducing them to this music. But I don't think they've |
| 1:52.6 | done enough to do that for female artists. And Jean Carn was a clear choice of somebody |
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