New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On June 18
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🗓️ 18 June 2021
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Goldlink — Haram!
Featured Songs: "Terrordome" and "Evian"
2. Various — Dark Nights: Death Metal
Featured Song: "Diana" by Chelsea Wolfe
3. H.E.R. — Back of My Mind
Featured Song: "We Made It"
4. Amythyst Kiah — Wary + Strange
Featured Song: "Wild Turkey"
5. Donnie — The Colored Section (20th Anniv.)
Featured Song: "Beautiful Me"
6. Ambar Lucid — Get Lost In The Music
Featured Song: "The Door"
7. Mykki Blanco — Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep
Featured Song: "Free Ride"
8. Cher Strauberry — Chering Is Caring
Featured Song: "Swish And Spit"
Other notable releases for June 18: Angelique Kidjo — Mother Nature; Azure Ray — Remedy; Francis Lung — Miracle; Hania Rani — Music For Film And Theater; Joan Armatrading — Consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | What happens after a police officer shoots someone who's unarmed? |
| 0:05.4 | 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. |
| 0:17.6 | Happy Friday, everyone from NPR music and all songs considered. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Robin Hilton. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm here with Christina Lee. |
| 0:25.4 | Hey, Christina. |
| 0:26.4 | Hey, Robin. |
| 0:27.4 | It's new music Friday, that day of the week when most new albums and EPs come out. |
| 0:31.6 | We comb through a great big pile of releases and find the ones that we think you should |
| 0:35.4 | hear now. |
| 0:36.4 | On this episode, we're looking at the best new music out on June 18th, starting with |
| 0:40.3 | the rapper Goldlink. |
| 0:41.3 | His new one is called Harang. |
| 0:42.7 | I woke up and I was taking out songs that were in the south, saying, you're a take a house |
| 0:51.5 | fire going up, the flame, many things in that ring. |
| 0:54.4 | There's a 404 of songs, women in the upper, every upper floor, a cripple, make a |
| 0:59.4 | person, add it to the cord and up, add your playing, holding up, crying doors, holding |
| 1:04.0 | up, famous like the highest, like a pupil, just like a pupil, how you killing me? |
| 1:08.4 | It was a praise, but it was just a praise, music-between. |
| 1:26.4 | This is the rapper Goldlink, his new and his called Haram. |
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