New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 16

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

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Summary

The superstar K-pop girl group BLACKPINK is one of the biggest pop juggernauts in the world, with billions of streams and massive world tours to its name. Born Pink, its second full-length album — and "full-length" is relative here, since we're talking about eight songs in under 25 minutes — promises to further expedite BLACKPINK's domination of the U.S. charts.

We've also got new projects from Brazilian-born electro-pop artist LYZZA, Afropop-inspired R&B singer-songwriter Miloe, Tiny Desk Contest-winning singer-songwriter Quinn Christopherson and dance-pop star Rina Sawayama. On this week's New Music Friday, Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody and NPR Music contributors Christina Lee and Cyrena Touros join guest host Stephen Thompson.

Featured Albums:

BLACKPINK — Born Pink
Featured Songs: "Typa Girl," "Pink Venom," "Hard to Love"
LYZZA — Mosquito
Featured Songs: "Lucky You," "Hold Me," "Heathens Call (feat. Backxwash)"
Miloe — gaps
Featured Songs: "elastic," "rewind (feat. PawPaw Rod)"
Quinn Christopherson — Write Your Name In Pink
Featured Songs: "Uptown," "Evelene"
Rina Sawayama — Hold the Girl
Featured Songs: "Catch Me in the Air," "Hold the Girl," "Forgiveness"

Lightning Round:

Mura Masa — Demon Time
Pink Siifu & Real Bad Man — Real Bad Flights
The Beths — Expert in a Dying Field
Jesca Hoop — Order of Romance
Death Cab for Cutie — Asphalt Meadows
Wilco — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Super Deluxe Edition)
Gogol Bordello — Solidaritine

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. I'm Stephen Thompson. I'm here with a pair of NPR Music Contributors, Christina Lee.
0:08.4	Hi, Stephen.
0:09.6	And Serena Torres.
0:11.0	Hey, Stephen.
0:12.4	And also from Radio Milwaukee, we've got Tariq Moody.
0:15.6	Howdy, Stephen.
0:16.6	Great to have you all. We are talking about the best new albums out today, starting with Black Pink and their new album, Born Pink.
0:23.8	This song is called Type of Girl.
0:25.6	Type of Girl that'll make you wanna dream. Type of Girl that can straight up off the screen.
0:33.0	Type of Girl you wanna it to make you freeze. Type of Girl you wanna write up in the pre.
0:39.6	I bring money to the table, not your dinner. Both my body and my bank account could figure.
0:46.6	Thinkin' about me, but there's nothing to consider.
0:50.6	If I let you in my circle, you won't win.
0:53.6	Ted and other true records, they found me fire.
0:58.6	I was just keeping up, bearing quiet.
1:02.6	If you say something else, you rely on me.
1:07.6	Cause I'm that girl that drives you crazy. But you can't leave me alone.
1:12.6	Got you thinking, maybe I was supernatural.
1:16.6	To understells all I looked into a crystal ball.
1:19.6	I'm not like this, I suppose at all.
1:22.6	Black Pink is of course one of maybe like two groups that has showed once and for all that K-Pop can find.
1:28.6	Lasting chart success here, particularly among Western audiences, I should say.
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