The Best Music of April
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🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Horace Andy: "Watch Over Them" from Midnight Rocker
2. Pusha T: "Dreamin of the Past" from It's Almost Dry
3. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: "VII" from For the Love of Fire and Water
4. Syd: "CYBAH" from Broken Hearts Club
5. Straw Man Army: "Human Kind" from SOS
Other notable releases for April:
• Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
• Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder — Get On Board
• Joel Ross — The Parable of the Poet
• Miles Okazaki's Trickster Quartet — Thisness
• Albert Ayler — Revelations
• Vince Staples — Ramona Park Broke My Heart
• Omar Apollo — Ivory
• Bonnie Raitt — Just Like That...
• The Linda Lindas — Growing Up
• Wet Leg — Wet Leg
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From NPR Music and All Sons Considered, I'm Lars Gottrich. |
| 0:06.3 | It's the best music of the month show and we're listening to Album of the Year Contenders |
| 0:10.8 | for 2022. |
| 0:11.8 | Let's start off with Horus Andy. |
| 0:14.1 | Show them the way, judge us, steer them right. |
| 0:29.5 | From foolishness never leave their side. |
| 0:34.3 | Day by day, night by night. |
| 0:38.3 | I am here with Ann Powers and WBGGO's Nate Chandon for discussing the best albums released |
| 1:04.8 | in April. |
| 1:06.2 | Horus Andy is an absolute legend of reggae and Jamaican roots music and he's a long time |
| 1:12.0 | collaborator with Massive Attack. |
| 1:14.8 | And somehow in the 50 years he's been putting out music, he has never worked with the legendary |
| 1:20.0 | dub producer Adrian Sherwood and that's all changed on this new album called Midnight |
| 1:24.7 | Rocker and tell me about this beautiful album. |
| 1:29.2 | Little known fact about me, when I worked at Tower Records when I was about 1920 years |
| 1:35.2 | old, I was the blues and reggae buyer for Tower Records in San Francisco. |
| 1:39.6 | I was very deep into reggae music and oh my gosh, Horus Andy was just such a touchstone |
| 1:46.8 | for myself and my friends who loved that kind of roots reggae style that was really huge |
| 1:53.8 | in the 80s. |
| 1:55.1 | He particularly had this record called In the Light, had this song on it, Problems that |
| 2:00.2 | it's just like every day I listen to that song. |
| 2:03.1 | So I've loved Horus Andy's voice for my whole life. |
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