New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 20
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Sampha — LAHAI
Featured Songs: "Dancing Circles," "Stereo Colour Cloud (Shaman's Dream)," "What If You Hypnotise Me (feat. Léa Sen)," "Spirit 2.0," "Only"
2. The Rolling Stones — Hackney Diamonds
Featured Songs: "Bite My Head Off," "Depending On You," "Dreamy Skies," "Mess It Up," "Sweet Sounds Of Heaven," "Whole Wide World"
3. Glen Hansard — All That Was East Is West of Me Now
Featured Songs: "The Feast Of Saint John," "Sure As The Rain," "Bearing Witness"
4. Dylan LeBlanc — Coyote
Featured Song: "Dust"
5. Helena Deland — Goodnight Summerland (Out Oct. 13)
Featured Song: "Bright Green Vibrant Day"
6. Valee & Michael Vincent Waller — Valeedation
Featured Song: "Tailor Swift"
Other notable releases for Oct. 20:
awakebutstillinbed — Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger
Blink-182 — ONE MORE TIME...
Blues Traveler — Traveler's Soul
Bombay Bicycle Club — My Big Day
Boys Like Girls — Sunday At Foxwoods
Devo — 50 Years Of De-Evolution (1972-2023)
Emily Wolfe — The Blowback
Israel Nash — Ozarker
Katie Von Schleicher — A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
Lost Girls (Jenny Hval & Håvard Volden) — Selvutsletter
Pip Blom — Bobbie
Salt-N-Pepa — Very Necessary (30th Anniversary Edition)
Sleaford Mods — More Uk Grim EP
Summer Walker — Girls Need Love (Girls Mix)
Vince Guaraldi — A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (first-ever release)
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| 0:35.5 | Hey, what's up, Stephen? |
| 0:36.5 | We are talking about the best albums out today, starting with SAMHFA. SAMHFA's new album is LAHIGH, and this song is Dancing Circles. |
| 0:44.5 | Madness, sitting by traffic, outside in London, just waiting for you. |
| 0:53.5 | Blackness, flickering flashes, looking at the ashes, look up and you're hearing full of you. |
| 1:01.5 | We talk about life, talk about children, look in your eyes, talk about crimes, government lies like ain't nothing new. |
| 1:10.5 | Had you trembling, by the roadside, on the north side, outside. |
| 1:15.5 | We talk about movement, we talk about how we miss the groove. |
| 1:20.5 | Dancing, dancing, hand in hand with you. |
| 1:27.5 | Go, dancing, come close. |
| 1:34.5 | Hold me, hold me, so much so we both let go. |
| 1:38.5 | Dancing, you know I love you, don't. |
| 1:42.5 | I love you, don't. |
| 1:43.5 | I can let the moments back in Mexico. |
| 1:47.5 | There's a very interesting dynamic that I see in a lot of SAMHFA's music. |
| 1:53.5 | These songs are kind of like a flush with intimacy. |
| 1:57.5 | It's kind of like he's mapping out his own internal world in a lot of these songs. |
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