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New Music Friday: The Top 7 Albums Out On Sept. 3

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πŸ—“οΈ 3 September 2021

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Summary

Our picks for the best new albums out this week come from the British rapper LIttle Simz, jazz pianist Kirk Lightsey, rising reggaeton singer Jhay Cortez, metal veterans Iron Maiden and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Little Simz β€” Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Featured Songs: "Introvert" and "The Rapper That Came To Tea"
2. Jhay Cortez β€” Timelezz
Featured Song: "Los Bandoleros"
3. Kirk Lightsey β€” I Will Never Stop Loving You
Featured Song: "I Will Never Stop Loving You"
4. Iron Maiden β€” Senjutsu
Featured Song: "Days Of Future Past"
5. Lady Blackbird β€” Black Acid Soul
Featured Songs: "Five Feet Tall" and "Blackbird"
6. Baby Queen β€” The Yearbook
Featured Song: "Raw Thoughts"
7. L'Orange β€” The World Is Still Chaos, But I Feel Better
Featured Song: "Talk To Friendly Walls"

Other notable releases for Sept. 3: Damu The Fudgemunk β€” Conversation Peace; Imagine Dragons β€” Mercury, Act I; Lady Gaga β€” Dawn Of Chromatica (remix album)

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0:00.0

Happy Friday everyone from In Pure Music and All Songs. Considered I'm Robin Hilton,

0:06.6

I'm here with WXPians John Morrison, hey John, hey it was so Robin.

0:10.9

It is new music Friday that day of the week when most new albums come out, we go through

0:14.8

a great big pile of them and we find the best ones we think you should hear now.

0:19.1

We'll just tell you right off the bat, the top of the show, the biggest release today.

0:23.4

On the list of albums out on September 3rd is The New In From Drake. It's called Certified

0:28.0

Lever Boy, a highly anticipated, super hyped release and virtually, no one on the

0:32.9

planet was able to hear it in advance, including us John, I tried to tell them we were kind

0:36.8

of a big deal. Yeah, yeah, they weren't having it now.

0:41.1

So if you want to hear more about the Drake album, NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast

0:45.2

will have a bigger discussion on it next Tuesday, September 7th. We are kicking off this week's

0:50.6

new music Friday with an absolutely stunning new album from the rapper Little Sins. It's

0:55.3

called Sometimes I Might Be Introverts.

1:25.3

I'm not into politics, but I know it's not time.

1:36.3

Parts to the world still living in a part time. But I don't take this winners flag as career

1:41.4

suicide. The rush should have been a friend when you're grandma died. I see the ill-seed

1:45.5

of the old lady in her bed. I see a soul cry. So let's everybody get closer to death.

2:01.7

This is Little Sins. Her new album is called Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. This is the

2:06.0

opening cut called Introvert. And John, man, right out of the gate, you can hear she is

2:10.9

taking an absolutely enormous swing on this album. Yeah, absolutely. Her music generally

2:18.2

Little Sins has like a lot of fire, a lot of complexity, her production, and the musical

2:24.5

choices that she makes are always top notch. And she seems to like rhyming over like these

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