New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 15
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Corinne Bailey Rae — Black Rainbows
Featured Songs: "Erasure," "Peach Velvet Sky," "A Spell, A Prayer," "New York Transit Queen"
2. Mitski — The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We
Featured Songs: "I Don't Like My Mind," "When Memories Snow," "The Frost," "The Deal," "I Love Me After You"
3. Ralphie Choo — SUPERNOVA
Featured Songs: "MÁQUINA CULONA (feat Mura Masa)," "BULERÍAS DE UN CABALLO MALO," "WHIPCREAM (feat. Paris Texas)," "TANGOS DE UNA MOTO TRUCADA"
4. Vagabon — Sorry I Haven't Called
Featured Songs: "Lexicon," "Do Your Worst," "Can I Talk My S***?," "Nothing to Lose"
Lightning Round:
The Beaches — Blame My Ex
Jóhann Jóhannsson — A Prayer to the Dynamo
Killer Mike — MICHAEL (Deluxe)
Madison Beer — Silence Between Songs
Pharoah Sanders — Pharoah
Other notable releases for Sept. 15:
Baroness — Stone
Bombino — Sahel
Carlos Niño & Friends — (I'm just) Chillin', on Fire
Cleo Sol — Heaven
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram — Live In London
Demi Lovato — Revamped
Dengue Fever — Ting Mong
Explosions in the Sky — End
K. Flay — MONO
Luluc — DiamondsShakey Graves — Movie of the Week
S. Carey & John Raymond — Shadowlands
Teddy Swims — I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Pt. 1)
Vic Mensa — Victor
Woods — Perennial
Worriers — Trust Your Gut
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| 0:18.0 | Hey everybody, happy Friday from NPR Music, I'm Robin Hilton, it's September 15th, and |
| 0:23.4 | here to talk about our picks for the best releases out now for New Music Friday is |
| 0:27.7 | WBEZ and Vocalo Radio's Iyana Contreras, hey hey hey, critic and reporter Serena Turos, |
| 0:33.9 | hey Robin, and out of Atlanta culture critic Gavin Gottfried. |
| 0:37.9 | Hey y'all. |
| 0:38.9 | So the new mid-ski album is out now, we're gonna hear and talk about that one, there's |
| 0:42.1 | also new and today from Vagabon, the deluxe version of Killer Mike's Michael is out |
| 0:46.7 | now, Madison Beer, Ralphie Chu, a whole bunch more, we're gonna get to all of those, but |
| 0:50.8 | we start with a pretty incredible new album from Curren Bailey Ray, it's called Black |
| 0:55.2 | Rainbows, this is the song Erasure. |
| 1:25.2 | So you maybe think to yourself, man, that's very different from put your records on, which |
| 1:53.4 | is maybe the most popular recording from, man, the early Aughts now. |
| 1:59.8 | Curren Bailey Ray has been through a lot since that period, and this particular album is |
| 2:04.8 | inspired by some very specific experiences that she had here in Chicago at a place called |
| 2:10.1 | the Stoney Island Arts Bank, the thing about the Stoney Island Arts Bank, which is kind |
| 2:13.8 | of unique, is it is a space that houses material blackness from the 20th century and previous, |
| 2:21.0 | and she said her transformation process was gradual and is still ongoing, but these recordings |
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