New Music Friday: The Top 6 Albums Out On May 28
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🗓️ 28 May 2021
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Bachelor — Doomin' Sun
Featured Song: "Spin Out"
2. DMX — Exodus
Featured Song: "Hold Me Down"
3. Mustafa — When Smoke Rises
Featured Song: "Ali"
4. Various Artists — Fire in Little Africa
Featured Song: "City of Dreams"
5. Mereba — Azeb
Featured Song: "Rider"
6. Natalia Lafourcade — Un Canto por México, Vol. 2
Featured Song: "La Llorona"
Notable releases for May 28: Black Midi — Cavalcade; GWAR — The Disc With No Name; k.d. lang — Makeover; Moby — Reprise; Porter Robinson — Nurture; Quivers — Golden Doubt; Lou Barlow — Reason to Live; Juanes — Origen; Scotch Rolex — Tewari
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| 0:12.2 | Until now, listen to On Our Watch, a podcast from NPR and KQED. |
| 0:18.9 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:23.2 | It is new music Friday and from May 28th, we've got new outlets by DMX Mustafa, Natalia |
| 0:29.2 | Lafakata and more. |
| 0:31.0 | At first here's Bachelor and their new album, Dooman's Son. |
| 1:01.0 | That's spin out from Dooman's Son, the debut album by Bachelor. |
| 1:29.7 | It's great to have you. |
| 1:45.8 | Rock and Roll has a lot of super groups. |
| 2:04.7 | The way they describe it is not a band, it's a friendship. |
| 2:26.8 | Yeah, Singing song writer and I think that friendship comes from a bunch of different |
| 2:53.1 | world views are very, very compatible and you've got some great lyrics in here. |
| 2:57.7 | There's a song called Sick of Spiraling that has this line, The Danger is in my phone |
| 3:02.0 | and the drug of an endless scroll. |
| 3:05.1 | And I'm like, man, who has not been on that ride? |
| 3:07.9 | I particularly like how in the music you kind of hear their voices meshing together |
| 3:15.7 | in this sort of like hazy way where they're just like overlapping almost. |
| 3:22.0 | And I think that's part of the way they kind of see each other, the way they're |
| 3:26.9 | enmeshed with each other's art, the music that they make is both funny and like |
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