New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 25

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

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Summary

Robert Glasper returns this week with Black Radio III, the latest in his ongoing fusion of jazz, rap, hip-hop and R&B. Other notable albums this week include new ones from SASMI, EARTHGANG and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Robert Glasper — Black Radio III
Featured Tracks: "Why We Speak" and "In Tune"
2. SASAMI — Squeeze
Featured Track: "Say It"
3. Sevdaliza — Raving Dahlia
Featured Track: "Everything Is Everything"
4. EARTHGANG — Ghetto Gods
Featured Track — "Amen"
5. Emily Wells — Regards to the End
Featured Tracks: "All Burn, No Bridge" and "David's Got A Problem"

Other notable releases for Feb. 25:
Aspidistrafly — Altar of Dreams
Avishai Cohen — Naked Truth
Avril Lavigne — Love Sux
Bambara — Love on My Mind
Basia Bulat — The Garden
caroline — caroline
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few: "Lift Every Voice" (single)
King Hannah — I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
Superchunk — Wild Loneliness
Tears for Fears — The Tipping Point

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered.
0:02.7	I'm Robin Hilton.
0:03.6	It is February 25th and I'm here with WB EZ and Vocalo Radio's Iyana Contreras.
0:08.6	Hey, Iyana.
0:09.3	Hey!
0:10.7	From WBGO and Jazz Knight in America, Nate Chinn in.
0:13.8	Hey, Robin.
0:14.8	NPR Music's Jerusalem Truth.
0:17.5	Hey, Robin.
0:18.3	And Steven Thompson.
0:19.9	Hello, Robin.
0:21.3	It is new music Friday and we're looking at the best new albums out this week starting with
0:25.3	Robert Glassper's Black Radio 3.
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0:53.8	Tout à peut-être dure ces maintenance, qui a pas m'amus en clarinet.
0:58.9	Hey, Good Holiday, Worldhaus, after paying me de Chieszy himself.
1:02.2	Do you know what I'm doing here?
1:04.6	We're working on this
1:05.9	Sweet sleep, we're working together
1:09.1	And you dialogue with life
1:11.4	Robert Glassberg's Black Radio 3, this is the song why we speak.
1:24.4	This is the third installment in Glassberg's Black Radio series that started with the
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