New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 18
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Rosalía — MOTOMAMI
Featured tracks: "CUUUUuuuuuute," "BULERÍAS," "SAOKO"
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson — Drone Mass
Featured tracks: "Two is Apocryphal," "Take the Night Air"
3. Raw Poetic & Damu The Fudgemunk — Laminated Skies
Featured Tracks: "Open Roads," "Chewing Gum"
4. Charli XCX — CRASH
Featured Tracks: "Crash," "Yuck"
5. Yumi Zouma — Present Tense
Featured Track: "Astral Projections"
Other notable releases for March 18:
Bladee & Ecco2K — Crest
Broadcast — Microtronics, Mother is the Milky Way, Maida Vale Sessions
Cypress Hill — Back in Black
Mattiel — Georgia Gothic
Midlake — For the Sake of Bethel Woods
Ruth Slenczynska — My Life in Music
Sonic Youth — In/Out/In
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from In-Pear Music and All-Songs considered I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm here with Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody. Hey Tereek. |
| 0:06.5 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:07.5 | In-Pear Music's Rihanna Cruz. |
| 0:09.5 | How you doing Robin? |
| 0:10.8 | All right and Tom Heisinga. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey Robin great to be here. Hi Rihanna. Hey Tereek. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey. Howdy Tom. |
| 0:16.3 | It's new music Friday and we're looking at the best albums out now on March 18th, |
| 0:20.5 | starting with Rosalia's Moto Mommy. |
| 0:51.1 | One, one |
| 0:56.0 | This is Rosalia from her album Motomami. |
| 1:23.1 | This song is cute, cute, to see you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, |
| 1:27.8 | showing the many sides and shades of her music on this new album Motomami. |
| 1:32.2 | This is obviously one of the most anticipated releases of the year. |
| 1:35.4 | I know we all have thoughts. |
| 1:37.3 | Rihanna, I'll start with you. |
| 1:38.7 | Oh, man. |
| 1:39.7 | You know, I've been a fan of Rosalia for the past couple of years. |
| 1:42.0 | But I really like her pop stuff, so this record really was interesting to me, because it |
| 1:46.2 | found her drifting away from the Spanish pop grind that she was on and more into more |
| 1:52.6 | radio sounds like reggaeton and bachata. |
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