New Music Friday: The Top 6 Albums Out On May 21
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🗓️ 21 May 2021
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Olivia Rodrigo — Sour
Featured Song: "Brutal"
2. Patrick Paige II — If I Fail, Are We Still Cool?
Featured Song: "Curfew"
3. Allison Russell — Outside Child
Featured Song: "4th Day Prayer"
4. Georgia Anne Muldrow — VWETO III
Featured Song: "Old Jack Swing"
5. Audrey Nuna — A Liquid Breakfast
Featured Song: "Damn Right"
6. Erika de Casier — Sensational
Featured Song: "Polite"
Notable releases for May 21: Twenty One Pilots — Scaled and Icy; Blake Shelton — Body Language; Counting Crows — Butter Miracle, Suite One; Mdou Moctar — Afrique Victime; CHAI — Wink; Lambchop, Showtunes; Lord Huron — Long Lost; Edmar Castañeda — Family; Sunny Jain — Phoenix Rise; Rising Appalachia — The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know; Claire George — The Land Beyond the Light; BLK JKS — Abantu: Before Humans
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| 0:00.0 | What happens after a police officer shoots someone who's unarmed? |
| 0:05.0 | For decades in California, internal affairs investigations, how the police police themselves |
| 0:10.7 | were secret. |
| 0:12.2 | Until now, listen to On Our Watch, a podcast from NPR and KQED. |
| 0:23.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Stephen Thompson, it is new music Friday and from May 21st, we've got tons of great |
| 0:31.3 | stuff starting with Sour by Olivia Rodrigo. |
| 1:01.2 | That's brutal from Sour. |
| 1:31.0 | The debut album by Olivia Rodrigo joining us from Chicago to talk about Sour is my colleague |
| 1:36.7 | from NPR Music as well as our marvelous sister podcast, Alt Latino. |
| 1:41.2 | On Maria Sare, welcome on Maria. |
| 1:43.1 | Yo, thank you for having me. |
| 1:45.0 | It is a pleasure. |
| 1:46.5 | Until the very beginning of this year, Olivia Rodrigo was known mostly as an actress on |
| 1:52.1 | a couple of Disney adjacent TV shows, most recently high school musical, the musical, the |
| 1:58.1 | series on Disney Plus, but in January, she put out her first single called Drivers License |
| 2:04.1 | and it was instantly massive. |
| 2:06.7 | On Maria, tell us about Olivia Rodrigo. |
| 2:09.4 | So I'm going to be real with you guys. |
| 2:11.4 | I have been getting in a lot of arguments since Drivers License dropped. |
| 2:17.8 | I think because it blew up and the way that it did, everyone's out here kind of theorizing |
| 2:22.7 | like what happened, there was a perfect storm of TikTok and the drama around it and her |
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