New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out Aug. 28

All Songs Considered

NPR

Music

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including unadorned records from Angel Olsen and The Avett Brothers, the genre-bending Georgia Anne Muldrow and more.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	With civil unrest, the pandemic, and the economic crisis, you want to know what's happening
0:06.4	right when you wake up.
0:08.0	And that's why there is up first.
0:09.7	The news you need in about 10 minutes from NPR News.
0:13.1	Listen every day.
0:14.3	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered.
0:17.8	I'm Stephen Thompson and I'm here with Anne Powers.
0:20.3	Hey Anne.
0:21.3	Hi Stephen.
0:22.3	It is new music Friday.
0:23.7	Every Friday the world gets a great big batch of new albums and every Friday we play
0:28.2	some of our favorites.
0:29.9	For this week August 28th we've got new music from Angel Olson, PJ Morton, the Avid Brothers,
0:35.4	Aluna and more.
0:36.9	But first up we've got the singer Georgia and Moldro recording under the name Jotie.
0:41.8	Her new album is called Mama You Can Bet.
0:44.5	Look what you've done.
1:16.7	No, no, no, no.
1:18.2	No, no, no.
1:20.0	Oh, no, no, no.
1:21.9	Oh.
1:22.9	It's a good minute.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.