Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs. Considered I'm Robin Hilton, I'm here with

WB Easy and Vocalo Radio Host and DJ Ayanna Contreras. Hey Ayanna, hey Robin!

It's new music Friday that day of the week when most new albums and EP's come out and we're

taking a quick look at the best releases for October 8th, starting with James Blake. His new and

out today is called Friends that Break Your Heart.

And it's ok and I won't be replaced. The bits are aftertaste but it's no

thing bad. So, can it be nothing to explain? No it's the day. It was so sad.

This is James Blake. His new album is Friends that Break Your Heart. The song we're hearing from

it is called Foot Forward. This is his first album and it gets nearly three years. His last

one Assume Form came out at the very top of 2019. And Ayanna, this is kind of a concept album for

James Blake. Yeah, it's interesting because he has gone on the record basically saying that he

really respects Stevie Wonder's ability to write a song about anything about the birth of a baby,

about politics. And in this sense, he didn't want to write romantic songs, write what is sort

of expected of him he wanted to really delve into friendship. And in this particular case,

it's sort of the friendships that fell apart during the pandemic for him. And I mean, who hasn't

experienced that situation. And that's I think the hook for this entire album, what drew me to it,

was that it was so relatable. I think the best way I've heard anyone put it during this past year

and a half or so is that nobody can give as much as everyone needs. I think that's true. You know,

I was I was watching Twitter. And one thing that somebody said on Twitter was that don't be upset

if somebody isn't reaching out during this moment in the way that you want them to flip it and

think about what they are dealing with right now. Well, despite all the pleading and longing and

sometimes the emptiness in some of these songs, I thought the record overall was a bit more playful

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