New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 30

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's been five years since Björk last released an album, but now the Icelandic icon is back with a deeply inventive set called Fossora. Every sound on the record feels as if it's springing into the mix from a different direction, as her vibrant voice shares space with everything from bass clarinets to the voices of Björk's own offspring. Fossora was inspired, at least in part, by the death of the singer's mother, but joy also abounds.

We've also got the star-packed major-label debut of veteran rapper Freddie Gibbs, a reinvention for the long-running jazz group The Bad Plus, the return of U.K. pop star Craig David and a wild electro-pop record from Shygirl.

Featured Albums:

1. Björk — Fossora
Featured Songs: "Fossora," "Mycelia," "Sorrowful Soil"
2. Freddie Gibbs — $oul $old $eparately
Featured Songs: "Pain and Strife (feat. Offset)," "CIA"
3. The Bad Plus — The Bad Plus
Featured Songs: "Sun Wall," "Stygian Pools," "In the Bright Future"
4. Craig David — 22
Featured Songs: "DNA," "My Heart's Been Waiting for You," "Teardrops"
5. Shygirl — Nymph
Featured Songs: "Firefly," "Coochie (a bedtime story)," "Nike," Missin u"

Lightning Round:

Kid Cudi — Entergalactic
Various Artists — The Birdsong Project Vol. V
Adam Blackstone — Legacy (out Sept. 23)
Various Artists — Blue Note Re:imagined II
Ashley McBryde — Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville
Tyler Childers — Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered.
0:03.3	I'm Steven Thompson.
0:04.3	I'm here with NPR Music Contributor, Christina Lee.
0:07.0	Hey, Steven.
0:08.0	From Radio Milwaukee to Reek Moody.
0:10.3	Howdy, Steven.
0:11.4	And host of the Artemacy Podcast, Keana Faircloth.
0:14.8	Hey, Steven.
0:15.9	We are talking about the best albums out today starting with Bjork and her new album, Fassora.
0:21.2	This is the title track.
0:22.4	Star N Dave's brand like wings.
1:06.1	One of my all-time favorite artists ever, Bjorks tends to do an album.
1:17.7	She has been pushing Available since her 1993 debut album, titled debut.
1:25.0	The rumors were supposed to be a dance record and for me it's more, there's dance, but
1:30.4	it's kind of this chaos, beauty, it's an album that gets in your headspace.
1:36.8	But this album is also kind of a tribute to mushrooms.
1:39.8	Not the mushrooms that I know Steven might eat sometimes.
1:43.3	Oh, heaven for fang.
1:46.3	But it's like there's two tracks.
1:48.1	There's Mycelia and Fungal City, which really kind of explains this album, which was created
1:53.6	during the pandemic.
1:54.6	She was basically DJing to friends in Iceland and just really wanted to be connected.
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