New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 25

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

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Summary

Our picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Nashville singer Maren Morris, the Jamaican rapper and singer Koffee, London's Afro-funk group Ibibio Sound Machine, Barrie and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Maren Morris — Humble Quest
Featured Tracks: "Humble Quest" and "Nervous"
2. Koffee — Gifted
Featured Track: "Shine"
3. Ornette Coleman — Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums
Featured Track: "Lorraine"
4. Barrie — Barbara
Featured Track: "Jersey"
5. Ibibio Sound Machine — Electricity
Featured Tracks: "Protection from Evil" and "Truth No Lie"

Other notable releases for March 25:
Aldous Harding — Warm Chris
Buddy — Superghetto
Camp Cope — Running with the Hurricane
Denzel Curry — Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Destroyer — Labyrinthitis
Machine Gun Kelly — mainstream sellout
Rema — Rave & Roses
Walter Martin — The Bear

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs considered.
0:02.8	I'm Robin Hilton.
0:03.6	I'm here with WB Easy and Vocalo Radio's Ayanna Contreras.
0:06.9	Hey.
0:07.5	Contributor Serena Turos.
0:08.9	Hey, Robin.
0:09.6	NPR Music's Hazel Sills.
0:11.2	Hey.
0:11.7	And Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody.
0:13.5	Audi.
0:14.0	It's new music Friday and we're looking at the best albums out now on March 25th,
0:18.1	starting with Marin Morris and her new one.
0:20.4	It's called Humble Quest.
0:22.1	I haven't looked up in a while, been by my tongue but I'm a smile, falling on source
0:32.1	that I can't see, poison my world on the daily.
0:38.1	It got easier now to ask, just kept hitting my head on the glass.
0:46.1	I was so nice till I woke up.
0:51.1	I was polite till I spoke up.
0:55.1	I'm on a humble quest.
0:59.1	And then I do my best.
1:03.1	I'm not gonna hold my breath cause I still haven't found it yet.
1:10.1	No, I still haven't found it yet.
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