New Music Friday: The Top 7 Albums Out On May 7
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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Dodie — Build A Problem
Featured Song: "Special Girl"
2. L'Orange & Namir Blade — Imaginary Everything
Featured Song: "Nihilism"
3. Daniel Bachman — Axacan
Featured Songs: "Blues in the Anthropocene" and "Year Of The Rat"
4. Tony Allen — There Is No End
Featured Song: "Stumbling Down"
5. Sophia Kennedy — Monsters
Featured Song: "I'm Looking Up"
6. James Brandon Lewis — Jesup Wagon
Featured Song: "Lowlands of Sorrow"
7. Nasimiyu — Potions
Featured Song: "Parasite"
Other notable releases for May 7: Angel Olsen — Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories; Iceage — Seek Shelter; Miranda Lambert — The Marfa Tapes (with Jack Ingram and John Randall); Squid — Bright Green Field; Sufjan Stevens — Convocations; Weezer — Van Weezer.
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| 0:25.2 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs, |
| 0:27.7 | consider it I'm Robin Hilton, I'm here with Serena Turo, say Serena. |
| 0:31.1 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:32.1 | Friday is the day of the week when most new albums and EPs come out, |
| 0:35.2 | so we're doing a quick run through the best ones out now on May 7th. |
| 0:38.7 | Starting with the singer known as Dodie, |
| 0:40.5 | her debut full length is called Build a Problem. |
| 0:43.2 | It's not my fault. |
| 0:46.4 | I was raised by open mouths and teary eyes. |
| 0:51.7 | As if was full on the pies. |
| 0:54.0 | I found my worth in this world |
| 0:56.4 | by proving I'm a special gold time and time again. |
| 1:03.7 | Sweet, sweet irony. |
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