New Music Friday: The Top 6 Albums Out On April 16
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🗓️ 16 April 2021
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. AJ Tracey — Flu Game
Featured Song: "Anxious"
2. Norah Jones — Til We Meet Again
Featured Song: "Cold, Cold Heart"
3. Masabumi Kikuchi — Hanamichi
Featured Song: "Ramona"
4. London Grammar — Californian Soil
Featured Song: "America"
5. Sharon Van Etten - Epic 10
Featured Songs: "Don't Do It" and "Peace Signs"
6. Son Lux — Tomorrows III
Featured Songs: "Come Recover" and "Unbind"
Other notable releases for April 16: The Armed — ULTRAPOP; Conway the Machine — La Maquina; David Wax Museum — Euphoric Ouroboric.
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| 0:24.1 | I'm Robin Hilton, I'm here with Christina Lee, hey Christina. Hi Robin. It's new |
| 0:28.3 | music Friday the day the week when most new albums and EP's come out on this |
| 0:32.0 | episode we're looking at the best releases for April 16th starting with the |
| 0:35.8 | rapper AJ Tracy his new and is called Flu Game. |
| 1:35.8 | This is the rapper AJ Tracy his new album is called Flu Game and the song we're |
| 1:50.1 | hearing from it is the opening cut called anxious. He's a UK rapper he's from West |
| 1:54.4 | London. His self titled record is first one that he put out in 2019 got a |
| 1:58.8 | lot of attention. He's had more than a billion streams since then and now he's |
| 2:04.5 | back Christina what I think is a really addictive follow up. So with that |
| 2:08.7 | self title debut I mean first of all you have to imagine the cover art |
| 2:12.9 | Robin it's him sitting board at a barber shop but he has a actual baby goat |
| 2:18.6 | sitting in his lap. It's incredible. Now it's a board way of saying that he's the |
| 2:25.1 | goat which in hip hop of course means greatest of all time but that album when |
| 2:29.6 | you press play you're thrown off a little bit because going into it he had this |
| 2:33.9 | reputation for really being a grime artist but what he ended up doing was |
| 2:38.3 | adapting his sound to a global audience and the thing about Flu Game is that he |
| 2:43.6 | really sort of doubles down on that approach not only is the sound really |
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