New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Sept. 24

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from R&B singer Anthony Hamilton, a Sufjan Stevens collaboration with Angelo De Augustine, country singer Mickey Guyton and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Anthony Hamilton — Love is the New Black
Featured Song: "Love Is The New Black"
2. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine — A Beginner's Mind
Featured Song: "Lady Macbeth In Chains"
3. Kari Faux — Lowkey Superstar Deluxe
Featured Song: "While God Was Sleeping"
4. Hayden Pedigo — Letting Go
Featured Song: "Some Kind of Shepherd"
5. Mickey Guyton — Remember Her Name
Featured Song: "Different"
6. Solemn Brigham — South Sinner Street
Featured Songs: "Keep The Hope" and "Vice North"
7. Japanese Breakfast — Sable
Featured Songs: "Glider" and "Cartographer's Theme"
8. Ada Lea — One Hand on the Steering Wheel The Other Sewing A Garden
Featured Song: "Oranges"

Other notable releases for Sept. 24: Alessia Cara — In The Meantime; Andy Shauf — Wilds; Arturo O'Farrill — Dreaming in Lions; Caleb Landry Jones — Gadzooks Vol. 1; Laura Jane Grace — At War With Silverfish; NAO — And Then Life Was Beautiful; Poppy — Flux.

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton. I'm here with
0:04.4	contributor Gavin Gottrie, hey Gavin. What's going on Robin? It's new music Friday that day of
0:09.7	the week when most new albums and EPs come out. We go through a great big pile of them and pick
0:14.9	the best ones that you should hear now. On this episode we've got a new joint release from Sufjan
0:19.8	Stevens and Angelo to Augustine. A video game soundtrack from Japanese Breakfast plus new ones
0:25.6	from the rapper Carrie Foe, Country Singer, Mickey Guidon and more. But we start with the singer
0:31.3	Anthony Hamilton. His new album out today is called Love Is The New Black.
1:01.3	Love is The New Black. You will come. You will come.
1:31.7	This is Anthony Hamilton. His new album is Love Is The New Black. This is the title cut from it. He's a
1:51.8	soul and R&B singer who's been putting out records for like 25 years now. And on this album,
1:58.0	Gavin at times he really channels classic singers like Marvin Gaye or I was thinking Bill Withers.
2:04.4	Other tracks like The Drum Machines Kick In and the Steam starts to rise. He kind of lives in both
2:13.0	that sort of classic sound of the past and then also in more contemporary worlds on this record.
2:18.5	Definitely. I was listening to this and my first thought was like man, coughing season must be
2:23.5	close. This is like a proper honest R&B album. For all those reasons, he said it feels like those
2:32.0	days of old, those kind of 60 soul singers and there's often a lot of soul samples throughout the
2:37.0	album. Different producers from Germain DePri and Nath Wunder and Bink, these guys are using soul
2:43.6	samples. So it feels like a throwback but then like you said, it's got Lil John on here and Rick
2:49.4	Ross. There's like that bounce to it too. So I think it's all those things that R&B can be. But
2:55.3	I've always loved Anthony Hamilton because if R&B has rhythm and blues, he's always kind of been
2:59.8	on the blue side of things for me with his honesty. Lurically, there are a lot of the songs about
3:05.5	heartbreak that maybe you'd expect but he also touches on some bigger issues like he talks about
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