New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 1
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🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Speedy Ortiz — Rabbit Rabbit
Featured Songs: "Ghostwriter," "Ballad of Y&S," "Scabs," "Kim Cattrall"
2. Illa J — No Traffic
Featured Songs: "Off the Tap," "Circus," "Get Down (feat. AmpFiddler)," "Snaps," "OG Funk"
3. Puma Blue — Holy Waters
Featured Songs: "Hounds," "O, The Blood!," "Falling Down," "Pretty"
4. Slowdive — everything is alive
Featured Songs: "alife," "prayer remembered," "shanty"
Lightning Round:
L'Rain — "Pet Rock" (Single)
Ama Lou — I Came Home Late
Kendra Morris — I Am What I'm Waiting For
Jeff Rosenstock — HELLMODE
Other notable releases for Sept. 1:
The 1975 — Live From Gorilla
Aesop Rock — Skelethon (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
dadá Joãozinho — tds bem Global
Dream — to whoever wants to hear EP
Field Music — light is gone 2
Ghost of Vroom — Ghost of Vroom 3
Icona Pop — Club Romantech
Larry Fleet — Earned It
Laya — Bet That EP
The Natvral — Summer of No Light
Neil Young — Odeon Budokan
Taake — Et Hav av Avstand
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Stephen Thompson, here with me from NPR Music Hazel Sales. |
| 0:07.3 | Hey. |
| 0:08.1 | From Radio Milwaukee to Reek Moody. |
| 0:10.2 | Howdy. |
| 0:10.8 | And from WXPN and the Sirius Rappshit Podcast, John Morrison. |
| 0:14.9 | Yo, yo, yo. |
| 0:16.0 | We are talking about the best albums out today, |
| 0:18.6 | starting with Speedy or Tees. |
| 0:20.7 | Speedy or Tees' new album is called Rabbit Rabbit, |
| 0:23.9 | and this song is Ghostwriter. |
| 0:25.8 | It's all I know, the water in it, it's our song. |
| 0:31.4 | The criminal, I love it, yeah. |
| 0:34.0 | We'll have some songs on your turn. |
| 0:36.2 | They're called to my car. |
| 0:39.6 | Forever, never a draw a bridge. |
| 0:42.4 | Forever, motion an adjective. |
| 0:45.4 | Every nickel, one night, one love, and life's life. |
| 0:50.2 | How to grow up? |
| 0:54.0 | Rainly, I'm really pushed, much tired. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm glad I ain't got how to move on. |
| 1:05.4 | Even callin' to stay in one spot. |
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