Spring preview 2024

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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World Cafe's Raina Douris joins NPR's Sheldon Pearce and host Robin Hilton to talk about the most anticipated albums out this spring, including new ones from Vampire Weekend, Waxahatchee, Portishead's Beth Gibbons and more.

Featured artists, albums and songs:
Reyna Tropical: "Conexión Ancestral" from 'Malegría,' out March 29
Yaya Bey: "Chasing the Bus" from 'Ten Fold,' out May 10
METZ: "Entwined (Street Light Buzz)" from 'Up On Gravity Hill,' out April 12
Vampire Weekend: "Gen X Cops" from 'Only God Was Above Us,' out April 5
Shabaka: "End of Innocence" from 'Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace,' out April 12
Beth Gibbons: "Floating on a Moment" from 'Lives Outgrown,' out May 17
Waxahatchee: "365" from 'Tigers Blood,' out March 22
Amen Dunes: "Boys" from 'Death Jokes,' out May 10
girl in red: "Doing It Again" from 'I'm Doing It Again Baby!' out April 12

See a list of more of NPR Music's most anticipated albums for spring 2024.

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0:00.0	This with brand new coats, shoes and socks, Subaru more than a car company.
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0:18.2	So back at the top of the year we did a preview of 2024's most anticipated albums.
0:23.0	The most anticipated albums of the year
0:25.0	and fairly soon after we posted it,
0:28.0	it was essentially nullified completely
0:30.0	with two big announcements that we didn't see coming.
0:32.0	Well, nobody, who could have seen
0:33.7	them possibly coming these two album announcements one from Beyoncé she said
0:38.6	her album Act 2 would be out at the end of March and Taylor Swift announcing her
0:42.1	new album the Tortured Poets department that is supposed to come out on April 19th
0:47.0	So here we are this is our spring
0:49.8	2024 preview the most anticipated albums coming out this spring. I'm here with
0:53.2	WXPN's Reyna Duras, host of World Cafe. Hey Reyna. Hi, how's it going?
0:56.8	All right. And also here with the NPR music editor Sheldon Pierce. Hey Robin.
1:00.3	At this point, not really much else we can say about those two admittedly huge
1:05.0	albums coming out this spring. There's no new music I'm sure we'll have thoughts
1:09.7	when both albums finally arrive but what we going to do is look at some of our
1:14.0	other picks for the most anticipated spring releases this year there are so many of
1:18.1	them this is an insanely packed spring if you go to our website nPR.org you can see a much longer list of
1:25.1	releases that the nPR music team put together. There's also a link in the
1:28.7	description of this episode in your podcast feed for it. So we'll just go around the room here and we're going to share some of our picks and Reyna why don't you kick things off with one that's coming up pretty quickly at the end of this month.
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