New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 8
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Olivia Rodrigo — GUTS
Featured Songs: "get him back!" "all-american bitch," "ballad of a homeschooled girl," "the grudge"
2. Jalen Ngonda — Come Around and Love Me
Featured Songs: "Come Around and Love Me," "It Takes a Fool," "Give Me Another Day"
3. Anjimile — The King
Featured Songs: "Mother," "Genesis," "Black Hole," "The King"
4. James Blake — Playing Robots Into Heaven
Featured Songs: "Big Hammer," "If You Can Hear Me," "Fall Back," "Fire The Editor," "I Want You to Know"
5. Yussef Dayes — Black Classical Music
Featured Songs: "Afro Cubanism," "Marching Band (feat. Masego)," "Birds of Paradise," "Black Classical Music (feat. Venna & Charlie Stacey)," "Early Dayes," "Cowrie Charms (feat. Leon Thomas & Barbara Hicks)"
Lightning Round:
Allison Russell — The Returner
Romy — Mid Air
Sparklehorse — Bird Machine
Sylvester — Private Recordings, August 1970
Other notable releases for Sept. 8:
Apollo Brown & Planet Asia — Sardines
Ashley McBryde — The Devil I Know
Blind Boys of Alabama — Echoes Of The South
The Chemical Brothers — For That Beautiful Feeling
Courtney Barnett — End of the Day
Gaika — Drift
Irreversible Entanglements — Protect Your Light
Laufey — Bewitched
Róisín Murphy — Hit Parade
Teezo Touchdown — How Do You Sleep At Night?
Tinashe — BB/ANG3L
Tyler Childers — Rustin' in the Rain
V — Layover
ZZ Ward — Dirty Shine
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey everybody, happy Friday from in-peer music, I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:08.4 | And let's just hit this from Olivia Rodrigo's new album, Guts That's Out Now. |
| 0:12.4 | This is a song called Get Him Back. |
| 0:14.5 | I met a guy in the summer and I left him in the spring. |
| 0:17.9 | He argued with me about everything. |
| 0:20.5 | He had an ego in the temper and a wandering eyes. |
| 0:23.7 | 36 for two and I'm like, dude, nice job. |
| 0:26.6 | But he was so much fun and he had such weird friends. |
| 0:29.4 | And he would take us out to parties and the night would never end. |
| 0:32.5 | Another song, another crop, another bar, another dance. |
| 0:35.6 | And when he said something wrong, he just write me to friends. |
| 0:38.4 | So I miss him so nice when I'm feeling depressed. |
| 0:41.3 | To live, remember, every time he made a pass on my friend. |
| 0:44.4 | Do I love him? |
| 0:45.2 | Do I hate him? |
| 0:46.0 | I guess it's up and down. |
| 0:47.4 | If I had to choose, I would say it right now. |
| 0:50.4 | I wanna get in the car. |
| 0:53.6 | If we're in a jazz, one thing can feel bad. |
| 0:56.9 | I wanna get in the car. |
| 1:00.0 | If we're in a jazz, one thing can feel so bad. |
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